Search Results - "Huntington's disease"

Huntington's disease and HD-like disorders

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Huntington's disease -- Huntington's disease like disorders -- Chorea -- Anticipation -- Pathobiology of Huntington's disease -- Huntingtin protein misfolding -- Aggregation -- Ubiquitous expression including in peripheral tissues -- Juvenile Huntington's disease/Westphal variant -- Psychiatric, behavioural and cognitive symptomatology -- HD phenocopies -- C9Orf72 and SCA17.…”
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RNAi for neurological diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Repeat expansion diseases -- Polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat diseases -- Huntington's disease -- Vectors for delivering genetic material to brain -- AAVs for delivering RNAi for reducing gene expression -- Artificial miRNAs -- Testing miHD for efficacy -- Off-target silencing -- MRI-guided delivery of AAV into primates -- HTT suppression -- Other gain-of function diseases -- Targeted infusion for broad coverage -- Silencing ataxin-1 -- Nonallele specific silencing: experimental design -- Expression and activity of miSCA1.…”
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Psychiatric aspects of neurologic diseases practical approaches to patient care /

Table of Contents: “…Carroll -- Epilepsy / Laura Marsh -- Parkinson's disease / Laura Marsh -- Alzheimer's disease / Martin Steinberg -- Frontotemporal dementia / David M. Blass -- Huntington's disease / Adam Rosenblatt -- Cerebellar diseases / Russell L. …”
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Merritt's neurology.

Table of Contents: “…Head injury -- Spine injury -- Cranial and peripheral nerve lesions -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Radiation injury -- Electrical and lightning injury -- Decompression sickness -- Intervertebral dics and radiculopathy -- Cervical spondylotic myelopathy -- Thoracic outlet syndrome -- Hereditary and acquired spastic paraplegia -- Syringomyelia -- Neonatal neurology -- Floppy infant syndrome -- Disorders of motor and mental development -- Autism spectrum disorders -- Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome -- Cerebral and spinal malformations -- Chromosomal diseases -- Marcus Gunn -- Möbius syndrome -- Disorders of amino acid metabolism -- Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism -- Lysosomal and other storage diseases -- Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism -- Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome -- Disorders of DNA maintenance, transcription, and translation -- Hyperammonemia -- Peroxisomal diseases: adrenoleukodystrophy, zellweger syndrome, and refsum disease -- Organic acidurias -- Disorders of metal metabolism -- Acute intermittent porphyria -- Neurologic syndromes with acanthocytes -- Cerebral degenerations of childhood -- Diffuse sclerosis and vanishing white matter disease -- Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies: diseases of mitochondrial DNA -- Leber hereditary optic neuropathy -- Mitochondrial diseases with mutations of nuclear DNA -- Neurofibromatosis -- Tuberous sclerosis complex -- Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis -- Incontinentia pigmenti -- General considerations -- Alzheimer disease -- Frontotemporal dementia -- Lewy body dementias -- Huntington disease -- Choreas -- Myoclonus -- Gilles de la tourette syndrome -- Dystonia -- Essential tremor -- Parkinson disease -- Parkinson-plus syndromes -- Paroxysmal dyskinesias -- Tradive dyskinesia and other neuroleptic-induced syndromes -- Autosomal recessive ataxias -- Autosomal dominant ataxias -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive muscular atrophy, and primary lateral sclerosis -- Kennedy disease -- Spinal muscular atrophies of childhood -- Monomelic muscular atrophy -- General considerations -- The inherited peripheral neuropathies -- Acquired neuropathies -- Neuropathic pain -- Myasthenia gravis -- Lambert-Eaton syndrome -- Botulism and antibiotic-induced neuromuscular disorders -- Critical illness myopathy and neuropathy -- Identifying disorders of the motor unit --…”
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