Huntington's disease

Suffers Huntington’s Disease On April 19, 1999, Marie Clay took her 28-year-old daughter, Laurie Clay, to a counselor because she was at high risk of getting Huntington’s disease, a hereditary disease. Due to Laurie’s father, she would be clumsy, fat and forgetful as her father. This is Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic disorder that causes the nerve cells in the brain to break down. If one of parents is the patient of the disease, each of their children will also inherit the disease by…

Description Huntington's disease is a disease that causes the progressive breakdown in the brain. Huntington's disease can have a major impact on a person's functional abilities and usually results in movement, and thinking and disorders. Every one out of 10,000 people have Huntington’s disease in the world but in the United States, almost 30,000 people have Huntington’s disease. People with Huntington's disease usually develop signs and symptoms in their 30s or 40s, but the major parts of…

Huntington’s disease is a very serious disease that cannot be cured, but very few people are educated about this disease or have even heard of it. Huntington’s disease is becoming more common amongst American’s and globally each year and yet there is still not a cure for this disease. “More than a quarter of a million Americans have HD or are "at risk" of inheriting the disease from an affected parent.” (Huntington’s) Huntington’s is a hereditary disease that is passed from a parent to a child…

Huntington’s disease is a progressive and fatal type of dementia caused by dominant allele in chromosome 4. (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2016, 2013, 2010, p. 44) It is an autosomal-assertive, progressive neurodegenerative affliction with a definite phenotype, including chorea, lack of coordination, cognitive deterioration, and behavioral difficulties. (Perandones, Micheli, & Radrizzani, 2010, p. vii) Huntington’s disease was identified by George Huntington in 1872. Huntington Disease is also referred to…

Huntington’s Disease What is Huntington’s? A family passed down disease which is an autosomal dominant trait characterized by the onset of Chorea and Dementia after the ages of 40-50? Signs of initial onset of the disease include paranoia, poor impulse control, depression, hallucinations, and delusions. Over time, there will be an intellectual impairment, loss of fine motor control, athetosis, and diffuse chorea involving axial and limb musculature develops. Normally, an individual will end up…

CSD 3150: Hyperkinetic Dysarthria of Huntington’s disease Huntington’s disease is a disorder that can be inherited through a defect in a gene in which there is a progressive degeneration of the brain cells. A person’s motor will become impaired, with many moments of uncontrolled involuntary movements such as jerking, imbalance and posture issues, as well as speech and swallowing issues. However, the severity of this disease varies with different stages (asha.org). Cognition is also an issue,…

Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease is a disease that causes parts of the brain to break down; degenerate. This disease doesn’t show it’s symptoms between the ages 30 and 50. The gene name is HTT, the official name is huntingtin. HTT belongs to the family called endogenous ligands. It’s passed from one generation to the next, the size of CAG trinucleotide repeat often increase in size. A larger number of repeats is usually associated with an earlier onset of signs and symptoms. This…

How Is Huntington’s Disease Diagnosed How do physicians diagnose patients with certain disease? How can they be sure about the right diagnosis? And can they be mistaken? Of course it is possible to miss diagnose a patient, and it can be for numerous and various reasons. For example patients could lie about something they took, or doctors can be somehow intimidating, so the patients will not feel comfortable enough to share their problems with their doctor, and so many other reasons. As any…

description of the disorder Huntington’s disease is a genetic disorder that affects muscle coordination and leads to mental decline and behavioral symptoms. It breaks down nerve cells in the brain called neurons. Neurons are specially designed to transmit information. When neurons break down, the body can’t control all of its movements. The brain controls the entire body and when the nerves in the brain break down, it causes your body to glitch. This is why a person with this disease experiences…

The articles “Huntington’s Disease”, from NYTimes.com, “The DNA Age”, by Amy Harmon, and “Fearing Punishment for Bad Genes”, by Kira Peikoff, define the characteristics and symptoms of Huntington’s disease, and also demonstrate the positive and negative results for receiving genetic testing. The article “The DNA Age” focuses more on Pathos, or the emotional side of the argument, and therefore was more interesting and heart-wrenching than the other two. “Huntington’s Disease” and “Fearing…