title: The "imprisoned illness:" motor tic disorder in Rainer Maria Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
abstract: Rainer Maria Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge contains a reference of interest for the catalog of literary portrayals of tiqueurs. In this article, we report his description of a Parisian character displaying multiple motor tic symptoms, along with a brief commentary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Birmingham and BSMHFT, Birmingham, United Kingdom. a.cavanna@ion.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrea Eugenio
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Cavanna
authors.forename: Maria Grazia
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Pattumelli
authors.forename: Tiziana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Quarto
authors.forename: Fizzah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rickards
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D013981:Tic Disorders