Welcome to the new Neurogenetics
Clinics website!
Neurogenetics at the University of Washington is a tertiary
specialty that provides clinical services to adults in the
general public as well as training. The clinics, housed
at UW Medical Center and the Seattle VA Medical Center are
unique resources in the WWAMI region for evaluation and
diagnosis of people who have or are at risk for neurogenetic
diseases, and for long-term planning of follow-up and treatment
in collaboration with their physicians. UW Physicians, Certified
Genetic Counselors, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and
an Advanced Practice Nurse staff the clinic. The clinic
team reviews a patient’s personal and family medical
history, comes to a specific diagnosis when possible, provides
information about the natural history of the disorder, helps
patients make informed choices about testing, provides appropriate
referrals and follow-up, and introduces families to peer
support groups at the local and national levels. Please
contact the clinics for additional information and appointments.
There are more than 200 different types of inherited neurological
disorders in which alterations in the molecules that make
up the brain and peripheral nerves lead to an inherited
condition. These include such disorders as Huntington disease,
early-onset and familial forms of Alzheimer disease, inherited
forms of ataxia, muscular dystrophies, and degenerative
disorders of the brain and nerves. These conditions are
generally uncommon as individual entities but, in aggregate,
may affect almost 1% of the population. Yet they remain
relatively poorly understood and under recognized outside
the realm of the Neurogenetics specialty clinics.
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