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Informationen zum Autor Dr Roger Freeman FRCP(C) is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and Senior Neuropsychiatrist at the Neuropsychiatry Clinic, BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, Canada. He is co-founder of the Neuropsychiatry Clinic at BC Children's Hospital and co-founder and manager of the Tourette Syndrome International Database Consortium, a world-wide clinical dataset on Tourette syndrome. Dr Freeman is the author of numerous papers on Tourette syndrome and is a frequent presenter at Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada (TSFC) conferences. He has been honoured as a Clinician of the year (2006) by the TSFC and was given a distinguished service award by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Klappentext Editor, Hilary Hart; cover design, Karl Hunt. Zusammenfassung * Includes extensive discussion of tic disorders that occur alone or in other conditions such as ADHD and OCD and mood disorders. This will help clinicians to decide whether it is the tic or the disorder that is the most pressing problem. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents AUTHOR'S APPOINTMENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONFLICT OF INTEREST DECLARATION FOREWORD LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 DIAGNOSIS AND DEFINITIONS 3 PRESENTATION TO CLINICIANS 4 PREVALENCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY 5 ETIOLOGY 6 CLINICAL COURSE AND PROGNOSIS 7 PHENOMENOLOGY AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES 8 THE LIVED EXPERIENCE 9 FUNCTIONAL ('CONVERSION DISORDER' OR 'PSYCHOGENIC') TICS 10 COMORBID DISORDERS AND SYMPTOMATOLOGY 11 STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER 12 SYMPTOMS AND PATTERNS 13 TICS IN OTHER MEDICAL CONDITIONS 14 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 15 INTERVENTIONS AND TREATMENT 16 WORKING WITH SCHOOLS 17 WORKING WITH FAMILIES 18 PEER RELATIONSHIPS AND TEASING/BULLYING 19 CONTROVERSIES 20 REFRACTORY CASES 21 SERVICE PROVISION: A FEW CONSIDERATIONS 22 SUPPORT GROUPS 23 TIC DISORDERS AND THE LAW 24 TOURETTE SYNDROME, EMPLOYMENT AND INSURANCE 25 AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT 26 SOME PROBLEMS TICS CAN CAUSE FOR OTHERS 27 CODA REFERENCES APPENDIX 1. Then and Now APPENDIX 2. How Accurate is Information on the Internet? APPENDIX 3. Stereotypic Movement Disorder - a Primer for Teachers APPENDIX 4. Comments on the American Practice Parameters on Tic Disorders APPENDIX 5. Stereotypy Severity Scale APPENDIX 6. Web Resources APPENDIX 7. Publications of the TIC Consortium INDEX ...
