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7 unusual facts about Tourette Syndrome


Alive and Ticking

Eva, a 17-year-old girl with Tourette syndrome, tries everything to get her family out of a financial situation when she discovers her father has obtained a new job and is moving to Berlin.

Daemen College

The school will offer a two-year program for students with neurobiological disorders such as high functioning autism, Tourette syndrome, ADHD, OCD, and bipolar disorder.

I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me

I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me is a documentary film featuring children between the ages of six and thirteen with Tourette syndrome.

Le Roy, New York

Alternative medical theories for condition were suggested, including Tourette syndrome and PANDAS, which Dr.Mechtler and his team ruled out as possibilities.

Rick Fowler

In 1997, he organized a band to perform a rock concert benefit for Tourette syndrome awareness.

The Tic Code

It tells of a single mother, the relationship she forms with a jazz musician who has Tourette syndrome, and her young son—a jazz piano prodigy—also with the disorder.

The film tells the story of a young boy, Miles Caraday (Marquette), a jazz piano prodigy who has Tourette syndrome, and his divorced mother Laura Caraday (Draper).


Explosive child

The child identified as being an explosive child can be also classified as bipolar or diagnosed as having Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Intermittent explosive disorder, Tourette syndrome, Asperger's syndrome or obsessive compulsive disorder.

John's Not Mad

The film shadows John Davidson, a 15-year-old from Galashiels in Scotland, who had severe Tourette syndrome.

Susan Swedo

Swedo is lead author on a 1994 paper in the journal Pediatrics proposing a link between Group A streptococcal infection in children and some rapid-onset cases of OCD or tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome.

In 1994, Swedo was lead author on a paper describing Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections (PANDAS), proposing a link between Group A streptococcal infection in children and some rapid-onset cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome.

The Movement Disorder Society

The field of Movement Disorders includes the following areas: Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism, ataxia, dystonia, chorea and Huntington's disease, tics and Tourette syndrome, myoclonus and startle, restless leg syndrome, stiff person syndrome, tremor and essential tremor, and gait disorders.

Twice exceptional

The disabilities are varied: dyslexia, visual or auditory processing disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, Asperger syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, or any other disability interfering with the student's ability to learn effectively in a traditional environment.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sociological and cultural aspects of Tourette syndrome – for discussion of the discredited view that Mozart had Tourette syndrome


see also

Mark Elliot

Marc Elliot (born 1986), advocate for people with Tourette Syndrome