Open AccessPsychomotor consequences in children with Tourette’s Syndrome
Author(s) -
Barbara Cunha Vasconcellos,
Tamie Mota Arbex,
Aline Silva Ziehe,
Lara Cruz de Senna-Fernandes,
Samantha Golçalves Barbosa,
Tatiana Virgínia Fidélis Cordeiro,
Caio Andrade Prins Rodrigues
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5327/1516-3180.385
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , tics , tourette syndrome , psychomotor retardation , psychomotor agitation , psychology , audiology , psychomotor disorder , motor skill , medicine , pediatrics , psychiatry , clinical psychology , cognition , alternative medicine , pathology
Background: Tourette’s Syndrome (TS) has a neuropsychiatric aspect and a chronic repertoire of motor-phonic tics. The common onset is in infants and remission in adults. Objective: investigate psychomotor consequences in children with TS. Design and settings: literature review. Methods: eleven studies were selected from a group of 20 after searching the MEDLINE database for “psychomotor performance OR psychomotor development” and “Tourette’s Syndrome”. Only articles with full texts available and published from 2011-2021 were included. Results: the response time (RT) of children with TS was longer. Throughout Do/Don’t tasks, with/without false alarms, the RT was lower while the accuracy of movement (AM) was greater. A study on RT and AM with different levels of complexity showed greater difficulty in ST group (p<0.001) with RT increasing according to complexity. Many children with TS also had ADHD, and when comparing them to the ones only with TS, the ADHD+TS group made more mistakes while having the same RT. The ADHD+TS group also had a response blockage in non-sequential tests and lower TS in sequential tests (p=0.006). Studies showed an association between motor tics and forgetfulness rate (FR), with these being inversely proportional. Conclusion: children with TS have greater RT and the response to uni and bimodal stimuli differ, with greater AM and lower RT to single stimulus. More severe tics were associated with better content retention. Other psychiatric disorders are common, especially ADHD, requiring further studies to link the consequences of each pathology accordingly.