Scientists used 3D mini-brains grown from stem cells to study Huntington’s disease. They found early developmental changes ...

Participants in a PET study received the tracer, then gave it time to reach the brain. Then they laid in a scanner that took ...

Over time, the neighborhood falls into disrepair. A critical protein that MSNs need to stay alive, called DARPP-32, starts to ...

Welcome to your June roundup of the latest and greatest Huntington’s disease (HD) research, served up fresh and easy to digest! This month, we’ve got gene therapies revving up, brain wiring revealing ...

TRACK-HD reveals significant changes in pre-symptomatic HD mutation carriers and patients The one-year report from the TRACK-HD study demonstrates a number of changes in pre-symptomatic HD-mutation ...

Scientists tested a new tool to measure harmful HTT protein in HD. It wasn’t perfect, but offered key insights to guide better tools already in the works. A big step toward tracking HD non-invasively, ...

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For Huntington’s disease (HD), a lot of attention goes to the genetic change that causes HD, but new research is shining a light on something else – our epigenome. The word literally means, “above” ...

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