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ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2026

Contextual Triggers and Tic Severity Across Life Periods: A Retrospective Analysis in Adults with Tic Disorders.

Kathryn E Barber, Qiang Ding, Flint M Espil, Douglas W Woods, Matthew W Specht, Shannon M Bennett, Jordan T Stiede, John T Walkup, Emily J Ricketts, Joseph F McGuire and 5 more

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Kathryn E BarberDepartment of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Qiang DingDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Children's Hospital of Fudan University Shanghai, Shanghai, PR China.
Flint M EspilDepartment of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Douglas W WoodsDepartment of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA. douglas.woods@luc.edu.
Matthew W SpechtConnecticut OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Specialists, Greenwich, CT, USA.
Shannon M BennettDepartment of Psychology, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
Jordan T StiedeBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
John T WalkupDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Lurie Children's, Chicago, IL, USA.
Emily J RickettsDepartment of Neuroscience, UCLA Semel Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Joseph F McGuireDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Alan L PetersonDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Scott N ComptonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Sabine WilhelmHarvard University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Lawrence ScahillEmory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
John C PiacentiniDepartment of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, UCLA Semel Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Funding

Behavior Therapy for Children with Chronic Tic DisordersR01MH070802 · NIMH · TOURETTE SYNDROME ASSOCIATION, INC · PI PIACENTINI, JOHN C. · 2004 to 2007
$2.9M
Fudan-Sydney Brain and Intelligence Science Alliance Seed Fund IDH6282016/052/006/005NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH070802NIMH NIH HHS R01MH070802
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In tic disorders (TD), tic expression varies across the lifespan and as a function of contextual factors. This study explored connections between tic expression and contextual triggers across life periods in 74 adults (M

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Adaptation, PsychologicalAnxietyEmotionsStress, PsychologicalTic DisordersAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleRetrospective StudiesSeverity of Illness IndexYoung AdultContextual factorsDevelopmentalEnvironmentTic disordersTourette syndrome

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PMID38976153
PMCPMC13222070

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