3.51 Short-Term Clinical Outcomes of Deep Brain Stimulation in Youths With Refractory Tourette's Disorder.

Tourette's disorder (TD) is characterized by multiple motor and one or more vocal tics. We retrospectively assessed the clinical outcomes of 8 patients with refractory TD who underwent DBS. All patients reported improvement in tic severity at 3 months after surgery, and mean YGTSS severity score was 32.38 (SD = 10.53; p = 0.012). [Extracted from the article]