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TikTok is giving teen girls Tourette-like tics: Doctors call it a 'pandemic' | New York Post
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Physicians at hospitals all over the world are reporting a bizarre phenomenon that's seen a rapid rise in teenage girls developing tics - physical twitches - which doctors believe may have been derived from TikTok.
Months of study leads doctors to believe TikTok trends and pandemic boredom to be the source - via Tourette syndrome influencers on the platform. Indeed, with hashtags such as #tourettes and #tourettesyndrome, the trend has amassed an alarming 6.2 billion views on the platform as of Wednesday afternoon.
Research is now underway in the US to discover the underlying cause of the rise in Tourette-like cases, including one recent article by a team of Chicago-based doctors published in the journal Movement Disorders, with the disturbing title "TikTok Tics: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic."
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