Top-line results were reported today for a new study in Tourette syndrome of the dopamine D1 receptor antagonist ecopipam. This was a study designed to test whether, if someone’s tics improve with 3 months of ecopipam, they continue to have more benefit if you continue it compared to if you switch it for a placebo […]
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Journal special issue on Tourette syndrome
This post is more for our academic colleagues, but others of you may also find it interesting. Dr. Deanna Greene, now at UCSD, and I are guest editors for a special issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine on “clinical and pathophysiological studies of Tourette syndrome.” We invite manuscript submissions relevant to that topic. The […]
Cool research result from the New Tics study
We just published results showing that brain structure, measured by MRI when we first met children with recent onset of tics, helped predict how much improvement there would be in a clinical rating scale for tics when the children returned at the 1-year anniversary of their first tic. Read more about it either here, written […]
Thank you!
With Thanksgiving coming up this week, we would like to thank the many people who have been important to our work on Tourette syndrome and tic disorders here at Washington University. First, thank you to all of you who have been our patients over the years. You have taught us a great deal not only […]