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Huntington's Disease
Disease
3 most common symptom groups of H.D. are: Abnormal and unusual movements , Behavior changes , and Dementia that slowly gets worse
Huntington's is a genetically inherited disease from either one or both parents of a child
There is no cure for Huntington's currently. But a wide variety of drugs are used to either help cope with the effects of Huntington's or its course. Dopamine blockers, tetrabenazine, amantadine, and even the use of co-enzyme Q10 that is used in treatment.
Basic Neurobiology, Clinical research, Imaging, Animal models, Fetal tissue research, are all different parts of the project of research into Huntington's. The information produced goes into treatment and prevention.
The test to detect the gene is called a Presymptomatic Test which is used on possible carriers of the gene to determine if they are carriers. (Basically the parents)
If only one parent has a single copy of a dominant allele for a dominant disorder, their children will have a 50% chance of inheriting the disorder and 50% chance of being entirely normal.
