title: Clinical assessment of tics.
abstract: Comprehensive clinical evaluation of tics includes (1) assessments to diagnose (a) akathisia, myoclonus, stereotypies, and other dyskinesias and (b) their frequent behavioral concomitants, including attention deficits, compulsions, obsessions, and other psychopathologic manifestations, (2) descriptions of movement parameters from the patients, their parents, teachers, and important others, and (3) precise topographical localization of tics.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. brasic@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Brasić
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D020820:Dyskinesias / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009207:Myoclonus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D011595:Psychomotor Agitation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D019956:Stereotypic Movement Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D013981:Tic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology