Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor.

A mysterious rise in cases of teen girls with sudden severe physical tics, including jerking motions and verbal outbursts—and sometimes blurting out the word “beans”—led doctors to TikTok

Teenage girls across the globe have been showing up at doctors’ offices with tics—physical jerking movements and verbal outbursts—since the start of the pandemic.

Movement-disorder doctors were stumped at first. Girls with tics are rare, and these teens had an unusually high number of them, which had developed suddenly. After months of studying the patients and consulting with one another, experts at top pediatric hospitals in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. discovered that most of the girls had something in common: TikTok.

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