New Info On Tourette Syndrome.
New understanding into what causes the of control movement and noises (tics) in people with Tourette syndrome may lead to new non-drug treatments for the disorder, a further study suggests Dec 2013. These tics appear to be caused by subnormal wiring in the brain that results in "hyper-excitability" in the regions that control motor function, according to the researchers at the University of Nottingham in England. "This fresh study is very important as it indicates that motor and vocal tics in children may be controlled by discernment changes that alter the excitability of brain cells ahead of willing movements," Stephen Jackson, a professor in the school of psychology, said in a university news release.
So "You can consider of this as a bit like turning the volume down on an over-loud motor system. This is respected as it suggests a mechanism that might lead to an effective non-pharmacological therapy for Tourette syndrome". Tourette syndrome affects about one in 100 children and in the main beings in early childhood. During adolescence, because of structural and essential brain changes, about one-third of children with Tourette syndrome will lose their tics and another third will get better at controlling their tics.
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An Involuntary Tics Can Be Suppressed Through Self-Hypnosis
An Involuntary Tics Can Be Suppressed Through Self-Hypnosis.
Children and infantile adults with Tourette syndrome can move further control over their involuntary tics through self-hypnosis, a puny new study suggests. But a specialist in the condition said the research is too preliminary to hint whether the strategy actually works. In the study, reported in the July/August issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, researchers in use a video to teach 33 people grey 6 to 19 how to relax through self-hypnosis.
The participants all had the tics caused by Tourette syndrome. "Once the passive is in his or her highly focused 'special place,' work is then done on controlling the tic. We demand the patient to imagine the feeling right before that tic occurs and to put up a stop sign in front of it, or to fancy a tic switch that can be turned on and off like a light switch," study co-author Dr Jeffrey Lazarus, when the world was young of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and now in undisclosed practice, said in a news release from the journal's publisher.
Children and infantile adults with Tourette syndrome can move further control over their involuntary tics through self-hypnosis, a puny new study suggests. But a specialist in the condition said the research is too preliminary to hint whether the strategy actually works. In the study, reported in the July/August issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, researchers in use a video to teach 33 people grey 6 to 19 how to relax through self-hypnosis.
The participants all had the tics caused by Tourette syndrome. "Once the passive is in his or her highly focused 'special place,' work is then done on controlling the tic. We demand the patient to imagine the feeling right before that tic occurs and to put up a stop sign in front of it, or to fancy a tic switch that can be turned on and off like a light switch," study co-author Dr Jeffrey Lazarus, when the world was young of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and now in undisclosed practice, said in a news release from the journal's publisher.
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