The Huntington ‘s Disease Society of America has awarded the Human Biology Project Fellowship to neuropsychologist Saúl Martínez-Huerta, of the Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Research Group, led by Dr. Jaume Kulisevsky.
The project entitled “Neurobiological mechanisms subserving de differential expression and rate of progression of cognitive impairment in Huntington’s disease” will focus on studying over the next two years the mechanisms involved in cognitive heterogeneity manifested by people affected by this neurodegenerative disease.
The research aims to identify mechanisms that coexist with the primary cause of Huntington’s disease (the mutation in the HTT gene) and that favour faster cognitive deterioration and a higher rate of neuronal loss in brain areas previously considered little affected in the context of this disease.
