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for people with various forms of muscle spasm. With Dr Sandy
MacLeod, Psychiatrist, and other members of a multidisciplinary

team I run regular Huntington’s disease (HD) clinics at the Institute.
We also continue to participate in the large international HD-Enroll
research study for those with, or at risk of HD, and have some 100

participants from Canterbury and other parts of the South Island.
We were pleased to host a Summer Student, medical student
William Muller who undertook a project on eye movements

in Huntington’s analyzing the eye movement data from many
thousands of people with, or at risk of, Huntington’s. The results
of William’s work will be presented in a poster at a major

conference in Hong Kong later in the year.
We are already well into another busy and productive year at the

NZBRI. At the heart of our endeavours is the desire to improve the
outlook for our patients with neurological disorders.

Professor Tim Anderson

Clinical Director, NZBRI