Hypersexual features in Huntington's disease

Jhanjee A, Anand KS, Bajaj BK
Correspondence: Dr Anurag Jhanjee, Anurag_99@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT
We report the case of a 30-year-old woman with a rare presentation of early adulthood Huntington’s disease (HD) with hypersexuality. It is not known if sexual dysfunction in HD patients is due to a specific brain lesion or adverse psychosocial factors associated with HD. Although there are no evidence-based treatment guidelines for hypersexuality in HD, our patient exhibited significant improvement with olanzapine and haloperidol.

Keywords: Huntington’s disease, sexual dysfunction
Singapore Med J 2011; 52(6): e131-e133