The brain has plans in place when fires break out. Normally, a molecule called PKD1 rushes in to the rescue, but in ...

To date, the GeM-HD consortium has studied thousands of people with HD and hundreds of thousands of spelling changes in every ...

Welcome to Brainland, the bustling, 24/7 theme park in your head. There’s Memory Maze, Logic Log Flume, and of course, the Emotion Coaster, where your brain races through tracks themed around ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by a single genetic mutation, yet people with HD can experience vastly different symptoms – from movement issues to emotional struggles. A new study dives into ...

Seeking dental care and adhering to recommended routines is tough for lots of folks, even under the best of circumstances. Throw Huntington’s disease (HD) into the mix, and oral health can get even ...

Ed is a neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK, and a Professor of Neurology at University College London where he is Associate Director of the Huntington’s ...

Leora Fox trained as a Huntington’s Disease scientist, and obtained her PhD in 2016 at Columbia University, where she studied HD mouse models and how brain cells dispose of huntingtin protein. After ...

For Huntington’s disease (HD), a lot of attention goes to the genetic change that causes HD, but new research is shining a light on something else – our epigenome. The word literally means, “above” ...

Imagine the gene that causes Huntington’s disease (HD) as a vast river. At its source is the CAG repeat – a genetic letter code that dictates how the river will flow. As the river moves downstream, it ...

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