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Tics can be differentiated from other hyperkinetic movement disorders by the possibility of their temporary voluntary suppression.
It has been suggested that the voluntary suppression of actions can be distinguished from externally instructed stopping of actions [9], [10].
We suspect a relationship between the functional involvement of dmPFC in the voluntary suppression of actions and the increases in grey matter volume in dmPFC related to the habitual use of expressive suppression strategies.
Based on our previous research on the voluntary suppression of actions we expected this response-focused emotion regulation strategy to be associated with increased grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC).
It is known that voluntary suppression of defecation delays gastric emptying in healthy subjects [ 22].
This strategy is used to reduce the effects of voluntary suppression or conditioned responses in subjects who would otherwise be anticipating progressively higher concentrations of tussive agent [ 16].
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Voluntary cough suppression does not appear to be the primary mechanism of effect since we saw the effect of the speech language pathology program on cough threshold during the treatment programme.
Thus, while voluntary inhibition of affect might effectively inhibit the amygdala and its efferents, involuntary 'passive' suppression of affect might mainly attenuate activity in cortical regions representing affective somatic responses.
Additionally, previous and actual medication as well as short- and long-term compensatory mechanisms due to voluntary tic-suppression might have confounded previous findings on response inhibition performance in TS.
Later, using functional brain imaging, Stuart Mazzone and others described distinct neural activation pathways relating to the network components that control voluntary cough, cough suppression and the urge-to-cough [ 23].
Inhibition activates in automatic (e.g. lateral inhibition: if a particular representation accumulates more evidences, that will suppress its fellow representations) and voluntary (e.g. suppression of an irrelevant response, stimulus or memory; in intentionally) manners.
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