Author/Editor		Bartolo-Abela, Marcelle
Title		Hypnotherapy for Tourette's syndome: evidence for its effectiveness, and treatment protocols for use, in familial and non-familial cases
Type		članek
Source		In: Pirtošek Z, editor. Proceedings of the symposium on movement disorders, "The Alpine basal ganglia club" with the 16th dr. Janez Faganel memorial lecture; 2000 Sep 13-14; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: University medical centre, Hospital for neurology, Institute of clinical neurophysiology,
Publication year		2000
Volume		str. 66-76
Language		eng
Abstract		Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome has so far been defined as a lifelong, inherited, neurological disorder with a prevalence of 0.04%-0.05%, and characterized by tics and phonic sounds which can only be somewhat alleviated by conventional pharmacological therapy, since between 70% to 80% of patients discontinue their medication due to its dramatic adverse effects which include parkinsonian symptoms and irreversible tardive dyskinesia. However, a segregation analysis has shown that Tourette's syndrome acquisition is not consistent with Mendelian inheritance, replicated epidemiological studies have set its prevalence at 3%, and recent clinical case studies demonstrate that different forms of hypnotherapy for its treatment have actually resulted in symptom remission. Therefore this paper reviews and compares the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in the treatment of Tourette's with respect to current conventional pharmacological therapies, additionally to setting forth two hypnotherapy protocols for use in familial and non-familial cases as a baseline for health professionals. This review was generated specifically according to the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (1) and written using a PICO IBM-compatible Pentium MMX laptop computer, Microsoft Word 97 software, and printed on A4 paper using a Hewlett Packard inkjet printer.
Descriptors		TOURETTE SYNDROME HYPNOSIS CHILD CLONIDINE HALOPERIDOL TREATMENT OUTCOME