Difficulties experienced by young people with Tourette syndrome in secondary school: a mixed methods description of self, parent and staff perspectives - Wadman R, Glazebrook C, Beer C, Jackson GM.
BACKGROUND: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by motor and vocal tics. These involuntary movements and vocalizations can have a negative impact in the school environment. The paper presents a mixed methods description of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Teen with Tourette's vlogs to erase stigma
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Source: CNN.com - Health - January 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What It's Like to Be Allergic to Water
(Photo-Illustration: Photos: Corbis) By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay In 1963, a 15-year-old girl presented herself to a pair of dermatologists in Pennsylvania complaining that she'd broken out in angry, red lesions after a session of waterskiing. That first mysterious outbreak became a trend: Blotchy, itchy hives would pop up all over her limbs every time she took a bath, went swimming, or perspired heavily. The doctors conducted a series of tests to rule out obvious possible triggers like cold and, using a hand towel soaked in distilled water, identified a condition called aquagenic urticaria: Sufferers are so sensitive to pure...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 3, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Neurocrine begins Phase II trial of VMAT2 Inhibitor NBI-98854 to treat tourette syndrome
Neurocrine Biosciences has started a Phase II clinical trial of NBI-98854 (Valbenazine), a highly selective small molecule Vesicular Monoamine Transporter 2 (VMAT2) inhibitor, to treat Tourette syndrome in adults. (Source: Drug Development Technology)
Source: Drug Development Technology - October 20, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Brain chemical may help treat 'tics' in people with Tourette syndrome
Researchers say that mimicking the activity of a chemical called GABA in the brain may be a promising treatment strategy for 'tics' among people with Tourette syndrome. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Well: A Soccer Star and Role Model With Tourette Syndrome
For Tim Howard, symptoms of Tourette syndrome started when he was a child. Now he tries to raise awareness of the neurological disorder, which is fairly common but also misunderstood. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Tags: Howard, Tim Mind Tourette's Syndrome Featured Source Type: news
Well: A Soccer Star and Role Model With Tourette Syndrome
For Tim Howard, symptoms of Tourette syndrome started when he was a child. Now he tries to raise awareness of the neurological disorder, which is fairly common but also misunderstood. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - October 1, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Tags: Howard, Tim Mind Tourette's Syndrome Featured Source Type: news
Emma Gregory gained 10 stone in a YEAR after Tourette's left her housebound
Emma Gregory, 27, from Bristol, eventually became frightened to leave the house because her outbursts were so severe - and her weight ballooned from 8st to 18st as she gorged on junk food. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Learn More About Neurologist Oliver Sacks' Greatest Works
(Reuters) - Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the intricacies of the brain and wrote eloquently about them in books such as "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," died on Sunday at the age of 82, his personal assistant said. The British-born Sacks, who announced in February that he had terminal liver cancer, died at his home in New York City at 1:30 a.m. with his partner, the writer Billy Hayes, and his personal assistant, Kate Edgar, at his side, Edgar told Reuters. "He definitely wrote to the very end," said Edgar, noting Sacks in his final days never stopped penning a legacy that will be publ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 31, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Neurologist and Writer Oliver Sacks Dies at 82
(NEW YORK) — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre neurological conditions, has died. He was 82.
Sacks died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said.
Sacks had announced in February 2015 that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver.
As a practicing neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer’s eye and found publishing gold.
In his best-selling 1985 book, he described a m...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - August 30, 2015 Category: Science Authors: matkatz Tags: Uncategorized celebrities Source Type: news
Family can't watch a film together because three suffer from Tourette's Syndrome
The Battley family, from Torpoint in Cornwall, has three members with Tourette's and another two who suffer copycat symptoms but haven't been diagnosed with the condition. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What It's Like to Have Severe Sleep Paralysis
(Photo: SOA) By Melissa Dahl It didn't happen every night, but every now and then, Blake Smith, a 45-year-old writer and programmer from Kennesaw, Georgia, would jolt awake, believing he was under attack. Just what exactly was attacking him was something of a mystery, as it was invisible -- a ghost, maybe. Whatever it was, he could feel that it meant him harm. Related: What It's Like to Need Hardly Any Sleep What was really happening, he now knows, was that he was experiencing sleep paralysis, a phenomenon that occurs either upon falling asleep or awakening and is thought to be a mix-up of normal REM sleep. On the one ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tourette's, Tic Disorders Highly Heritable Tourette's, Tic Disorders Highly Heritable
Tourette's syndrome and other tic disorders appear to be among the most heritable neuropsychiatric disorders. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - July 1, 2015 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
We Need More Research On Medical Marijuana
A new study revealed that there was "moderate-quality evidence" to support the use of cannabinoid compounds for the treatment of chronic pain and spasticity. The same report also found that there was "lower-quality evidence" suggesting that cannabinoids were associated with improvements in nausea and vomiting chemotherapy, sleep disorders and Tourette syndrome. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - June 30, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: CJ Arlotta Source Type: news
