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Relating breakthroughs in phenomenology and neurobiology and current strategies for diagnosis, assessment, and clinical care, this long-anticipated Second Edition provides expanded descriptions of clinical features, further evidence linking heritability to etiology, and revised epidemiological estimates as observed in the most recent research on Tourette's syndrome (TS) and associated disorders. The latest information about the controversial poststreptococcal hypothesis is also presented and discussed.

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[an] excellent volume[seeks] to understand TS and related disorders at a fundamental and detailed levela superb effort. -The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease cover[s] a variety of topics from phenomenology and aetiology, through clinical care of patients, to suggestions for future research well writtencomprehensible to the clinician as well as being useful for researchers a valuable addition to the series on neurological disease and therapy recommend[ed]to medical and psychiatric libraries. -British Journal of Psychiatry Provides a comprehensive discussion of tics and the associated behavioral disorders that often accompany chronic tic syndromes. -SciTech Book News By putting together such a broad-based group of papers, Kurlan has done the field a great servicewell worth having in one's personal library. -The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

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Roger Kurlan

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