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 ...

COPENHAGEN — A novel machine-learning tool that can distinguish between tics in patients with tic disorders and non-tic movements in healthy controls could potentially save clinicians time and improve ...

MINNEAPOLIS – An increase in social media use among teens and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic may be linked to an increase in tic severity, according to a small, preliminary study released ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In youth with Tourette syndrome and other persistent tic disorders, treatment with behavioral therapy was linked ...

Facial tics are uncontrollable spasms in the face, such as rapid eye blinking or nose scrunching. They may also be called mimic spasms. Although facial tics are usually involuntary, they may be ...

Therapist-supported internet-based exposure and response therapy led to higher response rates and was cost effective for young persons with Tourette syndrome or chronic tic disorder compared with ...

The common symptom of tics for those living with Tourette syndrome can sometimes interrupt a person’s life, and for some, the condition also may come with other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric ...

For reasons that remain murky, new research warns that a spike in social media use during the pandemic might have worsened tic disorders in children. Tics are sudden twitches, movements or sounds that ...

NICE's medical technologies advisory committee considered evidence on digital therapy for chronic tic disorders and Tourette syndrome from several sources, including an early value assessment report ...

Tics are irregular, uncontrollable, and repetitive movements of muscles that can occur in any part of the body. Types of tic disorders include motor, vocal, and Tourette’s syndrome. Movements of the ...

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