Deep brain stimulation is a surgical procedure that places electrodes in the brain. The electrodes send electrical impulses through the brain to restore the brain circuitry to more normal patterns. [healthline.com]

It employs computer imaging to guide the surgeon to the exact location for the surgical procedure. Stereotyped —Having a persistent, repetitive, and senseless quality. Tics are stereotyped movements or sounds. Streptococcus —Plural, streptococci. [healthofchildren.com]

Tics may consist of eye blinking, facial grimacing, nasal flaring, or mouth opening. To best understand how a person with a tic disorder feels, one may try to refrain from blinking his own eyes for a long period of time. [childbrain.com]

flaring, chewing lip, teeth grinding, sticking out tongue, mouth stretching, lip licking) Head jerks or movements (neck stretching, touching chin to shoulder) Shoulder jerks/movements (shoulder shrugging, jerking a shoulder) Arm or hand movements (flexing [mdedge.com]

Pain in the face or teeth, denture problems, or damage to the facial nerve may cause a muscle spasm. What are the symptoms? The muscle twitching in facial tics repeats in the same pattern. Tics have no apparent purpose. [kpjampang.com]

After a tic is suppressed, it may erupt with even greater force or frequency. Tics tend to get worse when people feel anxious or tired and get better when they are calm and focused on an activity. [humanillnesses.com]

Side effects include temporary facial weakness, drooping eyelid, eye irritation and sensitivity. Surgery : Medications and injections sometimes fail to control spasms or cause side effects. [mayfieldclinic.com]

Other conditions may result in facial spasms that mimic facial tics. [healthline.com]

In general, results of surgery including (1): 85% experience immediate relief from spasms 9% report diminished spasms 2% report delay in facial spasm in the month following surgery 7% experience a recurrence of spasms after surgery Clinical trials Clinical [mayfieldclinic.com]

Botox is useful in facial spasms, blepharospasm and torticollis (dystonia of the neck muscles). Anti-seizure drugs like carbamazepine, phenytoin, gabapentin, baclofen are also useful in the treatment of movement disorders. [news-medical.net]

This condition is related to trigeminal neuralgia —an irritation of the fifth cranial nerve that causes severe facial pain. [mayfieldclinic.com]

Medication : Your doctor may prescribe anti-convulsant drugs such as carbamazepine (Tegretol) or phenytoin (Dilantin) to block firing of the nerve. [mayfieldclinic.com]

The severity of the convulsions, or ‘tics’, varies; the discomfort by the unpredictability of the condition is universal. [thenba.ca]

The 21-year-old college student had been referred after her mother observed the patient having a convulsion. [neurologyadvisor.com]