Huntington Disease Introduction Case 2 presents a story of two brothers Brain and Jeff, whose father was diagnosed some time ago with Huntington’s disease (HD). Upon realization that the father may not live too long, Brain decided to reconcile with his father. Jeff however cannot forgive him the fact that he left the family and refuses to visit his father. The communication between two brothers ceases to the point that Jeff does not want to know anything about his father and his illness. After Brain learns that he tested positive for the HD, he initially wants to tell his brother about this fact, but ultimately, influenced by negative emotion of anger to Jeff, he changes his mind and decides not share this news with him.…
The causes with these disorders are a narrow biological disorder in genetic…
Dementia is an umbrella term. By this I mean that it covers many different conditions. Each condition affects the brain and can lead to dementia due to brain de deterioration and loss of function. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome- this is a brain disorder in which not getting enough B1 vitamin will affect your brain function. B1 vitamin is used in the brain to change sugar into energy.…
Huntington’s is an inherited disease that targets the brain’s function. The disorder takes over and kills parts of the brain causing the individual with the disease to lose motor function, memories and the ability to rationalize. The defect occurs in a single gene and because Huntington’s is an autosomal dominates disorder the offspring only needs one copy of the abnormal gene to possibly develop the disease. The Huntington’s mutation occurs in the HTT gene, this gene controls the production of the huntingtin protein.…
The Clay Family Suffers Huntington’s Disease On April 19, 1999, Marie Clay took her 28-year-old daughter, Laurie Clay, to a counselor because she was at high risk of getting Huntington’s disease, a hereditary disease. Due to Laurie’s father, she would be clumsy, fat and forgetful as her father. This is Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic disorder that causes the nerve cells in the brain to break down. If one of parents is the patient of the disease, each of their children will also inherit the disease by the chance of 50%. Marie’s husband, Phillip, first showed signs of Huntington’s in his 30s, but they are just small symptoms.…
Meghan was two when her father was diagnosed with Huntington's. At the time, she didn't understand what that was. In 2006, in College, while pouring herself some lemonade, she spilled the pitcher and knocked her glass on the floor. When her mother was helping her clean up the mess, Meghan told her she thought she had Huntington's disease. Her mother has seen the symptoms for a few years, and she finally told her that she knew.…
The brain is the most important body organ in your body nothing can function without your brain. The brain contains the way it moves, feels, and its senses of emotions, including the lungs, heart, and stomach. which is the part to the central nervous system. There are three main structures of the brain, the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. Forbrain their are two different types of forebrain which is (diencephalon and telencephalon).…
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/huntingtons-disease/basics/definition/con-20030685 http://www.hdsa.org http://www.alz.org/dementia/huntingtons-disease-symptoms.asp http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/HuntingtonsDisease.htm http://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-disorders/degenerative-disorders/articles/2012/huntingtons-disease/ Huntington's disease-also referred to as "HD"- is a hereditary brain disorder that causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) and death of nerve cells in the brain. HD affects people of all races all over the world. It was named for doctor George Huntington of Long Island, New York in the year 1872. He described this disease as "hereditary chorea". Chorea,…
Everyone in this world faces adversity at some point in their life. Everyone is not, however, born with a genetic condition that has the odds stacked against them from the very beginning. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) is a rare form of genetic mutation that shows some aspects of physiological aging from a very young age. Symptoms become more prominent as a carrier of the disease ages. HGPS is of interest to me, because this is a disorder that resembles accelerated aging, and if we were able do truly understand what causes these conditions and symptoms of HGPS to come about, it is not too farfetched to believe that we could one day slow or reverse the effects of certain symptoms associated with aging, such as blindness, deafness,…
Huntington’s disease was identified by George Huntington in 1872. Huntington Disease is also referred to as Huntington chorea or heredity chorea. (Gulli & Frey, 2011, p. 16) Chorea is spontaneous, forceful, rapid convulsive movements that may be slight or develop into confluent, notably changing normal patterns of movement. ("Chorea," 2015)…
(Blachford) Life altering huntington’s disease affects the basal ganglia portion; it is hereditary but is passed on before symptoms appear. Modern science has made patients last year’s comfortable, but it is deadly. The cow said moo to the farmer because it wanted hay. It was very hungry. He is Huntington’s is devastating to a person’s mental health.…
The first description of a Huntington-like disease dates back to the late 1800’s where George Huntington coined the name Huntington’s chorea. It is characterized as a neurodegenerative disorder passed within families within generations as an onset of unwanted choreatic movements, behavioral and psychiatric disturbances and dementia [1]. The name Huntington’s chorea eventually changed to the well-known Huntington’s Disease (HD) due to the recognition of other debilitative symptoms developed along with chorea. In 1983 HD was linked to chromosome 4 and in 1993 the gene for HD was found [2-4]. This discovery caused a tremendous increase in medical research for HD and other HD-like diseases.…
People who live with Huntington’s disease lose some of the abilities that other people have, such as driving, swallowing, and writing. Huntington’s disease can be tracked all the way back to before medieval times. Before it was given the name Huntington, it was called chorea, which is a Greek word meaning dance. The name chorea originated from Paracelsus, an alchemist from the Renaissance Age. With the involuntary…
His insurance company argues that since his gene has been present since birth, this qualifies as a pre-existing medical condition.” Another case reported by the council of responsible genetics was “Kim is a social worker with a large human services agency. During a staff workshop on caring for people with chronic illnesses, Kim mentions that she was the primary caretaker for her mother who died of Huntington’s disease. Kim herself has a 50% chance of developing this fatal genetic condition. One week…
and here is my rationale for choosing this disease. Huntington’s disease is an inherited progressive brain disorder “caused by a single defective gene on chromosome 4,” (Mayo Clinic, 2014). This leads to breakdown of our nerve cells. This condition is dominant and is easily inherited from parent to progeny…