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...some researchers believe, may lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease within five to ten years. Eventually, it may also become possible to repair the spinal cords of paraplegics and regenerate parts of the extensively damaged brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea, multiple sclerosis and other degenerative disorders...
...Americans); Prader-Willi syndrome, a children's ailment that causes huge weight gains and often kills its victims before they are 20 (2,000); Wilson's disease, a condition marked by abnormal accumulation of copper in the liver and brain (1,000); Huntington's chorea, the degenerative disease of the mind and nervous system that caused the death of Folk Singer Woody Guthrie (14,000); as well as various rare cancers...
...rate during the manic phase. (No pattern has been found for the depressive phase.) People with senile dementia show decreased glucose metabolism; the more advanced the case, the lower the activity. Researchers also plan to use PET for biochemical brain portraits of patients with multiple sclerosis, Huntington's chorea and possibly alcoholism...
Since scientists first began manipulating genes, they have been envisioning a brave new world in which diseases from Huntington's chorea to sickle-cell anemia to possibly diabetes could be cured simply by inserting the correct strip of DNA into the body's cells. So far, though, most of the genetic tinkering has been limited to transplanting genes into isolated cells in laboratory dishes or into bacteria...
...production can be increased by diet. Indeed, by upping a patient's intake of foods rich in lecithin-a precursor of acetylcholine -especially egg yolks, meat and fish, such disorders as senility, manic-depression and the loss of motor control associated with the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea, or tardive dyskinesia, can be substantially alleviated...