MeSH tree: F03.615.250.400
Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Brain cells receive sensory inputs from the outside world and send signals throughout the body telling organs and muscles what to do. Although neurons comprise only 10% of brain cells, their functional and genomic integrity ...
Jan 13, 2025
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People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time. The cause is related to expansion of repeating DNA units, in which specific strings of genetic ...
Jan 9, 2025
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A University of California, Irvine-led research team has discovered intricate molecular mechanisms driving the RNA processing defects that lead to Huntington's disease and link HD with other neurodegenerative disorders such ...
Jan 8, 2025
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University of Bergen researcher Markus Miettinen is among the first scientists to provide a detailed description of protein clumps associated with Huntington's disease. The findings, which could pave the way for new diagnostic ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Living with a chronic illness in the family is hard. It's even harder if you know that the person you love will get worse and won't recover from their condition. Sadly, it can happen to any family at any time. Anyone—a grandparent, ...
Jan 3, 2025
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An intellectually active lifestyle—in other words, the so-called cognitive reserve—has a protective effect on the progression and severity of the symptoms of motor, cognitive and psychiatric impairments in Huntington's disease. ...
Dec 12, 2024
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A team from the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has conducted the largest characterization of plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) in community-dwelling non-Hispanic Blacks. The study is published ...
Dec 11, 2024
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A common heart drug may slow the progression of Huntington's disease (HD), according to a new study by University of Iowa Health Care researchers.
Dec 2, 2024
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Scientists at La Trobe University have created a world-first method to investigate "disordered" proteins in living cells, in research that could change how we understand and treat Parkinson's disease.
Nov 26, 2024
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