Behavioral Intervention Can Reduce Tics in Adults With Tourette Syndrome
Competing-response training teaches patients to engage in voluntary behaviors that are physically incompatible with the impending tic. For example, a patient who blurts out words or sounds inappropriately may be taught slow rhythmic breathing techniques, or a patient who thrusts out his arm would learn to press his elbow to his torso. This combination of awareness training and competing response training is intended to disrupt the cycle of premonitory urge and performance of the tic.I'm sorry, but what portion of the phrase "involuntary behavior" do you not understand?
You have not invented or discovered anything. Just because you measured and named it.
Tourettes patients spend their lives suppressing tics. It doesn't make them go away.
They just express themselves more forcefully later...
That's already been extensively documented by many patients.
Damn straight those drugs don't work. That's because Tourette's is caused by recurring strep infections.
Those people don't need your dopamine antagonists or behavioral training- they need infection prevention education, you self-promoting charlatan.
