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Conference on Natural Treatments for Tics, OCD, and Depression in Dallas/ Fort Worth, Texas

tourette conference

Professionals, physicians, and families are all welcome to attend the conference on Natural Treatments for Tourette Syndrome, Tics, OCD, and Depression sponsored by the Association for Comprehensive NeuroTherapy (ACN). It will be held May 23-24 and folks who register by March 1 will receive a discount for early registry.

ACN is a nonprofit organization that explores advanced and alternative treatments for anxiety, autism, ADHD, depression, OCD, tics, Tourette syndrome, and learning disabilities. Participants can expect to learn about successful treatment programs and approaches. Speakers will discuss biochemistry, environmental factors,  homeopathic therapies, the possible need to treat treating gastro-intestinal systems,  treating bacterial and viral infections, the use of special diets to alleviate symptoms, and nutritional supplement therapies. …continue reading »


Jonathan Friesen’s “Jerk California” – a novel about a teen with Tourette Syndrome

Jonathan Friesen

Jonathan Friesen

It has been a while since I have read a novel that has just stuck with me. Jonathan Friesen’s Jerk California with Penguin Group Publishers is such a novel. He masterfully created dynamic characters that I really cared about.

The story’s main character is a rural Minnesota boy named Sam Carrier, whom we meet in his senior year of high school. His tics have made him a social outcast by his peers and a source of pity by many adults. Surprisingly, his disability is not the focus of the story. Sam lives with an abusive step father and a mother that doesn’t know how to help him. Sam meets Naomi, a popular and very beautiful girl from a nearby school. He falls hard but only admires her from a distance until after graduation, when his whole world begins to change for the better.

Sam and Naomi are just teenage kids, but they are conflicted, intelligent, drawn toward each other even though they come from opposite ends of the social spectrum.  Sam is poor, suffers from Tourette Syndrome, and unpopular at school. Naomi is wealthy, beautiful, and popular. Their paths keep crossing until one day fate takes them on a journey of self discovery together. …continue reading »


Brad Cohen’s Book about Tourette Syndrome Becomes a Hallmark Movie

Front of the Class cast with Brad and Nancy Cohen

Front of the Class cast with Brad and Nancy Cohen

On the eve of Brad Cohen’s December 7, 2008 debut CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie about his life with Tourette Syndrome, I decided to purchase his 2005 book, co-written with Lisa Wysocky, entitled: Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had to get a sneak peek into the wonderfully inspiring story. …continue reading »


Can Natural Treatments help Alleviate a Chronic Multifocal Tic Disorder?

Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette  by Sheila RogersIf you have found yourself here after a Google search about “tics,” you may have already been to a doctor about a few chronic twitches or muscle spasms that won’t go away. After a consultation, you may have been given a diagnosis and possibly been disappointed too when you discovered that there is no known medical cure. If you are like us, and have a child diagnosed with a chronic multifocal tic disorder (tics in different locations on the body), you could have also been told by your doctor that medication, while available, does not come without side effects, and that the best treatment is to ignore the tics and carry on with your life, business as usual and hope that they fade over time.

This is basically what happened to us two years ago when we took our then almost 4-year-old son to a neurologist after he began to exhibit noticeable ticcing behaviors during the Christmas holidays. This is our story, and I attempt to tell it in hopes that other folks who find themselves reading this narrative may find a bit of usable knowledge and above all else, hope. …continue reading »


Scientists discover Celiac Disease Can be the Root Cause of most Neurological Disorders

Undiagnosed Gluten Intolerance may be Causing Your Symptoms

brainscan.jpgWe all know that celiac disease is a problem of the small intestine, but most of us are probably unaware that according to scientists, it could actually be the root cause of a whole host of neurological problems. Conditions from brain fog, to tingling and numbness sensations in your extremities, to developmental delays and learning disorders, autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis are connected to celiac disease. Even movement disorders like ataxia, and psychological issues from irritability or depression to schizophrenia can be associated with celiac disease, some scientists claim. …continue reading »