6 results match your criteria: "Guy's King's and Saint Thomas' School of Medicine[Affiliation]"
Editorial: Recent advances in understanding Tourette syndrome, tic disorders and functional tics.
Front Psychiatry
March 2023
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
The spectrum of functional tic-like behaviours: Data from an international registry.
Eur J Neurol
February 2023
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Article Synopsis
- A significant increase in adolescents and young adults seeking help for functional tic-like behaviors (FTLBs) was observed from 2019 to 2022, prompting an international registry study to better understand this phenomenon.
- Data was collected from 10 tertiary centers, involving 294 patients primarily aged 12-25, revealing high rates of complex movements and vocalizations, with a notable link to anxiety, depression, and autism spectrum disorders.
- Treatment outcomes showed that most patients did not benefit from tic-suppressing medications, highlighting the need for further research on effective treatments and the impact of social media exposure on FTLBs.
The changing landscape of childhood tic disorders following COVID-19.
Paediatr Child Health (Oxford)
October 2022
, Fourth year medical student, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Conflicts of interest: none declared.
The article describes classification, aetiology and features of typical tic disorders (Tourette syndrome) and their management with an additional focus on a surge in atypical tic presentations following the COVID-19 pandemic, often described as functional tics, or functional tic-like movements. We discuss what explains their atypical nature and what might underpin this increase in incidence. Lastly the article provides an overview of management of functional tics, so readers can understand how management of these differs from typical tic disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLetter to editor: Emerging public health challenge in UK: perception and belief on increased COVID19 death among BAME healthcare workers.
J Public Health (Oxf)
December 2022
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, Medicine Newcomen St, London SE1 1UL, UK.
A cross-sectional survey of Black Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) health care workers evaluating their perception and belief on increased Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) death among BAME health care workers was conducted in Leicester. They found that 72% of respondents had some form of impact on their mental health but the majority were satisfied with the overall support they received from local health care providers. In conclusion, adequate culturally competent mental health support is necessary as the BAME workforce is routinely involved in frontline work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 related increase in childhood tics and tic-like attacks.
Arch Dis Child
April 2021
Tic and Neurodevelopmental Movements Service (TANDeM), Guy's King's and Saint Thomas' School of Medicine, London, UK.
Objectives: The coexistence of two complex physiologies such as Fontan and pregnancy is still not fully understood. We aim to add a unique and essential knowledge to help our colleagues in the management of Fontan patients that undergo pregnancy as well as the fetus and the placenta perfusion.
Methods And Results: We analyse the coexistence of Fontan and pregnancy physiology on a complex case of a woman with hypoplastic left heart syndrome palliated with a univentricular repair who became pregnant, delivered very prematurely and had atypical placental findings.