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Eating Disorders and Tourette Syndrome: A Case Series of Comorbidity and Associated Obsessive-Compulsive Symptomatology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Angela S. Guarda ,
Janet Treasure  and
Mary M. Robertson
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Abstract

There is a well-established overlap in phenomenology between anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and Tourette syndrome (TS). Five cases of eating disorders in patients with obsessive-compulsive symptoms and TS are presented. The identification of four similar cases in the literature putatively marks a subset of eating disorders with a link to TS and to obsessive-compulsive symptomatology. This association may reflect a common underlying neurobiologic imbalance.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 4 , Issue 2: Tourette Syndrome: Part One , February 1999 , pp. 77 - 80, 86
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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