Open AccessTics
Author(s) -
Andrew J. Lees
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
behavioural neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1875-8584
pISSN - 0953-4180
DOI - 10.1155/1990/596297
Subject(s) - tics , psychology , tourette syndrome , basal ganglia , neuroscience , anxiety , developmental psychology , psychiatry , central nervous system
Tics are an incontinent form of non-verbal communication associated with obsessional and aggressive urges and anxiety. The motor phenomena seen in socially acceptable forms of emotional release are compared and contrasted with tics. It is proposed that brain dysfunction in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome involves frontal limbic and basal ganglia loops.
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