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Tourette syndrome: tics that poison daily life
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 in an uncontrolled manner by people who suffer from it, Tourette's Syndrome tends to make you 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 causes 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 clinic at the Universities, psychotherapist, practitioner attached to
the Pain Treatment Center at the Ambroise Paré Hospital
, in Boulogne-Billancourt, university teacher and coordinator of the
DU in hypnosis and pain at the University of Versailles
and co-founder of
the Vitruvius Center
in Paris
Pr Mofou Belo
, Head of the Neurology Department at
CHU Sylvanus Olympio
in Lomé, Togo.
Head of Division of Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance at the
Ministry of Health
.
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