An Involuntary Tics Can Be Suppressed Through Self-Hypnosis

An Involuntary Tics Can Be Suppressed Through Self-Hypnosis.
Children and immature adults with Tourette syndrome can farther ahead control over their involuntary tics through self-hypnosis, a puny new study suggests. But a specialist in the condition said the research is too preliminary to suggest whether the strategy actually works. In the study, reported in the July/August issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, researchers worn a video to teach 33 people elderly 6 to 19 how to relax through self-hypnosis.

The participants all had the tics caused by Tourette syndrome. "Once the unswerving is in his or her highly focused 'special place,' work is then done on controlling the tic. We query the patient to imagine the feeling right before that tic occurs and to put up a stop sign in front of it, or to deem a tic switch that can be turned on and off like a light switch," study co-author Dr Jeffrey Lazarus, once of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and now in hermitic practice, said in a news release from the journal's publisher.