What Are Tics Associated with Touriette's Syndrome?

What Are Tics Associated with Touriette's Syndrome? (1:14)

Physical and verbal tics are a classic symptom of Touriette's syndrom. In this WisePatient video, Wayne Goodman, MD, a psychiatrist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, outlines some of the hallmark tics found in Tourette's patients.

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Tics are darting movements, they're really sudden movements.common tics would include eye-blinking, facial grimacing. A shoulder shrug, could be adarting movement of the hand, and as they evolve over time they tend to change terms of anatomical location and severity. They even change from day to day.

One of the characteristics of Touriettes is how much they to wait over time. It takes cannonball speech, what most people think about When I think of Tourettes is a symptom called Coprolalia, that's the blurting out of obscenities or other inappropriate remarks, that's not that common but in order to have tourettes you do have to have some sort of sound, it could be simply throat clearing or sniffing and the patients may try to camouflage that as allergies or a cough