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The First Author With Tourette's Syndrome to Publish his works
Samuel Johnson wrote A Dictionary of the English Language in 1747, and was a prolific writer, poet, and critic. Tim Howard, described by the Chicago Tribune as the "rarest person, an American soccer hero" and by the TSA as the "most notable individual with Tourette Syndrome around the world." -
First Diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome
The first diagnosis of Tourette's syndrome was in the late 15th century and describes a priest whose tics were "believed to be related to possession by the devil". A French doctor, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, reported the first case of Tourette syndrome in 1825, describing Marquise de Dampierre, an important woman of nobility in her time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome -
Beginning of Tourette Syndrome
The beginning of Tourette Syndrome started in 1885 when Georges de la Tourette, a French physician who published an account of nine patients who had Tourette's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tourette_syndrome
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The First Medical Treatment of Tourette's
During the 1960s and 1970s, as the benefitting effects of haloperidol (Haldol) on tics became well known, the psychoanalytic approach to Tourette syndrome started to be questioned. The turning point came in 1965, when Arthur K. Shapiro, the father of modern tic disorder research, treated a Tourette’s patient with haloperidol, and published a paper criticizing the psychoanalytic approach. -
First Tourette Association
The National Tourette Syndrome Association in the US in 1972 showed much in the disorder during the 1970s and in the following decades.
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Discovery of OCD Symptoms in Tourette's
In 1998, a team at the US National Institute of Mental Health proposed a hypothesis based on observation of 50 children that both obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and tic disorders came up in the group of 50 children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome -
Advancement in Tourette Syndrome research
Findings since 1999 have advanced Tourette Syndrome science in the areas of genetics, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, and neuropathology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome -
Tics no longer need looking over
In 2000, the American Psychiatric Association published the DSM-IV-TR, revising the text of DSM-IV that no longer requires that symptoms of tic disorders cause distress the person's functions, noticing that doctors often see patients who meet all the other criteria for Tourette's, but do not have distress or impairment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome
