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Huntington’s Disease  ** Description:  ** It is a hereditary progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the development of emotional behavioral and psychiatric abnormalities. It affects the movement in the face, arms, legs, and trunk as well as the gradual loss of thought processing and acquired intellectual abilities. It destroys cells in the brain  Huntington’s Disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. This means that everyone who inherits the faulty gene will eventually get the disease. A parent with a mutation in the HD gene has A 50 percent chance of passing on the disease to their children
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 **Symptoms: ** Symptoms of Huntington’s Disease are poor memory, depression, mood swings, lack of coordination, twitching or other uncontrolled movements, difficulty walking, speaking, and swallowing    **Daily Life: ** You would forget a lot of stuff. Get sad all the time. You couldn’t hold stuff correctly. You would twitch randomly. Couldn’t walk normal. Cant swallow food.

During pregnancy a woman can find out if her baby will have the disease with two tests taking a sample of fluid from around the fetus or by taking a sample of fetal cells from the placenta. After the child is born doctors can identify the disease by first doing a series of neurological and psychological tests. A genetic test can then confirm the diagnosis by determining if the person indeed has inherited the HD gene mutation. However the test cannot tell at what age a person will begin to get sick.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Treatment: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Treatments do not slow the progression of the disease but they can help make the patient more comfortable. Medications ease feelings of depression and anxiety others control involuntary movements physical or speech therapy helps HD patients live more normal lives. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

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