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Huntington 's disease Introduction Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary disease for which there is no cure. Dr Miha Likar (1979) stated, "that the onset of this rare hereditary disease does not appear until middle age. Muscular spasms become progressingly more debilitating and the disease is invariably fatal." Huntington's is a neurological disease, which damages the nerve cells in the brain. This causes degeneration, deterioration and gradual loss of function of areas in the brain. It affects movement, cognition, perception, awareness, thinking and behavioural problems. Men and women are equally likely to develop Huntington's, it is estimated that between, 6500 to 8000 people have the disease in Britain. Normally it does not present itself until the age of 30 to 50 and many people are unaware that they have the disease and that they may have passed it on to their children. There is also juvenile Huntington's that affects about 5% of...

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