title: Sleep in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
abstract: The sleep of six Tourette patients (drug-free and while taking haloperidol was compared with that of nine normal volunteers. The untreated patients had 30% less delta sleep, which returned to values indistinguishable from those of volunteers when they received haloperidol.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012890:Sleep / Q000187:drug effects; D012894:Sleep Stages; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*
chemical_list: D006220:Haloperidol