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  • The clock is tic-ing for Tourette’s syndrome

    The clock is tic-ing for Tourette’s syndrome

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    Tourette Syndrome, or simply Tourette’s, has historically captured the public eye, and ear, by being simply too bizarre to ignore. It causes sufferers to perform ‘tics’ – brief involuntary actions such as arm movements and fragments of speech. Notoriously, the vocal tics can sometimes be socially inappropriate,  e.g. swear words, horrific obscenities or comments on…