Treating Tourette Syndrome with Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation

There are many ways to categorize violent inmates. One approach would include predators, impulsively violent inmates, and those with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). Predators plan their attacks while impulse-driven inmates just need an environmental cue (e.g., someone starts a fight, and they must join in). The violent inmate with Tourette syndrome (TS) is an example of the NDD inmate. The source of the violent artions and aggressive verbalizations of an inmate with TS are found in his NDD. These actions and verbalizations are not tended by the inmate, but instead result from sudden and temporary dysfunctions in the brain. Results from the present study demonstrated cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) to be an effective tool in treating the subject's TS symptoms. Based on self-assessments, the subject's reductions in symptomology were immediate, highly significant, and long-term.
Jail security staff carry the freight when dealing with mentally ill, physically violent, and verbally aggressive inmates. A review of the literature found that when all mental illnesses were considered, [...]