Why does spotting mixed dementia matter? Dementia UK says that not fully understanding the condition “can lead to the ...

Researchers from the Huntington's Disease Center, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and UK DRI at UCL have taken major ...

These changes to the vasculature were ... Nov. 8, 2023 — Huntington's disease causes involuntary movements and dementia, has no cure, and is fatal. Scientists have now shown they can slow its ...

Huntington’s disease is a hereditary condition that causes dementia and a movement disorder, often beginning in early to mid-adulthood—typically in the 30s and 40s. Huntington’s disease is ...

Previously reported data combined with these new findings “really point towards somatic CAG repeat expansion driving the neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease,” Tabrizi said.

Smoking and obesity synergistically worsened disease progression and cognitive performance in multiple sclerosis (MS) in a ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long been known to be caused by mutations in the huntingtin gene, which leads to the ...

Lead author, Professor Sarah Tabrizi (UCL Huntington's Disease Research Centre and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL), said: "Our study underpins the importance of somatic CAG repeat expansion ...

There are a number of diseases that are grouped under dementia including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia and vascular dementia. An estimated ...

A cure for Huntington’s disease may be a step closer after a study found brain changes linked to the condition could be detected 23 years before a diagnosis. Symptoms of the inherited disease ...

The latest paper by the scientists, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that Huntington’s Disease - one of seven major types of age-related dementia - is ...