title: Judgements of social inappropriateness in adults with Tourette's syndrome.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Socially inappropriate behaviour has frequently been reported in Tourette's syndrome (TS), but has not been studied experimentally. The current study was designed to examine the appropriateness of self-disclosures in TS using an emotional self-disclosure task.
  
  
  METHODS
  Adult participants with TS-alone (20) and matched controls (20) were compared on two social judgement tasks, one examining the regulation of behaviour in an emotional self-disclosure task requiring participants to generate examples of autobiographical events, and the other examining mentalistic judgement of others' behaviour on a faux pas task.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Those with TS-alone and controls showed no group differences for judges' or participants' ratings of inappropriateness on the self-disclosure task, although only the self-ratings of the control group corresponded to the judges' ratings. On the faux pas task, those with TS-alone were impaired relative to controls in detecting socially inappropriate behaviour. There was also some evidence of executive dysfunction in the TS-alone group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TS-alone is linked to a mixed pattern of preserved and impaired performance on social cognition measures, and further work is needed to determine the contributions of social and/or executive contributions to everyday functioning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences, University College London, and Department of Neurology, St. George's Hospital and Medical School, London, UK. S.Channon@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Channon
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Drury
authors.forename: Leonie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gafson
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Robertson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012919:Social Behavior; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012938:Social Perception; D056345:Theory of Mind; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*