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For many with Huntington’s disease, recognising faces, navigating familiar places, or reading can be difficult. Scientists studied how and when HD affects how the brain processes what we see—crucial research to improve support for people with HD.

Huntington’s disease disrupts genetic "traffic lights," keeping genes green when they should be red. These genetic traffic jams may act to speed brain cell aging and faulty traffic cops fail to stop the chaos. What does this mean for HD?

Hidden twists in the Huntington’s disease gene could shift symptoms by over a decade! Scientists have uncovered rare “genetic dams” that shape when HD begins - sometimes dramatically