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Tourettes Syndrome
Title: Tourettes Syndrome
Category: Science & Technology
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Tourettes Syndrome
TICS
Tourette Syndrome(TS) is a neurological disorder
characterized by tics -- involuntary, rapid,
sudden movements that occur repeatedly in the same way. To
receive a diagnosis of TS a person must have both multiple
motor and one or more vocal tics, not necessarily
simultaneously, throughout a span of more than one year. The
tics may occur many times a day (usually in bouts) nearly
every day or intermittently. Tics periodically change in the
number, frequency, …showed first 75 words of 275 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 275 total…of motor tics:
eye blinking
kissing-hand or others
head jerking
facial contortions
scratching
squatting
throwing things
pulling at clothes
Some examples of vocal tics:
throat clearing
grunting
belching spitting
snorting
noisy breathing
squealing
clicking or clacking
barking
moaning
screaming/shouting
laughing
A person with Tourette may be able to go days or months
without symptoms (tics) and can suppress the tics for
short periods of time.
After the tics have been voluntarily suppressed the tics
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