Tourette’s Syndrome Surgical Therapy

Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in early childhood. TS is named after Georges Albert Edouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette, a French neuropsychiatrist (1857-1904) (1,2). The syndrome is characterized by motor and vocal tics, which are sudden, brief, intermittent, involuntary or semivoluntary movements (motor tics) or sounds (phonic or vocal tics). Tics usually wax and wane in frequency and intensity during the natural course of the disease. Motor and vocal tics in patients with TS are usually associated with behavioral symptoms such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) (3-5).