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Motor response inhibition in children with Tourette's disorder
Chiang-Shan Ray Li1, Hsueh-Ling Chang, Yuan-Pei Hsu
1Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. chiang-shan.li@yale.edu
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|September 12, 2006
Abstract:
Tourette's disorder has long been regarded as a disorder of involuntary movement. Here the authors show that children with Tourette's disorder do not differ from healthy comparison subjects in stop-signal inhibition. These results suggest the importance of considering motor tics as voluntary rather than as involuntary.
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