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Uneven focal shoe deterioration in Tourette syndrome
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posted on 2023-06-09, 21:08 authored by Andrea E Cavanna, Francesco Monaco, Marco Mula, Mary M Robertson, Hugo CritchleyHugo CritchleyA 31-year-old single man (AB) sought neuropsychiatric consultation for treatment-resistant motor and vocal tics. He described himself expressing a total of 24 different tics, mainly facial twitches (eye blinking, raising eyebrows, mouth opening, lips licking, stereotyped grimacing) and inappropriate utterances (grunting, throat clearing, sniffing), since the age of 7. There appeared to be no family history of tic disorder. He reported occasional utterance of swear words in contextually inappropriate situations (coprolalia), and the urge to copy other people’s movements (echopraxia). Other tic-associated symptoms included self-injurious behaviours and forced touching of objects. A.B. met both DSM-IV-tr and ICD-10 criteria for Tourette syndrome, and also DSM-IV-tr criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (combined type) in childhood.
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and TreatmentISSN
1176-6328Publisher
Dove Medical PressExternal DOI
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4Volume
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587-588Event location
New ZealandDepartment affiliated with
- BSMS Neuroscience Publications
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2020-04-22First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2020-04-22Usage metrics
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