Neurology · Neurology / Movement disorders; Neuropsychiatry
Tourette syndrome
also: Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
Neurodevelopmental disorder with multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic for over a year.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Movement disorders; Neuropsychiatry
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: more common (about 3–4:1); Female: affected; Children: yes, onset 5–7 years
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Complex polygenic inheritance with cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit dysfunction.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (6)
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