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An intellectually stimulating lifestyle is key to fighting Huntington's disease, finds study

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Researchers from the University of Barcelona and the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute found that an intellectually active lifestyle has a protective effect on the progression and severity of the symptoms of motor, cognitive and psychiatric impairments in Huntington 's disease.

This severe neurodegenerative pathology of genetic origin can appear in adulthood, usually around the age of 40 .

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