Restricted access

A user account –with active membership for the current calendar year– is required to view this content.
Please log into your account.
log in

Membership status:

Expired/Event-specific

If you are already logged in, but have not renewed your membership yet, please select below the type that applies to you to regain access to member-reserved content.
Don't have an account yet?
You may renew your ESSTS membership for the current calendar year by clicking on the type that applies below. You will then be able to sign up and create your account.
For more details visit the Members page.
*Reserved for: MD/PhD/MSc students, postdocs, interns, residents, nurses, patient advocacy groups.
IMPORTANT
Access to member-reserved content will remain active throughout the calendar year1st Jan-31st Dec– of your membership.
Past this date and until you renew your membership again, any access to member-reserved content will be automatically deactivated.
Your account will not be affected of course!
go back

Clinical guidelines, surveys, research papers, along with lectures and workshop presentations delivered during our meetings.

Courtesy of great guest speakers and BT trainers to conference attendees (only for a limited period of time) and to ESSTS members.

A special thank you to all those who shared their valuable work with the community!

Oral presentations

ERP vs Risperidone in the treatment of tic disorders: a randomized controlled trial

Jolande van de Griendt

BT workshops

Basic training BT workshop

BT team 2025

BT workshops

Advanced BT workshop slides

BT team 2025

Oral presentations

What do behavioral problems tell us? A critical examination of patient history variables

Stella Haffner

Oral presentations

Predisposing and precipitating factors for explosive outbursts among youth with tourette syndrome

Simon Morand-Beaulieu

TS-pathology session

From D1 Receptors to Tic Reduction: Results From the Phase III Study of Ecopipam for Tourette Syndrome

Donald L. Gilbert

TS-pathology session

From TS-Pathophysiology to Treatment – and Back: What Neuromodulation Tells Us About Tic Disorders

Juan Carlos Baldermann

ADHD session

Comorbid ADHD in CBT for tics: studies & clinical experience

Jolande van de Griendt & Tara Murphy

ADHD session

What is new in the treatment of ADHD?

Kerstin von Plessen

ADHD session

ADHD & tics: clinical overview

Kerstin von Plessen

ADHD session

Tics and Sleep –Unfortunate Bedfellows

Paul Gringras

Training course

TS and ADHD

Sara Bahadori

Training course

Clinical cases, assessment and treatment

Nanette Mol Debes

Training course

How to answer FAQ from patients and families on etiology and pathophysiology of tic disorders

Tammy Hedderly

Training course

TS and comorbidities

Christelle Nlles

Training course

Pharmacological treatment, psychological intervention, DBS

Kirsten Müller-Vahl

Training course

Assessment of tics and differential diagnosis

Natalia Szejko

TS-underrepresented zones around the world

Empowering under-represented areas: Tics and Tourette syndrome in Nigeria

Joy Legbo

Movement Disorder Society

MDS tic and Tourette Syndrome study group

Tamara Pringsheim

Oral presentations

Botulinum toxin injections for tics

Tamara Pringsheim

Keynote

Behavioural Treatment of Tics- Past, Present, and Future

John Piacentini

Controversy discussion

Tic assessments YGTSS vs artificial intelligence; arguing for a brave new way

Izhar Bar-Gad

Controversy discussion

Tic assessments YGTSS vs artificial intelligence; arguing pro traditional assessment

Davide Martino

Training course

How to answer FAQ from patients and families on etiology and pathophysiology of tic disorders

Tammy Hedderly

Training course

Clinical cases, assessment and treatment

Nanette Mol Debes

Training course

TS and comorbidities

Christelle Nilles

Training course

Pharmacological treatment, psychological intervention, DBS

Kirsten Müller-Vahl

Training course

Assessment of tics and differential diagnosis

Natalia Szejko

Online course

Clinical cases, assessment and treatment

Nanette Mol Debes

Online course

Pharmacological treatment, psychological intervention, DBS

Kirsten Müller-Vahl

Online course

Assessment of tics and differential diagnosis

Natalia Szejko & Christelle Nilles

BT workshop

Tics and ASD

Zsanett Tárnok

Genetics & imaging session

Neuroimaging and genetics for Tourette syndrome

Perry Paschou

Pain & sex differences in TS session

Sex differences in TS

Christelle Nilles & Natalia Szejko

Keynote lecture

Picking, pulling, and pinching: the role of habit and harm in TS

Carol Mathews

ASD session

Autism - past, present and future

William Mandy

Genetics & imaging session

Update on genetics

Carol Mathews

Training course

CBT & DBS

Andreas Hartmann

Training course

Assessment of tics and differential diagnosis

Natalia Szejko

Training course

TS introduction, history & basics

Andrea E. Cavanna

Training course

How to answer FAQ from patients and families on etiology and pathophysiology of tic disorders

Davide Martino

Training course

Comorbidity in people with Tourette syndrome

Tamara Pringsheim

Training course

Pharmacological Treatment for Tics

Kirsten Müller-Vahl

Controversy discussion

Are functional tics easy to diagnose? -No

Davide Martino

BT workshop

Tic treatment –Learn how to become a tic therapist or enhance your skills

BT Dream-Team

Controversy discussion

Are functional tics easy to diagnose? -Yes

Tamara Pringsheim

BT workshop

Group treatment for Tics and TS-Clinical implications in Hungary

Zsanett Tárnok

Best papers

Tourette highlights from 2021

Kevin Black

Society and TS

Ticking the wrong box; a global look at why we don't know what works in tic education and how we can find out

Tara Murphy

Keynote lecture

Functional, Tourette-like behaviours in the time of COVID-19; The metamorphosis of an elusive creature

Davide Martino

BT workshop

Part 1- Psychoeducation

Ewgeni Jakubovski

BT workshop

ERP and functional interventions

Per Andrén

Epidemiological studies

Epidemiological studies in TS-Karolinska

Lorena Fernández de la Cruz

Digital tools

Development of a Self-help Digital Intervention for Young People with TS

Camila Babbage

Research paper

Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

Kirsten R. Müller Vahl

Oral presentation

Premonitory urges reconsidered

Jana Essing

BT workshop

Comorbidities & Complex Cases in TS

Charlotte Sanderson

Survey

TS and driving experiences survey 2021

Lorena Fernández de la Cruz

Research article

TS and transport accidents 2021

Lorena Fernández de la Cruz

Oral presentation

Functional Presentations in a Tic Disorder Clinic

Priya Chakraborty

Oral presentation

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways” - representation of tics and Tourette syndrome in literature, cinema, and theatre

Natalia Szejko

Oral presentation

Self-Injurious Behaviour in Patients with Chronic Tic Disorders

Natalia Szejko

Clinical guidelines

European clinical guidelines for Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders – version 2.0. Part II: psychological interventions

ESSTS collaborators

Media guidelines

Guidelines for engaging with the media as a person with Tourette Syndrome (multilingual)

Seonaid Anderson

BT workshop

Part 2-HRT

Ewgeni Jakubovski

Survey

ESSTS survey: functional tic-like behaviours across the globe 2021

ESSTS collaborators

BT workshop

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Tourette syndrome

Zsanett Tárnok

Oral presentation

CANNA-TICS Efficacy and Safety of Nabiximols in the Treatment of Adults with Chronic Tic Disorders

Kirsten R. Müller Vahl

Online course

Comorbidities in TS

Tammy Hedderly