Steven Finkbeiner

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Dr. Steven Finkbeiner is a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Physiology at the University of California - San Francisco and is also the Associate Director of the Gladstone Institute for Neurologic Diseases.

Here he explains some of his state-of-the-art techniques that he uses to understand the link between the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease and the deterioration of brain cells (called “neurodegeneration”). This is another example of the in-between steps on the road from scientific bench top research to a hopeful cure.

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Keywords:

  • Huntington’s disease
  • Chorea
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Neurodegeneration

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