Download or read book Handbook of Tourette's Syndrome and Related Tic and Behavioral Disorders, Second Edition written by Roger Kurlan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relating breakthroughs in phenomenology and neurobiology and current strategies for diagnosis, assessment, and clinical care, this long-anticipated Second Edition provides expanded descriptions of clinical features, further evidence linking heritability to etiology, and revised epidemiological estimates as observed in the most recent research on Tourette's syndrome (TS) and associated disorders. The latest information about the controversial poststreptococcal hypothesis is also presented and discussed.