Complex tics might include jumping, smelling objects, touching the nose, touching other people, coprolalia, echolalia, or self-harming behaviors. |
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Well, that's the most commonly recognised form of Tourette's, which is called coprolalia. |
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A child with coprolalia may blurt out insults, racial slurs or obscenities. |
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Yet just a small minority of people have coprolalia, and I am not among them. |
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The swearing tic that epitomises Tourette's in the public eye is known as coprolalia. |
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Moreover, coprolalia, or the tendency of persons to blurt out socially inappropriate or taboo expressions, is not a requirement of a Tourette's Syndrome diagnosis. |
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This behavior belongs to a rare form of TS called coprolalia that affects only a small percentage of Tourette's patients. |
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Botulinum toxin injection into vocal cord in the treatment of malignant coprolalia associated with Tourette's syndrome. |
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Actually, the majority of Tourette's patients don't have coprolalia, although a significant proportion do, estimated at between 25 per and 50 per cent. |
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