You might have read and heard a lot of neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, however, there’s another similar yet rarer disease that affects your body movement and thinking ability ...

Huntington’s disease is a rare inherited neurological disorder that progressively affects movement, cognition and mental ...

Symptoms caused by Huntington's disease include loss of motor control, involuntary movements, dementia, mood disorders, and psychiatric though disturbances.

Huntington's disease has long defied attempts to rescue suffering neurons. A new study in Cell Reports shows that transplanting healthy human glial progenitor cells into the brains of adult animal ...

Genetic testing is the definitive diagnostic tool to identify the gene that causes Huntington’s disease, and you can have the genetic test years before symptoms begin. Huntington’s disease stage and ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s ...

Gene therapy is becoming a powerful way to treat challenging diseases that don’t respond to traditional treatments, and researchers now report the first success in modifying genes to slow Huntington’s ...

There is no known cure for Huntington's disease. A genetic mutation creates harmful proteins that accumulate and cause the disease's typical symptoms. A team from the Department of Human Genetics at ...

ST. LOUIS — Scientists may have reached a breakthrough in the fight against Huntington’s disease, a rare and fatal inherited brain disorder with no cure. For the first time, a gene therapy has been ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...