A person can get Tourette syndrome through neurochemical abnormalities, bacterial infections and genetic factors.
Tourette syndrome is a neurological condition and disorder that causes repetitive vocalizations, and involuntary tics.
Treatment for Tourette syndrome includes relaxation techniques, psychotherapy and medication.
Tourette syndrome is characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics.
Adult-onset cases of Tourette Syndrome are rare and may be due to “reactivation” of childhood tics, or secondary to psychiatric or genetic diseases, or due to central nervous system lesions of different etiologies.
Situations that may cause tics to worsen include anxiety or stress, fatigue, or tiredness. illness, especially a streptococcal infection.
Tics are often stress-related.
Stress or anxiety can cause tics outright or make existing tics worse, and chronic stress can cause dysfunction in your nervous system, making it difficult to correct tics even when stress stops.
If you or a loved one is struggling with a tic, we may be able to help.
Tourette's syndrome is a more severe variant of a tic disorder that involves both motor and vocal tics.
This condition is usually inherited genetically, but research suggests that head trauma may increase one's risk of developing Tourette's syndrome.
There's no cure for Tourette's syndrome, but treatment can help manage symptoms.
People with Tourette's syndrome may also have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or learning difficulties.
Although the exact incidence of Tourette syndrome is uncertain, it is estimated to affect 1 to 10 in 1,000 children.
This disorder occurs in populations and ethnic groups worldwide, and it is more common in males than in females.
The majority of children with TS have symptoms of one or more associated conditions.
Those children are said by some experts to have “TS Plus.”
OCD and TS exist as separate entities according to the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th Edition) – DSM-IV.