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Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease [7] that is mostly inherited. [8] The earliest symptoms are often subtle problems with mood or mental/psychiatric abilities. [9] [1] A general lack of coordination and an unsteady gait often follow. [2]
A grieving mother claimed she was fired from the Detroit bank where she worked for 30 years while taking family medical leave to care for her dying daughter who was battling breast cancer.
Hyperkinesia, more specifically chorea, is the hallmark symptom of Huntington's disease, formerly referred to as Huntington's chorea. Appropriately, chorea is derived from the Greek word, khoros, meaning "dance." The extent of the hyperkinesia exhibited in the disease can vary from solely the little finger to the entire body, resembling ...
Huntingtin (Htt) is the protein coded for in humans by the HTT gene, also known as the IT15 ("interesting transcript 15") gene. [5] Mutated HTT is the cause of Huntington's disease (HD), and has been investigated for this role and also for its involvement in long-term memory storage.
In the second episode of the second season of BBC's Ripper Street, HD (referred to as Huntington's Chorea) and the possibility of it being passed on in a prominent family are the cause of the death of a woman and the stealing of her child by the patriarch of the family. His son had been diagnosed with HD and is the father of the stolen child.
Huntington built its first five-story building in 1878, on the intersection's southwest corner. Four of P. W.'s five sons became partners during the 1890s and early 1900s. The bank was incorporated in 1905 as The Huntington National Bank of Columbus. [11] Huntington died in 1918 shortly after turning the bank over to his sons. [12]
Benjamin Leighton "Ben" Matlock is a renowned, folksy yet cantankerous defense attorney who charges a fee of $100,000 to take a case. He is known for visiting crime scenes to discover overlooked clues, as well as his down-home style of coming up with viable, alternative theories of the crime in question (usually murder) while sitting in his office playing the banjo or polishing his shoes.
The painting can be found on the back of the U.S. $2 bill. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda. Samuel Huntington, as one of the signers is featured. The Declaration of Independence. Signed July 4, 1776. Huntington is the surname of three prominent families from the United States of America.