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When a Short Fuse Becomes a Storm: Understanding Irritability in Huntington’s Disease
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Inside the Brain’s Theme Park: How Huntington’s Disease Disrupts the Emotion Coaster
Welcome to Brainland, the bustling, 24/7 theme park in your head. There’s Memory Maze, Logic Log Flume, and of course, the Emotion Coaster, where your brain races through tracks themed around happiness, sadness, and anger. However, for some people who carry the gene for Huntington’s disease (HD), some of these rides start acting up long…
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Huge study reveals new 'genetic modifiers' of Huntington's disease
GeM-HD identifies the first solid leads in the hunt for genetic variations that affect Huntington's disease onset
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Would ewe believe it? GM1, sheep and Huntington's disease
HD researchers and sheep farmers are collaborating on a brain fat called GM1, but a clinical trial is a long way off
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Switching it up: variety in the HD gene affects symptom onset
Variety in the HD gene’s on switch affects when symptoms arise.
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Measuring harmful huntingtin protein in the brain’s bath water
How will we know whether HD-lowering treatments are working? New advancements in the detection of mutant huntingtin.
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A faulty filter? Blood vessel changes in Huntington's disease
New research reveals blood vessel changes that could contribute to problem in HD
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Lighting the way: A new biomarker for Huntington’s disease
A new biomarker reveals brain changes in early Huntington's disease.
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Novel research technique suggests an antioxidant gene protects vulnerable neurons
Researchers use a new technique in an HD mouse to uncover a gene, Gpx6, that is protective to vulnerable neurons.
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Building a Better Mouse(trap): A New Model of Huntington’s Disease
New mouse model gives insights into Huntington's disease
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Taking new targets to the bank: the DNA repair protein ‘ATM’ is overactive in Huntington's disease
HD causes the normally helpful protein "ATM" to get a little overzealous. Now we can look for drugs to settle it down
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2015 Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference: Day 3
Day 3 of updates from the annual HD Therapeutics Conference in Palm Springs