RT Book, Section A1 Wahlster, Sarah A1 Cha, Jang-Ho J. A2 Watts, Ray L. A2 Standaert, David G. A2 Obeso, Jose A. SR Print(0) ID 55800552 T1 Chapter 33. Clinical Features and Treatment of Huntington's Disease T2 Movement Disorders, 3e YR 2012 FD 2012 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-161312-5 LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55800552 RD 2024/03/29 AB Chorea is essentially a disease of the nervous system. The name “chorea” is given to the disease on account of the dancing propensities of those who are affected by it, and it is a very appropriate designation...The hereditary chorea, as I shall call it, is confined to certain and fortunately a few families, and has been transmitted to them, an heirloom from generations away back in the dim past. It is spoken of by those in whose veins the seeds of the disease are known to exist, with a kind of horror, and not at all alluded to except, through dire necessity, when it is mentioned as “that disorder.” It is attended generally by all the symptoms of common chorea, only in an aggravated degree, hardly ever manifesting itself until adult or middle life, and then coming on gradually but surely, increasing by degrees, and often occupying years in its development, until the hapless sufferer is but a quivering wreck of his former self...I have never known a recovery or even an amelioration of symptoms in this form of chorea; when once it begins it clings to the bitter end.—George Huntington, 18721