Learning To Live With Huntingtons Disease

Author : Sandy Sulaiman
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843104873
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease written by Sandy Sulaiman and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntington's Disease (HD), is a hereditary illness passed on via a defective gene. This book offers one family's poignant story of coping with the symptoms, the diagnosis and the effects of HD. It also presents the struggles and strengths of the whole family when one member loses their future to a terminal illness.

Author : Sandy Sulaiman
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846426308
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease written by Sandy Sulaiman and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntington's Disease (HD) is a hereditary illness passed on via a defective gene. There is a fifty per cent chance of inheriting it from a parent and there is yet no cure. Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease is one family's poignant story of coping with the symptoms, the diagnosis and the effects of HD. This book presents the struggles and strengths of the whole family when one member loses their future to a terminal illness. Told by the sufferer and other significant family members, the individuals describe the burden of watching yourself and others for symptoms of HD, including involuntary movements, depression, clumsiness, weight loss, slurred speech and sometimes violent tendencies. The family recounts the challenge to remain united and describes how they approached issues such as whether or not to be tested for HD, how much information to disclose to relatives, whether to have children or not and guilt if one sibling inherits the illness and one does not. Both honest and positive, the author stresses the importance of re-inventing yourself and your present, prioritising relationships and retaining a sense of humour.

Author : Thomas D. Bird
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190684224
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can You Help Me? written by Thomas D. Bird and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can You Help Me?: Living in the Turbulent World of Huntington Disease shares the surprising, insightful, challenging, and even encouraging stories of patients and their families who live with Huntington Disease. Having seen patients for more than 40 years, Dr Thomas Bird, a pioneer neurogeneticist, adds a human touch to this genetic brain disease that devastates persons during mid-life when they can least afford it. With a brief history of Huntington Disease and the occasional scientific detail, the true heart of the book is the human experience of the disorder: � The man who cannot stay out of prison because he is addicted to being a burglar. � Another man shoots and kills his roommate while watching television and cannot explain why he did it. � The woman with Huntington Disease copes with her depression by using Texas line dancing. � A twelve year old girl with juvenile Huntington Disease who can barely walk and talk, but her classmates rally around with touching and heartfelt support. � And the 72 year old man with late onset Huntington Disease and severe depression is made worse by ECT, but improved (for a while) with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. These are just some of the compelling stories of people of all ages and in all walks of life who feel trapped by a progressive degenerative brain disease from which there is no escape.

Author : Oliver Quarrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199236127
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juvenile Huntington's Disease written by Oliver Quarrell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Although onset of HD usually occurs in adulthood, a small percentage of cases develop symptoms before 20 years of age (juvenile-onset Huntington's Disease or JHD). This book summarises, for the first time, the clinical and scientific knowledge available on JHD.

Author : Adam Rosenblatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963773029
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Physician's Guide to the Management of Huntington's Disease written by Adam Rosenblatt and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa Genova
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476717834
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the O'Briens written by Lisa Genova and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller ▪ A Library Journal Best Books of 2015 Pick ▪ A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2015 Pick ▪A GoodReads Top Ten Fiction Book of 2015 ▪ A People Magazine Great Read From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a “heartbreaking…very human novel” (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington’s disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer’s. Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his family’s lives forever: Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure, and each of Joe’s four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their father’s disease. While watching her potential future in her father’s escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. As Joe’s symptoms worsen and he’s eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life “at risk” or learn their fate. Praised for writing that “explores the resilience of the human spirit” (San Francisco Chronicle), Lisa Genova has once again delivered a novel as powerful and unforgettable as the human insights at its core.

Author : Udo Rüb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331919285X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neuropathology of Huntington’s Disease: Classical Findings, Recent Developments and Correlation to Functional Neuroanatomy written by Udo Rüb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph describes the progress in neuropathological HD research made during the last century, the neuropathological hallmarks of HD and their pathogenic relevance. Starting with the initial descriptions of the progressive degeneration of the striatum as one of the key events in HD, the worldwide practiced Vonsattel HD grading system of striatal neurodegeneration will be outlined. Correlating neuropathological data with results on the functional neuroanatomy of the human brain, subsequent chapters will highlight recent HD findings: the neuronal loss in the cerebral neo-and allocortex, the neurodegeneration of select thalamic nuclei, the affection of the cerebellar cortex and nuclei, the involvement of select brainstem nuclei, as well as the pathophysiological relevance of these pathologies for the clinical picture of HD. Finally, the potential pathophysiological role of neuronal huntingtin aggregations and the most important and enduring challenges of neuropathological HD research are discussed.

Author : Jane S. Paulsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963773043
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Behavior in Huntington's Disease written by Jane S. Paulsen and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver W J Quarrell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191607371
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Huntington's Disease written by Oliver W J Quarrell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntington's disease is a genetically inherited condition which results in severe nerve-cell damage in the brain. The hereditary and debilitative nature of the disease means that many people are involved either directly or indirectly by this condition. The recent identification of the faulty gene involved has made the diagnosis of this condition simpler. The majority of people develop the disease between the ages of 35 and 55 years, so for those aware of their genetic risk there are dilemmas to consider - should you have a test to see if you have the gene? Should you start a family? The new edition of this successful book specifically designed for families of patients with Huntington's disease has been expanded to include a number of important new developments in research and clinical practice that have occurred in the field in recent years. While there are no drugs currently available that slow down or reverse the neurodegenerative process in Huntington's Disease, there is growing data on the use of existing treatments to manage movement disorder, irritability and depression associated with the condition, which are covered here. This edition also includes completely new chapters covering juvenile Huntington's disease and late-stage Huntington's disease, and a fully updated Appendix of relevant patients' organizations.

Author : Alice Wexler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300151772
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Walked into the Sea written by Alice Wexler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as “the witchcraft disease” When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington’s chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington’s in America. Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington’s as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to “belong to the disease”; the emergence of Huntington’s chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease.