Symptoms of Tourette’s Gilles Syndrome vary widely among individuals. The main element of this condition are tics, motors and sound. These are almost always accompanied by psychiatric manifestations. Patient tics are uncontrollable and often occur intensely and repeatedly. Not all types of tics are present in a person at the same time, they may appear and then disappear to give way to another type of tics.
Diagnosis of Tourette’s syndrome
According to the DSM-5 criteria, the disease begins before the age of 18, there are motor and vocal tics that appear regularly for more than a year and are not due to drug use or other neurological disease.
Disease severity is achieved by an objective measurement of tics using the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS).
The diagnosis of Tourette’s syndrome is said to be differential because it is sometimes necessary to eliminate other pathologies such as epilepsy, TOCs, certain dystonia, Huntington’s disease, traumatic or infectious brain injury.
