ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2019
Premonitory Urges and Their Link With Tic Severity in Children and Adolescents With Tic Disorders.
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- Premonitory urge in tic disorders - a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The relationship between premonitory urges, interoceptive sensibility, alexithymia, psychological problems and tic severity in adolescents with tic disorders.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Phenomenology of repetitive and restrictive behaviors and sensory phenomena in neurodevelopmental disorders: an exploratory study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Clinical symptoms and functional impairment in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) co-morbid tic disorder (TD) patients: a cluster-based investigation.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Characteristics of premonitory urge and tic symptom in different age groups from a network perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with treatment-refractory Tourette syndrome: An evidence-based survey in a Chinese population.World journal of psychiatry · 2022Article
- Classification of tic disorders based on functional MRI by machine learning: a study protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- An exploration of eating behaviours and caregiver mealtime actions of children with Tourette syndrome.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Premonitory Urges Reconsidered: Urge Location Corresponds to Tic Location in Patients With Primary Tic Disorders.Journal of movement disorders · 2022Article
- Cognitive Tic-Like Phenomena in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Correlates and clinical implications of tic suppressibility.Current developmental disorders reports · 2021Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale: A Preliminary Report.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Correlation between premonitory urges and tic symptoms in a Chinese population with tic disorders.Pediatric investigation · 2020Article
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Abstract
Tics wax and wane regarding their severity, while their expression is affected by non-motor sensory or cognitive elements that are mostly known as "premonitory urges." Since premonitory urges are often used in non-pharmacological interventions to decrease tic severity, it is of interest in the present study to examine whether premonitory urges can actually predict tic severity. Fifty-two children and adolescents diagnosed with tics and Tourette syndrome (29 children with provisional tic disorder, 16 children with chronic motor tic disorder, and 7 children with Tourette syndrome) were included in the study. Their age ranged between 6 and 15.7 years (mean age 9 years and 2 months). All participants completed the YGTSS (Yale Global Tic Severity Scale) in order to assess tic severity and the Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (PUTS) to measure premonitory urges (PU). Regression analysis revealed that PU were present at a higher rate in older subjects (>12 years of age) than in younger children and with a higher level of tic severity. Although the presence of PU was associated with tic severity across the entire age range, there was a stronger association between PU and tic severity in older children. A better insight into the pathophysiology of premonitory urges could possibly lead to the identification of new therapeutic modalities targeting the sensory initiators of tics in future research.
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