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             "Listen boys I"m gonna have to close down the the the bar They are closing down buildings all over this town including this one Fuck.Ass and they"re not letting me renew the release." (Boondock Saints, Troy Duffy, Franchise Pictures, 1999).
             The bartender of the classic movie "Boondock Saints" is given the name Fuckass for his typical outbursts like this one. Although here the bartender's case of Tourette's syndrome is joked about, this neurological disorder is not something that should be taken lightly. Many people are unable to function normally because of the effect Tourette's syndrome has on their life. .
             Tourette's syndrome was named after a French Neurologist, Dr. George Gilles de la Tourette, who, in 1885, first described nine patients with tics, uncontrollable noises and symptoms that are now linked to attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. At first this bizarre disorder was considered to be psychological but in the 1960s neuroleptic drugs had beneficial effects on the symptoms. This changed the perception of Tourette's syndrome to what it is today: a biological, genetic disorder with an array of symptoms whose magnitude increases and decreases throughout the course of the disorder. .
             The most common symptoms are tics, which are sudden, brief, intermittent, involuntary or semi voluntary motor tics that involve movement, or phonic tics that involve sounds. Motor tics are classified as being either simple or complex. Simple motor tics are movements involving only a single muscle or group of muscles. They may be brief, jerking movements also referred to as clonic tics. These include blinking, nose twitching and head and limb jerking. Slower movements also involving only one muscle, called dystonic tics, include sustained eye closure, ocular deviations, mouth opening, and shoulder rotation. The final type of simple motor tics are tonic tics which are isometric contractions that usually involve tension of the abdominal or limb muscles.


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