What is Tourette's syndrome and why is everybody talking about him?
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Tourette Syndrome — mysterious and little-studied disease
In the late 19th century by a French doctor Gilles de La Tourette made a report on 9 of the patients suffering from strange and incurable . All patients complained about the uncontrolled swearing, whooping involuntary words and sounds, and some of them have suffered very specific tics. Patients involuntarily jumped up, clapped hands or hit his head on a nearby surface. What is Tourette syndrome? It is a disease or obsession?
What is Tourette syndrome?
Despite the fact that his own name the syndrome was only in the 19th century, the first description of the disease appeared in the year 1486, when the book “Hammer of witches” describes a priest with motor and vocal tics. Modern psychotherapists describe Tourette's syndrome as a condition characterized by various involuntary actions on the part of the patient. So, the first signs of the disease may occur even in very early childhood, when, completely unexpectedly for parents starts shouting swear words to shout, to hiss or to clink language, while remaining outwardly and mentally healthy.
According to modern terminology, Tourette's syndrome relates to nerve and mental diseases, which affects approximately 10 children out of 1,000. The cause of unusual disease has not yet been clarified, but there are several hypotheses, prigovarivaya the presence of the disease in a family member.
what causes Tourette's syndrome?
Patients with Tourette's syndrome often lose control over his speech.
There are several hypotheses why that may develop Tourette's syndrome. So, one of the main reasons is considered a factor. According to the observations of researchers, the disorder most often affects children whose parents themselves have suffered or suffer from involuntary tics. In addition, scientists have also isolated autoimmune and neuro-anatomical reasons. In the first case, the pathology arises as a result of any illness, the cause of which were streptococcal . In the second case, doctors dealing with disorders of the brain caused by metabolic disorders or drugs.
is there a cure for Tourette's syndrome?
Despite the fact that completely cure Tourette's impossible, there are specific psychotherapeutic practices aimed at relief of symptoms.
I think that before the attack, the patient experiences strong stress and the stress of not having external causes. Before the manifestation of the tick, the patient often appears the desire to cough, to remove the speck from the eye or make some involuntary movement, which helps to eliminate internal stress. Despite the fact that the disease currently cannot be cured completely, in psychotherapy, there are special practices that reduce the number and intensity of attacks as well as to recognize the time of their occurrence.
In addition, currently, it is Tourette's begins to enter the world , attracting attention because of its singularity. Researchers believe that carriers of the disease could be even Mozart and poet of the Enlightenment, Samuel Johnson.
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