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Edited by James F. Leckman and Donald J. Cohen. 584 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1999. $89.95. ISBN 0-471-16037-7.

In 1885, the French neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette, describing the first nine patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, stated, "Everything is extraordinary in this disease: the name is ridiculous, its symptoms peculiar, its character equivocal, its cause unknown, its treatment problematical." More than a century later, this statement still holds, although the name of the disease has been changed to Tourette's syndrome (or Tourette's disorder). Considered rare and exotic at that time, Tourette's syndrome is a relatively common childhood-onset disorder characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics.

Often lifelong in duration, the full syndrome affects up to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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