Dr. Peg Nopoulos talks about HD and JHD

Dr. Peg Nopoulos joins Katie Jackson on Help4HD Live! and discusses her work at the University of Iowa. Dr. Nopoulos is a psychiatrist that works with clients that have HD and JHD. There are several observational studies and clinical trials that are conducted at the University of Iowa. The JHD observational studies are the Kids-HD and Kids JHD programs and those are conducted at the Peg Nopoulos Laboratory. Dr. Nopoulos' laboratory research is designed to evaluate brain development and its relationship to long term behavioral, cognitive, and emotional outcome among children with various medical conditions. While work in the laboratory has historically focused on later childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, some of its current studies are evaluating brain development much sooner – shortly after birth.