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This up-to-date and comprehensive set of two CD-ROM discs provides a superb collection of official Federal government documents on the subject of Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited disease that causes certain nerve cells in the brain to waste away. People are born with the defective gene, but symptoms usually don't appear until middle age. Early symptoms of HD may include uncontrolled movements, clumsiness or balance problems. Later, HD can take away the ability to walk, talk or swallow. Some people stop recognizing family members. Others are aware of their environment and are able to express emotions. If one of your parents has Huntington's disease, you have a 50-50 chance of getting it. A blood test can tell you if have the HD gene and will develop the disease. Genetic counseling can help you weigh the risks and benefits of taking the test.For patients, practical information is provided in clearly written patient education documents. For medical professionals, doctor reference tools and texts have detailed technical information and clinical background material. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. This thoroughly researched collection presents vital information from many authoritative sources: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the relevant institute for this disease, and others.In addition to the comprehensive disease-specific coverage, this disc set also includes our Medical Encyclopedia, a $19.95 value! The Encyclopedia presents a collection of official documents about a wide range of medical topics, diseases, illnesses, health and wellness. There is vital information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Cancer Institute, and more. Topics covered include: major diseases, including cancer, heart and vascular disease, stroke, blood diseases and disorders, lung diseases, and neurological disorders such as dementia and epilepsy * CDC Health Topics A to Z, Foodborne Illnesses, Infants and Children, Injuries, Occupational Health, Older Adults, Women * CDC Travelers' Health - Destinations, Vaccinations, Diseases, Mosquito, Tick, Food, Water, Clinics, Yellow Book, Children, Airplanes, Cruise Ships, Special Needs, Relief Workers, * Dietary Guidelines * NIH A to Z from abnormalities to X-rays.Since navigating the Internet to find additional non-governmental medical information can be confusing, we've also provided our exclusive "Guide to Leading Medical Websites" with updated links to 67 of the best sites for medical information! Built-in weblinks let you quickly check for the latest clinical updates directly from the government and the best commercial portals, news sites, reference/textbook/non-commercial portals, and health organizations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dieticians Association of Australia, published by Dietitians Association of Australia on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 497 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nutrition and Huntington's Disease, A practical guide--A multidisciplinary approach. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
Author: Beth Rohrlach
Publication: Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dieticians Association of Australia (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Dietitians Association of Australia
Volume: 59Issue: 4Page: 267(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Huntington's disease (HD) is a purely genetic neurodegenerativedisorder affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 people.It is mostcommonly associated with excessive involuntary movement, or chorea,combined with varying degrees of other motor, psychiatric andcognitive disturbances.Identification of the mutation in the HD geneprompted the generation of several transgenic mouse models.HD isbut one of a family of at least 9 triplet repeat disorders, all of whichexhibit protein aggregation by a similar mechanism. Theunderstanding of one disease is therefore of importance to theunderstanding of them all.This work aims to be a comprehensivecomparative study of three very different mouse models of HDelucidating the pathological changes that precede and accompany thedisease process. ... Read more

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The Huntington's Disease Medical Guide is a publication which has been designed to better help readers understand Huntington's Disease. This Qontro Medical Guide has been designed with the reader in mind, and is a useful information source for readers at all levels looking to learn more about Huntington's Disease. The Huntington's Disease Medical Guide is highly recommended for those interested in understanding and learning more about Huntington's Disease. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Neuropsychologia, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Previous studies of verbal episodic memory in pre-diagnostic Huntington's disease (HD) have yielded mixed results; some evidence suggests that memory decline is evident prior to the onset of pronounced neurological signs of HD, whereas other data indicate that memory function remains normal throughout the pre-diagnostic period. This study examines verbal episodic memory in a sample of CAG expanded individuals who have not yet been clinically diagnosed, and who represent a wide range of points along the continuum from health to disease. The Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R) was administered to 479 participants (428 with the HD CAG expansion and 51 without), and performance was compared to neurobiological indices of disease progression, including a DNA-based estimate of proximity to clinical diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of striatal volume, and neurologist ratings of motor signs. Lower HVLT-R scores were associated with closer proximity to clinical diagnosis and smaller striatal volumes; these relationships were found even in groups with no neurological signs of HD. The CAG expanded groups, including those with only minimal neurological signs, had significantly lower HVLT-R scores than the control group, and performance was worse in sub-groups that had more neurological signs consistent with HD. These findings indicate that verbal episodic memory is affected in early pre-diagnostic HD and may decline as striatal volumes decrease and individuals approach the motor diagnostic threshold. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, published by American Association of Neuroscience Nurses on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 5748 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Remotivation Therapy and Huntington's Disease.
Author: Florinda R. Sullivan
Publication: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Volume: 33Issue: 3Page: 136

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This digital document is an article from Psychopharmacology Educational Updates (PsychEd Up), published by NEI Press, Inc. on October 1, 2008. The length of the article is 1113 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Neuroprotection in Huntington's disease.(Second Messenger)(Disease/Disorder overview)
Author: Veronique M. Andre
Publication: Psychopharmacology Educational Updates (PsychEd Up) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: NEI Press, Inc.
Volume: 4Issue: 10Page: NA

Article Type: Disease/Disorder overview

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This digital document is an article from MedSurg Nursing, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3832 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Huntington disease is a serious neurogenetic disease that affects the physical, cognitive, and psychiatric health of the patient, and has a significant impact on the social life of the family. Nurses play a vital role as health care providers and advocates for the patient with Huntington disease.

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Title: Huntington disease: a nursing perspective.(CE SERIES)
Author: Heater Skirton
Publication: MedSurg Nursing (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: 14Issue: 3Page: 167(7)

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Communication Disorders, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The lexical-semantic and syntactic abilities of a group of individuals with chronic nonthalamic subcortical (NS) lesions following stroke (n=6) were investigated using the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) picture description task [Kertesz, A. (1982). The Western aphasia battery. New York: Grune and Stratton] and compared with those of a group of subjects with Huntington's Disease (HD) (n=6) and a nonneurologically impaired control group (n=6) matched for age, sex, and educational level. The performance of the NS and HD subjects did not differ significantly from the well controls on measures of lexical-semantic abilities. NS and HD subjects provided as much information about the target picture as control subjects, but produced fewer action information units. Analysis of syntactic abilities revealed that the HD subjects produced significantly more grammatical errors than both the NS and control subjects and that the NS group performed in a similar manner to control subjects. These findings are considered in terms of current theories of subcortical language function. Learning outcomes: As a result of this activity, the reader will obtain information about the debate surrounding the role of subcortical language mechanisms and be provided with new information on the comparative picture description abilities of individuals with known vascular and degenerative subcortical pathologies and healthy control participants. ... Read more

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Huntington?s Disease (HD) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS)are both severe chronic diseases. In addition to theneurological problems, psychic symptoms are commonand together with the steadily progressing courseleading to increasing problems in activities of dailylife and physical disability. Partnership problemsand sexual dysfunction is often reported in chronicdiseases but many physicians feel uncomfortable orinadequately trained to discuss these issues withtheir patients. Although not life-threatening, theseconditions are associated with a considerable amountof unhappiness and decreased quality of life. Whenreceiving diagnosis most of the patients are just inprogress of having a family on their own or makingcareer. The increased dependence, especially on thepartner can be a big strain on relationships. Thisbook deals with the topic of sexuality andpartnership in HD and MS and contains a detaileddescription of the existing literature as well as theinvestigations and findings of a study with HD and MSpatients interrogated by a personal interview andstandardised questionnaires. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading." Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing. Since only the smallest fraction of information dealing with Huntington disease is indexed in search engines, such as www.google.com or others, a non-systematic approach to Internet research can be not only time consuming, but also incomplete. This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Neuropsychologia, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The disproportionate impairment for the recognition of facial expressions of disgust in patients with Huntington's disease (HD) forms a double dissociation with the impaired recognition of fear that has been reported in amygdala patients. The dissociation has generated discussion regarding the potential existence of neural substrates dedicated to the recognition of facial signals of specific emotions. The aim of this study was to establish whether the impairment for disgust in HD was restricted solely to the domain of facial perception, or whether HD patients also demonstrate impairment in other kinds of disgust. Fourteen HD patients and fourteen age and education matched healthy controls participated in seven disparate emotion processing tasks. (1) A measure of knowledge for the situational determinants of distinct emotions; (2) recognition of emotion expressed in nonverbal vocalisations; (3) recognition of the emotional content of explicit lexical stimuli; (4) recognition of emotional content in pictures of emotion scenes; (5) a disgust experience questionnaire; (6) a measure of olfactory hedonic responsiveness; (7) a measure of gustatory perception. While verbal aspects of disgust processing were preserved, parallel impairments were revealed for olfactory disgust, vocal disgust expressions, the classification of disgusting pictures, and declarative knowledge of disgust elicitors. The finding of impaired perception of disgust signalled through different input domains suggests that the inability to recognise the facial expression in this population reflects a fundamental problem with disgust processing. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from BIOTECH Patent News, published by Biotech Patent News on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1048 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sirna's collaborator publishes breakthrough research on Huntington's Disease.
Publication: BIOTECH Patent News (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Biotech Patent News
Volume: 19Issue: 4

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, published by American Association of Neuroscience Nurses on June 1, 2010. The length of the article is 9216 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ripples from a stone skipping across the lake: a narrative approach to the meaning of Huntington's disease.
Author: Rose Rossi Schwartz
Publication: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2010
Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Volume: 42Issue: 3Page: 157(12)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology, published by Delmar Learning on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 6328 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Reliability of speech intelligibility ratings using the unified Huntington Disease Rating Scale.
Author: Richard I. Zraick
Publication: Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Delmar Learning
Volume: 12Issue: 1Page: 31(10)

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Huntington's Disease. George Huntington, Choreia (disease), Saccade, Dysphagia, Dysarthria, Seizure, Executive Functions, Huntingtin, Trinucleotide Repeat Disorder, List of Huntington's Disease Media Depictions, Huntington's Disease Clinical Research ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Transplant News, published by Transplant Communications, Inc. on December 15, 2000. The length of the article is 324 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Grafting fetal neuroblast cells into the brains of Huntington's disease patients improves motor-function-French study.(INSERM study in Cretail)(Brief Article)
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: December 15, 2000
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Volume: 10Issue: 23Page: NA

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more