[Psychiatric comorbidity in clinical Tourette Syndrome's samples]

Classically conceived essentially as a rare neurological disorder, Tourette Syndrome (TS) is frequently associated with comorbid disorders such as attention deficit, obsessive-compulsive disorder, impulse control problem and a variety of other behavioral symptoms that can clearly have an impact on cognitive,educational and psychosocial function and can be more debilitating than the cardinal motor features. The full spectrum of TS is often not recognized in our medical community while it's usual atributtion to exclusive pshycogenic causes leads to underdiagnosis. Meanwhile epidemiological studies shows it's increasingly prevalence and its pottencially multiple deficits, specially on pediatrical clinical population. Through her experience as a tourette's clinical researcher the author review Tourette syndrome's clinical features and it's natural course, sharing the results and conclusions of an interdisciplinary clinical research about The Importance of an Early Diagnosis of Comorbidity in a Clinical Sample of 51 argentine patients with TS.