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-Involuntary jerking or writhing movements (chorea)
-Muscle problems, such as rigidity or muscle contracture (dystonia)
-Slow or abnormal eye movements
-Impaired gait, posture and balance
-Difficulty with the physical production of speech or swallowing
-Impairments in voluntary movements — rather than the involuntary movements — may have a greater impact on a person's ability to work, perform daily activities, communicate and remain independent.

-Difficulty organizing, prioritizing or focusing on tasks
-Lack of flexibility or the tendency to get stuck on a thought, behavior or action (perseveration)
-Lack of impulse control that can result in outbursts, acting without thinking and sexual promiscuity
-Lack of awareness of one's own behaviors and abilities
-Slowness in processing thoughts or ''finding'' words
-Difficulty in learning new information

-Feelings of irritability, sadness or apathy
-Social withdrawal
Insomnia
-Fatigue and loss of energy
-Frequent thoughts of death, dying or suicide

This disorder does not affect an organisms eating, drinking, or ability to find shelter but it does affect someone who has this mutation's everyday life in multiple ways

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HUNTINGTON'S disease mutation, biology, p.4

By Allison Asplin