The book "Vi som skulle bli gamla tillsammans" ("We were meant to grow old together") has recently been published by Natur & Kultur. Its main author Petra Lilja Andersson, Lecturer at the Medical Faculty in Lund, has followed a young couple before and after the woman takes a pre-symptomatic genetic test for HD. The book illustrates the challenges involved in genetic testing and living with HD in t

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Huntingtons sjukdom är ärftlig och obotlig. Hjärnan skadas gradvis vad gäller både motorik och psyke. Mest märkbara symtom är ofrivilliga rörelser – därför kallas sjukdomen också ”danssjukan”. Åsa Petersén är expert på vad som orsakar de psykiatriska problemen vid Huntingtons sjukdom. Hon intervjuades nyligen i SvD.Läs intervjun i Svenska Dagbladet

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The paper entitled Mutant huntingtin causes metabolic imbalance by disruption of hypothalamic neurocircuits from TNU with Rana Soylu and Sofia Hult as shared first authors was published in the April Issue of the prestigious Cell Metabolism. The news got widespread attention both in the Swedish media such as the Swedish Radio News program Ekot, the Swedish News Program Sydnytt and Rapport, and the

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The paper Mutant huntingtin causes metabolic imbalance by disruption of hypothalamic neurocircuits by Hult S, Soylu R, Björklund T, Belgardt BF, Mauer J, Brüning JC, Kirik D and Petersén A, published in Cell Metabolism 13(4) 428-439, 2011, was selected Article of the Month at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University.Link to the article 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-paper-selected-article-month-may-2011-medical-faculty - 2025-08-25

This week, Sanaz Gabery and Sofia Hult, PhD students in TNU, give talks about their research at an educational camp for HD families in Sweden held June 27-July 1 in Grebbestad on the Swedish west coast. They also present their latest studies on hypothalamic changes in HD as posters at the 2011 Björntorp symposium in Gothenburg June 29-July 1, organised by the European Association for the study of

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TNU members Gabery, Hult, Sajjad and Soylu participate in a FENS-IBRO partially supported school on Metabolic aspects of chronic brain diseases on July 20 - 26 2011 at the Reisensburg castle in Günzburg, Germany. Petersén is part of the organizing committee but could not travel due to pregnancy.

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The paper entitled Early changes in the hypothalamic region in prodromal Huntington disease revealed by MRI analysis from TNU, published in Neurobiology of Disease, was selected article of the month in the Newsletter from the European HD Network (EHDN).Read the Newsletter here: ehdn_news_july_2011.pdf  Link to the research article

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-paper-mri-analyses-hd-selected-article-month-ehdn-newsletter-july-2011 - 2025-08-25

Sanaz Gabery, Sofia Hult and Rana Soylu present their latest research findings as posters at the World Congress of Huntington's Disease (WCHD) in Melbourne, Australia September 11-14. The travels have been funded by travel stipends from the Maggie Stephen's Foundation, the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, the Medical Faculty as well as from the congress directly.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-present-their-research-world-congress-hd-melbourne-sept-2011 - 2025-08-25

The Journal of Huntington's Disease is a new international multidisciplinary journal that aims to facilitate progress in understanding the genetics, molecular correlates, pathogenesis, pharmacology, diagnosis and treatment of Huntington's disease and related disorders. Editors-in-Chief are Blair R. Leavitt and Leslie M. Thompson.Link to The Journal of Huntington's Disease

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-editorial-board-new-journal-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-25

Sofia Hult håller föredrag med titeln "Huntingtons sjukdom - när en gen avgör" på årets Neurodag, arrangerad av Neurologiskt Handikappades Riksförbund (NHR) i Stockholm den 28:e september 2011.

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Petersén and her team were awarded a grant from Ragnar Söderberg's Foundation for their research on Huntington's disease.About the project at Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse's webpage (in Swedish) 

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Dr Barbara Baldo received a PhD in Neurobiology in 2011. The PhD studies were performed at Novartis Pharma, Basel and Basel University, Switzerland, and the thesis was entitled "Innovative approaches to monitor mutant huntingtin and to facilitate its degradation in Huntington’s disease models”. It was funded through the European Union in the frame of Neuromodel, Initial Training Network (ITN), FP7

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-new-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-barbara-baldo - 2025-08-25

The link between neurodegeneration and energy metabolism is the focus of not only TNU:s research but also for the international colleagues Drs Patrick Weydt, Ulm University, Germany, and Luc Dupuis, Strasbourg University, France. They have now written a letter entitled Progranulin bridges energy homeostasis and fronto-temporal dementia published in the March issue of Cell Metabolism, commenting on

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-co-authors-letter-cell-metabolism-march-2012 - 2025-08-25

Sanaz Gabery, PhD student in TNU, was awarded the prize for best presentation at the poster session of the Neuroscience Day, May 2012, in Lund.Barbara Baldo, postdoctoral fellow in TNU, received a grant of 55 000 SEK from the Segerfalk Foundation for her work on the role of orexin neurons in Huntington's disease, which also was announced at the Neuroscience Day.Congratulations!

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We would like to welcome Natalie Adlesic back to TNU! Natalie is returning to our group on Monday June 18th on a summer stipend. She will work with us for the next eight weeks.

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Petersén and Gabery has written an invited review entitled Hypothalamic and limbic system changes in Huntington's disease in the first issue of Journal of Huntington's Disease.Link to the article

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An International summer camp for young adults in families with HD visits TNU on July 27, 2012. The camp is organized by Riksförbundet Huntingtons Sjukdom and European Huntington Association (EHA) with Carina Hvalstedt in charge, and takes place at Hotel Båstad for one week.30 young adults from the ages of 15-26 from Germany, Belgium, Poland, Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Sweden participate. The vi

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On Friday the 27th of July TNU and Bagadilico had visitors from the International summer camp for young adults in families with HD. The regional newspaper Skånskan Dagbladet published an article on the visit, describing the symptoms of HD and how life in a family with HD can be. Link to the article on Skånska Dagblade's website - only in Swedish:Sjukdomen utan nåd 

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TNU members attended the 7th EHDN Plenary Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-16 2012. The TNU team presented posters on the development of assays to measure huntingtin and studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of depression, anxiety and metabolic changes in HD. Petersén chaired one of the sessions.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-attends-ehdn-plenary-meeting-stockholm - 2025-08-25

Petersén begins her tenured faculty position as Senior Lecturer (universitetslektor) in medical research with specialization in Neuroscience at the Medical Faculty of Lund University in November 2012 after three years with a position as senior researcher (forskaretjänst) in psychiatry at 50% appointed by the Swedish Research Council.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-appointed-senior-lecturer-neuroscience-lund-university - 2025-08-25