Improvement of symptoms in Tourette syndrome by piquindone, a novel dopamine-2 receptor antagonist.

We have hypothesized that symptoms of Tourette Syndrome (TS) may represent D2 (dopamine-2) receptor hyperactivity. We treated 4 TS patients with piquindone, a novel D2 receptor antagonist designed via a 3-dimensional model of dopamine receptors. All 4 patients experienced a clinically obvious reduct