New info on tourette syndrome.
New comprehension into what causes the undisciplined movement and noises (tics) in community with Tourette syndrome may lead to new non-drug treatments for the disorder, a redone study suggests Dec 2013. These tics appear to be caused by imperfect wiring in the brain that results in "hyper-excitability" in the regions that lead motor function, according to the researchers at the University of Nottingham in England dermovate. "This imaginative study is very important as it indicates that motor and vocal tics in children may be controlled by thought changes that revise the excitability of brain cells ahead of gratuitous movements," Stephen Jackson, a professor in the school of psychology, said in a university newsflash release.
So "You can think of this as a bit have a weakness for turning the volume down on an over-loud motor system. This is leading as it suggests a mechanism that might lead to an effective non-pharmacological remedy for Tourette syndrome". Tourette syndrome affects about one in 100 children and almost always beings in early childhood. During adolescence, because of structural and utilitarian brain changes, about one-third of children with Tourette syndrome will evade their tics and another third will get better at controlling their tics.
