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Research Article: What distinguishes patients with mass social media-induced illness presenting with Tourette-like behavior from those with Tourette syndrome? Results of a prospective cohort study

Date Published: 2023-05-20

Introduction:
Starting in spring 2019, in Germany an outbreak of functional Tourette-like behaviors (FTB) has been observed [1]. Soon thereafter it became clear that patients with FTB with very similar symptomatology are presenting in specialist Tourette centers in many countries worldwide [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. Today, there is general agreement among experts that this outbreak is closely related to popular videos shown on social media platforms such as YouTube and TikTok [8, 9]. In Germany, the German-speaking YouTube…

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