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Stimulants and tics

Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 08:45:05 -0400
From: Peter Como <como@etin.mct.rochester.edu>
Subject: Stimulants and tics

There is an emerging literature to suggest that while stimulants can indeed exacerbate tics, this may be transient and the tics may return to a baseline level within in a relatively short period of time. Several recent publications (Gadow et al., Riddle, and colleagues) have been examining this issue in children with Tourette syndrome and ADHD. Again, the data appear promising.

In our Tourette clinic we have seen methylphenidate bring out tics in a youngster with a strong family history of TS, raising the suspicion that these youngsters likely also had inherited the genes.

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