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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Huntington’s disease is an incurable neurodegenerative ... frontotemporal lobar dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes ...

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 ...