Caudate Volumes in Childhood Predict Severity of Tourette Syndrome in Early Adulthood

Abstract

Basal ganglia volumes of 43 children with Tourette syndrome (TS) were measured on MRI before age 14 years, and clinical assessment conducted after age 16, an average of 7.5 years later, at Yale University, New Haven, CT, and Columbia University. New York.

Keywords

• tourette syndrome
• caudate morphological pathology
• caudate nucleus volumes