Tic disorders aren't well understood, but they're beginning to gain more recognition, in large part because more people — including celebrities like Billie Eilish — are speaking openly about ...

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 ...

Provisional tic disorder, previously known as transient tic disorder, is a motor disorder in which the person experiences seemingly involuntary motor and/or verbal tics for under one year. Tics ...

Tik Tok is in the spotlight once again, after researchers suggest a sudden increase in teen tics could be linked to the popular social media site. Health experts from Great Ormond Street Hospital ...

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 in October 2020.

Functional Tic Disorder — It's a condition neurologists say could be influenced by videos on social media, some of which are about tics and Tourette syndrome. "There's been an influx, a huge ...

Tardive dyskinesia can have similar characteristics to other movement disorders, such as Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders. But causes, symptoms, and treatments can differ.

The time-consuming task of differentiating tics from non-tic movements on videos of people with suspected tic disorders could soon be streamlined with a machine-learning tool, German scientists say.

Group A streptococcus (GAS) infection is not associated with new-onset tic disorders in at-risk children, findings from a large prospective study show. The results mean that if pre-teens present ...

A new study has found no link between a strep throat infection and the development of tics in children who have a parent or sibling with a chronic tic disorder. The research is published in the ...

Tic disorders are at least twice as common in boys as in girls. In recent years, a significant uptick of teenagers has experienced something like provisional tic disorder.