Mandy Maysey kept a smile on her face as her son Tryxx, 11, involuntarily slapped her as the pair were conducting a live cross to Studio 10 from their Gold Coast home on Monday.
For the past two years, there has been a dramatic uptick in young people (almost exclusively females) presenting with tic-like behaviours indicative of Tourette Syndrome to specialist clinics in Canada, the United States, the UK, Germany and Australia. The phenomena of tic-like behaviours developed rapidly over a course of hours or days, coined ‘rapid onset tic-like behaviours’ in one paper, appears to be a form of functional neurological disorder with an unusual cause: social media. By Jarryd Bartle
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