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🗓️ 20 June 2013
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | I think for my mother and for her family, the whole family was very important. |
0:17.0 | You know, she was very kind to us and she was very loving and very warm. |
0:20.7 | I think a lot of my warmth I get from her. |
0:23.5 | That's Nancy Wexler. |
0:24.8 | She's a professor of neuropsychology at Columbia University. |
0:28.4 | One morning in the late 1960s, something strange happened to her mother, Leonore Wexler. |
0:34.9 | She was 53 at the time. |
0:37.3 | Mom was on jury duty, crossing a great big street in Los Angeles. |
0:42.3 | You know, eight o'clock in the morning, very well dressed, very well kept. |
0:47.1 | And the policeman just screamed at her and said, you know, aren't you ashamed of yourself |
0:51.4 | being drunk so early in the morning? |
0:54.2 | And she realized that her unsatagate was one of the very first signs of. |
0:59.2 | She called my dad in a panic and said, I think this horrible thing is happening. |
1:06.1 | And she was diagnosed that afternoon with Huntington's disease is a horrible thing, a fatal |
1:16.4 | neurological disorder. |
1:18.4 | Huntington affects every aspect of mind thinking and body. |
1:24.7 | It causes all kinds of uncontrollable movements throughout your body, your face, wiggles, |
1:32.8 | your arms move. |
1:34.2 | And then also people very often have very severe depression, hallucinations, delusions, |
1:42.7 | paranoia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and also cognitive problems. |
1:48.1 | So difficulty, thinking, remembering, executive functioning, you know, so every aspect really |
1:58.2 | of mind and body and thought. |
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