Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder. Tourette syndrome causes unwanted repetitive movements or sounds called tics. TS is more common in males than females. Simple tics are sudden, brief ...

Dr. Barbara Coffey, director of the Tics and Tourette’s Disorder Clinical and Research Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been ...

Baylen Dupree was about 7 years old when her parents noticed she had very simple motor tics — an early sign of Tourette syndrome — but they brushed it off because it didn't interfere with her everyday ...

Tics are classified as either simple or complex. Simple motor tics are sudden, brief, repetitive movements that involve a limited number of muscle groups. Some of the more common simple tics include ...

"These movements were so intense and there were so many of them, if you were stopped at a stop light, the car would actually move," said Darinka D'Alessio, Henry's mom. Henry takes medication to help ...

Tics are sudden, uncontrollable, spastic movements or verbal outbursts. These movements or vocalizations are repetitive, do not follow a rhythm, and are generally involuntary. Persistent motor or ...

When Olivia Roman was 5 years old, she noticed she was tapping her left foot with her right foot after every few steps, and assumed she was just being silly on vacation. On the second day of first ...

The diagnosis is based on the occurrence of tics along with behavioral disorders, including attention-deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Other behavioral ...

Tics are sudden, uncontrollable, spastic movements or verbal outbursts. These movements or vocalizations are repetitive, do not follow a rhythm, and are generally involuntary. Persistent motor or ...