Huntington’s disease, also known as Huntington’s chorea and formerly called “St. Vitus’ dance,” is a rare, hereditary disorder of the central nervous system. It is characterized by jerky movements and ...

Huntington’s disease is a hereditary condition that leads to the progressive degeneration of nerve cells (neurons) in specific areas of the brain. It mainly affects regions that control voluntary ...

An exceptionally rare and fatal genetic disease may finally have a solution. Huntington’s Disease affects one in ten to twenty thousand Americans. The disease is a mixture of dementia and Parkinson’s, ...

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 ...

UniQure said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration no longer agreed that clinical data for the Dutch company's gene therapy ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of ...

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 ...

Jagadeesha's brain, the first juvenile Huntington's Disease donation in India, offers hope for vital neurodegenerative ...