کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
316976 1432586 2015 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome in a cohort of deaf people
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب (عمومی)
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Gilles de la Tourette syndrome in a cohort of deaf people
چکیده انگلیسی


• Tourette syndrome (GTS) in deaf have similar phenomenology and co-morbid disorders.
• The “signing phonic tics” are akin to phonic tics in GTS.
• GTS is under-recognised in the deaf.
• Diagnosing and treating GTS can improve the quality of life.

We present six patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (TS) who are also deaf. TS has been observed previously, but rarely reported in deaf people, and to date, so called “unusual” phenomenology has been highlighted. TS occurs almost worldwide and in all cultures, and the clinical phenomenology is virtually identical. In our cohort of deaf patients (we suggest another culture) with TS, the phenomenology is the same as in hearing people, and as in all other cultures, with classic motor and vocal/phonic tics, as well as associated phenomena including echo-phenomena, pali-phenomena and rarer copro-phenomena. When “words” related to these phenomenon (e.g. echolalia, palilalia, coprolalia or mental coprolalia) are elicited in deaf people, they occur usually in British Sign Language (BSL): the more “basic” vocal/phonic tics such as throat clearing are the same phenomenologically as in hearing TS people. In our case series, there was a genetic predisposition to TS in all cases. We would argue that TS in deaf people is the same as TS in hearing people and in other cultures, highlighting the biological nature of the disorder.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Asian Journal of Psychiatry - Volume 17, October 2015, Pages 65–70
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