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Disturbed sleep in children with Tourette syndrome: a polysomnographic study.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate objective data on sleep quantity/quality and motor activity during night sleep in children with Tourette syndrome (TS). METHOD Polysomnography of 17 unmedicated TS children (ages: 7;11-15;5, mean: 11;10 years) without comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was compared with 16 age-, sex- and IQ-matched healthy controls. Sleep analyses according to the p...
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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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INTRODUCTION Tourette syndrome (TS) is thought to be associated with striatal dysfunction. Changes within frontostriatal pathways in TS could lead to changes in abilities reliant on the frontal cortex. Such abilities include executive functions and aspects of social reasoning. METHODS This study aimed to investigate executive functioning and Theory of Mind (ToM; the ability to reason about me...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Developmental Disorders Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2196-2987
DOI: 10.1007/s40474-014-0028-0