Huntington's+Disease-Description

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Huntington's Disease is a dominant genetic disorder that involves the deterioration of the brain and the control the movement of your body due to the effects it has on that part of the brain. The symptoms and the disease itself has been noted to be around since the early 1600's. Since the beginning of the disease, people with the disease were accused of being possessed by the devil due to the rapid uncontrollable body movements. It didn't have it's name until around 1872, when a paper written by George Huntington was published on Chorea (Another word for Huntingtons), which explained the symptoms of Huntingtons in detail, and published that he believed they were inherited by family, due to reading his fathers and grandfathers work, and finding that the majority of the time the patients had Huntingtons, their immediate family almost always had it too. To this day, Huntington's Disease is still alive and somewhat common for a genetic disorder like itself.