Re: website info: tourette

January 1, 2003

Dr. Comings, a geneticist who specializes in Tourettes and other disorders

on the behavior spectrum believes that Ritalin does not cause the tics, but

rather that the child would likely have developed them anyhow, and that the

ADD and tics are both only symptoms of the underlying genetic stacking. Kim

> Here is the website information: http:

> One of the assistants at Kendra's school has Tourette's. For her it has

> really lessened as she became an adult. For others, it could worsen.

> I'm sure there are many factors that contribute to it. I've read that

> tics can definitely be worsened with the use of ritalin and with some

> cough medicines.

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> Mom to Kendra, and Camille

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> Emailing: tourette

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> Here is some information from the HANDLE Institute that explains some

> factors related to Tourette's. It discusses dopamine. Perhaps it will

> be of interest. They have had some success approaching this condition

> without medications. Each person is different, though.

>

> Mom to Kendra, 16, CHARGE, 22, and Camille, 24

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