Tourette Syndrome
Description
Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or, more commonly, simply Tourette's or TS) is a neurological disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic and has lasted for at least one year (Journal of Child Neurology; Aug2006, Vol. 21 Issue 8, p630-641, 12p). Tourette's was once considered a rare and bizarre syndrome, most often associated with the exclamation of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks known as coprolalia; which is a symptom in only about 10% to 15% of people with Tourette’s. Tourette Syndrome acquired its name from a 19th century neurologist, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (1859–1904), who was a pupil of Charcot who published an account of nine patients with Tourette's in 1885. Between 1 and 11 children per 1,000 have Tourette's;......

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