What Really Made Mozart Tic

According to a new documentary, Mozart may have suffered from Tourette’s Syndrome. Researchers believe that the composer “self-medicated” his condition with his music, able to control his tics so long as he was absorbed in his art. The documentary highlights Mozart’s “inability to rein in impulses, the sudden boredom, his sense of mischief and his scatalogical obsession, which all point to Tourette’s.”