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Our incredible special gues this afternoon is Kenneth P. Serbin, Ph. D., professor and chair in the USD College of Arts and Sciences,Department of History, served as vice president, president, and immediate past president of the Brazilian Studies Association (2004-2010).  He also was the co-chair of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association from 2003-2006. Kenneth Serbin’s mothe...

Tonight our incredible special guest is Karen E. Anderson, MD. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology and the newly appointed Director of the Huntington Disease Care, Education and Research Center (HDCERC), a joint endeavor of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.  As Director, she leads a multidisciplinary team devoted to HD c...

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Join us for an update on the HSG First-HD clinical trial with incredible special guests Jody Goldstein from Rochester and Greg Suter from the HNDC.   First-HD is a Phase III clinical research trial of an investigational drug called SD-809 Extended Release (ER) in persons who have a diagnosis of Huntington disease (HD). First-HD will look at how safe, tolerable and effect...

Pre-Recorded 9-17-13 Our incredible special guest is Dr. Mary Edmondson, Psychiatry from Duke University HD Clinic and HD Reach. Hear about the HSG Symposium set for November 7-8-9 in North Carolina.  

"Help4HD - The HD View: Celebrating the Advocates" Tuesday, October 22, 2013 is the premier of our new component of Help4HD Programming - "Help4HD - The HD View: Celebrating the Advocates."  It is so important that we take the time to acknowledge and celebrate individuals within our community who advocate for Huntington's disease! We are proud to have Kris Coasthunter King from Sheffield, England...

Tuesday, September 15, 2013 It's time for The HD View Ask Dr. Goodman Show!  Tonight we are going to be talking about substance abuse in Huntington's disease. Dr Goodman writes articles each month for Help 4 HD - The HD View to discuss on the Ask Dr. Goodman Show. Find Dr. Goomans new article: http://bit.ly/1hR4zTp

PRE-RECORDED   - First-HD is a Phase III clinical research trial of an investigational drug called SD-809 Extended Release (ER) in persons who have a diagnosis of Huntington disease (HD). First-HD will be enrolling participants across North America (United States and Canada) who have been diagnosed with HD and who have never taken tetrabenazine (Xenazine ®, Nitoman ®). Participants will be involve...

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Dr. Peg Nopoulos, professor in Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will be our incredible special guest tonight.  She will be talking about Kids HD and Kids JHD and why the two studies are different. She will have returned from World Congress for HD with some very interesting information for us. Tune in for a very special up...

Pre-recorded Tonight our incredible special guest is Dr. Ira Shoulson founder of the Parkinson Study Group and the Huntington Study Group. Dr. Shoulson is Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology and Human Science and Director of the Program for Regulatory Science and Medicine (PRSM) at Georgetown University.

Dr. Mary Edmondson, MD, Psychiatry from Duke University HD Clinic and HD Reach is back with us tonight.  HD Reach is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing access to care, education, and social assistance to patients and families affected by Huntington’s disease in North Carolina.  She will be hosting a symposium in November titled: “Neurodegenerative Disorders: The example of Huntington...

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 Tonight we will be discussing obsessive compulsive behaviors in Huntington's disease. Read the article: Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors and Huntington's Disease http://hddrugworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=325&Itemid=30 Obsessive compulsive behaviors (OCBs) occur frequently in Huntington's disease (HD) and can cause great distress. These be...

Tonight our special guests are Dr. Samuel Frank - Associate Professor of Neurology and co-Director of Neurology Resident Education at Boston University and is involved with many HSG studies and trials, and Dr. David Stamler - Chief Medical Officer at Auspex Pharmaceuticals.   Tonight we will be discussing First-HD, which is is a Phase III clinical research trial of an investigational drug called S...

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 Ask Dr. Goodman about pain in Huntington's disease tonight. Read her new article, "Body Discomfort and Pain in Huntington's Disease" According to two recent studies from the United Kingdom, bodily discomfort (which refers to total body physical suffering) and pain (which refers to localized physical suffering) are problems in Huntington's disease (HD) that significantly af...

PRE-CELL! Help 4 HD International is excited to announce that UC Davis will begin recruitment for PRE-CELL which is the lead-in observational study for their future planned stem cell trial for Huntington's disease. Per Terry Tempkin (Clinical Project Manager): "UC Davis has received approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB), to begin the observational PRE-CELL study." Terry Tempkin went o...

Pre-Recorded Show... Today's episode is a prelude to next weeks LIVE update with Teresa Tempkin RNC, MSN, ANP from the HDSA Center of Excellence, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Department of Neurology. Hello everyone! It was one year ago Help 4 HD News Channel invited Dr. Jan Nolta, Director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program on the show to tell us about their CIRM (California Inst...

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 3:30 pm PST/6:30 pm EST Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Alicia Semaka, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She received her MSc in Genetic Counseling in 2005 and her PhD in Medical Genetics under the supervision of Dr. Michael Hayden at the Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics in 2012. Her doctoral research focused on interm...

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 3:30 pm PST/6:30 pm EST Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Christopher Ross who is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Division of Neurobiology, Director of the NINDS-funded Baltimore Huntington’s Disease Center, and Director of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America...

TUESDAY, July 9, 2013 Tonight our incredible special guest is Emily Fisher, MSc Medical Genetics, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia. In 2012, Emily Fisher completed her Master's degree in science specializing in Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. Emily's thesis project focused on the epidemiology of HD. This is very important...

Pre-Recorded in 2011... Introducing Dan Brennan from Lundbeck and talk about RNAi.

PRE-RECORDED... December 2010, hosted by BJ Viau Robert Pacifici was the Site Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the Research Triangle Park Laboratories of Eli Lilly and Company. There he oversaw the company's global screening and quantitative-biology efforts. Prior to joining Lilly, Robert was Vice President of Discovery Technologies at Xencor, a pri­vately held biotechnology company that a...

Tuesday, May 21 PRE-RECORDED... Celebrating Woodie Guthrie through the eyes of Jimmy Pollard. May is Huntington's Disease awareness month. Tune in to a fabulous interview with the one and only Jimmy Pollard.

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Tuesday... new show time! Dr. Goodman will be with us tonight to talk about CHDI foundation and their role as the "collaborative enabler" with financial clout in drug development for Huntington's disease. Tune in for a very informative show.

Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Diana Rosas, MD, Director, Center for Neuro-Imaging of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease. Dr. Rosas and her team have focused primarily on the development of biomarkers for use in the study of neurodegenerative diseases, to better characterize progression, to better understand genotype/phenotype correlations and to apply novel neuroimaging approaches i...

Pre-recorded... Tonight our incredible special guest is Dr. Ira Shoulson founder of the Parkinson Study Group and the Huntington Study Group. Be sure to listen to our first interview with Dr. Shoulson on May 9, 2011. Dr. Shoulson is Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology and Human Science and Director of the Program for Regulatory Science and Medicine (PRSM) at Georgetown University. www.huntington-...