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Tics are repeated, uncontrollable bursts of activity or speech. Chronic motor tic disorder involves rapid, recurrent, uncontrollable movements or vocal outbursts (but not both).
About 1 to 2% of the population has chronic motor tic disorder. The condition is more common than Tourette's Syndrome , but not as common as transient tic disorder , which occurs and then stops without treatment within a year.
It is thought that all types of chronic tics are types of Tourette's Syndrome.
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