She whistles at her desk, shouts insults in front of her teacher, claps her hands, and no one notices her behavior. In another context, she would have been slapped with a dunce's cap and ended up in ...

Tourette's syndrome is still highly misunderstood, even by doctors. It doesn't help that TV shows and movies have created myths about this condition, which involves involuntary verbal and physical ...

John Davidson, whose life inspired the award-winning biopic “I Swear,” involuntarily shouted a racial slur during Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo’s speech at the BAFTA film awards in London on Feb.

While tics have been considered to result from an aberrant function of the brain's motor cortex, a Kobe University mouse ...

Tic disorders are conditions featuring sudden, non-rhythmic movements or vocalizations. A formal tic disorder diagnosis is determined by tic frequency, duration, and type. Tics are non-rhythmic ...