Sentence examples for To tic from inspiring English sources

Subjects rated their urges to tic during three conditions: baseline during which they freely ticced, reinforced tic suppression and reinforced tic suppression with escape.

I am tired of myself, it seems: tired of my thoughts, associations, syntax, various verbal habits that have gone from discovery to technique to tic.

He added: "I think it would be weird if I woke up one morning and there was no urge to tic or clear my throat.

Using a multi-element design, the siblings were exposed to tic related conversation that was directed toward each sibling individually and with both siblings.

Individuals describe the need to tic as a buildup of tension, pressure, or energy which they consciously choose to release, as if they "had to do it" to relieve the sensation or until it feels "just right".

For young people, managing the urge to tic was an important outcome of treatment.

For the past 12 years, Mr. Alessio, 44, of Huntingtont, had a booth where he made and sold ancient board games like rota, the Roman circular precursor to tic-tac-toe "It was a way to leave modern life and retreat into another world that was friendlier in a way, fun-oriented," said Mr. Alessio.

The present study was designed to improve on some of the earlier methods and to compare subjects with TS/CTD to tic-free controls, with the goal of quantifying the extent to which sensory hypersensitivity in patients with TS/CTD affects sustained attention.

An alternating treatment design was used to compare three conditions, free-to-tic baseline (BL), reinforced tic suppression (SUP) and reinforced tic suppression plus a distraction task (SUP + DIS).

Using an ABAB reversal design, tic frequency and subjective premonitory urge ratings were recorded under conditions of free-to-tic baseline (BL) and reinforced tic suppression (differential reinforcement of zero-rate behavior).

Ten youth with TS between the ages of 9 and 17 were exposed to four conditions in random sequence: free-to-tic baseline (BL), reinforced tic suppression (SUP), reinforced tic suppression plus a stress induction task (SUP + STRESS), and a stress induction task alone (STRESS).