title: Tics and fits. The current status of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and its relationship with epilepsy.
abstract: The Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neurobehavioural disorder characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics. Accessory symptoms include coprophenomena, echophenomena and obsessive-compulsive behaviours. There is a significant genetic contribution to their aetiology. Simple tics may be mistaken for myoclonic epilepsy and complex tics for complex partial seizures. Like epilepsy, GTS is a brain disorder that leads to general disturbances in behaviour not just the cardinal symptoms (i.e. tics or seizures).
authors.affiliation: Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rickards
mesh_terms: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000150:complications*; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications*; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D006220:Haloperidol