• What is TS  - Definition, description of symptoms (tics), and historical background
  
  
• Frequently Asked Questions
  
  
• Fact Sheet - a one page docment in "pdf" format
  
  
• Glossary of Terms
  
  
• For more Medical information, view some of the material below, particularly the "Ask the MAB" articles from our newsletter
  
  
• New diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome? (look for our video webstream, featuring Dr. John Walkup)
  
  
• You will find material for children and adults in this site's "people with ts" section
  
  
• Our online store has many publications and videos for professionals and families (including a DVD of the award-winning HBO special, "I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me")
  
  

• TSA'S APRIL 2008 NATIONAL CONFERENCE - Medical, Research current information, updates. Click here.
  
  
• Scientific & Clinical Textbook on Tourette Syndrome edited by TSA MAB Chair, John T. Walkup, MD, and TSA SAB Co- Chairs, Jonathan W. Mink, MD, PhD and Peter J. Hollenbeck, PhD - based on proceedings of TSA's 2004 4th Intl Symposium in Cleveland.  Volume 99 of the prestigious series, Advances in Neurology. available at 25% discount to TSA members(click here to read publisher's flyer).
  
  
• Genetic Breakthrough Yields Clue to Tourette Syndrome - Click here to read TSA Press Release
  
  
• CDC/ TSA Partnership Offers Free Medical Education Programs - Venues Needed-Medical Centers/Hospitals/Professional Organizations are Urged to Apply - click here for details  
  
  
• Tourette Syndrome Association Statement on Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) - click here to read
  

• "Tic Tactic" - article from Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Kennedy Krieger Institute publication, "Brain Waves," Fall 2004 issue, Volume 16, No. 4 Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics ("CBIT") - NIH-funded study of behavioral approach to chronic tics.  Click here to view article.  For further information regarding this study, contact TSA at 718-224-2999, ext.247.
  
  
• Tic Disorders Including Tourette Syndrome - a Handout for Patients, Parents, Friends, Relatives and Teachers - Cheston M. Berlin, Jr., M.D., University Professor of Pediatrics, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (view in Adobe Acrobat™ format)
  
  
• Diagnosis and Treatment (Introduction)
  
  
• MEDICATIONS AND TOURETTE’S DISORDER:
  COMBINED PHARMACOTHERAPY AND DRUG INTERACTIONS
  Barbara Coffey, M.D., Cheston Berlin, M.D., Alan Naarden, M.D.   (Adobe Acrobat™ format)
  
  
• "Making Sense of Tourette's" - Science Magazine's September 2004 Article features Dr. Peter Hollenbeck, member of TSA's Scientific Advisory Board (Adobe Acrobat™ format)
   
• TSA Medical Letters - Summaries of Recent Literature
  
  
• Definitions and Classification of Tic Disorders
  (Archives of Neurology, October 1993)
   
• Ask the MAB - the TSA Medical Advisory Board answers questions - from our newsletter
  
  
• Ask the Expert - Selected Articles from TSA's newsletters by Medical Practitioners, Social Workers and Allied Professionals
  
  
• Health Insurance Info on TS/OCD/ADHD
  
  

PowerPoint™ Presentations from prior TSA Conferences/Scientific Symposium

• Research Update
  (2006 TSA National Conference) Peter J. Hollenbeck, Ph. D., and Jonathan W. Mink, M.D., Co-Chairmen of the TSA Scientific Advisory Board (view in Adobe Acrobat Reader™ format)
  
  
• Comorbid Disorders in Tourette Syndrome
  (2006 TSA National Conference) - Cathly L. Budman, M.D., North Shore-LIJ Health System, N.Y.U. School of Medicine (view in Adobe Acrobat Reader™ format)
  
  
• Impulse-Control Disorders in Tourette Syndrome
  (2006 National Conference) - Cathy L. Budman, M.D., NYU School of Medicine, Katie Kompoliti, M.D., Rush Medical Center
  (view in Adobe Acrobat Reader™ format)
  
  
• Tourette Syndrome and Complementary & Alternative Medicine
  (2006 TSA National Conference) - Samuel H. Zinner, M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine (view in Adobe Acrobat Reader™ format)
  
  
• TS and Related Conditions: Behavioral Approaches to Treatment
  (2006 TSA National Conference) - Michael B. Himle, M.S., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (view in Adobe Acrobat Reader™ format)
  
  
• Update on the Genetics of Tourette Syndrome
  (2006 TSA National Conference) - Carol A. Mathews, M.D., University of California at San Diego (view in Adobe Acrobat Reader™ format)
  
  
• Behavioral Therapy: Habit Reversal
  (4th International TSA Scientific Symposium) - John Piacentini, Ph.D., Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (view in Adobe Acrobat™ format)
  
  
• PANDAS: Is It Important?
  (4th International TSA Scientific Symposium) - Harvey S. Singer, M.D., Haller Professor of Pediatric Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (view in Adobe Acrobat™ format)
  
  
• Phenomenology and Natural History of Tourette's Syndrome: The self under Siege
  (2004 TSA National Conference) - James Leckman, M.D., Yale Child Study Center (view in Adobe Acrobat™ format)
  

• "Tourette syndrome---much more than tics" -  by Samuel H. Zinner, M.D., member of TSA's Medical Advisory Board, two-part article from Contemporary Pediatrics, August 2004, Vol.21,No.8:(view both in Adobe Acrobat™ format)
  
   First of 2 parts:
            Moving beyond misconceptions to a diagnosis
  
   Second of 2 parts:
           Management tailored to the entire patient