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The petition, set up before Cameron made his comment, complains that the term "Tourette's" is often used humorously to describe any apparent inability to control sounds and movements.
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The petition, set up before Mr Cameron made his comment, complains that the term "Tourette's" is often used humorously to describe any apparent inability to control sounds and movements.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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David Cameron has apologised after making a comment about Ed Balls in which he referred to Tourette's syndrome.
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Those monolithic 'experts' faded away with the scientific study of what we know as Tourette Syndrome.
Gary R. Gaffney: There is Gravity in Yankee Stadium: Effects and Side Effects of Anabolic Steroids 2008
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Brooks married author Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-loup, France, in 1984.
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He was soon found to suffer from the baffling syndrome known as Tourette's, as well as obsessive compulsive disorder.
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Now it turns out that most tics are simple tics meaning you just have eye blinking or throat clearing but occasionally multiple tics occur involving vocalizations, sounds, movements, a condition we call Tourette's Syndrome but that's quite rare.
WCAX - Local News 2009
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The neurological disorder known as Tourette's Syndrome, which you might have thought of as an adult disease, can strike when kids are just toddlers.
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A few of you might know I have a condition called Tourette syndrome that has led to neurological tics and - unfortunately - chronic and occasionally excruciating pain in my head and my neck.
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Some people, however, have a combination of both, a disorder known as Tourette's syndrome.
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