Abstract Patients with Tourette Syndrome often state that their sensitivity to sensations is
equally or more disruptive than are motor tics. However, their sensory sensitivity is not …

We administered a questionnaire designed to probe for premonitory sensations associated
with motor tics to 50 patients with Tourette's syndrome (TS). Premonitory sensations were …

Introduction Abnormal sensory perceptions, for instance hypersensitivity to certain external
stimuli or premonitory urges preceding tics, are core features in Gilles de la Tourette …

Sensory phenomena in the form of premonitory urges and" just right" perceptions appear to
be common features of tic disorders including TS. Shapiro et al.(5) proposed that these …

In the late 19th century Georges Gilles de la Tourette described nine patients with chronic tic
disorders characterized by the presence of involuntary motor and phonic tics. 1 He also …

Motor and vocal tics have long been recognised as the core features of Tourette syndrome
(TS). However, patients' first-person accounts have consistently reported that these …

Background Tics are the hallmark feature of Tourette syndrome. The basic
phenomenological and neurophysiological characteristics of tics have been widely …

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder defined by tics, but most patients
also experience bothersome sensory phenomena, in the form of premonitory urges and/or …

Background Our study was conducted to characterize sensory phenomena experienced by
Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS) sufferers. Specific foci of the study were premonitory …

Background Tics are the hallmark of Tourette syndrome (TS). However, TS patients may
have a particular vulnerability to develop other movement disorders (MDs), such as …