“He won’t stop blinking.”, “He makes faces all the time”, “He clears his throat”sniffs, coughs, repeats his own words (palilalia) or others’ words (echolalia)… Nothing is more common than tics, especially in childhood and adolescence. “Parents make noise over caricatures found on social networks”testified by Dr: Andreas Hartmann, neurologist and head of the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome Reference Center at La Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris). Her team, like the other 13 Skills Centers located across the area, sees worried families passing through. Nevertheless, “Severe forms are very rarereassures the doctor. Having a wife does not prevent the vast majority of children from leading a normal life.” And this has nothing to do with intelligence, which is absolutely unaffected.
But where do these funny gestures or compulsive expressions come from? The lady moves involuntarily…
Source: Le Figaro
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