{"id":2421,"date":"2011-07-15T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/psyst\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:28:52","slug":"psyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/psyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Criteria for Tourette\u2019s Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tourette\u2019s syndrome (sometimes called Tourette\u2019s disorder) is a childhood-onset condition characterized by motor and vocal tics that are chronic (duration of &gt;1 year).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Diagnostic Criteria for Tourette\u2019s Syndrome<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Both multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics have been present at some time during the illness, although not necessarily concurrently.<\/li>\n<li>The tics occur many times a day (usually in bouts) nearly every day or intermittently throughout a period of more than 3 consecutive months.<\/li>\n<li>The onset is before 18 years of age.<\/li>\n<li>The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., stimulants) or a general medical condition (e.g., Huntington\u2019s disease or postviral encephalitis).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Diagnostic and statistical manual of psychiatry. 4th ed. rev. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Kurlan R. Clinical practice. Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2010 Dec 9;363(24):2332-8.<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21142535\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Jul 15, 2011.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[16,15,14,13,5,4,1193],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychiatry","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-sindrome","tag-syndrome","tag-tourette"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9326,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/9326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}