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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