This informational guide, part of POPSUGAR's Condition Center, lays out the realities of this health concern: what it is, what it can look like, and strategies that medical experts say are proven to ...

This post was written by Chelsea Dale, M.S. Taylor’s mother noticed that her 8-year-old child was constantly sniffing but did not have a cold or allergies and was excessively blinking, head nodding, ...

Tics take the form of abnormal, repetitive, and unintentional movements or vocalizations that do not follow any rhythm or pattern. Provisional tic disorder, previously known as transient tic disorder, ...

Tardive dyskinesia shares features with other movement disorders, such as Tourette syndrome and drug-induced Parkinsonism. But a diagnostic evaluation can reveal which condition is causing the ...

A mysterious epidemic is emerging in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic — a sudden upsurge of physical and vocal convulsions among teenagers, particularly girls, called ticcing. The NHS describes ...

The study used the Tourette Association of America International Consortium for Genetics data set to better understand sex differences and health outcomes for the neurodevelopmental disorder. The ...

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 ...

Growing up, I was a nervous child with a few quirks. I was afraid of heights, and I never stepped on the cracks of floor tiles at the mall. I blinked too much. I was called “particular,” but then ...

Compared with the general population, people diagnosed with Tourette syndrome or chronic tic disorder had a two-fold increased risk of experiencing violent assault, a three-fold increased risk of ...

The new research into Tourette syndrome has found that 1 in 2 children with a tic-related disorder have thought about ending their life, while 1 in 10 children and 1 in 4 affected adults have ...