caa a22 4500 388095156 CHVBK 20180307125302.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S109285290000078X doi S109285290000078X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S109285290000078X Fuerst Mark L. An Interview with Jim Eisenreich [Elektronische Daten] [Mark L. Fuerst] Seventeen years after professional baseball player Jim Eisenreich first developed symptoms of Tourette syndrome (TS), the correct diagnosis was finally made. At age 6, his rapid eye blinking led to a diagnosis of hyperactivity. "I was told I would grow out of it,” says the 39-year-old Eisenreich, who may have played his last game as a Los Angeles Dodger. "I knew I was different even then.” In the early 1980s, Eisenreich's condition first became public. Since then, his achievements as a professional athlete have made him a role model for other TS patients. Sports were always a haven for him as he grew up. "I found peace, comfort, and security in sports. Whatever the season, I played the sport—football, baseball, hockey,” says Eisenreich. "Socially, I didn't go to the movies or go out much with girls.” After 2 years in the minor leagues, he was called up by the Minnesota Twins in 1982 as an outfielder. During the season, a TS specialist recognized his grunting and sniffling as signs of the disease. "I had no idea what the specialist was talking about, and the Twins doctors dismissed it because I didn't have copralalia,” he says. The Twins team physician (an internist) prescribed a sedative. Then Eisenreich tried Inderal, which caused hyperventilation, and Catapres, which caused depression. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 CNS Spectrums Cambridge University Press 4/3(1999-03), 18-20 1092-8529 4:3<18 1999 4 CNS https://doi.org/10.1017/S109285290000078X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S109285290000078X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fuerst Mark L. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- CNS Spectrums Cambridge University Press 4/3(1999-03), 18-20 1092-8529 4:3<18 1999 4 CNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge