Tourette's syndrome and tic disorders : clinical understanding and treatment

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Tourette's syndrome and tic disorders : clinical understanding and treatment

edited by Donald J. Cohen, Ruth D. Bruun, James F. Leckman

(Wiley series in child and adolescent mental health)

Wiley, c1988

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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

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Description

Tourette's syndrome is now recognized as a common, lifelong condition and a "model" disorder reflecting the interaction of genetic vulnerability and environmental factors. Along with progress in research on Tourette's and other tic disorders, new approaches to treating this neuropsychiatric disturbance are now attracting wide interest among mental health workers. This book provides the broadest, most up-to-date account of this group of disorders, their features, symptoms, etiology, and diagnosis, and various psycho-social disorders with similar symptoms. It also presents a variety of environmental and pharmacological therapeutic approaches which underscore areas of disagreement in the field, as well as new genetic, neurochemical, and pharmacologic knowledge. The contributors to this work are all leading researchers or clinicians.

Table of Contents

  • DIAGNOSIS AND NATURAL HISTORY: Descriptive and Diagnostic Classification of Tic Disorders
  • The Natural History of Tourette's Syndrome
  • CLINICAL FEATURES: Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Tourette's Syndrome
  • Stereotyped and Self-Injurious Behaviors in Disorders Other Than Tourette's Syndrome
  • PSYCHOSOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVES: Family Functioning and Tourette's Syndrome
  • Intrapsychic Processes and Adjustment in Tourette's Syndrome
  • PHARMACOTHERAPY: Treatment of Tic Disorders with Haloperidol
  • Pimozide in the Treatment of Tourette's Syndrome.

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