Autopsied brains of those who had Huntington’s disease also have been found to have incredibly reduced amounts of CBP. Plus, when CBP is overexpressed, polyglutamine-induced death diminished, further demonstrating that CBP plays an important role in huntington’s disease and neurons in general.
The anxiety that comes from living with a 50 percent risk for HD can be overwhelming. How does a young person make important choices about long-term education, marriage, and children? How do older parents of adult children cope with their fears about children and grandchildren? How do people come to terms with the ambiguity and uncertainty of living at risk?
Whatever the results of genetic testing, the at-risk individual and family members can expect powerful and complex emotional responses. The health and happiness of spouses, brothers and sisters, children, parents, and grandparents are affected by a positive test result, as are an individual’s friends, work associates, neighbors, and others.
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