Monday, February 10, 2014

Síndrome Guilles de la Tourette en 100 palabras.

Una vez más, y creo que ya va la cuarta vez, nos hacemos eco de esta pequeña sección de la revista académica de revisión de pares "British Journal of Psychiatry".

Recordemos que esta sección se ha convertido en lectura obligada para todos aquellos interesados en síntesis fundamentales de tópicos muchos veces polémicos y controvertidos.

Para esta ocasión de la mano de Andrea Cavanna se describe en 100 palabras el síndrome  Guilles de la Tourette:

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome was first described by Parisian doctor Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette in 1885. Originally considered a rare medical curiosity, the syndrome of multiple tics is now regarded as a fairly common neurodevelopmental condition, affecting up to 1% of school-age children. Gilles de la Tourette described the clinical triad of tics, echolalia and coprolalia. The last is relatively rare and no longer features as a diagnostic criterion, despite the media obsession with obscene manifestations. French colleagues react with horror when they see their syndrome's name shortened to Tourette syndrome


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ResearchBlogging.orgCavanna E. A. (2014). Gilles de la Tourette syndrome – in 100 words British Journal of Psychiatry DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.121467


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