Who coined the term Tourette?

Tourette was a student of Charcot

Who coined the name/eponym Tourette syndrome?

Jean-Martin Charcot, widely considered the founder of modern clinical neurology, coined the name/eponym TS.  

Charcot coined the eponym Tourette after his student

Charcot’s student Georges Albert Gilles de la Tourette provided a description in 1885 of nine patients suffering from a ‘malady of tics’. TS had however been previously been described in cases that were reported by Seprenger and Heinrich in 1498, by Itard in 18252, by Trousseau in 1868-1873 and by Hughlings Jackson in 1884.

Tourette actually recognized the hereditary nature of the syndrome, though in the 100+ years since his description, it has been commonly mischaracterized by some practitioners as a psychogenic disorder.

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