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Science 1 October 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5437, pp. 56 - 57
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5437.56
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NEUROSCIENCE:
What Makes One Tic?

A review by Julio Licinio

A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome
Howard I. Kushner
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 319 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-18022-4.

Kushner blends a detailed description of Tourette's syndrome with an insightful account of how changes in medical (and cultural) views have altered the characterization and treatment of the illness.
The author is in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1761, USA. E-mail: licinio{at}ucla.edu

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