Movement disorders and neurogenerative diseases clinic at UTHealth Neurosciences receives new designation as regional Center of Excellence by the Huntington s Disease Society of America
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Erin Full Stimming, MD, works with a patient at the UTHealth Neurosciences Huntington’s Disease Clinic, which has been designated a regional Center of Excellence by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America.
Newswise In recognition of collaboration with health care teams throughout the state, the movement disorders and neurogenerative diseases clinic at UTHealth Neurosciences was designated a regional Center of Excellence (COE) by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA), the only one in Texas and one of just four Level 1 COEs in the country. UTHealth Neurosciences is the clinical practice of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
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It’s a fatal genetic disease that affects nerve cells in the brain.
“It only effects 40 thousand American’s, most people don’t know what it means to have HD,” Louise Vetter, HDSA’s CEO, President
And while the disease is rare, Amy Aungst, a Delaware resident tested positive for Huntington’s in 2015.
“Like the worst news you could ever get, I just hit bottom, I just cried,” Aungst said.
The CEO and President of Huntington’s Disease Society of America, which supports people who have the disease, told me that HD can steal your movement, your moods, your cognition, and your behavior.
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