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Here's a recent review paper I completed for anyone interested. Enjoy
In 1825, the first case of what was to be called Tourette's Syndrome was reported by French physician Jean Marc Gaspard Itard. Itard reported the case of an aristocrat woman named Marquise de Dampierre. Dampierre sufferred from childhood until her death in 1884 and exhibited convulsive tics and cursing called coprolalia. The name the disorder carries is that of Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette who reported a case of nine individuals in 1885. It was the physician Jean-Martin Charcot who suggested that the syndrome carry Tourette’s name. However, the description of the primary symptoms of Tourette's Syndrome is thought to go back to the 15th century and found in the Malleus Malefacarum, a treatise on witchcraft (Martin, 2002). The passage referred to describes the case of a priest who is thought to be possessed:
“…when he passed...
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