Tics: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Tics

Streptococcal Infection

Abstract Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS) is a well-defined syndrome in which tics (motor and/or vocal) and/or obsessive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Children with a pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) phenotype may have tics or obsessive compulsive symptoms secondary [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

We report a case of a 6-year-old boy who presented with tic and hemi-chorea associated with GABHS throat infection. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Adjustment Reaction of Adolescence

[…] disorder F95.0 Transient tic disorder F95.1 Chronic motor or vocal tic disorder Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of [icd10data.com]

F94.2 Disinhibited attachment disorder of childhood F94.8 Other childhood disorders of social functioning F94.9 Childhood disorder of social functioning, unspecified F95 Tic [icd10data.com]

Neuralgia

Published: May, 2017 Trigeminal neuralgia, also known as tic douloureux, is a painful disorder of a nerve in the face called the trigeminal nerve or fifth cranial nerve. [health.harvard.edu]

Published: September, 2014 Trigeminal neuralgia, also known as tic douloureux, is a painful disorder of a nerve in the face called the trigeminal nerve or fifth cranial nerve [health.harvard.edu]

Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by facial pain often accompanied by a brief facial spasm or tic. [emedicine.com]

Chorea Gravidarum

There are also chapters on tardive dyskinesia, unusual clinical syndromes, and tics and stereotyped movements in children. [books.google.com]

chorea gravidarum ), later-life recurrences of tics have been reported in TS.25 The more common identification of cases of TS in recent Kurlan, Roger MD Neurology June [aan.com]

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Results suggested that subjects without tics had significantly more contamination obsessions, sexual obsessions, and counting compulsions than youth with comorbid tics. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Tic status was based on the presence of motor and/or vocal tics on the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale. Tics were identified in 53% of the sample. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Seventy‐four youth ( M age 9.7 2.3 years) with a principal diagnosis of OCD, with ( n 46) or without ( n 28) a comorbid tic disorder, were assessed with a semi‐structured [doi.org]

Psychogenic Cough

The combination of organic precipitants and emotional maintaining factors suggests that psychogenic cough tic is a condition that lies between somatization and transient tic [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Psychogenic cough tic is a troublesome complaint. The cough is a noisy bark or honking, repeated frequently while the child is awake, but absent during sleep. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract BACKGROUND: We conducted a systematic review on the management of psychogenic cough, habit cough, and tic cough to update the recommendations and suggestions of the [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Tourette Syndrome

The clinical surveillance and active management of Tourette syndrome (TS) and other primary chronic tic disorders cannot be limited to tics, as these patients manifest a spectrum [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Three different conditions were compared: "tics", "tics suppressed", and "tics imitated". [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

TICS Tics are brief movements (motor tics) or sounds produced by moving air through the nose, mouth, or throat (vocal tics). [web.archive.org]

Trigeminal Neuralgia

With these two cases of HC-tic syndrome, we suggest that TN has a special predilection for all types of TACs. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] neuralgia (tic douloureux) Symptoms of Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) Clinical Examination of Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) How is Trigeminal neuralgia (tic [healthengine.com.au]

Published: May, 2017 Trigeminal neuralgia, also known as tic douloureux, is a painful disorder of a nerve in the face called the trigeminal nerve or fifth cranial nerve. [health.harvard.edu]

Rheumatic Fever

[…] autoimmune condition caused by antibodies targeting the basal ganglia after group A streptococcal infection resulting in acute onset of obsessive compulsive disorder and/or tics [step2.medbullets.com]

Streptococcal infection and exacerbations of childhood tics and obsessive- compulsive symptoms: a prospective blinded cohort study. Pediatrics. 2008 ; 121 : 1188–1197. [doi.org]

PANDAS It has been proposed that an autoimmune response after a streptococcal infection may result in obsessive-compulsive disorder or tics in some children. [aafp.org]

Trigeminal Nerve Lesion

Such pain usually does not respond to carbamazepine and analgesics, and it is continuous and lacks the characteristic paroxysmal character of tic douloureux. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Published: September, 2014 Trigeminal neuralgia, also known as tic douloureux, is a painful disorder of a nerve in the face called the trigeminal nerve or fifth cranial nerve [health.harvard.edu]

Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) # Symptomatic (secondary) trigeminal neuralgia* (trigeminal neuralgia) Tic [clik.dva.gov.au]

Movement Disorder

[…] disorders (involuntary, compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped) F95 Tourette's syndrome F95.2 Drug-induced tics and tics of organic origin 333.3 G25.6 Stereotypic movement disorder [en.wikipedia.org]

Tics may be transient, recurrent, or chronic and are divided into motor tics and phonic or vocal tics. Motor tics are tics that make movements. [childneurologyfoundation.org]

Tic disorders Tics are sudden, involuntary movements or sounds that come and go over time. [childrenshospital.org]

Rheumatic Chorea

Angelman syndrome (Medical Encyclopedia) Chronic motor tic disorder (Medical Encyclopedia) Facial tics (Medical Encyclopedia) Movement - uncontrollable (Medical Encyclopedia [icdlist.com]

Critique: tic disorder controls with OCD were from reported literature [pandasppn.org]

Simple tics occur in about 50% of children. Chronic Tics last longer than 6 months. Tics are usually low amplitude with only mild to moderate forcefullness. [pediatrics.emory.edu]

Psychogenic Movement Disorders

Movements resembling tics are observed in a small proportion of patients with PMDs. Clinical features can help to differentiate them from organic tics. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

KEYWORDS: Dystonia; Movement disorders; Myoclonus; Parkinsonism; Paroxysmal dyskinesia; Psychogenic; Tics; Tremor [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Among the whole group, 44% had tremor, 24% dystonia, 12% pure gait disorders, 8% parkinsonism, 6% chorea-ballism, and 4% tic disorder. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

McLeod Neuroacanthocytosis Syndrome

[…] movements, including jerking motions (chorea), particularly of the arms and legs, and muscle tensing (dystonia) in the face and throat, which can cause grimacing and vocal tics [ghr.nlm.nih.gov]

Involuntary tensing of muscles (dystonia) in the face and throat can cause grimacing and vocal tics (such as grunting and clicking noises). [book-med.info]

Tic Disorder

Rarely, motor tics may be induced by an unexpected startling stimulus (ie, reflex tics or startle-induced tics). [web.archive.org]

Diagnostic categories of tic disorders include both transient and chronic tic disorders and Tourette's disorder. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

As a diagnosis of TS/CTD requires tics to be present for at least one year, children in these tic suppression studies had been living with tics for quite some time. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Paramyoclonus Multiplex

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It is supposed to be closely allied to convulsive tic, and possibly there may be some disturbance in the motor cells in the cortex and cord. Symptoms. [henriettes-herb.com]

Paroxysmal Hemicrania

We review the six other cases of chronic paroxysmal hemicrania-tic (CPH-tic) reported, and suggest that the term paroxysmal hemicrania-tic syndrome (PH-tic) be used to describe [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The association of chronic paroxysmal hemicrania and ticlike pain-chronic paroxysmal hemicrania-tic (CPH-tic)-is a recently described syndrome. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

We discuss all these and postulate a provisional distinction between CPH-V2,3 tic and CPH-V1 tic. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Facial Spasm

Hemifacial spasm, also known as tic convulsif, is a condition that causes frequent “tics,” or muscle spasms, on one side of the face. [weillcornellbrainandspine.org]

Tics Facial tics are brief, repetitive, coordinated, semipurposeful movements of grouped facial and neck muscles. [emedicine.medscape.com]

It usually affects only one side of the face, but in severe cases, tics may occur on both sides. [healthcommunities.com]

Trichotillomania

[…] for Tics, or CBIT. [nyulangone.org]

This paper examines the available evidence-base for assessments in youth across three BFRB-related disorders: compulsive skin picking, chronic tic disorders and trichotillomania [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] organic origin ( G20 - G25 ) nail-biting ( F98.8 ) nose-picking ( F98.8 ) stereotypies that are part of a broader psychiatric condition ( F01 - F95 ) thumb-sucking ( F98.8 ) tic [icd10data.com]

Senile Chorea

Spasmodic or convulsive tic is sufficiently distinctive of the conditions sometimes designated habit-chorea and the jerky involuntary incoördinate movements of hysteria require [jamanetwork.com]

There are also chapters on tardive dyskinesia, unusual clinical syndromes, and tics and stereotyped movements in children. [books.google.com]

Infantile Convulsions and Choreoathetosis

The association with other paroxysmal disorders such as migraine, with or without aura, hemiplegic migraine, episodic ataxia and tics has also been described. [orpha.net]

Tel.: 39 0522295968; fax: 39 0522295046.www.elsevier.com/locate/braindevxxx (2013) xxxxxx0387-7604/ - see front matter 2013 The Japanese Society of Child Nthe presence of tics [docslide.com.br]

Hemifacial Spasm

A series of 152 posterior fossa explorations for tic douloureux and hemifacial spasm has been reviewed with assessment of outcome at the last follow-up examination. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract A series of 152 posterior fossa explorations for tic douloureux and hemifacial spasm has been reviewed with assessment of outcome at the last follow-up examination [doi.org]

It is important to distinguish this from other causes of facial spasms, such as psychogenic facial spasm, facial tic, facial myokymia, blepharospasm, and tardive dyskinesia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Extrapyramidal Disorder

Angelman syndrome (Medical Encyclopedia) Chronic motor tic disorder (Medical Encyclopedia) Facial tics (Medical Encyclopedia) Movement - uncontrollable (Medical Encyclopedia [icdlist.com]

tics). [dartmouth.edu]

[…] and vocalizations  Motor tics can be simple/ complex & vocal tics can be simple (grunting) or complex (echolalia)  Tourette syndrome is a disease of early childhood in [slideshare.net]

Blepharospasm

The complex clinical presentation of the patient described includes hyperkinesias, complex motor movements, and vocal tics, which have not been reported in other patients [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Tourette syndrome — tics and coprolalia Tic doloroux — CN5 distribution pain associated with wincing tardive dyskinesia — dyskinesia is not limited to the eyelids apraxia [litfl.com]

Facial tics or Tourette syndrome: Facial tics are repetitive stereotyped movements or vocalisations such as blinking, sniffing, facial movements or tensing of abdominal muscles [nhp.gov.in]

X-Linked Parkinsonism with Spasticity

[…] dystonia; occupational dystonia Lubag syndrome or X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism Cerebellar Ataxia Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep Myoclonus Tics [movementdisorders.us]

Tics (Nemours Foundation) [medlineplus.gov]

Unlike tics, myoclonus is not suppressible. [stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu]

Orofacial Dyskinesia

Angelman syndrome Chronic motor tic disorder Deep brain stimulation Facial tics Hallervorden-Spatz disease Movement - uncontrollable Movement - uncontrolled or slow Movement [icdlist.com]

The dyskinesias include the TICS, MYOCLONUS, CHOREA and ATHETOSIS. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Tics Tics can be divided into two disorders: motor tics (abnormal movements) and/or vocal tics (abnormal sounds). [encyclopedia.com]

Adult Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis

However, in most cases, patients exhibit personality changes and facial tics. [symptoma.com]

Type B: Type B is not associated with epilepsy or dysarthria; however, as with Kufs disease type A, its characteristic features include dementia, ataxia, tics and tremors. [medigoo.com]

Type A causes seizures, myoclonic epilepsy (muscle jerks), dementia, ataxia (compromised muscle coordination), tremors and tics, dysarthria (speech difficulties), confusion [en.wikipedia.org]

Encephalitis Lethargica

Many varieties of tic-like movements and analogous hyperkinetic manifestations have been observed and described. [annals.org]

Chorea

Tics These are repetitive stereotyped movements. [patient.info]

PANDAS has also been reported in children with an existing tic disorder or Tourette’s syndrome. [moleculeralabs.com]

In our patients, other features of ChAc appeared later, including tics, other movement disorders, dysarthria, and mild to moderate cognitive decline. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Post-Encephalitic Syndrome

Vocal tics included grunting, sniffing, and snorting sounds. The tics were suppressed after several weeks on Pimozide (Orap 1 mg b.i.d.). [ 1 ] COMMENT. [pediatricneurologybriefs.com]

"Tics Associated with Other Disorders". Adv. Neurol. 99 : 61–8. PMID 16536352. McCall, S.; Vilensky, J.A.; Gilman, S.; Taubenberger, J.K. (2008). [en.wikipedia.org]

Que sont les tics et les tocs? [baillement.com]