TOURETTE SYNDROME

POSSIBLE AND POTENTIAL CAUSES

• They are unknown
• Some scientists say it's abnormalities in certain brain regions.

COMMON SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

• Simple motor tics
• They make noises
• Complex symptoms like cursing out loud.

TREATMENTS

• Medicine
• There's no way to cure it completely.
• Therapy

STATISTICS

• Half a million people diagnosed.
• Every 1 of 360 or 3 of 1000 people get diagnosed

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PLACES TO GET TREATMENT

• Pennsylvania psychiatric institute, a collaboration of penn state and hershey
• Roxbury treatment centers

ONLINE RESOURCES TO FIND INFORMATION

• National institute of neurological disorders and strokes.
• Data/statistics tourettes
• Brain and nervous system health center