Tourette syndrome is a relatively rare neurological disordercharacterized by repetitive movements, called tics and involuntarystereotyped. They may be accompanied by coprolalie(pathological tendency to use swear words, scatology or sexualnature) and ecolalie (automatic repetition of words heard fromothers).
French neurologist named Syndrome who first described in 1855,Gilles de Tourette.
Onset of symptoms occurs from 2 -15 years (mean 7 years),through simple facial tics, neck, limbs, and then, after a certainperiod of time, which is associated complex tics occur first. Withan effort of will and concentration, sometimes these patients can control their tics, or delay them until they find a place where you canshow without disturbing. But most tics eventually occurs, it is thenature of the disease.
Incidence of Tourette syndrome is 3 -4 times higher in men than inwomen. The number of patients is difficult to estimate, becausepeople who have mild tics are not aware of the disease.
In general, Tourette's disorder evolves by episodes of remissionfollowed by periods of deterioration. In children, they are lessmarked than in adults. Although it is a chronic, with symptomslasting a lifetime, most patients with this syndrome, the mostserious symptoms in adolescence, followed by improvements tocontinue in adulthood.
Although there is no cure for Tourette syndrome, affectedindividuals have a normal life, and some do not require treatment ifthey are not annoying tics. In fact, some children outgrow the disease after adolescence.
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