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October 2025: This Month in Huntington’s Disease Research
Latest News
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When a Short Fuse Becomes a Storm: Understanding Irritability in Huntington’s Disease
For people living with HD, irritability can erupt like a storm, sudden and overwhelming. In a new study, researchers spoke directly to people with HD to understand what irritability truly feels like.
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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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One Disease, Many Paths: How Brain Wiring Shapes Huntington’s Symptoms
HD starts with a single gene change, but its effects travel many roads. New work shows how brain networks breakdown or reroute. Whether movement, thinking, or mood are most affected, we may be able to guide care in a more personalized direction.
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Full Steam Ahead: uniQure’s On Track With Hope for Accelerated Approval of Huntington’s Disease Drug
uniQure has aligned with the US FDA on next steps to achieve accelerated approval of AMT-130. If data remain positive, they will be on track to market the first HD gene therapy.
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The 2025 HDBuzz Prize for Young Science Writers Is Open!
Announcing the 2025 HDBuzz Prize for Young Science Writers – sponsored by the Hereditary Disease Foundation!
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May 2025: This Month in Huntington’s Disease Research
From vision changes to genetic traffic jams and a clinical trial update, May was full of HD science excitement! Dive into our latest roundup to see how researchers are advancing Huntington’s disease in exciting new ways.
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Mind Your Mouth: Huntington’s Disease and Oral Health
A recently published review discusses the challenges of dental care for people with HD, and the ways that informed dentists and medical teams can help to manage oral healthcare throughout the HD journey.
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DNA Repair in Huntington’s Disease: Not Up to Par?
Genetic mutations occur everyday in our cells, but the vast majority of them are repaired. New research finds DNA repair is not on PAR in HD cells, causing mutations to build up in people with HD.
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Unlocking the Mind’s Eye: How Huntington’s Disease Changes How We See and Process the World
For many with Huntington’s disease, recognising faces, navigating familiar places, or reading can be difficult. Scientists studied how and when HD affects how the brain processes what we see—crucial research to improve support for people with HD.
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Red Light, Green Light: How Huntington’s Disease Influences Genetic Traffic Lights
Huntington’s disease disrupts genetic "traffic lights," keeping genes green when they should be red. These genetic traffic jams may act to speed brain cell aging and faulty traffic cops fail to stop the chaos. What does this mean for HD?