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Preparation and motor potentials in chronic tic and Tourette syndromes.

Many studies have found that people with tic disorder show more difficulty when inhibiting an automated than a controlled response. Furthermore, although normal motor threshold and excitability are present, but reduced or impaired, motor inhibition seems manifest in patients with tic. In order to localize this inhibition impairment in tic disorder the present study examine two response-locked ERPs: the Bereitschaft (preparation BP) and the motor potentials (MP). The simple tic group showed faster BP latency and smaller amplitude than control and complex tic group and did not show a corresponding change in values with practice or with automated or controlled condition. The MP amplitudes revealed that whereas both controls and complex tic disorder showed a decrease in amplitude during control condition for both blocks, simple tic showed larger amplitude. Our ERP results are in agreement with RT results of a previous study. The explanation could lie with modulation in motor excitation inhibition circuits and seems worse in simple tics where the movements are more automatic and nonvoluntary.

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