Tourette's disease with impulse control disorder.

Indian J Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, Punjab, India.

Published: January 2011

We report a case of Tourette's disease (TD) with impulse control disorder which is rare;these type of patients are prone to rage attack and explosive outbursts in the childhood and adolescence which can be detrimental. Hence, a case is reported to understand the phenomenology of its co-morbidity in TD.

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