Question

1. What is Huntington’s disease and how does it differ from Alzheimer’s disease?

Answer 1

Huntington's disease is a degenerative nerve disease which is an inherited disorder. It causes the nerves in the brain to degenerate or breakdown. Brain is considered to be the higher power house where are the information are analysed, passed and processed which helps to maintain the entire body function like stability, balance, coordination, speech, thinking, perceptions, voluntary actions and movements. Neves play the major role in carrying these impluse so when they are damaged the impulse will be affected which will lead to incoordination, lack of balance and stability, sluggish or slurred speech, loss or gait patterns etc. It is seen in populations of age groups 30 to 50 with initial symptoms of mood or mental instability which later progresses.

Alzheimer's disease is also a inherited neurodegenerative disease but it is a chronic condition which progress gradually. It affects the brain cells of the brain characterized by difficulty in remembering the small events which later leads to total memory loss.

The difference between both the disease are alzheimer's affects the memory but Huntington affects the movement and coordination.

The defective chromosome are different in both the disease.