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.
- Gilles de la Tourette syndrome as a rare co-morbidity of Klinefelter syndromeby Andrea E Cavanna on May 7, 2024
BACKGROUND: Klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY) is the most common sex chromosome aneuploidy. In addition to male hypergonadotropic hypogonadism, a wide range of neurodevelopmental disorders, anxiety and affective symptoms have been reported in a substantial proportion of cases.
- Internet-Delivered Exposure and Response Prevention for Pediatric Tourette Syndrome: 12-Month Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trialby Per Andrén on May 3, 2024
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: There were no statistically significant changes in tic severity from the 3-month through to the 12-month follow-up in either group. The ERP intervention was not superior to psychoeducation at any time point. While ERP was not superior to psychoeducation alone in reducing tic severity at the end of the follow-up period, ERP is recommended for clinical implementation due to its likely cost-effectiveness and support from previous literature.
- Syrian child carrying multiple pathogenic variants in MBOAT7 and MT-TS1 genes: a case report on neurodevelopmental phenotypes and mitochondrial inheritanceby Alyamama Kousa on May 2, 2024
CONCLUSION: The presence of the MBOAT7 and MT-TS1 gene variants in the same child is noteworthy. The authors must keep genetic mutations of MBOAT7 and MT-TS1 gene in mind as a differential diagnosis for intellectual disability, seizures and autistic features in children, especially in consanguineous families.
- Clonidine Patch for Tourette Syndrome With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorderby Yanhui Chen on May 2, 2024
CONCLUSION: Clonidine adhesive patch could safely and effectively reduce the tic symptoms of TS patients with comorbid ADHD, and might be potentially helpful in the ADHD symptoms control.