Tic disorder

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, commonly known as Tourette’s syndrome, was named after a French neurologist, Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette. Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary movements and vocalization more commonly known as tics. Georges Gilles de la Tourette first diagnosed Tourette’s syndrome to an 86-year-old French woman in 1885. Since then, researchers still have not found a concrete cause for Tourette’s syndrome. Even though they have not found a direct

syndrome is a neurological disorder first described by a French physician named Georges Gilles de la Tourette, in 1885. Tourette syndrome (TS) consists of varies abrupt, rapid, involuntary, and repeated movements or vocal sounds, known as tics. “Until 1970, TS was frequently misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, epilepsy, or nervous habits,” concluding that this mental disorder is extremely rare and has similar characteristics as other mental disorders (Kahn and Fawcett 375).

escaped into a sob. I sink down to my knees shakily, trembling from fear, guilt, and sadness. Then I shout a random sound out, and cover my mouth after. You did it again Mia. My thoughts echo in my head. I have tourette syndrome, causing mood swings and “tics” that cause me to do random actions at random times. Tourette syndrome also causes.. Depression. No wonder. I sigh and suddenly feel… Calm. I stand back up and brush off my black raggedy jean shorts that looks like they’ve been road dragged for an

to live a healthy lifestyle through dieting and exercising. Ben even talked about how on days when he is lazy and eats junk food, he realizes that his tics happen more frequently. He stated that exercising relieves the stress of his symptoms. The second strategy is reducing stress. Ben talked about how when he became nervous in situations, his tics would become more pronounced and recurrent. He would have less control over them. However, if he took deep breaths to try and calm himself, he could control

Tourette’s syndrome is a disorder which affects the motor and verbal ability of a person suffering from the disorder. We chose this disorder because it was an interesting disorder to research and discuss. One of the reasons that it was interesting to us, is that it comes in many different forms and intensities. Another is that, it is a moderately uncommon disorder which sparked our interest to look into it more. Our final reason for choosing the syndrome was, that we found out that the disease changes

movement, premonitory sensation, echolalia and coprolalia. Dr. Charcot named the disorder Tourette Syndrome in honor of his student Gilles de la Tourette. Medication and therapy is available for individuals with Tourette Syndrome. Tourette Syndrome is

about it and would like to learn more. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (GTS) is defined as echolalia (imitating others), multiple tics (motor and vocal), as well as coprolalia (spontaneous swearing). Neuropsychological disorders associated with GTS are depression, obsessive compulsive behaviors, obsessive compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Onset of GTS is usually aged 5 to 18. In GTS, CT’s and MRI’s show reduced volume in the basal ganglia with smaller volumes in the

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is an inherited tic disorder that usually appears in early childhood and is classified by multiple motor tics and verbal tics. (Mayo 2012) Tics are sudden and repetitive movements, with motor tics being physical muscle movements, and verbal tics being sudden vocalization. Common tics range anywhere from constant eye blinking to throat clearing and grunting. Although the word “involuntary” is usually used to describe tics, this is not completely true, a better word would be

Tourette’s syndrome is a disorder where the affected individual will consistently exhibit “tics”. In the majority of cases these ticks are minor in character, it may just be the urge to blink, or make certain facial gestures. Less than 15% of individuals exhibit coprolalia, which is the unwarranted exclamations of profanities or other socially forbidden remarks. Perhaps those in our generation who are aware of Tourette’s syndrome have learned its symptoms through pop culture, which has glamorized

Tourette’s Syndrome Tourette’s Syndrome does many different things, and people get it for different reasons. People with Tourette’s get tics, which can be uncontrollable movements or vocalizations. The cause of Tourette’s is mostly unknown to scientists, but they have narrowed it down to a few possible reasons. This syndrome could possibly be caused by a nervous system problem. It might be linked to family genes, meaning if their family has had a history of Tourette’s Syndrome, they would have