Tics are an incontinent form of non-verbal communication associated with obsessional and aggressive urges and anxiety. The motor phenomena seen in socially acceptable forms of emotional release are compared and contrasted with tics. It is proposed that brain dysfunction in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome involves frontal limbic and basal ganglia loops.

Tics in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome may be a form of non-verbal communication involving frontal limbic and basal ganglia loops, compared to socially acceptable emotional release methods.

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