Tourette Syndrome
Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that starts before a person is eighteen years-old, usually appearing between the ages of two and fifteen. Males are three to four times more likely to develop Tourette Syndrome than females. ... Tourette’s is inherited in seventy-five percent of cases, with both parents being affected twenty-five percent of the time. Symptoms of Tourette Syndrome include both motor and vocal tics that last for more than a year. ... Another symptom associated with Tourette’s is cursing and/or using obscenities and racial slurs (coprolalia). However, coprolalia is very rare, occurring in less than fifteen percent of people with this syndrome. Tourette Syndrome was first identified by French neuropsychiatrist, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, in the late 1800s.