Congratulations to

Michael Lim from the University of Manchester Medical School

for the winning essay Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infection (PANDAS): A Distinct Subset of Tourette Syndrome?

His prize will be presented at Tourettes Action Research Network (TARN) meeting on the 2 July 2010.

To download the essay please click here.

For further information regarding the prize please click here

To download additional essays that were submitted for this prize, just click on the titles:

Abiodun Bamidele - Evidences in support for Tourette's Syndrome as an Autoimmune Disease - The PANDAS hypothesis

Leslie Cheng - Tourette’s Syndrome: What more do we know?

Claire Coles - Tourette’s – ‘What makes it tic’

Madeleine Frank - A review of the behavioural treatments for Tourette syndrome

Christiana Hadjidemetriou - Living with Tourette’s-A patient’s perspective

Benjamin Hunter - Social Dysfunction in Tourette’s Syndrome: Challenging the Stigma

Samuel Moody - Tourette’s: A ticcing, talking Human?

Charlotte Patterson - Treatment and Management of Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome: Thinking outside the pharmacological box