St. Vitus's Dance, or chorea, a disease attended with convulsive twitchings.

圣维特之舞，或舞蹈病，一种伴有痉挛性抽搐的疾病。

He had Huntington's chorea, the same disease of the brain and nervous system that had killed his mother. Woody Guthrie was forty years old.

他患有亨廷顿舞蹈病，这是一种大脑和神经系统的疾病，他的母亲就是死于这种病。伍迪·格思里当时40岁。

This increased dopamine helps explain why neuroleptics, which are dopamine receptor antagonists, and tetrabenazine which depletes dopamine, are used to treat chorea in patients with Huntington disease.

多巴胺水平的增高解释了为什么神经抑制剂-多巴胺受体拮抗剂和丁苯那嗪（中枢多巴胺耗竭剂）被用来治疗亨廷顿病患者的舞蹈症。