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 ...

"These movements were so intense and there were so many of them, if you were stopped at a stop light, the car would actually move," said Darinka D'Alessio, Henry's mom. Henry takes medication to help ...

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 ...

Tics are classified as either simple or complex. Simple motor tics are sudden, brief, repetitive movements that involve a limited number of muscle groups. Some of the more common simple tics include ...

Tics are abnormal, undesired spastic movements or vocalizations. These movements or vocalizations are repetitive, do not follow a rhythm, and are generally involuntary. Persistent motor or vocal tic ...

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 ...

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 ...