My wife, Jill, who is gene-positive with Huntington’s disease, and I don’t usually associate Legos with cancer. Those are two worlds that feel like they belong on completely different shelves in life. Yet American households collectively owe at least $220 billion in medical debt, much of it tied…
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For a long time, my body didn’t feel like a safe place to live. Huntington’s disease changed the way I moved, rested, thought, and experienced the world. My earliest symptoms began with involuntary movements in my toes. Over time, they spread to my fingers, arms, legs, upper…
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Soma and Neurite Density Imaging (SANDI), an imaging technique that uses MRI scans to capture microstructural features of the brain, may be a useful tool for tracking the progression of Huntington’s disease, a study suggests. Huntington’s patients’ SANDI data, together with age, could explain up to 63% of shrinkage…
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My wife, Jill, was watching a show about survival the other night, the kind where people are pushed to their limits in the wilderness. When it ended, she turned it off and sat quietly for a moment. Then she said, almost to herself, “It’s wild how far people will go…
Becoming educated and informed about Huntington’s disease is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
It helps to know others have been where you are now. Here’s a collection of our columnists’ words of wisdom to help you along on your Huntington’s disease journey.
There is no cure for Huntington’s disease yet, but here you can find more information about current therapeutic approaches, as well as experimental treatments that are in the pipeline.
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