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Defining Tic Severity and Tic Impairment in Tourette Disorder [PDF]
Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2021 Treatment guidelines for Tourette's Disorder (TD) are based on patients' degree of tic severity and impairment. However, clear benchmarks for determining tic severity and impairment have not been established. This study examined benchmarks of tic severity and tic impairment using the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) and the Clinical Global ...
Lawrence Scahill +2 more
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Childhood Predictors of Long-Term Tic Severity and Tic Impairment in Tourette’s Disorder [PDF]
Behavior Therapy, 2022 Tics peak in late childhood and decline during adolescence. Yet, for some with Tourette's disorder, tics persist into adulthood. We evaluated childhood predictors of adult tic severity and tic impairment, and change over time. Eighty adolescents/adults were evaluated 11 years following a randomized-controlled trial of behavior therapy.
Lawrence Scahill +2 more
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Premonitory Urges and Their Link With Tic Severity in Children and Adolescents With Tic Disorders [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 Tics wax and wane regarding their severity, while their expression is affected by non-motor sensory or cognitive elements that are mostly known as “premonitory urges.” Since premonitory urges are often used in non-pharmacological interventions to ...
Maria Kyriazi +5 more
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Tic Severity and Psychological Function
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1993 The relationship between tic severity and neuropsychological function was examined in 12 monozygotic twin pairs with Tourette’s syndrome at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD.
J Gordon Millichap
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae IgG Positivity Is Associated With Tic Severity in Chronic Tic Disorders [PDF]
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2022 Infectious pathogens may represent an environmental risk factor for chronic tic disorders (CTD). This cross-sectional study aimed to determine whether Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) IgG positivity is associated with the presence or severity of tics. We compared M.
Norbert Müller +2 more
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Sensory processing profiles and their association with tic severity in children with tic disorders: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthBackground Sensory symptoms have been increasingly recognized as core characteristics of tic disorders (TD). This study aimed to systematically investigate the core features of sensory processing abnormalities in Chinese children with tic disorders ...
Yajun Tang +5 more
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Why Tic Severity Changes From Then to Now and From Here to There [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022 Much of the research regarding Tourette’s syndrome (TS) has focused on why certain individuals develop tics while others do not. However, a separate line of research focuses on the momentary influences that cause tics to increase or decrease in patients with a who are already known to have TS or another chronic tic disorder (CTD).
Ann Iverson, Kevin J. Black
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Italian Journal of PediatricsBackground Recent studies have emphasized the association between prolonged screen exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders, though its correlation with tic disorders (TDs) remains ambiguous.
Zakaria Ahmed Mohamed +5 more
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Psychometric Properties of a Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Tic Severity in Adults With Tic Disorders [PDF]
Behavior Therapy, 2015 The gold-standard measure of tic severity in tic disorders (TD), the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS), is a semistructured clinician-administered interview that can be time consuming and requires highly trained interviewers. Moreover, the YGTSS does not provide information regarding frequency and intensity of specific tics because all motor and ...
Lawrence Scahill +2 more
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ADHD Comorbidity, Behavior, and Tic Severity
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2003 The association of disruptive behavior with social, adaptive, and family functioning in Tourette syndrome (TS), with and without comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), was evaluated in 207 children (144 boys and 63 girls) between the ...
J Gordon Millichap
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