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Joseph Samaha, Jim Dagher, Shayan Abdollah Zadegan

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. It is caused by an expansion of cytosine, adenine, guanine (CAG) repeats within the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which is located on chromosome 4. This pathological expansion of CAG repeats results in the production of a mutant huntingtin protein with an abnormally long polyglutamine […]

Diagnosing Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

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Published Online: Jun 17th 2015

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative disease that in its early stages can be misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease since both involve loss of motor control and occur later in life. In this exclusive interview with Trish Caruana of CurePSP, Ms Caruana talks about the difficulties in getting diagnosed properly and quickly.

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