An introduction to the clinical phenomenology of tourette syndrome

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-33

  Martino, Davide ^a,b,c   Madhusudan, Namrata ^d   Zis, Panagiotis ^c   Cavanna, Andrea E ^d,e,f  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention deficit; Compulsions; Coprophenomena; Echophenomena; Hyperactivity; Impulse control disorders; Tics; Tourette syndrome

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CLONIDINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HALOPERIDOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SULPIRIDE; TETRABENAZINE; TIAPRIDE;

AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COPROLALIA; COPROPRAXIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ECHOLALIA; EXCITEMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HABIT REVERSAL THERAPY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH DISORDER; TIC;

ATTENTION DEFICIT; COMPULSIONS; COPROPHENOMENA; ECHOPHENOMENA; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; TICS; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 84888413242     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411546-0.00001-9     Document Type: Chapter

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