University of Illinois at Chicago
Huntington's disease deciphered
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered how the mutated huntingtin gene acts on the nervous system to create the devastation of Huntington's disease. The report of their findings...
sorry about your brother.
and I was just re-posting what BethU had posted. haven't read the actual article. but yes I believe that a positive attitude will go a long way.
BethU posted this a couple of weeks back:
The May issue of MDA/ALS Newsmagazine has an article on "Factors in Survival." This is a quick synopsis ... (I wonder if they separated out bulbar onset from limb onset [see below] that might give a very different survival prognosis for limb onset...
with any of the MND researchers I've chatted with over email or read interviews with, it is usually the same thing - that stem cells will prove greatly beneficial in terms of pure research - but maybe not as a direct treatment itself... so stem cells still provide a great benefit to researching...
Wow. That's really sad. I was really hopeful for Stem Cell Research treating neurodegenerative diseases... some day soon...especially ALS. But Hopefully science provides a miracle... and soon!
a resounding YES. Okay. I thought so.
here's my question, then... if you are able to reduce stress, does the progression also reduce... or once you've sped the disease process up, does it unfortunately continue that way?
thanks a lot.