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Tics are repetitive, involuntary sounds or movements like eye blinking, facial grimacing, shoulder shrugging, sniffing or making small noises.
Learn more about our current research studies with recent-onset tics and Tourette’s or tic disorders.
A brief introduction to Tourette Syndrome
Definition
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by repetitive movements (motor tics) and sounds (vocal tics). TS is generally… [learn more]
News & Views
New treatment study for children with Tourette syndrome
Next month we will begin enrolling currently untreated children with TS, ages 6-17, in a treatment study. The research study will compare an investigational product, EBS-101 a.k.a. ecopipam, to a placebo (inactive substance). Neither we nor the patient will know which of these the child is assigned to, but the assignment is tracked for comparison […]
Interesting retrospective study of Provisional Tic Disorder
I just saw this abstract from 2 years ago. The authors looked at back at the medical history at initial presentation from 60 children with Tourette syndrome. Most (60%) had multiple motor tics during their "first tic episode" (a term not defined in the abstract). Children who had phonic tics initially were older.