When you're a kid, there are few things worst than being different from everyone else. So imagine growing up with a disease that can make you stand out, even if you don't want to. In the new HBO ...

Early results from a new study show a significant correlation between tic severity and social media use during the COVID pandemic in adolescents with a preexisting tic disorder. The findings should ...

Since the onset of the pandemic, specialists around the globe have seen a spike in young patients that have developed tics. And some have pointed to social media, particularly TikTok, as a factor.

Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that involves abnormal extra movements, or sounds that can be sudden and unwanted. In order to make the diagnosis of Tourette syndrome, these vocal and ...

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Teen refuses to accept psychological diagnosis for tics, blames Lyme disease. May 13, 2013— -- On Dec. 19, 2011, Lori Brownell, who was 17 at the time, shot a YouTube video of herself as she ...

Feb. 26 -- The lead author of a new study helps explain his recent research on children with tics and ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is probably the most common medical ...

Tourette syndrome is a neurological (nervous system) tic disorder. It causes people to make sudden movements or sounds they can’t control. These are called tics. For example, someone with Tourette's ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors have observed an increase in teen girls experiencing tics — or what appears to be verbal and motor tics. “Tics are sudden, repetitive, non-rhythmic ...

Chronic motor tic disorder is a condition that involves brief, uncontrollable, spasm-like movements or vocal outbursts (called phonic tics), but not both. If both a physical tic and vocal outburst are ...

Teenage girls across the globe have been showing up at doctors’ offices with tics—physical jerking movements and verbal outbursts—since the start of the pandemic. Movement-disorder doctors were ...

Children who had a first-degree relative with chronic tic disorder were no more likely to develop tics after exposure to group A Streptococcus (GAS), data from the European Multicenter Tics in ...