Tourette Association of America

The TAA was founded in 1972 as the TSA by five couples, parents of children with Tourette syndrome including Bill and Eleanor Pearl,[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906EED91730F930A25757C0A96F958260 Paid Notice: Deaths, Pearl, Eleanor.] New York Times, April 13, 1999. Retrieved on February 28, 2008. along with psychiatrist Arthur K. Shapiro and his wife, Elaine.Pagewise, Inc. [http://ri.essortment.com/tourettesyndrom_rnkl.htm Tourette syndrome.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050208002108/http://ri.essortment.com/tourettesyndrom_rnkl.htm |date=2005-02-08 }} Retrieved on June 29, 2006.Kushner, HI. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9dQEB_MbhKEC A Cursing Brain?: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome.] Harvard University Press, 2000. pp. 176–186. {{ISBN|0-674-00386-1}}. In 2015, the organization's name was changed from TSA to TAA.[http://tourette.org/news/Awareness2015TOURETTEASSOC-PressRelease.html A new name.]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} Tourette Association America. Retrieved on February 15, 2015.

The TAA's mission is to identify the cause of, find the cure for and control the effects of Tourette syndrome. As of 2008, it had 35 US chapters, 300 support groups, and international contacts around the world.Tourette Syndrome Association. [http://www.tsa-usa.org/TSANatlLocal/about_tsa/about_tsa.html About TSA.] Retrieved on February 28, 2008.

The TSA was "the major driving force in scientific and clinical progress relevant to TS", using its resources to encourage research and scientific initiatives,Walkup, JT, Mink, JW, Hollenback, PJ, (eds). Advances in Neurology, Vol. 99, Tourette Syndrome. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2006. p. xv. and working tirelessly to promote information about TS.Cohen DJ, Jankovic J, Goetz CG, (eds). Advances in Neurology, Vol. 85, Tourette Syndrome. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2001, pp. xvii–xviii. It worked for recognition of Tourette syndrome as an organic disorder, lobbying the public, the government, and physicians. It is adept at winning grants and shaping media treatment of the condition. Since its inception, research spurred by the organization has grown in volume and sophistication, including controlled treatment studies and studies of pathophysiology and etiology.Black, KJ. [http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic664.htm Tourette Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders.] eMedicine (March 22, 2006). Retrieved on June 27, 2006. Many new research findings are the direct result of the organization's "active facilitation of large collaborative research consortia in genetics, neuro-imaging, clinical trials, and the behavioral sciences", and their "concerted effort to identify current research advances, disseminate them among the scientific and clinical communities, and establish networks of basic and clinical scientists from all over the world".

In 2005 HBO, in conjunction with the TSA, produced an Emmy Award-winning documentary film, I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me.

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