See also: TIC

The tics are movements compulsifs surprising by their abrupt and inappropriate character with the situation.

Characters of the tics

A tic usually presents the following characters:

• suggestibility : the degree of emotivity and the attention of the subject influence the release of the tic.
• involuntary or semi-volunteer : the tic is spontaneous or parasitic a deliberated movement.
• suppressible temporarily : the tic answers momentarily an effort of control
• need carried out (to move is urgent)
• remittent : the frequency of the tics knows momentary reductions.

One distinguishes several types of tics:

• : driving tics
• :: simple: flickering of the eyes
• :: complex: movement of raising of shoulder, movements of the faces in all kinds (to raise the eyebrow, to roll the eyes, to make mine of renifler), movement of the hands (to type on a support, " jouer" with its beard or its eyebrows, to rub the chin)
• : vocal tics
• :: simple: vocal emission
• :: complex: Coprolalie

Causes

Diseases comprising of the tics

• Disease of Gilles of Tourette