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George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician who contributed a classic clinical description of the disease that bears his name— Huntington's disease. [1] Huntington described this condition in the first of only two scientific papers he ever wrote. He wrote this paper when he was 22, a year after receiving his ...
Jun 6, 2010 · Dr. George Huntington was not the first to describe what is now known as Huntington disease, and in fact, he may not have even done so had he not been asked to give a talk at a meeting. Wexler shares the history of how this disorder was previously described and offers explanations as to why the 1872 paper written by Dr. George Huntington, 21 years old and just out of medical school, was so ...
- Wendy R. Uhlmann
- 2010
George Huntington George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician from Long Island, New York who contributed the clinical description of the disease that bears his name — Huntington's disease. Dr. Huntington wrote his paper “On Chorea” when he was 22 years old, a year after receiving his medical degree.
George Huntington was born into a family of general practitioners in East Hampton, New York, USA in 1850. He had his medical training at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and graduated in 1871. He started practicing medicine in his native place and soon reported cases of dementia and chorea in middle-aged persons ...
George Huntington first encountered patients with the disease subsequently given his name at the age of 8 while accompanying his father and grandfather on their medical rounds. In 1872, in his twenty-first year, he described this disease so accurately and succinctly that the disease was later named after him. We have explored, through contact with previously unpublished family records and ...
- N Durbach, M R Hayden
- 1993
Apr 30, 2018 · George Huntington (Fig. 1) was born on April 9, 1850, in East Hampton on Long Island, New York, to a family with a rich medical tradition.He represented the third generation of physicians: his father, George Lee Huntington (1811–1881), had continued the medical practice opened by his own father, Abel Huntington (1777–1858).
Jul 14, 2016 · Pridopidine for the Improvement of Motor Function in Patients With Huntington's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Chen S , Liang T , Xue T , Xue S , Xue Q. Front Neurol, 12:658123, 13 May 2021. Cited by: 0 articles | PMID: 34054700 | PMCID: PMC8159155.
