A 24-Hour Study of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary Axes in Huntington's Disease.

Summary, in English

Huntington's disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterised by motor, cognitive and psychiatric disturbances. Patients exhibit other symptoms including sleep and mood disturbances, muscle atrophy and weight loss which may be linked to hypothalamic pathology and dysfunction of hypothalamo-pituitary axes.

• Author: Eirini Kalliolia; Edina Silajdzic; Rajasree Nambron; Seán J Costelloe; Nicholas G Martin; Nathan R Hill; Chris Frost; Hilary C Watt; Peter Hindmarsh; Maria Björkqvist; Thomas T Warner
• Department/s: Biomarkers in Brain Disease; MultiPark: Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: PLoS ONE
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 10
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• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26431314?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138848
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Topic: Neurosciences
• Status: Published
• Research group: Biomarkers in Brain Disease
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1932-6203