Handbook of Tourette's Syndrome and Related Tic and Behavioral Disorders, Second Edition

by Kurlan; Roger

• ISBN13: 9780824753160
• ISBN10: 082475316X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-27
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Relating breakthroughs in phenomenology and neurobiology and current strategies for diagnosis, assessment, and clinical care, this long-anticipated Second Edition provides expanded descriptions of clinical features, further evidence linking heritability to etiology, and revised epidemiological estimates as observed in the most recent research on Tourette's syndrome (TS) and associated disorders. The latest information about the controversial postreptococcal hypothesis is also presented and discussed.

Table of Contents

Motor and vocal tics	p. 1
Premonitory ("sensory") experiences	p. 15
The natural history of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome	p. 23
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and self-injurious behavior	p. 39
New directions in the treatment of comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Tourette's syndrome	p. 89
Anxiety and other comorbid emotional disorders	p. 109
Aggressive symptoms and Tourette's syndrome	p. 127
Primary tic disorders	p. 155
Tics in other neurological disorders	p. 173
Drug-induced tics	p. 195
Rating tic severity	p. 215
Neuropsychological function in Tourette's syndrome	p. 237
Basal ganglia circuits and thalamocortical outputs	p. 253
Neurobiological issues in Tourette's syndrome	p. 273
Infection and autoimmune factors in Tourette's and related disorders	p. 319
Imaging in Tourette's syndrome	p. 351
The inheritance pattern	p. 365
Progress in gene localization	p. 379
Epidemiology of Tourette's syndrome	p. 399
The treatment of tics	p. 411
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in Tourette's syndrome : treatment and other considerations	p. 427
The treatment of comorbid attention-deficit disorder and Tourette's syndrome	p. 455
The neurosurgical treatment of Tourette's syndrome	p. 467
Genetic counseling	p. 475
The child and adolescent with Tourette's syndrome : clinical perspectives on phenomenology and treatment	p. 481
Tourette's syndrome : a human condition	p. 505
The Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc.	p. 511
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