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Task Force on Tic Disorders

Marina de Koning-Tijssen
Christos Ganos
Chair
Shabbir Merchant
Irene Malaty
Co-Chair

 

MDS Staff Liaison: Joe Grundle

Task Force Purpose

  • To develop a novel axis classification on tic disorders that will separate phenomenology from etiology.
  • Within the phenomenology axis of the classification to create a consensus definition of tics and clarify the role of premonitory urges and tic suppressibility within this domain.
  • To publish the axis classification in the Movement Disorders Journal.


Task Force Members

David Martino
Michael Okun
Yulia Worbe
Pramod Pal
Joohi Jimenez-Shahed
Don Gilbert 
Kevin Black
John Piacentini
Tamara Pringsheim
Mark Hallet 
Alexander Muenchau
Kailash Bhatia
Victor Fung
Francisco Cardoso