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 ...

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, ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- It can be frightening for any parent when their child suddenly shows signs of a neurological disorder. If the issues develop quickly, what type of doctors can help, where do they ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Everyone copes with anxiety differently. But amid the extra stressors of the pandemic, doctors across the country are seeing a rise in patients coming to them for tic disorders, or ...

For reasons that remain murky, new research warns that a spike in social media use during the pandemic might have worsened tic disorders in children. Tics are sudden twitches, movements or sounds that ...

Doctors at Vanderbilt University’s Medical Center in Tennessee say they’re seeing an influx of patients with similar ailments in what is now known as ‘Functional Tic Disorder.’ "I think that there's ...

Functional Tic Disorder — It's a condition neurologists say could be influenced by videos on social media, some of which are about tics and Tourette syndrome. "There's been an influx, a huge influx, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Neurologists at Vanderbilt Health sound the alarm about functional tic disorder presenting mostly in female patients between 13 and 18 years old three to four times more than ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Tik Tok is in the spotlight once again, after researchers suggest a sudden increase in teen tics could be linked to the popular social media site. Health experts from ...

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder. Tourette syndrome causes unwanted repetitive movements or sounds called tics. TS is more common in males than females. Simple tics are sudden, brief ...

Provisional tic disorder, previously known as transient tic disorder, is a motor disorder in which the person experiences seemingly involuntary motor and/or verbal tics for under one year. Tics are ...