SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2025
Premonitory urge in tic disorders - a scoping review.
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- Tourette syndrome.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- "Just Right" Perceptions and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tic Disorder: Implications for Tourettic Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Article
- From the Mechanisms and Neurobiology to Treatment of Tic Disorders, Including Tourette Syndrome.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sensory processing profiles and their association with tic severity in children with tic disorders: a cross-sectional study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Machine learning-based screening model for Tic disorders comorbid with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and SHAP value interpretation: a retrospective observational study.Scientific reports · 2026Observational
- The relationship between premonitory urges, interoceptive sensibility, alexithymia, psychological problems and tic severity in adolescents with tic disorders.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- [Update on tic disorders and Tourette syndrome].Der Nervenarzt · 2025Review
- Tic severity and executive functioning in children and adolescents: a moderated mediation model of premonitory urges and comorbidity.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
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Introduction: Premonitory urges are uncomfortable bodily sensations preceding tics. They are highly prevalent, frequently bothersome, and increasingly recognized as a central phenotypic feature in tic disorder populations. This scoping review aimed to systematically consolidate published knowledge and identify knowledge gaps regarding premonitory urges in primary tic disorders. Methods: Search strategies were deployed in five databases and five topic-relevant journals. Two independent reviewers screened all candidate abstracts against predefined inclusion criteria. One hundred and fifty-five articles were included in the scoping review. The same two reviewers independently extracted and consolidated pertinent data from included articles. Results: Multiple methods for assessing premonitory urge were identified, each with strengths and weaknesses. The subjective quality of premonitory urges varies between individuals, with increased prevalence of a "not just right" urge quality in individuals with comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder. Awareness of premonitory urge appears to arise several years after tic-onset, yet many individuals perceive their tics as voluntary responses to premonitory urges. Premonitory urges and tics are temporally coupled in real time, but premonitory urge severity and tic severity, as assessed by clinical scales, are not consistently associated. The mechanistic and developmental relationship between premonitory urges and tics remains unclear. Data are limited on premonitory urge response to treatment, but several promising interventions were identified. The insula and supplementary motor area are the neuroanatomical structures most strongly implicated in emergence of the premonitory urge. Discussion: Knowledge of the clinical characteristics, measurement, and neural mechanisms of premonitory urge has advanced considerably in recent years, but important knowledge gaps remain in each of these domains. Addressing these knowledge gaps will be key to developing effective interventions for premonitory urge. Systematic Review Registration: Open Science Framework (OSF) https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WT43Z.
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