Editorial: Recent advances in understanding Tourette syndrome, tic disorders and functional tics

people with FTLBs are well-supported with the use of certain techniques, they can manage 66 well at school.There is strong evidence demonstrating that individuals with tic disorders experience a lower 68 quality of life, with tics shown to have a pervasive impact on all aspects of daily living (4). Obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorders can often co-occur, with individuals fre-84 quently presenting with distinct symptoms of CTD and/or OCD (5). However, there are also a 85 subset of individuals with a condition which has been referred to as Tourettic OCD (TOCD),where patients show a specific overlap in tics, compulsions, and their preceding premonitory