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Mental Disorders > Neurocognitive Disorders > Cognition Disorders > Huntington Disease
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System > Huntington Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Neurodegenerative Diseases > Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System > Huntington Disease
Mental Disorders > Neurocognitive Disorders > Dementia > Huntington Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Dementia > Huntington Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Basal Ganglia Diseases > Huntington Disease
... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Neurologic Manifestations > Dyskinesias > Chorea > Huntington Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Neurologic Manifestations > Dyskinesias > Chorea > Huntington Disease
... > Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Movement Disorders > Dyskinesias > Chorea > Huntington Disease

Preferred term

Huntington Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Chorea, Chronic Progressive Hereditary (Huntington)
  • Chorea, Huntington
  • Chorea, Huntington's
  • Chronic Progressive Hereditary Chorea (Huntington)
  • Huntington Chorea
  • Huntington Chronic Progressive Hereditary Chorea
  • Huntington's Chorea
  • Huntington's Disease
  • Progressive Chorea, Chronic Hereditary (Huntington)
  • Progressive Chorea, Hereditary, Chronic (Huntington)

Scope note

  • A familial disorder inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and characterized by the onset of progressive CHOREA and DEMENTIA in the fourth or fifth decade of life. Common initial manifestations include paranoia; poor impulse control; DEPRESSION; HALLUCINATIONS; and DELUSIONS. Eventually intellectual impairment; loss of fine motor control; ATHETOSIS; and diffuse chorea involving axial and limb musculature develops, leading to a vegetative state within 10-15 years of disease onset. The juvenile variant has a more fulminant course including SEIZURES; ATAXIA; dementia; and chorea. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1060-4)

History note

  • 2000(1963)

In other languages

  • Huntingtonin tauti

    Finnish

  • Chorea Huntington
  • Huntington
  • Huntingtonin korea
  • Huntingtonin tanssitauti
  • Huntingtons korea
  • Huntingtons sjukdom
  • morbus Huntington
  • Huntingtons sjukdom

    Swedish

  • Huntingtons korea
  • Juvenil Huntingtons sjukdom
  • Sen debut av Huntingtons sjukdom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006816

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