Essays on Huntington's Disease

Imagine someone being born with a genetic disease that has no cure and they only have a certain amount of years to live before they die. Huntington’s Disease is defined as being an inherited disease in which causes the body nerve cells to continuously breakdown…

What Is Huntington’s Disease? Huntington’s is a disease in the brain, Huntington’s disease affects the Neurological and nervous system. Huntington’s disease is passed on from generation to generation through an altered gene from your parents. Huntington’s causes the death of brain cells in parts of…

Narrative In my early 40s I began to have more difficulty concentrating, and I remember feeling unusually forgetful. For a while, I ignored these symptoms until I started to uncontrollably twitch and make fidgety motions. When the chorea started, it was clear to my doctor…

The term sickle cell disease means a group of passed-on red blood cell disorders. Individuals with SCD have an unusual hemoglobin, known as hemoglobin S or sickle hemoglobin found in their red blood cells. Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells that contains oxygen…

The Genetics of Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder whose symptoms can begin at a variable age, depending on the severity of the gene mutation. People who have the disease can show signs of the disorder at as early on as…

INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Parkinson’s disease refers to a condition where a part of the brain becomes damaged in a progressive manner over many years. On the other hand, Huntington disease is an inherited disease that leads to the wasting away of certain…