Interoception and Premonitory Urges in Children and Adolescents With Tic Disorders

Abstract: Background: Compared to healthy controls (HCs), adult Tic Disorder (TD) patients exhibit a lower interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) in heartbeat perception. Since the lower IAcc is not evident in children, the age at which tics develop, but in adults only (Pile et al., 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3608-8), lower IAcc may reflect a pathological mechanism relevant with regard to tics, premonitory urges (PUs) or the resulting impairment. Although tics are a motor phenomenon, up to date, IAcc has been assessed only with a heartbeat-counting task. This study aims at comparing cardiac and muscular IAcc using two different paradigms and investigates how IAcc is related to premonitory urges in youth. Method: Interoceptive measures (heartbeat-counting task, muscle tension paradigm) of 28 youth with TD were compared to 23 control participants and related to self-rated premonitory urges and tic symptoms. Results: TD patients did not differ from HCs in any IAcc measures. However, within.... https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/8185

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Interoception and Premonitory Urges in Children and Adolescents With Tic Disorders ; volume:5 ; number:1 ; day:31 ; month:03 ; year:2023 ; Clinical psychology in Europe ; 5, Heft 1 (31.03.2023)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Schütteler, Christina ; Woitecki, Katrin ; Döpfner, Manfred ; Gerlach, Alexander L.

Further information

• DOI: 10.32872/cpe.8185
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023041505135867270894
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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