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What are the symptoms of Tourette's syndrome?
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Tourettes syndrome involves a compulsion to perform repetitve behaviours; these behaviours can involve vocal or motor tics. The stereotype of a tourettes patient having an uncontrolled swearing habit is actually far from the truth. Only around 2% of Tourettes patients will engage in undesireable vocalizations; it is far more common for sufferers to exhibit either or both of the following:
1. Vocal tics; most commonly involving grunting, nasal sounds or word repetition. Often a sufferer will try to mask these types of tics by working them into other words or by coughing or clearing their throat.
2. Motor tics; commonly involving the facial muscles and resulting in squinting, tongue movements or twitching of the mouth. Other motor tics can involve twitching of the neck. shoulder, arms or hands.Report this post
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