Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric developmental disorder characterized by rapid, recurrent, non-rhythmic movements (motor tics) and vocalizations (vocal tics) [ 1].
Ms. Zwilling has put together presentations to teach youngsters from elementary school to high school about Tourette's syndrome, an often misunderstood disorder characterized by involuntary sudden movements and vocalizations called tics.
At the same meeting, McCairn and colleagues presented a non-human primate model that included a variety of movements and vocalizations, including tics with reasonable face validity.
These urges and sensations, preceding the expression of the movement or vocalization as a tic, are referred to as "premonitory sensory phenomena" or premonitory urges.
Tourette syndrome is typified by multiple tics and involuntary vocalization, which sometimes includes the uttering of obscenities.
Tourette syndrome, rare inherited neurological disorder characterized by recurrent motor and phonic tics (involuntary muscle spasms and vocalizations).
The English author Samuel Johnson may have suffered from a form of the disorder, based on contemporary descriptions of his facial tics and of the strange vocalizations interrupting his normal speech.
The patient may have tics (involuntary but quasi-purposeful movements or vocalizations) which may be a symptom of Tourette's syndrome.
Tics are repeated, usually suppressible movements or vocalizations.
Tics are repetitive, stereotyped, suppressible movements or vocalizations that may include blinking, abdominal tensing, sniffing, or throat clearing.
The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) defines tics as sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movements or vocalizations.
