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For more information about KINECT-HD, please visit the HSG website at: https://huntingtonstudygroup.org/current-clinical-trials/kinect-hd/

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HDYO has a new Genetic Testing program! Please visit their website for more information: www.hdyo.org Matt Ellison's bio: "Hi! My role at HDYO includes developing all the educational project work we do for our website, including video projects, overseeing the youth camps and events HDYO hosts globally, planning future global projects to expand our reach, keeping the website up-to-date, responding...

Gene Veritas Rerun 

Patty Romero-Mabry shares her HD experience as a caregiver for her husband and her son with JHD. For information on how you can help Patty and Bryan, please contact Lauren Holder at lauren@help4hd.org

Melissa (Dilley) Ryant has been a member of the Huntington's Disease Society of America's (HDSA) National Youth Alliance (NYA) since attending her first convention in 2013. From that point, Melissa volunteered to serve on the NYA board for 6 years. Her mother had HD and was symptomatic her entire life, until she passed away in 2008. A few years later, Melissa tested gene negative at the age of 24....

Melissa (Dilley) Ryant has been a member of the Huntington's Disease Society of America's (HDSA) National Youth Alliance (NYA) since attending her first convention in 2013. From that point, Melissa volunteered to serve on the NYA board for 6 years. Her mother had HD and was symptomatic her entire life, until she passed away in 2008. A few years later, Melissa tested gene negative at the age of 24....

David Rubinsztein is Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics and a UK Dementia Research Institute Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Rubinsztein earned his MB ChB, BSc(Med)Hons, and PhD degrees from University of Cape Town. He came to Cambridge in 1993 as a Senior Registrar in genetic pathology and was the first person...

Join us as Katie Jackson and Katrina Hamel give a recap of 2019

Coming Down From The Holiday Season - Rerun

Surviving the Holidays Rerun

Arthur Combs, MD is a physician executive and serial entrepreneur. After more than 20 years in clinical practice Art has spent the last 20 years bringing new medical technologies to market, as an officer of 5 successful start-up companies and a Fortune 500 senior executive. His focus has been on non-invasive technologies, although he has consulted across the life science spectrum from pharma to bi...

Dr. Baranger is a Postdoctoral Scholar with Dr. Erika Forbes, at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies how risk factors for psychopathology - particularly early life stress and genetic risk - influence brain development. His work has so far focused on brain structure and reward processing, with an emphasis on better understanding the neurobiology of substance use and depression. He completed hi...

Dr. Jim DeMesa is the Chief Executive Officer of Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals (“EHP”). Dr. DeMesa has 30 years of experience in biotechnology and pharmaceutical leadership, product development and clinical and regulatory management. He is a former practicing physician, CEO of two public biotech companies, and a board member of several biotech companies. Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals is a clinic...

Sonia Slevinski, MS, NCC, is a research manager and has been with the Peg Nopoulos Laboratory since 2008. Slevinski studied sociology and counseling psychology and is a National Certified Counselor (NCC). She worked in community and inpatient mental health services for ten years before joining the Nopoulos Lab as a research associate. She became the coordinator for the Kids-HD study in 2011, manag...

Julie Stout is Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University. She leads a team of post-docs, students, and IT specialists, employing techniques from neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience to characterise the effects of neurodegeneration on cognition and brain function. Her research group is known for innovations in assessments using computerised and sensor-based approa...

Dr. Ellen van der Plas is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics. Ellen received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Developmental Psychology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She moved to the US in 2007 for graduate school at the University of Iowa. In 2011, she obtained her PhD degree in neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr. Peg Nopoulos. She m...

Ed is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Associate Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre, where his research team is focused on accelerating drug development through discovering new biomarkers for Huntington’s disease. He leads an MRC-supported longitudinal biomarker study, HD-CSF, and is Global Chief Investigator of the HDClarity study o...

Katie Jackson and Katrina Hamel talk about guilt and grief

Some resources that are available:  https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/falls-prevention/ http://stopfalls.org/ https://www.help4hd.org/resources

Alexus writes the column Always Looking Forward at Huntington's Disease News. She is 22 and was diagnosed as a Huntington's Gene carrier earlier this year. Additionally, she works in healthcare consulting, which she started after graduating undergrad from MIT To read her column, please visit: https://huntingtonsdiseasenews.com/category/always-looking-forward-a-column-by-alexus-jones/

Re-run of our show with Kate Miner

As a psychologist with experience that spans clinical, educational, and professional settings, Dr. Marshall has been engaged in local and national suicide prevention and postvention work for more than 15 years. Since joining AFSP in 2014, Dr. Marshall has expanded AFSP’s menu of programs and improved program delivery through AFSP’s nationwide network of chapters. Dr. Marshall oversees AFSP’s Preve...

Dr. Holmans is head of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit at the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University, and has over 25 years' experience in the statistical analysis of complex genetic traits, both in data analysis and developing novel genetic methodology. He has led the statistical analysis of large multicentre collaborations in genome-wide linkage of...

Norberta Robertson, aka “Birdie”, began her involvement with HNDC many years ago as an event volunteer. Her interest in Huntington’s disease quickly moved forward in 2012 when she joined the HD Clinic Medical Team as a volunteer Social Worker for the monthly HD clinic. In late 2014, she stepped into the research arena in a clinical trial as a Capacity Rater. Looking for a change out of mainstream...