Pandemic Tic-like Behaviors Following Social Media Consumption.
Tourette's syndrome
functional tics
social media
Journal
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society
ISSN: 1531-8257
Titre abrégé: Mov Disord
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8610688
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2021
12 2021
Historique:
revised:
23
08
2021
received:
06
07
2021
accepted:
02
09
2021
pubmed:
25
9
2021
medline:
17
3
2022
entrez:
24
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Currently, there is a marked increase of young people with sudden onset of tic-like behaviors (TLBs) resembling movements and vocalizations presented on social media videos as "Tourette's syndrome." To delineate clinical phenomenology of TLBs after social media exposure in comparison with clinical features of Tourette's syndrome. We compared demographic and clinical variables between 13 patients with TLBs and 13 age- and sex-related patients with Tourette's syndrome. Patients with TLBs had several characteristics allowing to distinguish them from patients with Tourette's syndrome, some of which discriminated perfectly (ie, abrupt symptom onset, lack of spontaneous symptom fluctuations, symptom deterioration in the presence of others) and some nearly perfectly (ie, predominantly complex movements involving trunk/extremities). Also, symptom onset was significantly later. TLBs after social media consumption differ from tics in Tourette's syndrome, strongly suggesting that these phenomena are categorically different conditions. © 2021 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Currently, there is a marked increase of young people with sudden onset of tic-like behaviors (TLBs) resembling movements and vocalizations presented on social media videos as "Tourette's syndrome."
OBJECTIVE
To delineate clinical phenomenology of TLBs after social media exposure in comparison with clinical features of Tourette's syndrome.
METHODS
We compared demographic and clinical variables between 13 patients with TLBs and 13 age- and sex-related patients with Tourette's syndrome.
RESULTS
Patients with TLBs had several characteristics allowing to distinguish them from patients with Tourette's syndrome, some of which discriminated perfectly (ie, abrupt symptom onset, lack of spontaneous symptom fluctuations, symptom deterioration in the presence of others) and some nearly perfectly (ie, predominantly complex movements involving trunk/extremities). Also, symptom onset was significantly later.
CONCLUSIONS
TLBs after social media consumption differ from tics in Tourette's syndrome, strongly suggesting that these phenomena are categorically different conditions. © 2021 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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