Unbidden Motion

Artist: Kzz

🎨Artwork Description:

The most distinct symptom of Huntington's Disease is involuntary movements such as jerking and writhing. These involuntary movements seem like a person is dancing. That's why the artwork depicts a person is dancing, just like Huntington's Disease.

Disease Introduction: Huntington's Disease

Types: Neurological

Impact area: Central Nervous System (CNS)

🧾Symptoms:

Movement symptoms:

Involuntary body movements such as jerking or writhing called chorea & slow or unusual eye movements & troubles with keep balance and movements & troubles with speech and swallowing.

Cognitive symptoms:

Lack of awareness of own behaviors and movements & lack of flexibility and getting stuck with a thought &trouble with organization prioritizing tasks.

Mental Symptoms:

Social withdrawal & fatigue & irritability & thoughts of suicide.

 Causes: HD is mainly caused by the mutation of huntingtin (HTT) gene on chromosome 4, which caused the degeneration of nerves in basal ganglia. It’s a highly inheritable disease. Indeed, if a parent has HD, each of their children has 50% chance of getting HD.

💊Current Treatments:

There is no treatments that can completely eliminate HD. However, tetrabenazine and deuterabenazine are drugs can be used to treat chorea associated with HD. Antipsychotic drugs may also be used for HD patients to reduce hallucinations, delusions, and violent outburst.