Why this Tourette's drama is one of the year's most talked-about films

Tourette's activist John Davidson made headlines at the BAFTAs. Now, "I Swear" star Robert Aramayo wants to bring "nuance" to ...

He has Tourette Syndrome, and it ruled his life. This quiet British film tells his story

"I Swear" is a biopic about British health advocate John Davidson, best known in the U.S. for shouting a racial epithet at ...
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For the Tourette syndrome community, the BAFTAs brought on a familiar dread-like feeling

When the advocate Jess Thom heard about a person with Tourette's "ticcing" the BAFTAs, she had a familiar feeling: dread. Thom has Tourette Syndrome and when she got word of what happened with ...

Tourette's tics are not just motor misfires—an emotion-linked brain circuit may open a new treatment frontier

While tics have been considered to result from an aberrant function of the brain's motor cortex, a Kobe University mouse ...

Boy's Tourette's swear words 'need no apology'

Nine-year-old Rocky, from Bristol, was diagnosed last year with coprolalia, a symptom of TS that causes uncontrollable ...
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Tourette Syndrome

Tourette syndrome is a relatively common and complex neurobehavioral disorder characterized by motor and vocal (phonic) tics. Tics are abrupt, rapid, brief, repetitive behaviors that may resemble ...