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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

People with Tourette syndrome or chronic tic disorder were more likely than others to be violently assaulted or convicted of a crime, a cohort study in Sweden showed. Compared with the general ...

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 ...

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.