Brain chemical potential new hope in controlling Tourette Syndrome tics
A chemical in the brain plays a vital role in controlling the involuntary movements and vocal tics associated with Tourette Syndrome, a new study has shown. The research could offer a potential new target for the development of more effective treatments to suppress these unwanted symptoms. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 25, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
How the brain gains control over Tourette syndrome
(Cell Press) Tourette syndrome is a developmental disorder characterized by involuntary, repetitive, and stereotyped movements or utterances. Now researchers have new evidence to explain how those with Tourette syndrome in childhood often manage to gain control over those tics. In individuals with the condition, a portion of the brain involved in planning and executing movements shows an unusual increase compared to the average brain in the production of a primary inhibitory neurotransmitter known as GABA. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Brain chemical potential new hope in controlling Tourette Syndrome tics
(University of Nottingham) A chemical in the brain plays a vital role in controlling the involuntary movements and vocal tics associated with Tourette Syndrome, a new study has shown. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
What’s the Best Treatment for Hair-Pulling Disorder?
After school, Henry would sit down and watch TV, but one hour later, his mom would discover he had been pulling his eyelashes and eyebrows. It wasn’t that he didn’t want them, he just couldn’t stop plucking them.
When his friends called him to hang out, he found excuses not to be around them. He didn’t want to face unwanted questions or comments. The embarrassment and shame were causing isolation, and his confidence and self esteem were suffering.
Henry is challenged by trichotillomania (TTM). Individuals who experience this disorder have difficulties resisting the urge to pull out their hair. It is estimated to af...
Source: Psych Central - September 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Annabella Hagen, LCSW, RPT-S Tags: Addictions Anxiety General Psychology Self-Esteem Treatment bullying Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Competing Response Training Distraction HRT Low Self Esteem Motor Habits Parenting Tics trichotillomania TTM Source Type: news
More common procedures for painful facial tics carry high costs
For patients who need surgery for facial pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia, the most cost-effective procedure is the least often used, reports a study. Trigeminal neuralgia is a relatively common chronic pain condition, especially among older adults. Sometimes called "tic douloureux," trigeminal neuralgia is associated with a typical pattern of painful facial tics. Pain is thought to be caused by blood vessels placing pressure on the trigeminal nerve in the face. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 22, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
More common procedures for painful facial tics carry high costs, reports study in Neurosurgery
(Wolters Kluwer Health) For patients who need surgery for facial pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia, the most cost-effective procedure is the least often used, reports a study in the September issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 22, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
How to Spot a Lie
Common lore holds that we can see a lie in small tics and averted eyes. The truth is that this technique is a much simpler way to catch dishonesty.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - July 16, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Biswas-Diener Tags: Relationships cheating friendship honesty lying Source Type: news
What are the Most Common Motor and Vocal Tics?
Discussion
Tics are usually single repetitive, non-rhythmic, non-purposeful movements or utterances. Tics can be multiple and complex however. Tics may be preceeded by a premonitory urge where the person has a feeling that a certain type of tic is going to occur and then this feeling goes away after the tic is produced.
Tics, especially simple motor tics, are very common with ~10-15% of elementary age children having a tic at some time. In one community-based study, the overall prevalence was 3-9% with an overall frequency of 24% of elementary school children during one school year. Tics are more common in boys and prese...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - June 23, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
'Brain training' overcomes tics in Tourette syndrome, study finds
Children with Tourette Syndrome (TS) may unconsciously train their brain to more effectively control their tics. Teenagers diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS) were slower than their typically developing peers when asked to perform a task that involved them simply moving their eyes to look at targets. However, they significantly outperformed their peers when the task was more demanding and required them to choose between looking at or away from targets. In this task they were as fast as their peers but made fewer eye movements in the wrong direction. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - April 17, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Pediatric Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD) & Tics
Most people may not have heard of PANDAS or PANS. I will tell you about PANDAS, because that is the illness about which I am most familiar with clinically. Some researchers say it does not exist. Others are certain that it does, but is rare. Some claim it is even more prevalent than autism but goes undiagnosed and untreated in most children who have it. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sharon K. Farber, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Child Development Health Therapy and therapists Compelling for parents teachers What most physicians don ' t know about Source Type: news
Potential New Risk Factors for Tourette's, Tics IdentifiedPotential New Risk Factors for Tourette's, Tics Identified
Inadequate maternal weight gain, cannabis use during pregnancy, and birth order have been identified as 3 new potential risk factors for Tourette syndrome and tic disorders in children. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - January 16, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Exposure levels for chemical threat compounds: Information to facilitate chemical incident response - Hauschild VD, Watson A.
Although not widely known, a robust set of peer-reviewed public health and occupational exposure levels presently exist for key chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and certain acutely toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) identified as terrorist attack threats. Fam... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 25, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Insights Gained into Tourette Syndrome
Finding might point to non-drug treatments for telltale tics, study says
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Source: MedlinePlus Health News - December 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Discovery of mechanism controlling Tourette Syndrome tics
A mechanism in the brain which controls tics in children with Tourette Syndrome (TS) has been discovered by scientists at The University of Nottingham.The study, which has been published in the British Psychological Society's Journal of Neuropsychology, could herald new non-drug therapies to help young people with TS overcome the repetitive physical movements and vocal sounds which characterise their condition.The work was funded with a £150,000 grant from the James Tudor Foundation and was carried out by PhD student Amelia Draper. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Clonidine and other central alpha-2 agonists: can one pill kill a toddler?
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Unintentional Pediatric Exposures to Central Alpha-2 Agonists Reported to the National Poison Data System. Wang GS et al. J Pediatr 2013 Oc 1 [Epub ahead of print]
Abstract
Central alpha-2 agonists — clonidine, guanfacine, and tizanidine — are increasingly being used for approved and off-label indications, including hypertension, muscle spasms, tics, and opioid withdrawal. Extended-release forms of guanfacine (Intuniv) and clonidine (Kapvay) have been approved for treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
These drugs are selective agonists at the central presynaptic alpha-2 adrener...
Source: The Poison Review - November 9, 2013 Category: Toxicology Authors: Leon Tags: Medical central alpha-2 agonist clonidine guanfacine intuniv kapvay kill one pill pediatric tizanidine Source Type: news
