Around 15 percent of all children have tics, and up to one percent of these children have tics that are classified as chronic. In the case of Tourette's syndrome, tics continue for more than a year ...

Believe it or not, eye rolling isn’t always a sign of disrespect. It’s one of the most common tics that children can develop. Other common tics are blinking, coughing and throat clearing. “A tic is an ...

Usually when Dr. Joseph Pinter sees young patients with tics, it's the parents who are most bothered. A 4 or 5-year-old who's blinking his eyes excessively or rolling her eyes every few seconds may ...

Tics are sudden, uncontrollable, spastic movements or verbal outbursts. These movements or vocalizations are repetitive, do not follow a rhythm, and are generally involuntary. Persistent motor or ...

Tics are abnormal, undesired spastic movements or vocalizations. These movements or vocalizations are repetitive, do not follow a rhythm, and are generally involuntary. Persistent motor or vocal tic ...

A new Yale study successfully trained a group of adolescents with Tourette’s syndrome to control their tics using functional magnetic resonance imaging. This marks the first time that fMRI— a ...

My nine-year-old’s record for clearing her throat is 33 times in one minute. I counted. It’s a noise so distracting sometimes you can’t really do anything else but count how many times it happens.

Experts have confirmed it: Tics are not a rare or uncommon disorder. It is the second study to be conducted in Spain to date revealing that the prevalence of these motor disorders in the child ...

The basal ganglia portions of cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) circuits have consistently been implicated in the pathogenesis of Tourette syndrome, whereas motor and sensorimotor cortices in ...

Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics, which can contribute to anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Researchers in Japan have developed a removable ...