Write a 16 page essay on Mental Disorder: Tourette Syndrome.Download file to see previous pages… That is, stimulant medications commonly prescribed to hyperactive children (e.g., Ritalin, Cylert, De

Write a 16 page essay on Mental Disorder: Tourette Syndrome.
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That is, stimulant medications commonly prescribed to hyperactive children (e.g., Ritalin, Cylert, Dexedrine, etc.) can sometimes precipitate TS in predisposed children, according to the Food and Drug Administration.”(p.4) This condition is neither degenerative nor terminal (Meyers, 1998).
Tourette’s syndrome symptoms fall along a continuum from barely noticeable to blatantly noticeable and debilitating. Frequency of tics may range from those who tic only when they are anxious or fatigued to those who might tic as much as 30 to 100 times per minute (Murray, 1997). For many years clinical interventions and research focused almost exclusively on people with the most severe cases of TS. This focus may have created a distorted perception of the TS population, i.e., TS was thought to be a very rare condition that a practicing physician might see only once throughout his or her practice of medicine (Zinner, 2000). However, It is now recognized that most cases of TS are in the mild to moderate category. Many people affected by TS may never seek medical intervention (Hendren, 2002).