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Brain Changes Emerge Decades Before Huntington’s Diagnosis

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/brain-changes-emerge-decades-before-huntingtons-diagnosis/

Cerebrospinal fluid analysis revealed elevated neurofilament light protein and proenkephalin levels 23 years before clinical diagnosis of Huntington’s disease. Brain imaging showed atrophy in the caudate and putamen at this time point. A longitudinal increase in the somatic cytosine-adenine-guanine repeat expansion ratio in blood predicted brain atrophy. Changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NfL) […]

Author : News Health

Publish date : 2025-01-17 22:40:45

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