SLPA 3704 Chapter Notes - Chapter Notes: Subthalamic Nucleus, Basal Ganglia, Temporal Lobe
9 Jan 2019
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George huntington was a practicing physician in long island, new york. He wrote a paper for the medical and surgical reporter in 1872 explaining chorea which is now called huntington"s. Disease and this paper was known as the best paper on huntington"s disease that had ever been written. His talks were published in the brooklyn medical journal (1895), the transactions of the tri-state medical association (1903), and the journal of nervous and mental disease (1910). & his unpublished papers are in the special collections of the columbia university. Health sciences library, new york city, and the pennypacker long island collection, east. His paper gained attention from people all over the world and the. Huntington"s disease is a fatal genetic disorder including a gene that everyone has. When someone inherits an expansion of that gene the disease eventually manifests within in the body. It causes the progressive breakdown or deterioration of nerve cells in the brain.
