Believe it or not, eye rolling isn’t always a sign of disrespect. It’s one of the most common tics that children can develop. Other common tics are blinking, coughing and throat clearing. “A tic is an ...

My nine-year-old’s record for clearing her throat is 33 times in one minute. I counted. It’s a noise so distracting sometimes you can’t really do anything else but count how many times it happens.

TS symptoms typically begin between the ages of 4 and 7. These symptoms present in the form of tics, or sudden, rapid, ...

Has your child experienced sudden tics (movements or sounds) or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms following a strep throat or upper respiratory illness? They may be linked, medical research ...

Group A streptococcus (GAS) infection is not associated with new-onset tic disorders in at-risk children, findings from a large prospective study show. The results mean that if pre-teens present with ...

For most kids tics are a temporary thing, and they're also essentially out of their control. Let's talk about tics. Not the crawling, creepy ticks that suck your blood, but the kind that involve ...

Often the conclusions of psychopharmacological research articles are interpreted as dogmatic absolutes leaving little room for contrary clinical experience. An example of a successful study that ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A Children’s National Hospital physician and group of pediatric neurologists saw an “unexplained surge” in children with tic-like behavior during the pandemic, including some ...

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tic disorders showed a 37 percent improvement when they took the medication guanfacine, an alternative to drugs like Ritalin, which ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. This post was written by ...

An autistic child in Florida was sent home from his school in Jacksonville after staff presumed his coughing tic was a symptom of COVID-19 infection. Autism is a "neurodevelopmental disorder ...