The Tourette Syndrome

 

The upheaval takes the name of French neurologist Dr.  Georges Gilles de la Tourette, that in 1885  described to 9 patients with vocal and motor tics.
It is a neurological upheaval that characterizes by the presence of tics (repeated involuntary movements and vocal sounds). It’s not degenerative nor  affects intelligence, although in some cases it can go associate to other pathologies like the upheaval by attention deficit and hyperactivity (TDAH), compulsive obsessive upheaval (TOC), upheavals in the learning process, anxiety, depression…, that can cause the more difficulties to the patient even more than the tics.
The cause of this disease is not known, although in many families it has been possible to observe a genetic relation (approximately 10% of the affected ones have familiar history of the upheaval) and it affects with more frequency to men than to women (in relation of 3 by each 1).