Huntington Disease Center

Visit by the European Huntington Association

2025-09-03
When in Sweden for their annual meeting, members of the European Huntington Association paid a visit to Lund on 28 August 2025. There they met with Åsa Petersén and Camilla Svensson, registered nurse, also working…
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Petersén gives a talk at a symposium on neurodegenerative disorders in Vancouver, Canada

2025-09-01
Petersén will give a talk on her work on Huntington disease at a symposium on neurodegenerative disorders at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada on September 8, 2025. There will also be a…
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New article on HD published by TNU

2025-06-04
TDP-43 is a protein involved i several severe brain disorders. Recently an increasing number of researcher have begun to investigate how the TDP-43 might be involved in Huntington disease (HD). Åsa Petersén's research group, Translational…
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Podcast about being a young relative of an HD-patient

2025-05-22
The month of May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month and 15 May was Huntington Awareness Day. Åsa Petersén was invited to take part in a podcast about the disease, together with Jozefine, who is a…
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Work in progress: International guidelines for treatment of psychiatric symptoms

2025-02-26
Development of international guidelines for treatment of psychiatric symptoms in advanced Huntington's disease is in progress within the European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN). The working group focusing on "Behavioural Phenotype” in Huntington's disease is addressing…
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