The following search terms were used: OCD, obsessive–compulsive symptoms, movement disorder, hyperkinesia, chorea, Huntington's disease, myoclonus dystonia, generalised dystonia, idiopathic focal ...

On further evaluation, including neurology and genetics consultation and workup, a clinical diagnosis of the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease (HD) was made. Further history revealed a ...

Progress has been made, nonetheless, and many of these odd movements are now recognised to be symptoms of neurological and systemic disorders: oculomasticatory myorhythmia is virtually diagnostic of ...

Huntington’s disease symptoms are linked to expanding DNA repeats (CAG) that become toxic in brain cells over time The "ticking DNA clock" accelerates after 80 repeats, killing neurons within ...

Beta blockers were associated with later appearance of motor symptoms and slower symptom worsening, but an outside expert ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life.

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington's disease. Only once a cell's DNA expansion reaches a threshold number of CAGs ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease. Why does the terrible devastation of mind and body start earlier in some people who ...

A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

The field of Huntington’s disease research has been undergoing a radical reshaping of how the brain-ravaging disease — and what drives it — is understood. After decades focused on the notion ...