ArticleNeuropsychology2015
The relation between attention and tic generation in Tourette syndrome.
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- Compromised reactive but intact proactive inhibitory motor control in Tourette disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Overcoming the phenomenological Perpetuum mobile in clinical cognitive neuroscience for the benefit of replicability in research and the societal view on mental disorders.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Towards an Ideology-Free, Truly Mechanistic Health Psychology.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Distinct Brain-Oscillatory Neuroanatomical Architecture of Perception-Action Integration in Adolescents With Tourette Syndrome.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2021Article
- Correlates and clinical implications of tic suppressibility.Current developmental disorders reports · 2021Article
- Reply to Comment on: Voluntary Inhibitory Control of Chorea.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2021Article
- Altered frontal-mediated inhibition and white matter connectivity in pediatric chronic tic disorders.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Inhibitory Control Deficits in Children with Tic Disorders Revealed by Object-Hit-and-Avoid Task.Neural plasticity · 2021Article
- Networks in the Field of Tourette Syndrome.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Review
- Longitudinal Bidirectional Relationships Between Maternal Depressive/Anxious Symptoms and Children's Tic Frequency in Early Adolescence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Impaired automatic but intact volitional inhibition in primary tic disorders.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2020Article
- Treatment of Tourette Syndrome With Attention Training Technique-A Case Series.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveMany neuropsychiatric disorders involve abnormal attentional processing. Systematic investigations of how attention may affect tic frequency in Tourette syndrome are lacking.
methodPatients performed rhythmic finger movements, approximately once every 2 s. Each movement triggered a unique visual color stimulus. Patients were asked to monitor and remember their finger actions, the external colors caused by their actions, or their tics. Sixteen adult Tourette syndrome patients performed each task twice: once while inhibiting tics, and once without inhibiting tics.
resultsDuring the "freely tic" condition, patients had significantly fewer tics when attending to finger movements, or to the ensuing colors, compared with when attending to their tics. Attention to fingers produced the fewest tics overall. During tic suppression, tic frequency was reduced to an equal level in all conditions.
conclusionsFocusing attention away from tics significantly reduces tic frequency. This attentional process may operate by regulating motor noise.
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