http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/basal-ganglia Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 16 May 2026 13:34:38 -0400 Sat, 16 May 2026 13:34:38 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/203/neuropsychological-and-behavioural-aspects-of-huntingtons-disease By Heena Mulchandani - Huntington’s disease, one of several polyglutamine (PolyQ) diseases, is a genetic disorder attributable to a single autosomal, dominant gene. HD is well known for being one of the first inherited genetic diseases for which an accurate test can be performed and as a result its genetic characteristics are now well known (Albin & Tagle, 1995). The test was facilitated in 1993 by the work of Nancy Wexler and a conglomerate of researchers, who, under the US-Venezuela HD Collaborative Research Project deduced the genetic make up of the HD gene. From analysis of the world’s largest HD... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/203/neuropsychological-and-behavioural-aspects-of-huntingtons-disease