Task Force on Tic Disorders

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Christos Ganos Chair

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.

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