• Includes Key Point boxes at the start of each chapter to quickly summarise important concepts covered in the text
• Features numerous Case Histories which provide practical realistic examples throughout
• Includes invaluable Resource section with suggested further reading and contact information for patient self-help/support group, plus a glossary of technical terms

New to this edition

• Chapter on 'Education, Employment, and Empowerment'
• Chapter on famous and successful people who achieved their goals despite their diagnosis

Readership: Sufferers of Tourette's Syndrome, their relatives and friends. Professionals in primary health care, students of psychology or medicine, schoolteachers, clinicians.

Edited by Mary Robertson, Emeritus Professor in Neuropsychiatry, University College London, and Visiting Professor and Honorary Consultant, St George's Hospital and Medical School, London, UK, and Andrea Cavanna, Consultant in Behavioural Neurology, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham, and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK

"...an interesting addition to the available material for patient information...very comprehensive...useful to anyone wanting to understand a long-term condition - and that would include medical staff." - Pulse GP Magazine

1: Introducing three cases
2: What is Tourette syndrome?
3: How common is Tourette syndrome?
4: How is the diagnosis made?
5: What other disorders can be mistaken for Tourette syndrome?
6: Can people with Tourette syndrome also develop other conditions?
7: Will I have Tourette syndrome forever?
8: Coping with the news of a diagnosis of Tourette syndrome
9: Is there more than one type of Tourette syndrome?
10: What causes Tourette syndrome?
11: Which therapies are most useful for Tourette syndrome?
12: Education, employment and empowerment
13: Famous or successful people who have had Tourette syndrome
Appendices
Index