Leon, Jill
Hommer, Rebecca http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1901-8836
Grant, Paul
Farmer, Cristan
D’Souza, Precilla
Kessler, Riley
Williams, Kyle
Leckman, James F.
Swedo, Susan
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Mental Health
Grifols Laboratories
National Institutes of Health Bench to Bedside Program
Article History
Received: 14 March 2017
Accepted: 28 October 2017
First Online: 8 November 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Leckman has received grant or research support from the National Institutes of Health, the UBS Optimus Foundation, and the Open Road Alliance. He has served on the advisory boards/DSMB of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Fondazione Child, the European Muilticentre Tics in Children Studies, and How I Decide. He has authored the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) assessment tool, which is open access. He has received honoraria from the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome and the Brazilian Psychiatric Association. He has received royalties from John Wiley and Sons, McGraw Hill, and Oxford University Press. He has received travel expenses from the University of Illinois Chicago, Cornell Weill Medical College, the Medical University of South Carolina, Rutgers University, the British Academy, and the Brazilian Psychiatric Association. He has received additional support from Anne Çocuk Eğitim Vakfi (AÇEV; Mother Child Education Foundation) and private donors. Drs. Williams, Swedo, Farmer, Grant, Hommer, and Mss. Leon, D’Souza, and Kessler report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.
: All research was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards described by the Declaration of Helsinki and according to standards established by the National Institute of Health’s Combined NeuroScience Institutional Review Board. All participants gave assent and their parent or guardian provided informed consent prior to study participation.