While reading the chapter Witty Ticcy Ray about Tourette’s in Oliver Sacks’ book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, I discovered an amazing list of things I didn’t know:
- Tourette was a student of Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of modern neurology
- Freud was also a student of Charcot
- Freud named one of his children Jean-Martin, after Charcot
- Charcot was the first to describe ALS and multiple sclerosis
- Oliver Sacks also wrote the book Awakenings, which a movie was based on
- In the movie, Robert DeNiro played Leonard (I had forgotten about this)
- There has been research into the grammar and linguistic structure of tics
- L-Dopa is a dopamine-precursor, and Haldol is a dopamine antagonist
