Autonomic dysregulation as an early pathologic feature of Huntington Disease
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction has been described in adults with motor-manifest Huntington's Disease (HD) or those who are near their predicted motor onset. It is unclear if ANS dysfunction is present years prior to the onset of motor symptoms of HD. To bridge this gap in knowledge, we compared crude markers of ANS function between children with the gene-expansion that causes HD (GE group) who were decades from their predicted motor onset and gene-non-expanded children (GNE group).
Source: Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Jordan L. Schultz, Lyndsay A. Harshman, John A. Kamholz, Peg C. Nopoulos Source Type: research
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