Huntington’s Disease: Symptoms, Causes, And Potential Treatments
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal hereditary and progressive brain disorder. You can’t “catch” it from another person. Every child of a parent with HD has a 50/50 chance of carrying the faulty gene. There are approximately 30,000 symptomatic Americans and more than 200,000 at-risk of inheriting the disease. Although symptoms may first show up in midlife, …