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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: tourette syndrome + reduce tics + tics  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)


Moreland Leader
Oak Park boys faces a tough battle
Moreland Leader, Australia -
The 11-year-old from Oak Park lives with Tourette syndrome and these behaviours, called tics, are major symptoms of the neurological disorder. ...
A Diffuse Brain Injury Leading to a Complex Neurobehavioral Syndrome
Journal of Neuropsychiatry (subscription) - May 1, 2008
Palumbo D, Maughan A, Kurlan R: Hypothesis III: Tourette syndrome is only one of several causes of a developmental basal ganglia syndrome. ...
Phenomenology of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Patients with ...
Journal of Neuropsychiatry (subscription) - May 1, 2008
Phenomenology of comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder was compared in nine patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and 15 with Tourette syndrome. ...
Gender Associated with Tourette Syndrome Severity
UB News Center, NY - Apr 17, 2008
BUFFALO, NY -- Tourette syndrome(TS), which in childhood is more severe in boys than girls, appears in adulthood to be more severe in women than men, ...

knox.VillageSoup.com
Former Sox pitcher Lee to play locally to battle Tourette's
knox.VillageSoup.com, ME - Apr 30, 2008
(Image courtesy of Terry Colson) Tourette's syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and ...
Hunter Lindberg Of Ootlewah Chosen Tourette Syndrome Ambassador
The Chattanoogan, TN - Apr 11, 2008
Congressman Zach Wamp on Friday honored 14-year-old Hunter Lindberg of Ootlewah, who has been chosen as a Tourette Syndrome Association Youth Ambassador. ...
Tourette syndrome ambassador speaks from experience
Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN - Apr 11, 2008
Hunter Lindberg, a precocious 14-year-old who has Tourette syndrome, spoke today at a news conference in the office of US Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., ...
Tourette syndrome on display
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - Apr 7, 2008
And meet Nikole, the treasurer for her ninth-grade class at Canandaigua Academy, who eagerly researches Tourette syndrome for a science class but refuses to ...
News in brief
MLive.com, MI - Apr 24, 2008
There will be an informational meeting for parents of children with tics or Tourette's Syndrome 7:30-9 pm May 1 in the Real Estate One building located at ...
Mental Health Association presents Bell Ringer Awards
Rosenberg Herald Coaster, TX - Apr 21, 2008
For five years, she has worked at the only Tourette Syndrome camp in Texas, and she is the author of ?Managing Tourette Syndrome: A Workbook for Kids with ...
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A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Tic Suppression in Tourette Syndrome -
BS Peterson, P Skudlarski, AW Anderson, H Zhang, … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1998 - archpsyc.highwire.org
... local chapters of the Tourette Syndrome Association, Bayside NY ... contemporaneous
somatosensory information during tic suppression may reduce the need ...
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Risperidone Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Chronic Tic Disorders: A Preliminary Report. -
PJ LOMBROSO, L SCAHILL, RA KING, KA LYNCH, PB … - Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent …, 1995 - jaacap.com
... to be effective in reducing tic frequency and ... and adolescents with chronic tic disorders. ...
Key Words: risperidone, Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive ...

Effective treatment of Tourette's syndrome with marijuana -
M Hemming, PM Yellowlees - Journal of Psychopharmacology, 1993 - jop.sagepub.com
... patients with Tourette?s syndrome who have had ... The authors noted that these patients
may have used marijuana to reduce the stress and anxiety that occurred ...

[PDF] Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin for obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic … -
SJ Perlmutter, SF Leitman, MA Garvey, S Hamburger, … - Lancet, 1999 - intramural.nimh.nih.gov
... than placebo (sham IVIG) in reducing severity of ... of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD) or tic disorders, including Tourette syndrome, were randomly ...
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Tourette syndrome -
J Jankovic - N Engl J Med, 2001 - medlink.com
... disorder in patients with Tourette syndrome (Palumbo et ... and its use may actually
reduce tic severity (Kurlan ... an unacceptable worsening of tics during stimulant ...

Treatment of Tourette's syndrome with Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC): a randomized crossover … -
KR M?ller-Vahl, U Schneider, A Koblenz, M J?bges, … - Pharmacopsychiatry, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Anecdotal reports in Tourette's syndrome (TS) have suggested that marijuana ... 9)-THC),
the major psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, reduce tics and associated ...

… 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is effective in the treatment of tics in Tourette syndrome: a 6-week … -
KR Muller-Vahl, U Schneider, H Prevedel, K Theloe, … - J Clin Psychiatry, 2003 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Cannabis sativa L., might be effective in the treatment of Tourette syndrome (TS ...
term treatment period, whether THC is effective and safe in reducing tics in TS ...

Tics in Tourette Syndrome: New Treatment Options -
Y Awaad - Journal of Child Neurology, 1999 - jcn.sagepub.com
... treatment approach in patients with tics/Tourette?s syndrome in order to
reduce or avoid the side effects of other med- ications. ...

A transgenic model of comorbid Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder circuitry -
EJ Nordstrom, FH Burton - Molecular Psychiatry, 2002 - nature.com
... The tic disorder Tourette's Syndrome (TS) and Obsessive ... that clonidine would reduce
tic frequency in D1CT ... of the overlapping compulsions and tics symptomatic of ...

Clonidine treatment of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome -
JF Leckman, MT Hardin, MA Riddle, J Stevenson, SI … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1991 - Am Med Assoc
... that clonidine is more effective than placebo in reducing some of the tic and other
behavioral symptoms associated with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome. ...

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Therapy Can Reduce Tics and Tourette Syndrome

Riverside, CA – December 14, 2007 – At a time when doctors reach for drugs as a first line of treatment for psychological disorders ranging from attention hyperactivity/deficit disorder (ADHD) to bipolar disorder, a review of the reported research indicates that behavioral programs and procedures can effectively reduce the symptoms of tic disorders.

Published in the journal Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, the review reports that psychosocial treatments that rely heavily on behavioral procedures effectively reduces tics in people suffering from chronic tic disorders.

Generally, administering psychoactive drugs is considered the first viable option to treat tics. However, medications may have limited effectiveness, unwanted side effects, and poor adherence.

This review uses stringent evidence-based criteria as a way of systematically evaluating the effectiveness of psychosocial treatments designed to reduce tics. Habit-reversal training (HRT) emphasizes sensitivity to tic sensations and replaces the tic behavior with a more appropriate competing response. Exposure and response prevention, other forms of treatment, focus on the process of habituation. Both behavioral methods meet evidence-based standards as successful psychosocial treatments to reduce tics.

“Despite the common view that psychopharmacological treatments are the only effective treatments to reduce tics, the results from our research suggest that psychosocial treatments are viable alternatives to solely administering psychoactive drugs” the authors note.

This study is published in the journal Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article may contact journalnews@bos.blackwellpublishng.net.

To view the abstract for this article, please click here.

Clayton R. Cook is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside Graduate School of Information in Riverside, CA and can be reached for questions at CookC@boystown.org.

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice presents cutting-edge developments in the science and practice of clinical psychology by publishing scholarly topical reviews of research, theory, and application to diverse areas of the field, including assessment, intervention, service delivery, and professional issues.

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Amy Molnar
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amolnar@wiley.com
 
 
 
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