The location, frequency, complexity and gravity of the tics change over the course of time. The motive tics can affect any part of the body, including face, head, torso, upper and low extremities. The simple motive tics are rapid contractions, without meaning, of one or several muscles, like the blinking. But also more complex others can appear like touching, stooping, doubling the knees, passing backwards and doing drafts while it is traveled.

The vocal tics include different words or sounds, like chasqueos, croakings, howls, barking, olisqueos, snorts or coughs. The coprolalia, a complex vocal tic that contains the obscenities expression, happens in a small minority, by what it is not needed to diagnose this disorder.

Approximately in half of the individuals with this Tourette disorder, the first symptoms are usually simple tics, being the most frequent the blinking. With less frequency, the initial tics affect other parts of the face or of the body and can consist of facial grimaces, drafts of the head, esnifar, jump, clarify the gullet, pronounce sounds or words.

This Tourette disorder usually goes accompanied by obsessions and compulsions, hyperactivity, distraibilidad and impulsiveness. Often there is observed social discomfort, shame, excessive autoobservation, demoralization and sadness, which can interfere of form much series in the affective, social and labor life of the individual.

The vulnerability to the Tourette disorder seems to be of genetic character, nevertheless, in some individuals there is not demonstrated the existence of a familiar boss.