This informational guide, part of POPSUGAR's Condition Center, lays out the realities of this health concern: what it is, what it can look like, and strategies that medical experts say are proven to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Everyone copes with anxiety differently. But amid the extra stressors of the pandemic, doctors across the country are seeing a rise in patients coming to them for tic disorders, or ...

Tics take the form of abnormal, repetitive, and unintentional movements or vocalizations that do not follow any rhythm or pattern. Provisional tic disorder, previously known as transient tic disorder, ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Neurologists at Vanderbilt Health sound the alarm about functional tic disorder presenting mostly in female patients between 13 and 18 years old three to four times more than ...

PHILADELPHIA — The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has released a new guideline on the management of Tourette Syndrome and other chronic tic disorders. The guideline and the systematic review of ...

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.

One out of four students in special-education classes has a tic-related disorder like Tourette syndrome, and the rate of Tourette’s among students in the general population is 50 to 75 times higher ...

July 25, 2002 — Desipramine was well tolerated and effective in reducing symptoms in children with both chronic tic disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the ...

Billie Eilish has Tourette's syndrome, a brain disorder characterized by repetitive and involuntary sounds and motions. The singer spoke about her tics in a recent interview with David Letterman. She ...

People with Tourette's disorder or chronic tic disorder are over four times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry. Dr. David ...