Psychomotor consequences in children with Tourette’s Syndrome

Autor: Barbara Cunha Vasconcellos, Tamie Mota Arbex, Aline Silva Ziehe, Lara Cruz de Senna-Fernandes, Samantha Golçalves Barbosa, Tatiana Virgínia Fidélis Cordeiro, Caio Andrade Prins Rodrigues
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: São Paulo Medical Journal.
DOI: 10.5327/1516-3180.385
Popis: Background: Tourette’s Syndrome (TS) has a neuropsychiatric aspect and a chronic repertoire of motor-phonic tics. The common onset is in infants and remission in adults. Objective: investigate psychomotor consequences in children with TS. Design and settings: literature review. Methods: eleven studies were selected from a group of 20 after searching the MEDLINE database for “psychomotor performance OR psychomotor development” and “Tourette’s Syndrome”. Only articles with full texts available and published from 2011-2021 were included. Results: the response time (RT) of children with TS was longer. Throughout Do/Don’t tasks, with/without false alarms, the RT was lower while the accuracy of movement (AM) was greater. A study on RT and AM with different levels of complexity showed greater difficulty in ST group (p
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