Tic disorders newly presenting during adulthood have occasionally been described, mostly in relation to another neurological or psychiatric disease. There are few descriptions of idiopathic adult onset tics. Treatment attempts are generally not successful, but this patient improved with pimozide....
Habit Reversal Training (HRT): Habit reversal training is a cognitive behavioral therapy technique used for treatment of tic disorders and trichotillomania. Components of HRT include: Self-Monitoring/Awareness: improves your awareness of pulling, or tic behavior and the urge that precedes the behavi...
Bacterial cultures were harvested from blood, the nasopharynx, the oropharynx, and the vallecula in all patients and the preepiglottic space in two patients. In no case was H influenzae demonstrated. No patient developed respiratory compromise. It was concluded that epiglottitis is an inaccurate ...
indicates there are improvements in sleep among nonclinical and non-treatment seeking samples. The implication that follows is that eCBT-I could be beneficial as a preventive intervention, potentially averting the development of significant sleep problems among young people experiencing...
Standards and standardization in mastocytosis: consensus statements on diagnostics, treatment recommendations and response criteria. Eur J Clin Invest 2007;37:435–453. 3 Escribano L, Alvarez-Twose I, Sanchez-Munoz L, et al. Prognosis in adult indolent systemic mastocytosis: a long-term study of...
To review the literature on habit, tic, and psychogenic cough, and to make evidence-based recommendations regarding diagnosis and treatment. For data on adults, an Ovid MEDLINE literature review (through February 2005) was performed for all studies published in the English language, including case ...
(Fig.6E), the middle-aged female cohort has a significant increase in the neurite outgrowth compared to Vehicle treatment and significantly larger relative change compared to the younger cohorts. The young adult male and female cohorts do not differ significantly, although, the young adult female ...
There are some diagno- sis and treatment particularities in adulthood compared to the same disorder described in children and adolescents.Today there are some difficulties in establishing the diagnosis in adults caused by the lack of definite diagnos- tic criteria. Also, the treatment at this age ...
Eur J Med Res (2020) 25:50 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-020-00451-0 European Journal of Medical Research CASE REPORT Open Access Treatment of the mandibular shift in an adult woman and the diagnostic value of joint space index: a case report Kai Xia1,2†, ...
Adult Hirschsprung's disease (HD) is a rare motor disorder of the gut that is frequently misdiagnosed as refractory constipation. The primary pathogenic defect in adult HD is identical to that seen in infancy or childhood, and is characterized by the total absence of intramural ganglion cells of...