References

Conley, M. (2011, November 8). Promising New Treatment for Huntington's Disease.
Retrieved November 17, 2015, from http://abcnews.go.com/Health/huntingtonsdisease-treatment-receives-hope/story?id=14899190
Promising New Treatment for Huntington's Disease is an article by Mikaela
Conley and ABC News about new Huntingtons Disease treatments and a story
about the Falciglia family and how they had to deal with Huntingtons Disease.
Scott Falciglia was only 10 years old when he found out his 40 year old mother
had Huntingtons Disease. She gradually became unable to perform simple
tasks like swallowing. She began to have the Huntington's Dance and have
involuntary twitches and jerks in her body. She progressively got worse and
died at the age of 54. That was 4 years ago and now they have came out with
this new drug for Huntingtons Disease called pridopidine. Pridopidine will
stop the Huntingtons Dance and the patient wont have as much twitching
and spasms. The drug is still under testing but still brings hope to families like
the Falciglia family.
Drug helps Huntingtons disease-afflicted mice, and their offspring. (2014, December
22). Retrieved November 17, 2015, from
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141222084305.htm
The Scripps Research Institute put together an article about how scientists
believe that therapies could possibly "silence" certain genes and help the future
generations have a better chance of not having Huntington's Disease. The
scientists base it off that drug abuse and even stress can silence certain
genes, causing health problems in generations to come. They think this is could

be the same case if they targeted certain genes and "silenced" them causing
their offspring to not have Huntington's Disease. Another method that they
have discovered is epigenetics. This is when you add diet or toxins to the
environment of the genes and the genes will change. Even though this does not
change the genetic code, the epigenetic changes can be passed to the next
generation. This method has been used on lab rats with Huntington's Disease.
The experiment was successful. They tried it on humans and it did not work on
the female but on the male the disease was slowed down but not eliminated.
These scientists are making more and more improvements and they hope they
will find a cure in the future.
Huntington's Disease: Hope Through Research. (n.d.). Retrieved November 17, 2015,
from http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/huntington/detail_huntington.htm
This article by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke goes
very in depth about Huntingtons Disease and what it is. They start off the
article with an introduction about the history and how it was first noticed in
1872. The article then goes into the causes of Huntingtons Disease and how it
slowly breaks down the brain over many years. After that, the article starts to
go in depth about how Huntingtons Disease is inherited and what are the
major effects of the disease. It also includes when the symptoms start to
surface and how the amount of CAG repeats will differ your symptoms. In the
sixth paragraph, it explains how the disease is diagnosed and how CAG repeats
is the ultimate deciding factor when you are being tested. The article also
incorporates the types of treatments and research that is being done. The article

finally concludes with what you can do to help the patients and families coping
with Huntington's Disease.
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