Comorbidity of tic hyperkineses with impulsive disorders
Tourette's syndrome, the most common cause of tics, manifests itself in a wide range of motor and behavioral disorders and is found in men about three times more often than in women. The purpose - to establish the comorbidity of neuropsychiatric disorders in patients with tic hyperkinesis. Material and methods. The study included 111 patients with tic hyperkinesis of various ages and sex, who were outpatiently observed at the Clinical and Diagnostic Center for Movement Disorders and Botulinum Therapy of the Republic of Tatarstan from 2011 to 2014. Results and conclusions. In the group of patients we studied, tics were more common in males (in 71.6% of cases), and patients with Tourette's syndrome were numerically predominant, taking into account the visits to the Clinical and Diagnostic Center for Movement Disorders and Botulinum Therapy of the Republic of Tatarstan. Clinical manifestations of obsessive-compulsive disorders were found not only in patients with Tourette's syndrome, but they are characteristic of 53.2% of patients with tic hyperkinesis of various severity and phenomenology. Also, regardless of the structural and phenomenological characteristics of tic hyperkinesis, they were almost always associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with a predominance of hyperactivity.