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Children with Tourette's quicker at certain mental grammar skills

Children with Tourette's syndrome may have to put up with some unwanted movement and verbal tics, but neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, have found that they are much quicker at processing certain mental grammar skills than are children without the disorder.

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