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Urge intolerance predicts tic severity and impairment among adults with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorders [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundIndividuals with Tourette Syndrome and Persistent Tic Disorders (collectively TS) often experience premonitory urges—aversive physical sensations that precede tics and are temporarily relieved by tic expression.
Kesley A. Ramsey, Alessandro S. De Nadai, Flint M. Espil, Emily Ricketts, Jordan T. Stiede, Jennifer Schild, Matthew W. Specht, Douglas W. Woods, Shannon Bennet, John T. Walkup, Susanna Chang, John Piacentini, Joseph F. McGuire   +12 more
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Premonitory Urge and Tic Severity, Comorbidities, and Quality of Life in Chronic Tic Disorders [PDF]

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, 2023
AbstractBackgroundTics are intimately associated with premonitory urges (PU) but knowledge about urges is still limited, with small sample sizes often limiting the generalizability of findings.ObjectivesThis study addressed the following open questions: (1) is tic severity associated with urge severity, (2) how common is relief, (3) which comorbidities
Valerie Brandt, Jana Essing, Ewgeni Jakubovski, Kirsten Müller‐Vahl   +3 more
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Investigation of gene–environment interactions in relation to tic severity [PDF]

Journal of Neural Transmission, 2021
Abstract Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with involvement of genetic and environmental factors. We investigated genetic loci previously implicated in Tourette syndrome and associated disorders in interaction with pre- and perinatal adversity in relation to tic severity using a case-only (
Mohamed Abdulkadir, Dongmei Yu, Lisa Osiecki, Robert A. King, Thomas V. Fernandez, Lawrence W. Brown, Keun-Ah Cheon, Barbara J. Coffey, Blanca Garcia-Delgar, Donald L. Gilbert, Dorothy E. Grice, Julie Hagstrøm, Tammy Hedderly, Isobel Heyman, Hyun Ju Hong, Chaim Huyser, Laura Ibanez-Gomez, Young Key Kim, Young-Shin Kim, Yun-Joo Koh, Sodahm Kook, Samuel Kuperman, Bennett Leventhal, Marcos Madruga-Garrido, Athanasios Maras, Pablo Mir, Astrid Morer, Alexander Münchau, Kerstin J. Plessen, Veit Roessner, Eun-Young Shin, Dong-Ho Song, Jungeun Song, Frank Visscher, Samuel H. Zinner, Carol A. Mathews, Jeremiah M. Scharf, Jay A. Tischfield, Gary A. Heiman, Andrea Dietrich, Pieter J. Hoekstra   +40 more
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Hippocampal volume in Provisional Tic Disorder predicts tic severity at 12-month follow-up [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020
Background Previous studies have investigated differences in the volumes of subcortical structures (e.g., caudate nucleus, putamen, thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus) between individuals with and without Tourette syndrome (TS), as well as the relationships between these volumes and tic symptom severity.
Kim, Soyoung, Greene, Deanna J., D’Andrea, Carolina Badke, Bihun, Emily C., Koller, Jonathan M., O’Reilly, Bridget, Schlaggar, Bradley L., Black, Kevin J.   +7 more
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Effects of comorbidity on Tourette's tic severity and quality of life [PDF]

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2019
The aim of this study is to gain more insight in the differential contributions of anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptom severity to quality of life (QoL) and tic severity in adults with Tourette Disorder (TD).Self-reported OC symptom, anxiety and depression severity measures were used to investigate their predictive value on QoL ...
Hilde M. Huisman‐van Dijk, Suzy J. M. A. Matthijssen, Ruben T. S. Stockmann, Anne V. Fritz, Danielle C. Cath   +4 more
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Serum 25-Hyroxyvitamin D Levels and Tic Severity in Chinese Children With Tic Disorders

Psychiatry Research, 2018
The aim of this study is to evaluate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D[25(OH)D] levels in children with tic disorders and to explore the relationship between serum 25(OH)D level and tic severity. Children (n = 179, 31 females, 148 males, mean age at diagnosis: 8.0 ± 2.7 years old, age ranged from 3 to 14.5 years old) who were diagnosed with a tic disorder were
Bing Wang, Hong-Hua Li, Fei-Yong Jia
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Relationship Between Anxiety Symptoms and Age-Related Differences in Tic Severity [PDF]

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Tianyuan Lei,1,2 Kai Yang,1,2 JinHyun Jun,1,2 Shujin Hu,1,2 Qinghao Yang,1,2 Xu Hong,3 Yonghua Cui1,2 1Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children’s Health, Beijing, People’s Republic of
Lei T, Yang K, Jun J, Hu S, Yang Q, Hong X, Cui Y   +6 more
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The effect of calendar month on tic severity in children and youth with Tourette syndrome [PDF]

BJPsych Open
Background Known influences on tic severity include medical, biological and contextual factors. Aims We aimed to further understanding of contextual factors by exploring if tic severity is influenced by calendar month.
Isabella Davenport, Brendan Cord Lethebe, Catherine Deans, Davide Martino, Tamara Pringsheim   +4 more
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Associations of vitamin status and T-lymphocyte subsets with tic severity in children: a cross-sectional study using the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundVitamin D insufficiency and immune dysregulation have been implicated in tic disorders; however, the relationship between vitamin status, peripheral T-lymphocyte subsets, and tic severity in children remains incompletely defined.ObjectiveWe ...
Fengming Zhu, Yun Gao, Zhenlong Zhang, Shumin Kang, Weidong Xu, Jian Zhang   +5 more
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Tic severity and executive functioning in children and adolescents: a moderated mediation model of premonitory urges and comorbidity [PDF]

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Background The severity of tics may influence executive function in children and adolescents diagnosed with tic disorders. The underlying mechanism is still inadequately researched.
Yanting Lu, Liangliang Chen, Duan Lin, Yajun Tang, Qinyu Li, Xiumei Liu   +5 more
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