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SUBMITTER: Ganos C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6183022 | biostudies-other | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ganos Christos C Münchau Alexander A Bhatia Kailash P KP
Movement disorders clinical practice 20140610 3
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a prototypical neuropsychiatric disorder breaking the boundary of disciplinary dualism between neurology and psychiatry. The diagnosis of GTS is clinical and, in most cases, straightforward. Tics as a hallmark of GTS are usually easy to recognize and distinguish from other movement disorders as fragmented, repetitive, exaggerated movements resembling normal motor behavior, but appearing out of context. In complex cases, knowledge on additional characterist ...[more]