Participants in a PET study received the tracer, then gave it time to reach the brain. Then they laid in a scanner that took ...

TRACK-HD reveals significant changes in pre-symptomatic HD mutation carriers and patients The one-year report from the TRACK-HD study demonstrates a number of changes in pre-symptomatic HD-mutation ...

Over time, the neighborhood falls into disrepair. A critical protein that MSNs need to stay alive, called DARPP-32, starts to ...

Spark Therapeutics, recently integrated into Roche Pharmaceuticals, has been working on an HD gene therapy. It’s delivered via a one-time brain surgery and is designed to lower levels of the ...

Huntington’s disease research news. In plain language. Written by scientists. For the global HD community.

Huntington’s disease research news. In plain language. Written by scientists. For the global HD community.

The latest instalment in a series of big studies to understand the genetics of Huntington disease (HD) just hit the shelves. These studies have focused on how small changes in the genetic letters of a ...

Huntington’s disease research news. In plain language. Written by scientists. For the global HD community.

We all have days when we feel irritable, like when you’re stuck in traffic, or someone cuts in line at the grocery store. But for people living with Huntington’s disease (HD), irritability isn’t just ...