Friday, November 18, 2011

Tic

Tic

A Tic in definition is a sudden, repetitive, stereotyped, nonrhythmic, involuntary movement (motor tic) or sound (phonic tic) that involves discrete groups of muscles. There are to different kind of Tics there is simple motor, motor tics, simple phonic tics, complex motor tics and typical tics. Simple motor tics are sudden meaningless movements, such as eye blinking or shoulder shrugging.
Motor tics can be of an endless variety and may include such movements as hand-clapping, neck stretching, mouth movements, head, arm or leg jerks, and facial grimacing.
A simple phonic tic can be almost any possible sound or noise, with common vocal tics being throat clearing, coughing, sniffing, or grunting.
Complex motor tics are purposeful-appearing and of a longer nature.
Complex phonic tics may fall into various categories, including echolalia (repeating words just spoken by someone else), palilalia (repeating one's own previously spoken words), klazomania (compulsive shouting), lexilalia (repeating words after reading them) and coprolalia (the spontaneous utterance of socially-objectionable or taboo words or phrases).
Coprolalia is a highly-publicized, though uncommon, symptom of Tourette syndrome.
Typically, tics increase as a result of stress or high energy emotions, which can include negative emotions, such as anxiety, but positive emotions as well, such as excitement or anticipation.This article is very informative and good to know about ticcs and others can know it,and I know now alot about it as well.

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