I started having tics when I was 7 years old. At first, doctors dismissed my mom's concerns as me just being a kid. Tourette syndrome can't be cured, but I want to have more control over my tics. I’m ...

Billie Eilish is opening up about having Tourette syndrome. The Grammy Award-winning musical artist first disclosed her diagnosis in 2018 on Instagram, but spoke more in-depth about it recently on ...

Last month, a Wall Street Journal article titled “Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor” went viral on social media. The piece reported a rise in young women presenting ...

Billie Eilish is opening up about having Tourette syndrome. The Grammy Award-winning musical artist first disclosed her diagnosis in 2018 on Instagram, but spoke more in-depth about it recently on ...

The results of the clinical trial of a new wrist device designed to help control the symptoms of Tourette syndrome have shown it significantly reduces the severity and frequency of tics. The prototype ...

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 ...

Sure, the Megan Knees Challenge might leave you with some lingering leg soreness, but most TikTok content is pretty harmless. What worries some mental health experts are the subtle effects the video ...

Tiny electric shocks delivered to the wrist can 'turn off' the tics that blight the life of some Tourette Syndrome sufferers. That's according to researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK.

At least 20 percent of elementary school-age children develop tics such as excessive blinking, throat clearing or sniffing, but for most of those kids, the tics don't become a long-term problem.

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.

Dr. Robert A. King and Dr. James F. Leckman of the Yale School of Medicine recently joined the Consults blog to answer readers' questions about Tourette's syndrome, a mysterious ailment that causes ...

And as the curious person I am, I decided to dig deep into what Tourette Syndrome (TS) is. In short, Tourette Syndrome is a condition that affects a person’s nervous system, and causes involuntary ...