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To summarize:
- Tourette syndrome is considered a disorder of childhood because the average age of onset occurs before the individual is eight years-old. The most common symptoms of this disorder are facial tics and vocal tics.
- Insulin shock therapy involves giving increasing amounts of insulin (a hormone used to regulate blood glucose levels) to a patient daily until the patient goes into hypoglycemic coma. The coma is caused by an acute lack of glucose in the blood.
- A prefrontal lobotomy was once believed to be the treatment for schizophrenia.
- Autism is characterized by difficulties with communication, problems with social interaction, and the repetition of motor actions such as rocking back and forth. Symptoms can be characterized in the area of communication, social interaction and motion.
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition characterized by an unusually short attention span, problems with impulsivity and/or hyperactivity, and heightened distractibility.
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