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| A sudden, tic-like vulgar, sexual, or obscene GESTURE |
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| The sudden, inappropriate expression of a socially unacceptable WORD or phrase and may include obscenities as well as specific ethnic, racial, or religious slurs. (found in fewer than 10% of individuals with a tic disorder) |
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| Involuntary, spontaneous imitiation of someone else's movements |
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| Repeating the last-heard sound, word, or phrase |
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| Repeating one's own sounds or words |
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| Typically a simple, random, irregular, and nonstereotyped movement that has no premonitory component and increase when the person is distracted |
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| Slow, protracted twisting movements interspersed with prolonged states of muscular tension. |
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| Slow, irregular, writhing movements, most frequently in the fingers and toes but often involving the neck |
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| Brief, simple, shocklike muscle contractions that may affect parts of muscles or muscle groups Unlike tics, myoclonic movements may continue during sleep. |
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| Intermittent, coarse, large-amplitude, unilateral movements of the limbs |
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| Stereotypic, prolonged movements involving the same groups of muscles that are usually slower but are sometimes more rapid than tics |
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| Irregular, repetitive, unilateral jerks of facial muscles |
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| An involuntary movement that is concurrent exclusively with a specific voluntary (movement of the corner of the mouth when the person intends to close the eye). |
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