Multidisciplinary Telemedicine Care for Tourette Syndrome: Minireview

Frontiers in Neurology

Fan-gang Meng¹  Kai-liang Wang²  Jian-guo Zhang²  Qiao Wang²  Wissam Deeb³  Shan-shan Cen⁴  Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora⁵  Jun Yu⁵  Wei Hu⁵  Irene Malaty⁵  Aparna Wagle Shukla⁵ 

[1] Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, China;Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China;Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, United States;Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China;Program in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration, Department of Neurology, Fixel Institution for Neurological Diseases, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States;

关键词: Tourette syndrome;    telemedicine;    movement disorder;    CBIT;    tics;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fneur.2020.573576

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a childhood-onset, chronic neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics. TS poses a considerable burden on both patients and health care providers, leading to a major detriment of educational success, occupation, and interpersonal relationships. A multidisciplinary, specialist-driven management approach is required due to the complexity of TS. However, access to such specialty care is often dramatically limited by the patients' locations and the specialists' geographic clustering in large urban centers. Telemedicine uses electronic information and communication technology to provide and support health care when distance separates participants. Therefore, we conducted this mini-review to describe the latest information on telemedicine in the assessment and management of TS and discuss the potential contributions to care for TS patients with a multidisciplinary approach. We believe that telemedicine could be a revolutionary method in improving medical access to patients with TS.

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