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Quincy, M.E.
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| Title: | Seldom Silent, Never Heard |
| Episode Number: | 96 |
| Season: | 6 |
| Season Episode #.: | 14 |
| Production Number: | 55336 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday March 04th, 1981 |
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Jeffrey Rosenthal falls from a building and ends up on Quincy's table. During the autopsy, a researcher named Arthur Ciotti asks for the boy's brain. It seems the Rosenthal suffered from the rare neurological disorder Tourette's Syndrome, and Ciotti hopes to learn from the boy's brain what causes the disease and how to cure it. It turns out Ciotti has a personal stake in the matter...
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| Since this episode, the occurrence of Tourette's Syndrome has been revised upwards so that it is, while not common, not particularly rare, either. Incidence is somewhere around 1/10th of a percent. Its most widely publicized symptom, screaming or yelling curses or other socially inappropriate words, is present in relatively few patients. Often the symptoms disappear as a child matures. The cause remains unknown.
| Diseases that affect very small populations (typically 200,000 or fewer) are called orphan diseases. Put simply, drug companies do not wish to research such disorders because a return on investment is unlikely. There is, therefore, a movement to earmark public money for such research. But the small number of sufferers again works against them, as it limits the number of people with a serious interest in therapy. Most people have never even heard of most of these diseases. Exceptions include disorders that have outré symptoms or extremely famous sufferers (as when actor Dudley Moore passed away and most people heard of progressive supranuclear palsy for the first and last time).
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