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  1. May 16, 2024 · This comment, made in 1940, was the first time American singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie had publicly alluded to his mother’s Huntington’s disease. Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, to parents Charles and Nora Belle Guthrie.

  2. May 23, 2024 · Woody Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter and visual artist who was born in 1912 in Oklahoma. Though he inherited Huntington’s disease from his mother, Nora Belle Guthrie, he’s believed to have once said, “There’s no way I’m gonna get that disease.”

  3. May 20, 2024 · Her erratic behaviour was actually caused by Huntington disease, a hereditary neurological disorder about which little was known at the time and which would later afflict Guthrie too.

  4. 6 days ago · Struggles with Huntington’s Disease. Guthrie battled Huntington’s disease, a degenerative neurological disorder, in the later years of his life. Despite his declining health, he continued to write and perform until his passing.

  5. 3 days ago · Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that is mostly inherited. The earliest symptoms are often subtle problems with mood or mental/psychiatric abilities.

  6. May 16, 2024 · Huntington disease, rare hereditary neurological disease characterized by irregular and involuntary movements of the muscles and progressive loss of cognitive ability. The disease was first described by American physician George Huntington in 1872.

  7. May 30, 2024 · Woody and Marjorie ended up having four children together, none of whom developed Huntington’s disease. However, two of Woody’s children from his first marriage inherited the disease, and both passed away at age 41.

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