Altered synaptic plasticity in Tourette's syndrome and its relationship to motor skill learning.

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and phonic tics that can be considered motor responses to preceding inner urges. It has been shown that Tourette patients have inferior performance in some motor learning tasks and reduced synaptic plasticity induce...

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Main Authors: Valerie Cathérine Brandt, Eva Niessen, Christos Ganos, Ursula Kahl, Tobias Bäumer, Alexander Münchau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4039486?pdf=render