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. 2015 Mar 16:4:69.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6209.2. eCollection 2015.

Tourette Syndrome research highlights 2014

Cheryl A Richards  1 , Kevin J Black  2
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Tourette Syndrome research highlights 2014

Cheryl A Richards et al. F1000Res. .

Abstract

About 200 journal articles reported research on Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders in 2014. Here we briefly summarize a few of the reports that seemed most important or interesting, ranging from animal models to human studies. Readers can comment on our choices or provide their own favorites using the tools on the online article.

Keywords: MRI; animal models; histamine; inheritance; premonitory urge; remission; review; treatment.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Dr. Black participates in a clinical trial supported by Psyadon Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Black is an (unpaid) member of the F1000Research Advisory Board.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Publications on Tourette syndrome.
The number of new publications on Tourette syndrome or other tic disorders each year was estimated from PubMed. The colored line represents locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOWESS) of the primary data. PubMed was searched using the search string “(“Tic Disorders”[MeSH] OR Tourette NOT Tourette[AU]) AND year[PDAT] NOT year+1[PDAT]” for each year from 1950 through 2014. (This strategy assigns articles to the year in which the final publication appeared, to prevent double-counting “early online” and final publication dates for about 250 publications since 2005). The graph was generated by matplotlib in python (see Supplementary material).
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