Key Sentence:
- New report sees an increase in tics such as Tourettes in girls and young women since the pandemic.
- A recent study has found an unexplained rise in tick-like symptoms in young people since the pandemic began.
Evidence of this fast-paced disease – Generation Z which is found almost exclusively in girls and young women – has increased from 1 to 5% of all cases. Before the pandemic to 20 to 35%, according to a study published Aug. 13.
The researchers describe a “parallel pandemic in young people aged 12 to 25 years. Which is the rapid onset of complex motor and vocal behaviors similar to tics”. “There are remarkable similarities in the phenomenology of the tick-like behavior observed at our centers in Canada, US, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia,” the report said.
Interestingly, the researchers find that all of the patients. Generation Z As well as the admitted pandemic stressors, “agree to expose influential people on social media (mostly TikTok) with tics or Tourette’s syndrome. The hashtag #ticdisorder now has over 400 million views on TikTok.
During to the researchers, “in some cases, patients specifically identified an association between this media exposure and the onset of symptoms. Exposure to this tic or tic-like behavior represents a reasonable challenge to the behavior seen in at least some of these patients.”
Based on disease modeling mechanisms.
“We believe that this is an example of a mass sociogenic disease involving behavior. Emotion, or condition that spreads spontaneously within a group,” conclude the authors.
According to the report, symptoms differ from those of people with Tourette’s syndrome, which usually develops between five and seven. There was no evidence of this fast-paced disease in anyone under the age of 11.
While Tourette’s patients distort men, these recommendations apply to nearly all girls. And young women prone to anxiety or mood disorders. They also had more extreme symptoms than Tourette’s patients. The investigators concluded that these rapid-onset symptoms were functional tic-like behaviors, not the tics themselves.
In contrast to genetic problems, Tourette’s researchers believe that last year’s stress frequent blockages. Social isolation, common distractions — combined with a pre-existing mental condition has caused patients to develop these symptoms.