Journal of Huntington's Disease

Journal of Huntington’s Disease | Dedicated to expediting our understanding & improving treatments of HD | Editors: Blair R. Leavitt & Leslie M. Thompson

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The Journal of Translational Science in Rare Diseases has an open call for a new Editor in Chief. Read more: https://t.co/RZ09vmYgtn
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Call for Papers: Original research or review papers on the role of exercise and physical activity in HD, to be released in a special edition. Submission deadline March 1, 2026. More details on the scope and guest editors available at: https://t.co/a7Bbm9d12Y
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NEW TO READ: The Abstracts of the 1st Biennial Huntington's Disease Clinical Research Congress, October 11-13, 2025, Nashville, TN. This annual meeting advances clinical research and care in HD. https://t.co/Kym4kujSYX
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Important news: "Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time". Read more here:
https://t.co/2WCqevyvIP

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NEW: Special Issue on Glia and Non-Neuronal Cells in Huntington's Disease!
➡️Guest Edited by @pouladi and Asa Petersen
📷Increase understanding of glia and non-neuronal cells and neuroinflammation in HD
📷And more: https://t.co/BxtOLdrLmt
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Announcing the release of Journal of Huntington's Disease Volume 14, Issue 2! ➡️
📷New Clinical Trials Corner
📷 Review Article on performance-based functional capacity measures and their suitability for clinical trials
📷And more: https://t.co/spffV96ouJ

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Announcing the release of Journal of Huntington's Disease Volume 13, Issue 4! ➡️
📷New Clinical Trials Corner
📷Review on Huntingtin activity and localization signals in the context of protein structure
📷And more: https://t.co/RpQ5dwoU9D… #Huntingtonsdisease #HDresearch

[Journal of Huntington's Disease @journal_hd]

A comprehensive review on juvenile HD discussing
➡️Clinical features
➡️Treatment and care
➡️Future perspectives
to inform multidisciplinary guidelines for diagnosing and managing JHD: https://t.co/u3rmKYLy66
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What do “pre-symptomatic,” “prodromal,” and “pre-manifest" mean, and how can they be compared across different studies? The HD-ISS standardizes terminology and will resolve inconsistencies once globally adopted: https://t.co/jGpeyUFhyO
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An important article in JHD provides guidance from the Huntington’s Disease Nomenclature Working Group on the most appropriate technical terms for the journal’s readership and the wider HD research community.

View article:
https://t.co/bpIuyKVVMQ

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What are the impacts of the FS7 Freesurfer software update on caudate and putamen volume measurements? Researchers @UCLHD @UCLHD_YAS explore differences in FS bias when detecting early atrophy: https://t.co/MCNdzsAaZz

[HuntingtonStudyGroup @HuntingtonSG]

⏰TIME IS TICKING!
11 days left to submit abstracts for #HSG2024 & publish your work in the @journal_hd: https://t.co/sfsts73UWF

🌟NEW THIS YEAR: Join the Poster Networking Reception on Thursday to showcase your work to HD experts & make valuable connections🚀#HuntingtonsDisease

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Heart rate variability measures in response to exercise have implications for exercise guidelines and cardiac dysfunction in people with HD: https://t.co/dYBYuuarA9

@ColumbiaPS @TeachersCollege
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Dihexa does not counteract HD-like symptoms induced by mitochondrial toxin in rats: https://t.co/Z5AJvhd8S1

@OHSUSOM @whitworth
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Researchers @UnivParisSaclay report a novel collection of HTT knockout human iPSCs implicating HTT in
➡️Neuro-epithelial and striatal neuron maturation
➡️DNA repair
➡️BDNF axonal transport in post-mitotic neurons:
https://t.co/d8BtqcYZt3

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A sheep model of HD provides insight on the role of somatic instability in disease progression: https://t.co/WZVsOmW5pN

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Perivascular space morphometry is relatively preserved across global white matter in pre-HD and early-HD: https://t.co/wZROC41i7v

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A team at Universidad Simón Bolívar, Colombia, describes their systematic review of Theory of Mind--the ability to attribute thoughts, desires, and beliefs to oneself and others--as it relates to HD: https://t.co/QziXPyQjqo

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The latest HD Clinical Trials Corner covers
➡️The VICO Therapeutics program
➡️The recently terminated VIBRANT-HD trial
➡️Updates from uniQure and PTC programs
➡️A list of all current HD trials
Read it here: https://t.co/HeFKo6HvyA
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[UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre @UCLHD]

📢 New publication alert!

'Assessment of Perivascular Space Morphometry Across the White Matter in Huntington's Disease Using MRI' by @AnnabelleNeuro (Coleman et al., 2024), published in
@journal_hd 🧠 @rachiscahill @NickyHobbs321 @UCLIoN https://t.co/lp9vjDfKwl