Investigating Habituation to Premonitory Urges in Behavior Therapy for Tic Disorders [PDF]
, 2017 Behavior therapy is effective for Persistent Tic Disorders (PTDs), but behavioral processes facilitating tic reduction are not well understood. One process, habituation, is thought to create tic reduction through decreases in premonitory urge severity ...
Capriotti, Matthew R. +7 more
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Tourette Syndrome Research Highlights from 2017 [version 1; referees: 3 approved] [PDF]
, 2018 This is the fourth yearly article in the Tourette Syndrome Research Highlights series, summarizing research from 2017 relevant to Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders. The authors briefly summarize reports they consider most important or interesting.
Black, Kevin J +2 more
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Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial, 2008 A perturbação Gilles de la Tourette é um distúrbio neuropsicológico crónico, que resulta de anomalias ao nível dos neurotransmissores cerebrais. É caracterizada por fenómenos compulsivos, que originam tiques motores e vocais e origina problemas a nível ...
Joaquim Ramalho +3 more
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Compulsive Social Behavior Emerges after Selective Ablation of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons [PDF]
, 2017 The mechanisms underlying social dysfunction in neuropsychiatric conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS) remain uncertain. Dysfunctions in basal ganglia, including reduced number of striatal cholinergic interneurons
Beccaria, Juan Pablo +4 more
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Face perception enhances insula and motor network reactivity in Tourette syndrome [PDF]
, 2018 Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterised by motor and phonic tics. Tics are typically experienced as avolitional, compulsive, and associated with premonitory urges.
Akbarian-Tefaghi +77 more
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Long-Term Outcome of Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2003 Videotapes recorded 1978 through 1991 of 56 children (ages 8 to 14) with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) were reviewed and 31 of the patients (28 men and 3 women, age>20 years) were recruited for a second videotape and in-person assessment at Rush ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Tourette syndrome : do reduced histamine levels induce an increase in spontaneous repetitive behaviour? [PDF]
, 2017 Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (TS) is a disabling neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by persistent motor and vocal tics. Comorbidity of TS with other neuropsychiatric conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit ...
Aquilina, Beppe, Cauchi, Ruben J.
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Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: An overview
Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2019 Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics with a chronic course. With its multifaceted range of symptoms, GTS lies at the crossroads of neurology and psychiatry.
Andrea Nani, Andrea E Cavanna
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Lessons Learned from Open-label Deep Brain Stimulation for Tourette Syndrome: Eight Cases over 7 Years [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) remains an experimental but promising treatment for patients with severe refractory Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (TS).
Alterman, Ron L. +11 more
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Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome—A Case Report from Guyana in South America
Behavioural Neurology, 1992 A case of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome from Guyana in South America is presented. The patient had a positive family history as well as coprolalia, echolalia, and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity.
V. Eapen, M. M. Robertson
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