Symptom Network Analysis in a Large Sample of Children and Adults with a Chronic Tic Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic tic disorders (CTD) are multifaceted disorders characterized by multiple motor and/or vocal tics. They are often associated with complex tics including echophenomena, paliphenomena, and coprophenomena as well as psychiatric comorbidities such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Objectives

Our goal was to uncover the inter-relational structure of CTD and comorbid symptoms in children and adults and to understand changes in symptom structure across development.

Methods

We used network and graph analyses to uncover the structure of association of symptoms in childhood/adolescence (n = 529) and adulthood (n = 503) and how this structure might change from childhood to adulthood, pinpointing core sym

SUBMITTER: Forlim CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11489602 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature