#GetToKnowMe by TTAG

Tourette Awareness Month is coming, be part of TTAG's upcoming campaign

The Mary Robertson Travel Grants 2025

Habemus winners!

Episode 8: Median nerve stimulation in tic disorders

A long-awaited episode with Professor Stephen Jackson and Dr Barbara Morera from the University of Nottingham and Neurotherapeutics Ltd.

Language and social communication in children with Tourette syndrome

Webinar by Dr Angela Feehan, speech-language pathologist and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Calgary

TS-school, Athens 2025

An intense training course for professionals who are interested in the clinical aspects of TS

Athens 2025 seminar: "Tics & Tourette syndrome at school"

Seminar on Tourette syndrome and tic disorders for teachers & educators (in Greek!)

Athens 2025, Behavioural Therapy workshops

3-hour BT workshops (2) for participants with basic and advanced training

Slips of the tongue in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

Vocal tics remain largely unexplored, although speech production itself requires a high degree of cognitive control. Particularly coprolalia, the utterance of taboo words that are normally suppressed due to social inappropriateness, implies that cognitive control processes may be altered in GTS.

Episode 7: Gilles de la Tourette syndrome in pregnancy

Episode 6: Symptom severity and health impacts of functional tic-like behaviours in youth

Focusing on care equity and examining barriers and facilitators of medical and mental health care for trans and gender diverse youth.

Secondary tics?

"There is a crack, a crack in everything and that's how the light gets in"...

Stereotypies and/or tics?

Dr Cavanna shares some ideas on this clinical, "thorny" topic".

Online TS-school 2025

The 4th edition of the TS-school will be held online!

2025...See you in Athens!

In-person and virtual attendees welcome!

Behavioural therapy for tics: consultations for clinicians 2025

The BT Dream Team is here!

Apply for the Mary Robertson travel grants for Athens 2025

Are you a junior researcher contemplating joining us in Athens?

Why tic severity changes from now to then and from here to there

Athens 2024, seminar on Tourette syndrome

Introduction to Tourette syndrome for the general public

Cognition in Tourette syndrome

Tic-Talk Project: international collaborators sign-up

Clinical research fellowship in tics and Tourette syndrome in Toronto

Gain expertise in TS and tic disorders, working within the multidisciplinary stepped care model of the clinic by collaborating with colleagues in psychiatry, psychology and neurology.

Life with tic disorders: from childhood to adulthood

Researchers, theoreticians, and therapists from all fields of interest interfacing with TD, are invited to publish their work.

Animal models of tic disorders: a translational strategy

Episode 5: Tourette syndrome at school; challenges and perspectives

"Gilles is in the air", V

Living with deafness, Tourette syndrome and autism

Inspiring stories continuation; Chris Walker, THANK YOU!

Mille grazie V-team!

Arrivederci Varese!

Sleep disorders in Tourette syndrome

Sleep problems are very frequently reported by children with neurodevelopmental conditions such as TS and ADHD, and cause significant quality of life impairment.

Professor Mary Robertson Award for Research Contribution 2024

Congratulations Dr Dale! 👏

Episode 4: Early-Life and Family Risk Factors for Tic Disorder Persistence into Adulthood Description

"Gilles is in the air", IV

Theatre production: "Lady Tourette"

"A brilliant and empathetic comedy narrating the daily life of a boy with Tourette."

Tourettic OCD: current understanding and treatment challenges of a unique endophenotype

Discussing the clinically relevant, but previously understudied topic of the Tourettic OCD

Pain in Tourette Syndrome-Children’s and Parents’ Perspectives

The Mary Robertson Travel Grants 2024

Habemus winners!

Episode 3: Accepting Tourette; before and after the diagnosis

"Gilles is in the air", III

Tic e Tourette a Scuola

Evento dedicato agli insegnanti

TS-school; corso di formazione sulla Sindrome di Tourette

La TS-school è un evento satellite rispetto alla 16ª Conferenza Internazionale su Disturbi da tic e Sindrome di Tourette

Tic-Talk: Voices on Tourette Labelling

Understanding perspectives on diagnostic labelling in TS.

Episode 2: Cannabis-based medicines for the treatment of tics

"Gilles is in the air", II

The online TS-school 2024 has aired!

...welcoming attendees from 12 counties

Episode 1: Myths, misconceptions and ways forward

"Gilles is in the air", I

Have we forgotten what tics are?

A re-exploration of tic phenomenology in youth with primary tics

Online TS-school 2024

The 2nd edition of the TS-school will be held online!

Introducing the Mary Robertson travel grants!

Are you a junior researcher contemplating joining us in Varese?

Launching webinars v.2!

Gearing up for a new series of webinars

Welcome to the ESSTS podcast series!

Introducing the 1st season of "Gilles is in air"

Introducing member accounts!

Activate your account and access member-reserved content

2024...See you in Varese!

Save the date; 12-14 June 2024 andiamo a Varese!

New ESSTS Board 2023-2026!

Brussels 2023 elections; meet our new board members

Professor Mary Robertson Award for Research Contribution 2023

And the winner is...Jade-Jocelyne Zouki! 👏

Happy Birthday Mary Robertson!

A memorable moment today at the opening ceremony....

Survey; clinical practices with tic patients

On behalf of the International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Society Tic and Tourette Syndrome Study Group; a 10-minute survey describing your clinical practices with tic patients.

Board candidacies 2023

Final stretch of the current board's term!

Theatre production: "Permit, oh permit my soul to rebel"

Not attending the social event? ...A performance to consider!

Board elections 2023

It's election year! Are you interested in joining the board of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome?

TS survey by the University of Copenhagen

Survey time! Exploring which professions consult and treat patients with tics and Tourette Syndrome and what treatment options are available in different countries across Europe

TS-school, Brussels 2023

Inaugurating a training course for TS beginners!

Brussels 2023 Meeting

💡 Bookmark: the 15th European Conference will take place in Brussels on 7-9 June 2023!

Professor Mary Robertson Award for Research Contribution 2022

And the winner is...Simon Morand-Beaulieu! 👏

...For we have run out of words

Functional tics on the rise

A clear, comprehensive presentation on functional tics; sudden increase, diagnostic difficulties, etiology, treatment & next steps.

Immune-brain interactions in neurodevelopment

Epigenomics, inflammation and microglia

Happy holidays 2022

Happy holidays and...power to your resolutions! 🎄✨ Here's to getting together in 2022!

Psychiatric comorbidities in Tourette Syndrome

For our 6th and final webinar for 2021, Dr Cath speaks about psychiatric comorbidities in TS

Explosive outbursts in Tourette Syndrome

For our 5th webinar, Dr Cathy L. Budman speaks to our Secretary Dr Natalia Szejko about explosive outbursts in Tourette Syndrome.

We hope you enjoyed our virtual 13th European Conference!

The 13th European Conference page is online, take a tour...

With gratitude to Suzanne Dobson

Dr Jeremy Stern, Honorary Medical Director at Tourettes Action UK and a close friend of Suzanne has kindly shared with us a wonderful tribute.

Open call for the FMD session

We invite fellow professionals to submit case reports on functional, "Tourette-like" behaviours.

Survey on functional, tic-like behaviours

This survey aims to evaluate frequency and clinical variability of functional tics and Tourette-like behaviours in Europe and all around the globe.

Register and submit your abstract 2021!

Registration is now open, grab your keyboards and start uploading! 📝

Deep brain stimulation for Tourette Syndrome

For our 4th webinar, Dr Michael S. Okun shares the latest updates on deep brain stimulation for Tourette Syndrome.

Pharmacological treatment of ADHD in children with comorbid tic disorders

Virtual Meeting I, the teaser

ESSTS' 1st Virtual Meeting...check!

Virtual Meeting II

Save the date, ESSTS' annual -virtual this time- Meeting has been confirmed!

Georges Gilles de la Tourette: his life and how he defined Tourette Syndrome

A compelling narration with illustrations from the author's personal collection

Advances in the treatment of tics

ESSTS' first webinar!

Virtual Meeting I

ESSTS' first virtual Meeting (the teaser!)

Happy holidays & gearing-up for 2021!

One way or another, we are getting together this new year.

Habemus new ESSTS Board 2020-2023!

World Directory

Directory of Tourette Syndrome Patient Associations around the world

Summer 2020 & September Board elections

Updates under the sun

Driving experiences survey

***UPDATE March 2021: Published article available*** A global survey examining various themes by Karolinska Institutet & Tourettes-Action UK.

Postponing the 13th European Conference...

The update that you have probably anticipated; it is indeed with a heavy heart and after thorough deliberations with our Swiss hosts, that ESSTS has decided to postpone the upcoming Meeting in Lausanne (3-5 June 2020), for next year.

Lausanne 2020 Meeting

Best small city in the world...we are coming!

Happy holidays 2020

& Lausanne Meeting-Preliminary programme