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MEDICATIONS~DRUGS
Movement Disorder Medicines
Anxiety-Antidepressant Medications
Antidepressant Adverse Effects
Warnings~Adolescents Under 25
Sertraline ~Zoloft
SSRI's
Anti-psychotic Medications
Prozac, Luvox, Paxil, Zoloft & Celexa
Olanzipine & Risperidone and blood tests
Creatine
Drugs~General
Cutting Prescriptions
Sites That Help the Medicine Go Down
Vitamins & Minerals
SYMPTOMS
Why Certain Symptoms Occur In HD
Tests Commonly Used -Neuropsychological Examination
Symptom vs Medication
HD-Disability
HD~Communications
Speech & Swallowing Difficulties~Lynn Rhodes
Swallowing Problem Warning Signs
Swallowing Tests
Nutrition and HD~Anna Gaba (Recipes)
HD & Diet~HSA Fact Sheet 7
HD~Swallowing & Nutrition
Weight Gain
Taste
5 Levels Difficulty In Swallowing
Feeding Tube~Advanced Stages of HD
Feeding Tube~Jean Miller
One more word on feeding tubes
PEG Tubes and baby foods
Feeding Tubes-More Info
Dehydration
HD~Chorea
HD~Falling/Safety Issues
HD~Cognitive/Decision Making/Impulsivity
Cognitive-Short Tips
HD-Apathy
HD~Perceptual/Unawareness/Attention
Denial of HD
HD~Irritability/Temper Outbursts
Managing behavioral problems
HD~Depression
Depression - Treatment Resistant Patient
HD~Anxiety/Apathy/Irritability
HD~Mania, Obsessive Disorders
HD~Hallucinations & Psychosis
HD~Rigidity, Spasticity, and Dystonia
HD~Seizure/Convulsion/Epilepsy/Tics
Nails
MISCELLANEOUS
Adaptive Products
HD~Suicide
Teen Suicide~Let's Talk Facts
HD~Incontinence
Stress Explained-Easy/Fun Format
How To Help Someone Chronically Ill
Legal Planning for Incapacity
Out-of-Home Care Options FAQ
Preparing for Emergencies

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 EARLY HD
Clinical Findings
 
Among Huntington's disease gene carriers, subtle cognitive and motor deficits
precede the onset of sufficient neurological abnormality to warrant a clinical
diagnosis of Huntington's disease.
 
Neuropsychological measures show impairment 2 years before the
development of more manifest motor disease. Findings suggest that these brief cognitive
measures administered over time may capture early striatal neural loss in HD.
 
Many attention and executive tasks adequately assess the progression of
the disease at an early stage. For other functions, the overlapping of retest
effects and disease progression may confuse the results. High interindividual
and intraindividual variability seem to be hallmarks of the disease.
 
"Early signs of Huntington's disease can be detected using neuropsychological measures 2 years before the development of more manifest motor disease," Dr. Jane S. Paulsen of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, tells Reuters Health.
 
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