Nice article. Talks about fast recall speed of kids with tics.
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392999The original study can be found here:
http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=25634"Washington, D.C. -- Children with Tourette’s syndrome may have to put up with some unwanted movement and verbal tics, but neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Kennedy Krieger Institute have found that they are much quicker at processing certain mental grammar skills than are children without the disorder.
They say the findings, reported in the current issue of the journal Neuropsychologia, suggest that abnormalities in the brain linked to tics in Tourette’s syndrome may also result in a range of rapid behaviors -- and, possibly, superior skills -- than had been appreciated before.
“These children were particularly fast, as well as largely accurate, in certain language tasks. This tells us that their cognitive processing may be altered in ways we have only begun to explore, and moreover in a manner that may provide them with performance that is actually enhanced compared that of typically-developing children” said the study’s senior investigator, Michael Ullman, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience, psychology, neurology and linguistics. "
--I will go back and do the links later. It looks like the function is not working. Just copy and paste into your browser window if you want to read the studies. Sorry about that.
