TS symptoms typically begin between the ages of 4 and 7. These symptoms present in the form of tics, or sudden, rapid, ...

It's the kind of medical mystery that terrifies parents. Teenagers and young adults have been showing up to health centers with sudden-onset verbal and physical tics. Repeating words like “beans.” ...

Gen Z is developing “Tourette’s-like tics” at an alarming rate, and no one is sure why. These rapid-onset tic-like behaviors are so widespread, researchers are calling it “a parallel pandemic.” Unlike ...

Since the onset of the pandemic, specialists around the globe have seen a spike in young patients that have developed tics. And some have pointed to social media, particularly TikTok, as a factor.

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A mysterious epidemic is emerging in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic — a sudden upsurge of physical and vocal convulsions among teenagers, particularly girls, called ticcing. The NHS describes ...

Children who had a first-degree relative with chronic tic disorder were no more likely to develop tics after exposure to group A Streptococcus (GAS), data from the European Multicenter Tics in ...

Baylor Medicine’s General Adult Genetics Clinic sees patients 18 years or older with a known diagnosis of genetic disease or in need of an evaluation for genetic diagnosis for an adult-onset disorder.