Tourette's disorder

Introduction: Tourette's disorder

Description of Tourette's disorder

Tourette's disorder (medical condition): A neurological disorder involving vocal and movement...more »

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Tourette Syndrome:
  »Introduction: Tourette Syndrome
  »Symptoms of Tourette Syndrome
  »Treatments for Tourette Syndrome

Tourette's disorder: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Tourette's disorder:

• Tourette
• Tourette disease
• Tourette disorder
• Tourette syndrome
• Disorder

Tourette's disorder as a Disease

Tourette's disorder: Another name for Tourette Syndrome (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Tourette Syndrome
  »Symptoms of Tourette Syndrome
  »Treatments for Tourette Syndrome

Tourette's disorder: Related Diseases

Tourette's disorder: Tourette's disorder is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Brain conditions
• Mental illness
• Behavioral disorders
• Nervous system conditions
• Speech and communication conditions
• Movement conditions

Causes of Tourette's disorder

Some of the causes of Tourette's disorder are included in the list below:

• Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

Read more about causes of Tourette's disorder (Tourette Syndrome)

Symptoms of Tourette's disorder (Tourette Syndrome)

Some of the symptoms of Tourette's disorder incude:

• Repeated involuntary movements
• Uncontrollable vocal sounds
• Tics
• Facial tics
• Eye blinking

See full list of 47 symptoms of Tourette's disorder (Tourette Syndrome)

Treatments for Tourette's disorder (Tourette Syndrome)

Treatments for Tourette's disorder (Tourette Syndrome) include:

• Watchful waiting - some cases are mild and are simply tolerated; some cases improve over time and remission can occur after adolescence.
• Neuroleptic drugs
• Sedatives
• Antihypertensive drugs
• Tranquillizers

See full list of 10 treatments for Tourette's disorder

Treatment of Tourette's disorder: For more treatment information about Tourette's disorder, see treatment of Tourette Syndrome (Tourette's disorder)

Tourette's disorder: Article Excerpts about Tourette Syndrome

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is an inherited neurological disorder characterized by repeated involuntary movements and ... (Source: excerpt from NINDS Tourette Syndrome Information Page: NINDS)

Tourette's disorder: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Tourette's disorder:

• neuropsychiatric disorder
• echolalia
• chorea
• dystonia
• autism
• asthma
• allergies
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• attention deficit disoder

Hierarchical classifications of Tourette's disorder

The following list attempts to classify Tourette's disorder into categories where each line is subset of the next.

Disease Ontology - OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies)

• Tic disorder, unspecified
• Special symptoms or syndromes, not elsewhere classified
• NEUROTIC DISORDERS, PERSONALITY DISORDERS, AND OTHER NONPSYCHOTIC MENTAL DISORDERS
• MENTAL DISORDERS
• DISEASES AND INJURIES
• Disease Ontology V2.1 2005

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