title: J.-M. G. Itard's 1825 study: movement and the science of the human mind.
abstract: Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1825'Study of several involuntary functions of the apparatus of movement,gripping, and voice' discusses 10 individuals with uncontrolled movements but no other significant impairments.Thus, otherwise normal people move in inappropriate ways against their better judgement. Although the study contains the first clinical description of Tourette Syndrome, it has received little attention beyond that notice. Examined in its entirety and in its cultural context, Itard's study characterizes patients' movements in terms of the will, propriety, animals and gender. Lacking control over their movements, the individuals are underdeveloped humans. Accordingly, sufferers' facial expression, bodily movements and unplanned vocalizations render them more animal than human and more deviant than normal, although they are neither insane nor evil.
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, PO Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA. snewman@kent.edu
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Newman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020820:Dyskinesias / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000266:history*