Tourette Syndrome

Accommodations for writing problems, many children with TS also have visual-motor integration problems. They may come across with difficulties when having to copy information from the board, completing long assignments, neatness of written work, and when given a specific time to finish an assignment. Sometimes it appears as though the student is lazy or avoiding work, but in reality the effort to record the work on paper may be overwhelming.

As mentioned above, TS can occur in anyone, even famous people. Some of the famous people that had TS were Jim Eisenreich, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Marc Summers. TS does not disable a person from working efficiently or living a perfectly normal life. People with TS can attend and succeed school just as a normal person can. The disorder does not affect their intelligence or their ability to learn, thus enabling them to live a perfectly normal life. They have the same earning potential, intelligence, and working ability similar to any other person.

Tourette Syndrome, or TS, affects approximately one hundred thousand Americans of whom you will find in a variety of professions and social settings (7). It is a neurological disease which is characterized by repeated and involuntary body movements and vocal sounds. Before TS was known to be a health problem uncontrollable by the patient, it was seen as nervousness, possession by a spirit, epilepsy or simply as bad habits (5). Today it is known that imbalances in certain brain chemicals are what causes the symptoms of this disease. It is interesting to examine TS and use it as a tool for better understanding (in part) how, in what quantity, and at what level the brain (and the nervous system as a whole) contribute to

Associated characteristics, impairments, and medical complications: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia

Despite having chronic symptoms, that can last a lifetime, most agree that symptoms are worse in their early teens, and thereafter improvement, lasting into adulthood. I might add that the exact cause of the disorder is not known. Analyst believe that Tourette's is a genetic condition, inherited at birth. Research on the genes that are involved in the disorder are still being studied, but in other instances, the family genetics is blatant. Different families have been identified in which the disorder is very prevalent. Researchers are not sure, but they insist that an abnormality may exist in the basal ganglia, the part of the brain that assists with motor movements. Tourette's syndrome is a very unusual, and highly complex disorder. The abnormalities are in different parts of the brain, along with the electrons and neurons that connect them.

• Convulsions. These are episodes of uncontrollable movement caused by sudden, intense tightening (contraction) of the muscles.

It is not just about a person who shouts out random profane things or does frequent movements of their body. TS affects all aspects of a person's life. It is emotionally, mentally, and physically damaging. Everyday that person has to be afraid of how people might treat them or what they might say because they do not understand that they have no control over their tics and that can be a huge factor on a person's self esteem. Mentally many are not stable because not being able to control their own body becomes too much to handle and those many often develop anxiety problems. Physically depending on how severe the disorder about 50% of the time they have no control over the movements being performed by their bodies. Some of the time the physical movement tic can harm they person. This is where the Bio-psycho-social model that infers Tourette's as a psychological disorder. A lot of the time people struggling with TS do not fulfil all that they want to in life because they are held back by their disorder.For example many don’t get to further their education and in more extreme cases they are unable to live

Tourette’s syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition that is identified by frequent and long lasting patterns of involuntary motor and vocal tics. (Capriotti, Conelea, Houghton, Woods, 2014) These motor and vocal tics can range from simple tics like, blinking and grunting, to severe tics such as word repeating and repetitive touching of objects. The onset age of Tourette’s syndrome is during childhood, typically when it carries on into adolescence the severity increases. (Capriotti et al., 2014)The underline cause of Tourette’s syndrome has yet to be determined though speculations have been made that structural and functional abnormalities in the brain contribute to the onset of this disorder as well as hereditable factors. (Capriotti et al.,2014)

Knowing the condition, give Brad a new reason to life. He explored and experienced with different coping options to deal with Tourette’s. Since there is no cure to control the tics, Brad would bite on a pen or chew gum to help him focus less stresses and more on a task. Brad would take varies medicines to decrease the episodes of tics he would receive, but the side effects such as weight gain and drowsiness affected him. Not to mention, every time Brad wanted to go to the movies he would go during times where it wasn’t crowded which was in the earlier morning or late in the night. Even throughout junior and high school year, Brad was always part of sports, which help him as well to release all of the energy he had.

Tourette syndrome is an inherited severe neurological disorder usually occurring before the age of eighteen and is associated with a degree of facial and body tics sometimes accompanied by random declarations of phrases or obscenities (2,3). The facial and body tics associated with the disorder can be painful and even embarrassing. Involuntary body movements such as jaw snapping, gyrating, hopping, and obscene gesturing are to name a few (1). Tourette Syndrome was named after a French neuropsychiatrist named Gilles de la Tourette who successfully assessed the disorder in the late 1800’s(3). Tourette Syndrome claims no specific race or ethnicity. The disorder generally can affect any ethnic group yet it does

Complex tics such as touching or smelling objects, repeating observed movements, stepping in a certain pattern, obscene gestures, bending or twisting, hopping, repeating one's own words or phrases or others, using vulgar, obscene, or swear words. These tics makes it hard for the individual who has Tourette Syndrome to make friends. Parents may try to build the best possible life for their child, or feeling guilty for giving their children that gene. Also, siblings may resent their siblings because they get more attention

Though complex tics embody popular conceptions of Tourette syndrome, they normally occur less frequently than simple motor tics.

Imagine an eight year old child, just starting the third grade, and they are constantly being made fun of for making different noises in the back of the class, or doing strange head motions that the other students find amusing. The child wonders why this is always happening. This is what school can be like for a child with Tourette Syndrome, making it hard for him or her to be in any kind of social situation. Tourette Syndrome produces involuntary tics which can be hard for any school aged child or adolescent. Little is known about the cause of Tourette Syndrome and there is no cure, making the diagnoses look somber, but there are various treatments and ways of coping, but most patients with Tourette Syndrome don’t have to worry about it for

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a disorder of the brain that is observed in people who have involuntary movements or vocalizations called tics. Named after Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette who first discovered this disorder, this French neurologist described a noblewoman who exhibited these symptoms in 1885. These tics could range from repetitive movements to inappropriate vocalizations.

Tourette Syndrome (TS), first described by Gilles de la Tourette, can be the most debilitating of the tic disorders and is characterized by multiform, frequently changing motor and vocal or phonic tics. There are multiple diagnostic criteria, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV.