Repetitive behaviours in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: tics, compulsions, or both?

Worbe, Yulia; Mallet, Luc; Golmard, Jean-Louis; Béhar, Cécile; Durif, Franck; Jalenques, Isabelle; Damier, Philippe; Derkinderen, Pascal; Pollak, Pierre; Anheim, Mathieu; Broussolle, Emannuel; Xie, Jing; Mesnage, Valérie; Mondon, Karl; Viallet, François; Jedynak, Pierre; Ben Djebara, Mouna; Schüpbach, Michael; Pelissolo, Antoine; Vidailhet, Marie; Agid, Yves; Houeto, Jean-Luc; Hartmann, Andreas

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012959

Scientific article

English

Repetitive behaviours in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: tics, compulsions, or both?

Published inPloS one, vol. 5, no. 9, e12959

Publication date2010

Abstract

Repetitive behaviours (RB) in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) are frequent. However, a controversy persists whether they are manifestations of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or correspond to complex tics.

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Compulsive Behavior
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/diagnosis/psychology
Tics/diagnosis/psychology
Tourette Syndrome/diagnosis/psychology
Young Adult

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département des neurosciences cliniques

Research groups

Maladie de Parkinson (911)

Citation (ISO format)

WORBE, Yulia et al. Repetitive behaviours in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: tics, compulsions, or both? In: PloS one, 2010, vol. 5, n° 9, p. e12959. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012959

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PID : unige:32878
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0012959
PMID : 20885982

Journal ISSN1932-6203

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Repetitive behaviours in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: tics, compulsions, or both?

Repetitive behaviours (RB) in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) are frequent. However, a controversy persists whether they are manifestations of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or correspond to complex tics.

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