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Motor Response Inhibition in Children With Tourette's Disorder

Received November 29, 2005; revised March 14, 2006; accepted April 8, 2006. Dr. Li is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Drs. Chang, Hsu, and Ko are affiliated with the Department of Child Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-yuan, Taiwan. Dr. Wang is affiliated with the Department of Pediatric Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-yuan, Taiwan. Address correspondence to Dr. Chiang-shan Ray Li, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Rm. S103, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 34 Park St., New Haven, CT 06519; chiang-shan.li{at}yale.edu (E-mail), or to Dr. Hsueh-Ling Chang, Dept. of Child Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 123 Dung Hou Road, Tao-yuan, Taiwan; chang0687@adm.cgmh.org.tw (E-mail).

ABSTRACT

Tourette's disorder has long been regarded as a disorder of involuntary movement. Here the authors show that children with Tourette's disorder do not differ from healthy comparison subjects in stop-signal inhibition. These results suggest the importance of considering motor tics as voluntary rather than as involuntary.

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