ABSTRACT
A case of Gille de la Tourett's syndrome is reported and discussed in the light of conflicting views on the aetiology of the condition. It is hypothesized that if Tourette's syndrome is to be considered as a sort of reaction against adaption to an unhealthy environment, this reaction and its continuity can be attributed to permanent CNS damage (Probably in the area of corpora striata) beginning in childhood. Treatment with haloperidol suggested as a most effective method of symptomatic treatment.
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Tourette Syndrome/drug therapy , Adult , Child , Female , Haloperidol/therapeutic use , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Tourette Syndrome/etiologyABSTRACT
The family characteristics of 100 Schizophrenic patients were compared with the family characteristics of 100 subjects recognized as normal. It was confirmed that the family disruptions amond the schizophrenics was significantly more than in the non-psychiatric group. This study could not find a family which could be specifically called as schizophrenic family, but what was found was a general defective and conflictive parent-child communication, but not a specific type of communication. Based on such findings, it was concluded that it is such dysfunction in parent-child communication which negatively affects the child's identification process, specifically when the child is going through the formative years of life. The influence of inadequate family atmosphere was also discussed in relation with few studies and it was inferred that such inappropriate family conditions are among other precipitating factors in the etiology of schizophrenia, becasue the of predisposing factors are regarded as dependent on genetic constitution.
