2023-12-02 15:40:44
“Having tics does not prevent the vast majority of children from leading a normal life,” reassures the D
r Andreas Hartmann, neurologue. Florian Kittemann/Floki – stock.adobe.com
One in five children develop transient tics, but only 1% become chronic and a small minority turn out to be severe.
“He won’t stop blinking.”, “He constantly makes faces”, “He clears his throat”sniffles, coughs, repeats one’s words (palilalia) or those of others (echolalia)… Nothing is more common than ticsparticularly in childhood and adolescence. “Parents are making a fuss over the caricatured representations found on social media”, testifies Dr Andreas Hartmann, neurologist and head of the Reference Center for Gilles de la Tourette syndrome at La Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris). His team, like those of the 13 skills centers located throughout the rest of the territory, sees worried families passing by. Yet, “severe forms are very rarereassures the doctor. Having tics does not prevent the vast majority of children from leading a normal life.” And this has nothing to do with intelligence, which is absolutely not impacted.
But where do these funny gestures or compulsive expressions come from? A tic is an involuntary movement…
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