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Ganser, in 1897, described a syndrome that the main symptoms were: Impaired consciousness, distorted communication (Maladjusted answers, looking like dementia nonsense). This syndrome was first included to hysteria. Gradually, the most striking aspect, approximate answers, has been stretch as regards to his pathogeny, to other concepts like post-traumatic disease, depression and especially schizophrenia. In this way, the Ganser's syndrome now cover a large scale of troubles related to perturbation of communication and with non psychopathologic relation to the primitive syndrome.
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PMID:[The Ganser syndrome and its ups and downs]. 267 90

This is a case report of a 15-year-old visually impaired, mentally retarded male who presents with symptoms consistent with Tourette Syndrome, a Syndrome of approximate answers (Ganser's Syndrome) and Atypical Pervasive Developmental Disorder. The authors feel that this follow-up on the case presented earlier by Parraga and Butterfield raises the possibility of a link between a number of the symptoms of adult schizophrenia, appearing in attenuated form in these two cases, and Tourette Syndrome.
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PMID:Tourette syndrome, atypical pervasive developmental disorder and Ganser syndrome in a 15-year-old, visually impaired, mentally retarded boy. 385 81