Recent advances in the understanding of Tourette Syndrome and Asperger's Syndrome are reviewed. Reports of the co-occurrence of these two uncommon neuropsychological disorders pose a number of questions, the answers to which are likely to have implications for other conditions at the interface of psychiatry and neurology.
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