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Just because a person has severe facial tics, does that mean they have tourrettes as well?
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Tourette's: Tourette's is a syndrome that may include facial tics, but also includes other motor and vocal tics. Facial tics, alone, do not constitute tourette's.
Answered 5/28/2015
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