Tics and Their Treatment

The author of the article "Tic" in the Dictionary in Sixty Volumes of 1822 urges the necessity of care and perseverance in the correction of the involuntary movements characteri...

This chapter we shall devote to a review, necessarily incomplete, of the principal sites in which tics are to be met with. We do not pretend to have collated every known case ob...

Our study of tic can be approached only after a preliminary understanding as to the meaning of two words too frequently confounded even in scientific literature--_tic_ and _spas...

We have already, on more than one occasion, drawn attention to the phenomena known as stereotyped acts, demonstrating their intimate kinship with the tics and the frequent diffi...

At the time when the plan of our book was being sketched we decided to introduce the subject with several characteristic clinical documents, since it appeared to us indispensabl...

The existence of psychical abnormalities in the subjects of tics is no new observation. Charcot[18] used to say that tic was a psychical disease in a physical guise, the direct...

The general characters of the motor reaction constituting the objective manifestation of tic form the subject of previous analysis in the chapter on pathological physiology. It...

Tic is, from its nature, highly variable in its evolution; each tic has a development peculiar to itself. Mental differences among individuals have their counterpart in physical...

In movements of inspiration or of expiration the passage of air through a more or less contracted glottis gives rise to all sorts of sounds, some of which, under certain conditi...

Tics are commonly held to be trivial affections of but passing medical interest, while in addition they have gained the notoriety of being peculiarly rebellious to treatment. Su...

A vast number of disturbances of motility, distinguished as spasm, chorea, cramp, myoclonus, myotonia, etc., may be derived from the same pathological substratum as tic, and an...

The circumstances favouring development of a tic in soil already prepared by psychical predisposition are manifold. Our studies in the pathogenesis of tic have illustrated the s...

Our ignorance of the pathological anatomy of tic is profound. Hitherto all the cases labelled tic in which a post-mortem examination has been made have in reality been spasmodic...

We have just become acquainted with an individual who may, we believe, be considered the type of a species, and have described all his tics. What is a tic, then?

The question whether in cases of tic there is any alteration in superficial or deep reflexes can be decisively answered only by an appeal to statistics, the information afforded...

However harmless and insignificant a tic may be, it is a source of annoyance to its subject of which he constantly seeks to disembarrass himself. But the feebleness of his will...

The prognosis in a case of tic depends solely on the mental state of the patient. After what has been said of the rôle played by psychical disorders in the genesis of tic, we ca...

We are scarcely inclined to believe in the possibility of condensing into an adequately concise and adequately precise formula our conception of tic, or at least all the notions...

Following in the train of the tics may come a number of complications, insignificant enough as a general rule, the dread of which may in some cases actually be instrumental in s...

TICS OF THE NOSE--SNIFFING TICS TICS OF THE LIPS--SUCKING TICS TICS OF THE CHIN TICS OF THE TONGUE--LICKING TICS TICS OF THE JAWS--BITING TICS--TICS OF MASTICATION MENTAL TRISMU...

TIC AND SPASM TIC AND MOTOR REACTIONS; REFLEX, CO-ORDINATED, FUNCTIONAL, AUTOMATIC, AND VOLUNTARY ACTS TIC AND CO-ORDINATION THE GENESIS OF TIC TIC AND WILL TIC AND HABIT TIC AN...