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 ...

Billie Eilish has Tourette's syndrome, a brain disorder characterized by repetitive and involuntary sounds and motions. The singer spoke about her tics in a recent interview with David Letterman. She ...

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 ...

Tourette's syndrome is a lifelong neurological disorder with symptoms that, contrary to popular belief, only rarely include the involuntary shouting of obscenities. The disorder is associated with a ...

A: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a disorder of the nervous system that causes the patient to have repetitive sudden movements (motor tics) and/or to make sudden repetitive sounds (vocal tics). These tics ...

Chronic motor tic disorder is a condition that involves brief, uncontrollable, spasm-like movements or vocal outbursts (called phonic tics), but not both. If both a physical tic and vocal outburst are ...

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 ...

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 ...