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Tic disorders: new developments in Tourette syndrome and related disorders
1Academic Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College London Medical School, UK.
Current Opinion in Neurology
|September 2, 1998
Abstract:
The constellation of motor and vocal tics and certain of the other neuropsychiatric symptoms seen in Tourette syndrome are thought to have an organic basis, although the nature of the neurobiological lesion is uncertain. The syndrome is usually familial but the presumed genetic substrate has not been identified. A number of models currently under debate include a proposed autoimmune contribution.