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Original Source: Tourette's syndrome in adults.
Tourette's syndrome (TS) is defined as motor and phonic tics starting before age 18 years, and therefore most studies have focused on childhood TS, whereas the disorder in adults has not been well characterized. We reviewed medical records of all new TS patients referred to our Movement Disorders Clinic over the past 5 years, 19 years or older on initial evaluation and compared them with 100 TS patients 18 years or younger. The mean age at initial visit of 43 adult TS patients was 58.8 +/- 6.7 years, wherea...
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Adults With Tourette Syndrome Can Be Taught Strategies To Manage Tics
Specially designed comprehensive behavioral therapy is more effective than sessions offering patient support and education in helping adults with Tourette syndrome manage their tics - sudden, repetiti...
What Goes Wrong in the Brain With Tourette Syndrome?
These findings suggest a mechanism for the generation of tics in patients with Tourette syndrome. Medscape Neurology
Behavior therapy dampens Tourette tics
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Behavior therapy can help some people with Tourette syndrome stifle their embarrassing and sometimes inappropriate tics, according to a new study of adults with the neurolo...
Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders in children
More than one in every ten schoolchildren suffers from a transient tic disorder, and 1% have a particular type of tic disorder known as Tourette syndrome. Researchers report on various modes of diagno...
Juggling co-occurring conditions, modifying behavioral therapies helps patients with Tourette overcome tics.
Behavioral intervention can reduce tics in adults with Tourette syndrome
Specially designed comprehensive behavioral therapy is more effective than sessions offering patient support and education in helping adults with Tourette syndrome manage their tics – sudden, rep...
A Treatment for Tourette Syndrome
In his first video commentary for Medscape, Dr. Wolfgang Fleischhacker discusses encouraging new data on treating Tourette syndrome. Medscape Psychiatry
New Jersey Tourette Syndrome Families Invited to Take Part in Research Conference
Summit, NJ, February 01, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Everyone in the New Jersey Tourette Syndrome community is invited to attend an afternoon of presentations on TS treatments and genetics research from 1 to 5...
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Tourette's Syndrome Clinical Practice, N Engl J Med 2010;363:2332-2338. In the final paragraph (page 2337), the third to last sentence, beginning "For combined . . . ," should have ended, ". . . a...
"Trousseau's disease:" a description of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome 12 years before 1885.
French neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette first described the syndrome which earned him eponymous fame in 1885. However, a publication dated 1873 by Armand Trousseau included a detailed account...
Advances in understanding and treatment of Tourette syndrome.
Tourette syndrome is a hereditary, childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder that was first clearly described in France in 1885. This disorder is characterized by sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythm...
The genetics of Tourette syndrome.
Tourette syndrome is a complex neurological disorder that usually becomes evident between 4 and 18 years of age. The disorder is characterized by chronic motor and phonic tics, often with a variety of...
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder with a strong genetic basis. We identified a male patient with Tourette syndrome-like tics and an apparently balanced de novo tran...
