How to Prevent Huntington's Disease

Get Huntington's who do not have a parent that had it right you can still develop it. Most of the treatment is focused on symptom management so psychiatric medication treating their anxiety Giving them physical and occupational therapy to prevent falls and things of that nature It's pretty disemotional the psychiatric component is the main thing and then the family the family has to be involved at every phase of that. Fortunately, it's a lot rarer than Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. I mean it's still there is an individual there So I don't want to minimize that it's very sad, but Like Parkinson's for example one in five hundred No, no, it's it's less than that, but still

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