Active clinical trials for "Tourette Syndrome"

To examine the effectiveness and clinical care outcomes of cognitive-behavioral therapy interventions at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a computerized handwriting training protocol (MovAlyzeR), through daily practice of handwriting on an electronic device to improve handwriting skills in children with tic disorders (TD).

Tic disorders, including Tourette's Disorder (TD) and Chronic Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder (CTD), are neurodevelopmental motor disorders characterised by motor and/or vocal tics. TD/CTD are impairing conditions with onset during childhood that often persist into adulthood. Behaviour therapy (BT) is an effective treatment for TD/CTD and is recommended as a first-line intervention in both in children and in adults. However, most adults with TD/CTD do not have access to BT due to a lack of trained professionals and geographical barriers. The objective of the study is to adapt and extend existing face-to-face BT treatment protocols for adults with TD/CTD to an internet-delivered format and evaluate its feasibility and preliminary efficacy. A total of 30 adult TD/CTD adult patients deemed eligible for the study through the recruitment process involving both psychologist and physician assessment will be enrolled in the project. The 8-modues treatment program, mainly based on exposure with response prevention with addition of other techniques will be made available for the participants in a secure treatment platform. The participants will keep in touch with a therapist using two-ways written communication in the same platform. The therapist's role will be to introduce the treatment and its modules, give feedback on the homework assignments and open the new modules as well as monitor the participants psychiatric symptoms and activity in the plattform. The measures will include tic severity secifically and disease severity in general, anxiety and depression symptoms, quality of life, treatment credibility and therapeutic alliance. The measures will be administrated at baseline, min- and post-tretment, as well at 3 and 12 months follow-up. Upon completion, this project will be the first crucial step towards the implementation of internet-delivered behaviour therapy (I-BT) for adults with TD/CTD in regular health care.

Tourette's Syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disease characterized tics that start before the age of 18 years. About 5% of cases do not respond to drug treatment and can be classified as refractory and in these cases surgical treatment, with deep brain stimulation, appears as a therapeutic possibility, but with still conflicting results. Our hypothesis is that DBS in Forel's H Field could improve tourette's symptoms, neurological and psychiatric ones.

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics often associated with psychiatric comorbidities (obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and depressive syndrome, impulsivity). The pathophysiology of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome remains unclear.

To evaluate whether supplementing with PS128 can improve the symptoms and quality of life related to Tourette's disease in children.

There are currently no approved medications for the treatment of anxiety in children and youth with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), both common and rare. Sertraline, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, has extensive evidence to support its use in children's and youth with anxiety but not within NDDs. More research is needed to confirm whether or not sertraline could help improve anxiety in children and youth with common and rare neurodevelopmental conditions. This is a pilot study, in which we plan to estimate the effect size of reduction in anxiety of sertraline vs. placebo. across rare and common neurodevelopmental disorders, and determine the best measure(s) to be used as a primary transdiagnostic outcome measure of anxiety, as well as diagnosis specific measures in future, larger-scale clinical trials of anxiety in NDDs.

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS; also known as Tourette syndrome) is a congenital neuropsychiatric disorder. Characteristic symptoms are so-called tics-rapid, repetitive movements (motor tics) or vocalizations (vocal tics) that start suddenly without any apparent purpose. Previous research supports the hypothesis of defective regulation (dysregulation) of the dopaminergic system, with particular discussion of dysfunction of tonic/phasic dopamine release or dopaminergic hyperinnervation. Moreover, given the complex interaction of different neurotransmitters, especially in the basal ganglia, it can be assumed that abnormal dopaminergic transmission also affects other transmitter systems, such as glutamate (Glu) or γ-aminobutyrate (GABA). Furthermore, recent results suggest an abnormality in cerebral iron metabolism in GTS. Since iron is accumulated in dopamine vesicles and plays a central role in dopamine synthesis, this observation may also be related to dysfunction of the dopaminergic system. Therefore, in this multimodal study, the investigators aim to combine positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) methods comparing patients with GTS and a control cohort. In Part 2 of this study, MRI and MRS at 7 Tesla are employed to investigate (i) the concentrations of Glu, glutamine and GABA in the corpus striatum and the cortex cingularis anterior and (ii) the subcortical iron concentration.

To evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the cannabinoid-based medication SCI-110 compared to placebo in subjects with Tourette syndrome.

The Investigators propose a two-year, longitudinal pilot study of TS adults (>18) to determine impact of lifetime environmental stress exposure on tic severity, psychiatric comorbidity severity, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL).