Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Key Takeaways Huntington’s disease causes unintentional movements, as well as difficulty walking and controlling movements.Dementia, which is a decline in ...

Huntington’s disease is a rare inherited neurological disorder that progressively affects movement, cognition and mental ...

Experimental gene therapies like AMT‑130 lower toxic huntingtin protein and significantly slow Huntington’s disease, offering ...

Huntington's disease is caused by an inherited genetic change that causes production of an altered protein. This leads to nerve damage in areas of the brain that control movement and thinking.

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s ...

For decades, so many families have watched loved ones suffer from Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative condition that progressively worsens over time. But now, there is finally a light at the end ...

Huntington's disease has long defied attempts to rescue suffering neurons. A new study in Cell Reports shows that transplanting healthy human glial progenitor cells into the brains of adult animal ...

Gene therapy is becoming a powerful way to treat challenging diseases that don’t respond to traditional treatments, and researchers now report the first success in modifying genes to slow Huntington’s ...