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I was amazed to stumble across a few case studies on YouTube of a doctor treating Tourette's by adjusting the resting position of the patient's jaw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLkPBUBmxDo

I assume there are different types of Tourette's with different causes and different treatments, but it was really amazing to see this link to the jaw.



That's super interesting.

I have no medical background at all, but I wonder if this could be related to the dopamine hypothesis of Tourette's. [1]

Bruxism and other mandibular issues can be associated with dopamine dysfunction. Normally I wouldn't think that the jaw could actually cause the problems, but perhaps there could be some kind of feedback loop there tied to dopamine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_and_origins_of_Tourette...




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