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Endorsed by Tourettes Action (UK), Tourette Scotland, the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, Tourette Syndrome Association (US), and Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada
Tourette Syndrome
Second Edition
Edited by Mary Robertson and Andrea Cavanna
184 pages
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Haltones and line drawings
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196x129mm
978-0-19-929819-8
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Paperback
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16 October 2008
Price:
£13.99 £3.49
Please note, this offer price only applies to individual customers when ordering direct from Oxford University Press, while stock lasts. No further discounts will apply. If you are a bookseller, please contact your OUP sales representative.
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- 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
Tourette's Syndrome (TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder affecting up to 1% of the population. It is characterised by motor and vocal tics, and upsetting anti-social behaviour such as involuntary swearing and obscene gestures.
This second edition of Tourette Syndrome: The Facts explains the causes of the syndrome, how it is diagnosed, and how to cope if you or a relative has been recently diagnosed. It provides information on the treatment and therapies that are available, and advice and on how individuals can manage their symptoms. It clearly explains the different presentations that can
affected individuals, covering a spectrum from very mild to more uncommon severe forms of TS, and also discusses disorders that can be mistaken for TS.
This edition contains a new chapters focussing on 'Education, employment and empowerment', and famous and successful people who achieved their goals despite their diagnosis.
Essential reading for Tourette's sufferers, their relatives and friends, Tourette's Syndrome: The Facts will also be of use to clinicians, GPs, schoolteachers, and anyone seeking an accessible introduction to the disorder.Readership: Sufferers of Tourette's Syndrome, their relatives and friends.
Professionals in primary health care, students of psychology or medicine, schoolteachers, clinicians.
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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
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"...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
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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
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