Jeff Carroll was in his mid-twenties, fresh out of the U.S. Army, when a genetic test confirmed his worst fear: He was going to develop Huntington’s disease. He had watched his mother’s illness for ...

Parkinson's disease may spread through the brain with the help of two proteins found on the surface of motor neurons, according to new research from Yale School of Medicine (YSM). The discovery could ...

Roche has halted development on two of its Huntington’s disease prospects, delivering another blow to a patient community that has long awaited new medicines. The Swiss drugmaker explained its ...

Since learning in May 2021 that she carried the marker for Huntington’s, Britt has felt like she’s been living on borrowed time. She thought there was some hope when she was offered an experimental ...

Fluorescent labels highlight different populations of neurons, illustrating the diversity of cell types that contribute to functioning in the motor cortex, a region known to be critical for ...

“Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.” —Michael J. Fox A Rainy Day I ...

General Hospital just introduced the possibility that the medication Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) has been taking to treat her Huntington’s disease was a placebo all along, a twist that raises a tantalizing ...

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Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself? Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease ...

Huntington’s disease is tragically predictable. An inherited genetic mutation causes neurons to make distorted, sticky proteins. These proteins clump together and gradually overwhelm brain cells. The ...

“No one knows how much time they have, so I want to live every day knowing I made the most of it,” Mariana Price tells PEOPLE Mariana Price Two days after graduating high school, Mariana Price learned ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inherited brain condition that causes nerve cells in the brain to gradually break down and die, causing involuntary movements called chorea, dementia, and mood changes.