Tourette's disorder and associated complex behaviors: a case report.
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A case of a man with Tourette's disorder associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder, multiple sexual paraphilias, and aggressive behavior is described. Treatment with haloperidol led to improvement in the characteristic tics of Tourette's disorder as well as to improvement in these three complex-associated behaviors. After haloperidol was discontinued, an exacerbation of tics and the associated behaviors occurred.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 63 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1990