TIC DISORDERS-TOURETTE'S

TIC Disorders-Tourette's

TIC Disorders-Tourette's

Introduction

Doubts, worries, superstitious beliefs are usually common in everyday life, but when they come so excessive then a diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is made. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a medical brain disorder that causes problems in information processing. Before medicine, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder was thought to be untreatable. Most people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder continue to suffer. Today, treatment can help most people with Obsessive Compu7lsive Disorder.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder usually involves having both obsessions and compulsions, though a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder may sometimes have only one or the other. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can start from preschool to adulthood, but usually by the age of forty. One-third to one-half of adults with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder report that it started during childhood, but Obsessive Compulsive Disorder often goes unrecognized. On an average, most people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder seek treatment for nine years before they actually receive a correct diagnosis.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder often tends to be under diagnosed or untreated for a number of reasons. People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder may have a lack of knowledge about their treatment or they maybe secretive about it. Also, many health care providers are not familiar with the symptoms or they are not trained in providing appropriate treatment.

This is unfortunate because proper treatment can help people avoid depression or marital and work problems.

TIC Disorders-Tourette's

There is no single, proven cause for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Research indicates that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder involves problems in communication between the front part of the brain and deeper structures. Serotonin is what these brain structures use. It is a theory that insufficient levels of serotonin are prominently involved in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Drugs that increase the brain concentration of serotonin often helps improve Obsessive Compulsive Disorder symptoms. Although it seems clear that reduced levels of serotonin play a role in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, there are no laboratory tests for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The diagnosis is made based on an assessment of the persons symptoms. Approximately 300,000 children and adolescents in the United States suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This can mean three to four youngsters with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders per-average-sized elementary school and about 15-20 teenagers in a large high school.

Tourette syndrome (TS)- is an inherited, neurological disorder characterized by repeated involuntary movements and uncontrollable vocal sounds called tics. In a few cases, such tics can include inappropriate words and phrases.

The disorder is named for Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette a French neurologist who first described an 86-year-old French woman with the condition in 1885.

The symptoms of TS generally appear before the age of 18. TS can affect people of all races and males (1 in 2,500) are affected 3 to 4 times more often than females. It is estimated that 100,000 Americans have full-blown TS, and that perhaps as many as 1 in 200 show a partial expression of the disorder. Girls with the gene have a 70% chance of displaying symptoms; boys with the gene have a 99% chance of displaying ...