ArticleMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2021
Pandemic Tic-like Behaviors Following Social Media Consumption.
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- A systematic review to characterize functional tic-like behaviors.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Neural representations of statistical and rule-based predictions in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Functional Tic-like Behaviors: From the COVID-19 Pandemic to the Post-Pandemic Era.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Functional Tic-Like Behaviors: A Common Comorbidity in Patients with Tourette Syndrome.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Article
- Premonitory Urge in Patients with Tics and Functional Tic-like Behaviors.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Article
- What distinguishes patients with mass social media-induced illness presenting with Tourette-like behavior from those with Tourette syndrome? Results of a prospective cohort study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- An investigation into mothers' experiences of their children's functional tic-like behaviour and tic attacks.PloS one · 2024Article
- Resting network architecture of theta oscillations reflects hyper-learning of sensorimotor information in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.Brain communications · 2024Article
- Illness-Promoting Psychological Processes in Children and Adolescents with Functional Neurological Disorder.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Distinguishing functional from primary tics: a study of expert video assessments.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2023Article
- Movement Disorders and SARS-CoV-2.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2023Article
- Functional movement disorders triggered by reality shifting and the Backrooms-another social media traps.Journal of neurology · 2023Article
- Clarifying the Differences between Patients with Organic Tics and Functional Tic-Like Behaviors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Have We Forgotten What Tics Are? A Re-Exploration of Tic Phenomenology in Youth with Primary Tics.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrently, there is a marked increase of young people with sudden onset of tic-like behaviors (TLBs) resembling movements and vocalizations presented on social media videos as "Tourette's syndrome."
objectiveTo delineate clinical phenomenology of TLBs after social media exposure in comparison with clinical features of Tourette's syndrome.
methodsWe compared demographic and clinical variables between 13 patients with TLBs and 13 age- and sex-related patients with Tourette's syndrome.
resultsPatients with TLBs had several characteristics allowing to distinguish them from patients with Tourette's syndrome, some of which discriminated perfectly (ie, abrupt symptom onset, lack of spontaneous symptom fluctuations, symptom deterioration in the presence of others) and some nearly perfectly (ie, predominantly complex movements involving trunk/extremities). Also, symptom onset was significantly later.
conclusionsTLBs after social media consumption differ from tics in Tourette's syndrome, strongly suggesting that these phenomena are categorically different conditions. © 2021 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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