Huntington's
Disease Neuropathology:
Cross
Sections of Post-Mortem Brains showing Caudate Nucleus atrophy.
Normal Brain
on the right with plump head of caudate nucleus. Huntington Disease
brain on the left showing caudate atrophy
- cell loss in caudate
nucleus and putamen (below and lateral to the ventricles) - normally
concave suface of the ventricles becomes convex
Huntington's
Disease Brain in cross section on top showing atrophy. Unaffected
("normal") Brain without demonstrable atrophic changes
on bottom for reference.
