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Tourette syndrome research highlights from 2024 - PubMed We summarize research reports from 2024 relevant to Tourette syndrome, which the authors consider the most important or interesting. This working draft aims to submit this content for publication around the beginning of 2025 in the yearly Tourette Syndrome Research Highlights series on F1000Research …

Finally on PubMed! 🔗
Tourette syndrome research highlights from 2024
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41142961/

ESSTS | Webinars | Tic Disorder Symptoms and Acquired Brain Injury Shedding light into an intriguing topic By Natalia Szejko

"Tic Disorder Symptoms and Acquired Brain Injury"
Dr Laavanya Damodaran believes that robust assessments, investigations, treatments and detailed recording of these ABI cases with a longitudinal follow-up study design, might shed more light into this intriguing topic.
www.essts.org/news/tic-dis...

ESSTS | Webinars | Sex Differences in Natural History and Health Outcomes Among Individuals with Tic Disorders This webinar presents the results of research published earlier in 2025 on Neurology Journals, highlighting sex disparities where females with Tourette Syndrome are less likely to be formally diagnose...

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ESSTS | Webinars | Physical exercise and tic disorders This webinar discusses the few studies which investigate the relationship between physical exercise and tic disorders, also considering the potential implications on commonly co-occurring conditions. ...

"Physical exercise and tic disorders"
Dr Tara Murphy discusses the few studies which investigate the relationship between physical exercise and tic disorders, considering as well the potential implications on commonly co-occurring conditions.
www.essts.org/news/physica...

"Bridging perspectives: navigating Tourette syndrome and OCD", by the SickKids Tics and Tourette Clinic and the Tourette OCD Alberta Network, this symposium brings together physicians, allied health professionals and people with lived experience with TS and/or OCD.
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The diagnostic and therapeutic journey of Tourette syndrome: Thematic analysis of the difficulties experienced by parents of patients - PubMed Our study sheds light on how the parents of children with TS experience the diagnostic and therapeutic journey. By highlighting recurrent themes experienced by families, we hope that the results will ...

A paper fresh off the press from France 🇫🇷 about the –alas still difficult– diagnostic and therapeutic journey of individuals with TS.
Hopefully some food for thought and, more importantly, action:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40234118/

ESSTS | Meetings | The Mary Robertson Travel Grants 2025 Habemus winners! By the ESSTS Board

We are bearing exciting news; please meet the Mary Robertson Travel Grant winners for 2025!
(in alphabetical order)
-Lilian Ebner, USA
-Simon Morand-Beaulieu, Canada
-Katarzyna Rylska, Poland
-Katharina Schindlbeck, Germany
#ESSTS2025 🇬🇷 🦉 ☀️
www.essts.org/news/the-mar...

ESSTS | Podcasts | Episode 8: Median nerve stimulation in tic disorders A long-awaited episode with Professor Stephen Jackson and Dr Barbara Morera from the University of Nottingham and Neurotherapeutics Ltd. By Christelle Nilles

Median nerve stimulation in tic disorders.
A long-awaited episode 🎧 with Professor Stephen Jackson and Dr Bàrbara Morera, from the University of Nottingham and Neurotherapeutics Ltd.
www.essts.org/news/episode...

Image on early bird registration: deadline approaching!

Athens 2025, don't miss the 🕊️ early bird! ≈5 days to go!
(Includes virtual attendance)
www.essts.org/registration

Graphic for new submission deadline for clinical cases

📢 Update!
Athens 2025 | New submission deadline for clinical cases: Sunday, 16 March 2025 midnight 🦉 PDT
www.essts.org/registration...

ESSTS | Webinars | Language and social communication in children with Tourette syndrome Webinar by Dr Angela Feehan, speech-language pathologist and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Calgary By Natalia Szejko

New webinar available: "Language and social communication in children with Tourette syndrome."

Natalia Szejko's guest is Dr Angela Feehan, speech-language pathologist and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Calgary.
www.essts.org/news/languag...

If you are joining us in Athens🦉☀️ this May, consider these 2 events:
-TS-school 2025 (in English), half-day intense training course on TS for professionals
www.essts.org/news/ts-scho...
-"Tics & Tourette syndrome at school" seminar (in Greek), for teachers & educators
www.essts.org/news/athens-...

Even if "it's all Greek to us"...we applaud Christina Batagia for her commitment and perseverance in founding Tourette Greece, (tourette.gr) our proud partners in the #Athens2025 ESSTS Conference!
Special thanks to Tics and Tourette Across the Globe for their continuous guidance and mentoring!

ESSTS | Webinars | Slips of the tongue in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome Vocal tics remain largely unexplored, although speech production itself requires a high degree of cognitive control. Particularly coprolalia, the utterance of taboo words that are normally suppressed ...

First webinar of the year!

Natalia Szejko's guest is Carina Robert, neuroscientist and researcher from the University of Lübeck, who presents the article “Slips of the tongue in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome”.
www.essts.org/news/slips-o...

Happy New Year from Athens!
The countdown has begun; Eugenides Foundation we will meet again in May! #TouretteConference
Wishing you all a year of health, peace and joy. ✨

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Last newsletter for 2024... 🩵

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The last 2 "Gilles is in the air" episodes 🎧 of the year:
-"Symptom severity and health impacts of functional tic-like behaviours in youth", with Lindsay Berg
www.essts.org/news/episode...
-"Gilles de la Tourette syndrome in pregnancy", with Dr Anna Castrioto
www.essts.org/news/episode...

Bearing webinars & podcasts (next in line!) 🎁
-Stereotypies and/or tics?
With Dr Andrea E. Cavanna
www.essts.org/news/stereot...
-Secondary tics?
With Dr Alex Medina Escobar
www.essts.org/news/seconda...
@Natalia Szejko Thank you for 🧑‍🎄 🛷 ➡️ webinars!

Need a ride anyone ?
#TouretteWorldStage
#Varese2024
🇮🇹🛵
Can't wait to meet you!
@ti

#StretchYourLegs vol.III
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Are you joining us in Varese?
✈️🚂🛵
Send us a photo from where your journey begins...
@SimonMBeaulieu
@ChristelleNlls @Natalia99510427 @AnnetHeijerman @Seonaidanderso2 @TTAGpatients @KJBinSTL
@TGD_Information

A heartfelt tribute to the legendary Professor Mary Robertson whose birthday is marked as International Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day.
Thank you Mary for your contribution to the TS community!
And to quote Paul Stevenson @geniuswithinCIC :
#LetsMoveBeyond
@TTAGpatients

Where? When? How ? Benvenuti a Malpensa! How do I reach the city of Varese? Where is Villa Panza? What about "Best of" voting? Want to obtain a CME certificate? We've got you covered!

We are a stone's throw from #TouretteWorldStage; 1 week to go!
Malpensa airport 🚉> Varese instructions and other FAQs:🇮🇹🛵

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Hot off the press!
#TouretteWorldStage #Varese2024
Remember: registration for the social event at Villa Panza ends tomorrow at midnight PT.@tic

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ESSTS | Podcasts | Episode 4: Early-Life and Family Risk Factors for Tic Disorder Persistence into Adulthood Description "Gilles is in the air", IV By Christelle Nilles

"Gilles is in the air" 🎙️episode IV
@ChristelleNlls talks to Professor @MataixCols about his very important article “Early-Life and Family Risk Factors for Tic Disorder Persistence into Adulthood”, published in Movement Disorders in 2023.

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Countdown⌛️
Adrenaline ✅
Record-breaking attendance ✅
(new and many) Junior colleagues joining ✅
Inspiring collaborators ✅✅✅🙏@TTAGpatients

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ESSTS | Webinars | Tourettic OCD: current understanding and treatment challenges of a unique endophenotype Discussing the clinically relevant, but previously understudied topic of the Tourettic OCD By Natalia Szejko

For our 3rd webinar, we discuss the clinically relevant, but previously understudied topic of the Tourettic OCD.
@Natalia99510427 's guest is Dr Kinga Tomczak, child neurologist and Tic Disorders & TS Programme director at the Harvard Medical School.

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Hats off to Tics and Tourette Across the Globe (TTAG) e.V. for their INSPIRING team spirit and unyielding commitment to initiating impactful collaborations! 👏 🎩

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ESSTS | Webinars | Pain in Tourette Syndrome-Children’s and Parents’ Perspectives By Natalia Szejko

For our second webinar, @Natalia99510427 welcomes Dr Agnieszka Małek, psychologist, to discuss about her latest study, "Pain in Tourette Syndrome-Children’s and Parents’ Perspectives".

essts.org/news/pain-in-t…

ESSTS | Meetings | The Mary Robertson Travel Grants 2024 Habemus winners! By the ESSTS Board

Habemus Mary Robertson Travel Grant winners 2024!
Congratulations Chelsea Dale, Irene Berzosa Gonzalez and Sarah Desfossés-Vallée!
👏🛫🛵

essts.org/news/the-mary-…

Madame Secretary (& Podcaster in chief) @ChristelleNlls at the #AAN2024
Photo credits @Natalia99510427
Congratulations!
(And come back soon!