Kevin J. Black beautification  about 8 years ago

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### Medication  One of our colleagues highly recommended this review of current medication treatment practice in Germany: \citep{24888751}.  | **Title** | **Comment** |  |:----------|:------------|  | [vigabatrin RCT](http://ir.catalystpharma.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=919254) | An early report of promising results. |  | Trends in psychopharmacologic treatment of tic disorders in children and adolescents in Germany \citep{24888751} | A review of current medication treatment practice, highly recommended by one of our colleagues. |  ### Neurosurgery  A revised consensus statement on DBS in TS appeared recently \citep{25476818}. It provides an important update to the 2006 recommendations \citep{16991144}, guided by almost a decade of generally positive results from an increasingly varied set of patients, though with limited evidence from randomized allocation treatment studies.  |**Title** | **Comment** |  |:----------|:------------|  | Revised consensus statement on DBS in TS \citep{25476818} | This is an important update to the 2006 recommendations \citep{16991144}, guided by almost a decade of generally positive results from an increasingly varied set of patients, though with limited evidence from randomized allocation treatment studies. |  | \citep{25882029} | This study of 14 patients who were randomly allocated to DBS on or off, followed by an "open-label" on stimulation phase for both groups, is praiseworthy because of the on *vs* off stimulation controlled design. The YGTSS scores, including motor and vocal tic scores, were lower in the blind on periods *vs* the blind off periods. |  ### Other treatment  |**Title** | **Comment** |  |:----------|:------------|  | \citep{25342253} |  Deep TMS add-on for intractable TS\citep{25342253} | –  |