Symptoms compatible with long COVID in an Italian pediatric cohort of Tourette patients with and without SARS‑CoV‑2 infection: a short-term follow-up assessment

A Prato, AM Salerno, F Saia, N Maugeri, A Zanini… - BMC pediatrics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental
disorder with a worldwide prevalence of about 0.3–1% of the population. During the …

Adverse mental health impact of the COVID-19 lockdown in individuals with Tourette syndrome in Italy: an online survey

G Conte, V Baglioni, F Valente, F Chiarotti… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
During the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Italy, an
online survey was launched via a local patient advocacy website to investigate mental …

Differences in tic severity among adolescent girls and boys with Tourette syndrome during the pandemic

TR Larsh, SW Wu, DA Huddleston, TD Lipps… - …, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Limited data are available regarding the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic on adolescents with Tourette syndrome (TS). We sought to compare sex …

Rapid onset functional tic‐like behaviours in children and adolescents during COVID‐19: Clinical features, assessment and biopsychosocial treatment approach

VX Han, K Kozlowska, K Kothur… - … of paediatrics and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To report the prevalence and clinical characteristics of children with rapid onset
functional tic‐like behaviours during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Methods Single centre …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid onset functional tic-like disorder outbreak: a challenging differential diagnosis in the COVID-19 pandemic

G Amorelli, D Martino, T Pringsheim - Journal of the Canadian …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
█ Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries have observed an
unexpected increase in the number of adolescents and young adults presenting with rapid …

New‐onset functional tics during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Clinical characteristics of 105 cases from a single centre

AE Cavanna, G Purpura, A Riva… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose The COVID‐19 pandemic has been associated amongst other
things with a sharp increase in adolescents and young adults presenting acutely with …

Rapid onset of functional tic‐like behaviours in young adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

T Pringsheim, D Martino - European Journal of Neurology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Clinicians have reported an increase in functional tic‐like
behaviours in children and youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We describe adults …

[HTML][HTML] Perceived worsening of tics in adult patients with Tourette syndrome after the COVID‐19 outbreak

D Mataix‐Cols, H Ringberg… - … disorders clinical practice, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To our knowledge, there are no data on the perceived impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on
tic severity in persons with Tourette syndrome (TS) or chronic tic disorder (CTD), although …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tic symptoms in children and young people: a prospective cohort study

CL Hall, L Marston, K Khan, BJ Brown… - Child Psychiatry & …, 2023 - Springer
To understand how children and young people with tic disorders were affected by COVID-
19, we compared pre and during pandemic scores on the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale …

[HTML][HTML] Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: advice in the times of COVID-19

MM Robertson, V Eapen, R Rizzo, JS Stern… - …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was identified as the cause of an outbreak of
respiratory disease in China at the end of 2019. It then spread with enormous rapidity and by …