Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome

Gilles de La Tourette was a French physician who in 1886 described a rare disorder in which a person makes inappropriate and repetitive sounds, such as shouting or repeating individual letters, words or phrases.

This disorder, named after Gilles de la Tourette, is also known as Tourette syndrome, Gibert syndrome or Gilles-Barre syndrome. People with this disorder often experience physical symptoms such as neck or back pain, headaches, and sometimes paralysis. Although Gilles studied medicine and anatomy, he was poorly educated and did not receive much medical training. His favorite student subject was the technical description of man. However, although this was his strength, it hardly helped Gilles in his work as a doctor. Giles discovered that he himself suffered from the same disorder that he had described to other students suffering from these problems. Gilles deLa Tourette first noticed these manifestations in his youth. He realized that he had difficulty with his language and his speech was peppered with unusual sounds or words.

Gilles De La Tourette was a French psychiatrist who studied the mental state of people in the 19th century. He discovered and described Tourette syndrome, a condition in which a person experiences an irresistible urge to repeat certain words or sounds. Tourette syndrome can affect men and women, but is more common in boys between the ages of 1 and 16 years.

According to the research of J. De La Tourette, Tourette syndrome is a psychosomatic disease, i.e. it develops in the presence of a constant psychotraumatic situation. In this case, a certain hyperfunction of the brain is formed. Experts focus on the complexity of the human brain and the possibility of its reconfiguration. At a subconscious level, the human brain perceives certain intonations of speech or individual voices of others as a threat and therefore begins to generate the same words itself, sometimes with distorted pronunciation.

The development of the syndrome is described in the following stages: 1. the first stage - increased mobility of the muscles of the face, neck, torso, and tongue. This leads to the fact that the child tries to compensate for their trembling, while repeating the movements several times. 2. at the next stage, vocal tics appear. They come in three types: typical, atypical, transient. One or more types may appear simultaneously