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Early Signs of Huntington’s Detectable Decades Before Symptoms Present
Subtle signs of neurodegeneration can be detected in blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and through neuroimaging, up to two decades before motor symptoms in Huntington’s disease (HD) present ...
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Huntington’s Disease Brain Changes Found Decades Before Symptoms
A study published in Nature Medicine reveals subtle neurodegenerative changes in people with Huntington’s disease gene expansion up to 20 years before symptoms appear. Using advanced imaging, blood ...
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Major New Insights Into Huntington's Disease
The cells seem to die once the CAG repeat reaches about 150 times. As these mutation-carrying neurons die off, the symptoms of the disease arise. Therapies that aim to treat Huntington's by reducing ...
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Research is unraveling the mystery of what causes Huntington’s disease, a devastating brain disorder
Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and ... Huntington’s symptoms – which include involuntary movement, unsteady gait, personality ...
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New findings shed light on cause of Huntington's disease progression
A new study of nerve cells affected by Huntington’s disease (HD) reveals that the ... it doesn’t cause neurological symptoms until much later in life. The researchers, led by Steven McCarroll ...
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Early brain changes in Huntington’s disease detected two decades before symptoms
The team found that although functions such as movement, thinking or behavior remained normal for a long time before the onset of symptoms in Huntington's disease, subtle changes to the brain were ...