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What is Tourette Syndrome?
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalizations called tics. The disorder is named for Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette...
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How does Tourettes Symdrome Progress?
Tics come and go over time, varying in type, frequency, location, and severity. The first symptoms usually occur in the head and neck area and may progress to include muscles of the trunk and extremities...
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Can people with Tourettes Symdrome control their tics?
Although the symptoms of Tourettes Symdrome are involuntary, some people can sometimes suppress, camouflage, or otherwise manage their tics in an effort to minimize their impact on functioning...
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What causes Tourettes Syndrome?
Although the cause of Tourettes Symdrome is unknown, current research points to abnormalities in certain brain regions (including the basal ganglia, frontal lobes, and cortex), the circuits that interconnect...
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What disorders are associated with Tourettes Syndrome?
Many with Tourettes Symdrome experience additional neurobehavioral problems including inattention; hyperactivity and impulsivity (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder-ADHD) and related problems with reading, writing, and arithmetic; and obsessive-compulsive symptoms such as intrusive thoughts/worries and repetitive behaviors...
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What are the Tourette Syndrome Symptoms?
Tics are classified as either simple or complex. Simple motor tics are sudden, brief, repetitive movements that involve a limited number of muscle groups. Some of the more common simple tics include eye blinking and other vision irregularities, facial grimacing, shoulder shrugging, and head or shoulder jerking...
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Neurofeedback For Tourette's - Offering Hope
When many people hear "Tourette's" it often ushers forth thoughts of some seemingly out of control human being spewing an incessant stream of profanity. (The medical definition for this is coprolalia). In truth, the repetitious utterance of words vulgar words is symptom only found in a relatively small portion (10%) of those with the disorder...
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Is Tourette's Syndrome Inherited
Evidence from twin and family studies suggests that Tourette Syndrome is an inherited disorder. Although early family studies suggested an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance (an autosomal dominant disorder is one in which only one copy of the defective gene, inherited from one parent, is necessary to produce the disorder), more recent studies suggest that the pattern of inheritance is much more complex...
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How is Tourette Syndrome diagnosed?
Tourette Syndrome is a diagnosis that doctors make after verifying that the patient has had both motor and vocal tics for at least 1 year...
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Controlling Tourettes Syndrome With Neurofeedback?
Tourette's syndrome is a difficult disease for a person to live with because they have little to no control over tics or outbursts. The most common of signs of Tourette's is tics or twitches, which are often seen as sporadic and unexpected quick movements of the face, although the hands are also commonly affected...
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Perhaps the best description of Tourette syndrome is by a person who has it, Adam Ward Seligman: "Tourette syndrome is considered a very common genetic behavioral disorder characterized by a lack of inhibition...
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