1043-3155 Pediatr Neurol Briefs pedneurbriefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs Pediatric Neurology Briefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs 2166-6482 1043-3155 2166-3155 Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers Chicago, IL, USA PNB-10-69-a 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-10-9-7 Tourette’s Syndrome and ADHD Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant Learning Disabilities and Tourette’s Syndrome http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7931 Millichap J. Gordon MD 1 2 * Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Correspondence: Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, E-mail: jgmillichap@northwestern.edu 09 1996 01 06 2016 10 9 69 69 Copyright: © 1996 The Author(s) 1996 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. School problems in Tourette’s syndrome

A retrospective study of 138 children with Tourette’s syndrome examined the contribution of neurobehavioral concomitant symptoms to academic difficulties in the Department of Neurology, and Division of Biostatistics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.

 Learning Disorder Tourette’s Syndrome School Problems

A retrospective study of 138 children with Tourette’s syndrome examined the contribution of neurobehavioral concomitant symptoms to academic difficulties in the Department of Neurology, and Division of Biostatistics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. A diagnosis of specific learning disorder (LD) was made in 30 (22%). Among 108 without a diagnosis of LD, 36 (33%) had school problems that included grade retention in 16 (15%) and/or special education placement in 41 (38%). The association of ADHD with TS was a significant predictor of school problems. [1]

COMMENT. Even when children with specific learning disabilities are excluded, TS is associated with academic problems in one third. Tics themselves were not the reason for the school problems, but rather the associated comorbid ADHD. These findings confirm those of the Johns Hopkins group of investigators, who found that children with TS + ADHD were at higher risk for a specific learning disability than those with TS alone (32% v 0%). [2]

For those readers interested in history, Lajonchere C et al, from Washington University, St Louis, MO, have published an English-language translation of an 1884 article by Gilles de la Tourette that led to his description of the Tourette syndrome published in 1885. [3]

Abwender DA Como PG Kurlan R Parry K Fett KA Cui L School problems in Tourette’s syndrome Arch Neurol 1996 Jun 53 6 509 11 8660152 10.1001/archneur.1996.00550060051016 Schuerholz LJ Baumgardner TL Singer HS Reiss AL Denckla MB Neuropsychological status of children with Tourette’s syndrome with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Neurology 1996 Apr 46 4 958 65 8780072 10.1212/WNL.46.4.958 Lajonchere C Nortz M Finger S Gilles de la Tourette and the discovery of Tourette syndrome. Includes a translation of his 1884 article Arch Neurol 1996 Jun 53 6 567 74 8660160 10.1001/archneur.1996.00550060111024