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Olanzapine in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: beyond tics.
UNLABELLED Although there only have been a limited number of double-blind, placebo controlled trials, antipsychotics are considered to be effective drugs for the treatment of tics in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS). Evidence concerning the efficacy of olanzapine and other atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of tics in GTS is growing, but still limited. Little is known about the use of...
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This study addressed several questions relating to the core features of Tourette syndrome (TS) including in particular coprolalia (involuntary utterance of obscene words) and copropraxia (involuntary and inappropriate rude gesturing). A cohort of 400 TS patients was investigated. We observed that coprolalia occurred in 39% of the full cohort of 400 patients and copropraxia occurred in 20% of th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.172.4.366a