High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette`s syndrome, Tourette`s disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or, more commonly, simply Tourette`s or TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane. Tourette`s is defined as part of a spectrum of tic disorders, which includes transient and chronic tics.