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Example sentences for: tourette

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A team of Canadian psychologists believes that Tourette's syndrome--the condition that leads patients to suffer muscular spasms and to blurt out obscenities--may be a psychological rather than a physical disorder.
The surgeon with Tourette's, the blind man who regained his sight to his dismay, the subjects variously marooned in the hippie subculture of 1969 or in a Tuscan village of the 1930s, the remarkably gifted autists--all are admirable, all are moving, all are acutely recognizable in human terms.
Lethem's latest genre-bending novel, featuring a Brooklyn detective afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, impresses the critics.
In one experiment, a Tourette's patient was directed to hold a weighted box loaded with sensors.
An increase of the neurotransmitter dopamine has been associated with movement disorders such as Tourette syndrome (Comings et al.