My essential question for this post is “How does Huntington’s dieseas affect peoples arm, hand and wrist movement?”

“Brain Cell” by Shannon McMann is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

My question is useful to my group and I, in a way that can help us to come up with a solution for him to do art again.

A team of researchers found that mice with a form of juvenile Huntington’s disease had weakened skeletal muscles in later stages of the disease. The scientists found a cutback of a protein called CLC-1 that carries chloride ions into cells which causes harder movement in some limbs.

This is a quick video that explains what Huntington’s disease is.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgZq9PkDp1xaEivtcfJPSg

I did a lot of searching for sites that had any information on how Huntington’s affects on the arms, hands and wrists. Only about 1/3 % of the websites had any facts about how it affects the arms. But from the websites that did have information, I came out with the answer to how it affects the arms, hands and wrists.

1.Some Critical Questions I Asked
  • How does Huntington’s kill brain cells?
  • How important are our arms in our daily lives?
  • Why does Huntington’s disease affect the muscle?
  • How does Huntington’s disease affect the different muscle groups?
2. What new tools did I use in this project?

I used creative commons for the first time in any of my projects. I also used a new strategy to find more websites that would be useful for me and my research. I would ask a question look through the websites it gave me, then I would take my question and change slightly so that I would get new websites to check and it would give me more perspectives.

3. How did I verify the cites and information I found

I choose my sites and facts based on the author, like if the author is a doctor or the company/whole website is medical based. I would also only use facts that I could find on two or more websites.

4.How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?

I started off on a rough start, trying to make my essential question. But I finally created one that relates to my adaptive tech topic for Tim. When I was doing my reasearch I came across a websites that had the most random facts and I ignored it compleatly. But if I could have done something better I would have wanted to make my description more detailed and used more websites as references.

Sources

Tim Mepham

Catharine Paddock, Ph.D. “Huntington’s Disease Affects Muscle as Well as Brain.” Medical News Today, MediLexicon International, 30 Nov. 2016, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/314443.php.

“Diverticular Disease and Diverticulitis: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment.” The Pharmaceutical Journal, 2019, doi:10.1211/pj.2019.20206352.

Careless, James. “Strong Arms Are Vital for Daily Tasks.” Www.canada.com

http://www.canada.com/health/Strong arms vital daily tasks/4339456/story.html.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgZq9PkDp1xaEivtcfJPSg