Tourette syndrome is a relatively common and complex neurobehavioral disorder characterized by motor and vocal (phonic) tics. Tics are abrupt, rapid, brief, repetitive behaviors that may resemble ...

I felt ridiculed, undermined, and — worst of all — newly self-conscious about a vocal tic of which I'd been erstwhile blissfully unaware. I'm not alone. Women are criticised every day for the ...

Tourette syndrome (TS), a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting up to 1% of the population, is characterized by motor and vocal tics, which are sudden, repetitive movements or sounds that can ...

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 ...

Its visible symptoms are what we call tics. They are motor and vocal tics; movements and sounds. “The thing we need to get across during Tourette Awareness week is that this is a neurological ...