Since the onset of the pandemic, specialists around the globe have seen a spike in young patients that have developed tics. And some have pointed to social media, particularly TikTok, as a factor.
COPENHAGEN — A novel machine-learning tool that can distinguish between tics in patients with tic disorders and non-tic movements in healthy controls could potentially save clinicians time and improve ...
Doctors have reported an influx of teen patients with tics, or involuntary movements or vocalizations, since 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. A recent, small study considered young adults ...
How common are tics during childhood? Tics are so widespread that some experts say they are a normal part of growing up. About 20 percent of children will develop a tic—an involuntary movement such as ...
During the pandemic, news reports surfaced of a surge of young adults showing up at doctors' offices with unexplainable movement disorders that looked, perhaps to a nonspecialist, a little bit like ...
Two of the tallest buildings in Philadelphia, One Liberty Place and Two Liberty Place, will turn their lights teal on Tuesday night to mark Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. Tourette syndrome, a ...
In PEOPLE's exclusive sneak peek at an upcoming episode of TLC's 'Baylen Out Loud', Baylen decides to try Botox for the first time to see if it will help ease her tics — but things take a turn quickly ...
Tim Howard, goalkeeper for the U.S. Men's National Team, wowed the world with 16 saves in his last match in the 2014 FIFA World Cup against Belgium. But a little known fact about the record-breaking ...