Today in Neuro Tim gave his Case Study presentation on a 19 year old woman named Heather who was diagnosed with Huntington's disease from a documentary he watched. Heather's mom and brother both have HD, which is the main reason she decided to get tested. Normally, symptoms don't arise until your 40s, but Heather was diagnosed at 19. I didn't know much about HD until Tim gave his presentation and an interesting thing I learned was that HD is genetic, but it is not recessive. So, if you have the disease and have children, your children have a 50/50 chance of developing the disease. However, if your children never show any signs of HD, their children won't have a chance of developing the disease. I've never heard of a genetic disease that does this.
Again with the cheesy romantic movies, but I can't help myself. For my NeuroNote, I decided to do re-watch the Notebook for the 1,000th time. It's funny what you notice in movies when you watch them looking for specific things. This time around I wasn't watching to swoon over the relationship between the two main characters, Allie and Noah, but for the movies portrayal of dementia. The Notebook is arguably one of the most popular romance movies of my time. It centers around the rocky relationship of Noah and Allie. I won't go into too much detail giving a summary, but basically the couple breaks up while they are young and find each other again when they are older. Allie leaves her rich, handsome, smitten fiancé for Noah and they marry and have kids. However, the story of Noah and Allie is actually told by Noah, who is reading it out loud from a book to Allie in an assisted living home. The couple is elderly, and Allie has severe dementia. She has no idea who h...
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