Contour copying or echoplasia - A new echo phenomenon in a person with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

Psychopathology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 201-202

  Kawohl, W ^a   Podoll, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ECHOLALIA; ECHOPLASIA; FACE; FAMILY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LETTER; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TIC;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOLALIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 42349086993     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000120989     Document Type: Letter

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