Tic Disorders
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Tics are sudden twitches, movements, or sounds that people do repeatedly. People who have tics cannot stop their body from doing these things. For example, a person with a motor tic might keep blinking over and over again. Or, a person with a vocal tic might make a grunting sound unwillingly.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: 54-Tic Disorders
Diagnosis: categorized by type (motor or phonic) and duration (sudden, rapid, nonrhythmic movements)
US Patients:
World Patients: 1% usually before puberty
Sex Ratio:
Age Onset: 20% of children experience tics between ages 5 and12.
Brain Area:
Symptoms: Tourette’s Syndrome is the most widely known and is chronic.
Progression:
Causes: May be caused by medications or illicit drugs.
Medications:
Therapies:
Youtube Video: Children and Tics
Youtube Video:
Tics, Stress and Mental Health
Amazon or Library Book: Tic Disorders
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Support Group: tourette.org; 888-486-8738 (Tourette Association)
Contact your local Social Security office for possible Disability Benefits through their Disability Determination Service,
Section 12.11.
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and gut microbiota composition: what do we know?by Veronica Maria Tagi on January 21, 2025
Post-streptococcal autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders (PANDAS) are a group of pathological condition characterized by sudden-onset obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders following beta-hemolytic Streptococcus group A (GAS) infection, hypothesized to be caused by autoimmune mechanisms targeting the basal ganglia. Scant literature is available regarding the microbiota composition in children with PANDAS, however few studies support the hypothesis that streptococcal infections may alter gut...
- Health Care Providers' Attitudes and Knowledge Related to Tic Disorder Identification and Treatmentby Kim Newsome on January 17, 2025
CONCLUSION: These findings support previous reports indicating challenges in health care provider comfort and knowledge in identifying and diagnosing tic disorders, and the need for more education opportunities around evaluation and diagnosis. Communication and training to support the needs of child-serving providers could improve the access to care for children with tics and tic disorders.
- Structural and functional alterations in the brain gray matter among Tourette syndrome patients: a multimodal meta-analysis of fMRI and VBM studiesby Yue Yang on January 15, 2025
CONCLUSION: Abnormal alterations in the structure and function of the brain regions may play a role in the pathogenesis of TS in patients, and may be used as an imaging indicator for patients with TS to be diagnosed.
- Sex Differences in Natural History and Health Outcomes Among Individuals With Tic Disordersby Marisela E Dy-Hollins on January 15, 2025
OBJECTIVES: To analyze sex differences in outcomes in Tourette syndrome (TS) and Persistent Motor or Vocal tic disorders (PMVT) in the Tourette Association of America International Consortium for Genetics (TAAICG) dataset.