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### Medication  One of our colleagues highly recommended this review of current medication treatment practice in Germany: \citep{24888751}. These researchers examined psychotropic prescriptions issued in Germany between 2006-2011 for children and adolescents who had been diagnosed with a tic disorder. The mostly frequently prescribed medications were ADHD medications. Antipsychotics were the next most frequently prescribed with second generation antipsychotics being more frequently prescribed in 2011 compared to 2006. Tic disorder patients with a TS diagnosis were the group most likely to receive psychotropic medication. There was only a slight increase in the number of prescriptions issued in 2011 compared to 2006. There was a relative increase in rispiridone prescriptions from 2006 to 2011 which was interpreted as a shift to evidence-based medicine since the evidence for rispiridone had a stronger evidence base compared to tiapride which had been commonly prescribed in Germany as a treatment for tic disoders.  | **Title** | **Comment** |  |:----------|:------------|  | [vigabatrin RCT](http://ir.catalystpharma.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=919254) | An early report of promising results. |