Tic disorder is when individuals unconsciously repeat certain behaviors, including sudden movements of body parts (muscle tics) or uttering words irrelevant to the situation (vocal tics).
The pathogenesis of vocal and motor tics in Tourette syndrome is thought to involve anatomical and functional disturbances in cortico-striato-thalamocortical circuits. Previous studies have found ...
Misunderstanding of the nature and possible causes of tics, their association with other disorders and particularly with stress, and the current media attention focused on TS often confuse both ...