Trial reportBehavior therapy2017
Investigating Habituation to Premonitory Urges in Behavior Therapy for Tic Disorders.
Trial report in Behavior therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06825520 (Investigating Changes in Premonitory Urges During Habit Reversal Training), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Investigating Changes in Premonitory Urges During Habit Reversal Training
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.
- Premonitory urge in tic disorders - a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of transcranial magnetic stimulation in Tourette syndrome.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Pooled it
- Tourette syndrome research highlights from 2017.F1000Research · 2018Pooled it
- Functional connectivity during tic suppression predicts reductions in vocal tics following behavior therapy in children with Tourette syndrome.Psychological medicine · 2023Trial
- Online remote behavioural intervention for tics in 9- to 17-year-olds: the ORBIT RCT with embedded process and economic evaluation.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2023Trial
- Cognitive control processes in behavior therapy for youth with Tourette's disorder.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2022Trial
- Combined habit reversal training and exposure response prevention in a group setting compared to individual training: a randomized controlled clinical trial.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Remote delivery of a mindfulness-based intervention for adults with tics: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Characteristics of premonitory urge and tic symptom in different age groups from a network perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Activation of MBritish journal of pharmacology · 2024Article
- A Test of the Behavioral Model of Tic Disorders Using a Dynamical Systems Framework.Behavior therapy · 2024Article
- Working Mechanisms of Exposure and Response Prevention in the Treatment of Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders Revisited: No Evidence for within-Session Habituation to Premonitory Urges.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Sensory Gating in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Behavior Therapy for Tics: A Perception-Action Integration Approach.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Clinical evaluation of premonitory urges in children and adolescents using the Chinese version of Individualized Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Toward a neurocircuit-based taxonomy to guide treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Review
- Effectiveness of Behaviour Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tic Disorder in a Naturalistic Setting.Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Article
- Correlates and clinical implications of tic suppressibility.Current developmental disorders reports · 2021Article
- A Review of Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions for Tic Disorder.Soa--ch'ongsonyon chongsin uihak = Journal of child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based group intervention for adults with tic disorders.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
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8 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Behavior therapy is effective for Persistent Tic Disorders (PTDs), but behavioral processes facilitating tic reduction are not well understood. One process, habituation, is thought to create tic reduction through decreases in premonitory urge severity. The current study tested whether premonitory urges decreased in youth with PTDs (N = 126) and adults with PTDs (N = 122) who participated in parallel randomized clinical trials comparing behavior therapy to psychoeducation and supportive therapy (PST). Trends in premonitory urges, tic severity, and treatment outcome were analyzed according to the predictions of a habituation model, whereby urge severity would be expected to decrease in those who responded to behavior therapy. Although adults who responded to behavior therapy showed a significant trend of declining premonitory urge severity across treatment, results failed to demonstrate that behavior therapy specifically caused changes in premonitory urge severity. In addition, reductions in premonitory urge severity in those who responded to behavior therapy were significant greater than those who did not respond to behavior therapy but no different than those who responded or did not respond to PST. Children with PTDs failed to show any significant changes in premonitory urges. Reductions in premonitory urge severity did not mediate the relationship between treatment and outcome in either adults or children. These results cast doubt on the notion that habituation is the therapeutic process underlying the effectiveness of behavior therapy, which has immediate implications for the psychoeducation and therapeutic rationale presented in clinical practice. Moreover, there may be important developmental changes in premonitory urges in PTDs, and alternative models of therapeutic change warrant investigation.
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