Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: tics that poison everyday life
Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disease that affects approximately 45,000 children in France.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Known for insults or profanity uttered uncontrollably by people who suffer from it, Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome tends to make people laugh.
And yet, this neurological disease causes intense suffering for the 45,000 children concerned in France.
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Grimaces, involuntary gestures, cries… This syndrome is characterized by the association of motor and vocal tics appearing before the age of 18.
What are the causes of tics?
Can we treat them?
Dr Andreas Hartmann,
neurologist and head of
the reference center for Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
, at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
Sarah
,
neurofeedback
practitioner
, member of
the Association Française du Syndrome de Gilles de La Tourette
.
Dr Adrian Chaboche,
former head of university clinic, psychotherapist, practitioner attached to
the Pain Treatment Center at Ambroise Paré Hospital
, in Boulogne-Billancourt, university lecturer and coordinator of the
DU in hypnosis and pain at the University of Versailles
and co-founder of the
Center Vitruve
in Paris
Prof. Mofou Belo
, Head of the Neurology Department at the
Sylvanus Olympio CHU
in Lomé, Togo.
Head of the non-communicable disease surveillance division at the
Ministry of Health
.
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