HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE (HD) PIONEER, ADVOCATE AND RESEARCHER ACKNOWLEDGES DEVELOPING HUNTINGTON’S HERSELF. Dr Nancy Wexler, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology, has spent the last 40 years researching, co-ordinating research, campaigning for and initiating care and counselling services for Huntington’s sufferers and their families. In order to further the cause of reducing stigma associated with the diagnosis, she recently acknowledged that she has developed features of this progressive brain disorder. She continues to work. Dr Wexler cared for her mother when her mother developed Huntington’s disease. Her father Milton Wexler founded the Hereditary Disease Foundation. Dr Nancy Wexler had a major role in driving groundbreaking research, using DNA polymorphisms, to identify the DNA sequences associated with HD, leading, among other things, to the availability of a predictive genetic test. This made it possible for children or siblings of HD sufferers to determine (if they wished) whether they were at risk themselves. She has campaigned for the availability of intensive counselling for people at risk – whether they have a predictive test or not. This article in the New York Times goes into much greater depth and detail about this remarkable, wonderful woman. In my book there is an account (pp. 135-136) of a person with HD who had developed difficulties with so-called “executive” brain function.