Huntington's disease, sometimes known as Huntington's chorea, is a severe genetic neurological disorder. It affects people mainly in later life, by which time they could already have passed it on to their children. There is a 50/50 chance of inheriting this disease.
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| - Huntington's disease, sometimes known as Huntington's chorea, is a severe genetic neurological disorder. It affects people mainly in later life, by which time they could already have passed it on to their children. There is a 50/50 chance of inheriting this disease.
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symptom
| - Choreoathetosis, emotional and behavioral disturbances, dementia
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| - Genetic neurological disorder
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treatment
| - Dopamine against drugs for chorea, but there is no known treatment to stop the progression of brain atrophy
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Cause
| - Mitochondrial dysfunction and neuronal cell death leading to atrophy of the putamen and caudate nucleus of the brain
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| - Huntington's disease, sometimes known as Huntington's chorea, is a severe genetic neurological disorder. It affects people mainly in later life, by which time they could already have passed it on to their children. There is a 50/50 chance of inheriting this disease.
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