DANVERS — The state Department of Public Health found no environmental factors contributed to an outbreak of vocal tics and repetitive hiccups in a reported 19 students at the former Essex ...

Tourette syndrome is a relatively common and complex neurobehavioral disorder characterized by motor and vocal (phonic) tics. Tics are abrupt, rapid, brief, repetitive behaviors that may resemble ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: A reader wrote to you concerning a cough he had had for 10 years. During that time, he had seen many physicians and taken many medicines, to no avail. You were able to identify that ...

Contrary to intuition, people who suffer from the motor and vocal tics characteristic of Tourette syndrome actually perform behavioral tests of cognitive motor control more accurately and quickly than ...

London, Nov 16 (IANS) British clinicians have reported a surge in cases of extreme tic disorder — a sudden upsurge of physical and vocal convulsions — among teenagers, particularly girls, the media ...

Tourette syndrome is a neurological condition affecting the brain and nervous system. The condition normally develops in childhood and is characterized by involuntary movements and utterances called ...