New reports this year described important advances in several areas. Increasingly, data have appeared to clarify the phenomenon of functional tic-like symptoms: exactly how they differ from typical tics in TS, their prognosis, and their treatment. Methods for automated detection and timing of tics are progressing steadily and when ripe are likely substantially to aid both research and treatment. Prospective studies of tic outcome continue to be important. The relationship of tics with an urge to tic and sensory phenomena continues to be clarified, along with their electrophysiological substrates. Genetic studies are gradually accruing the large sample sizes required for identifying tic-related genes with small effect sizes. Several EEG studies applied new approaches to study tics.