The Art of Treating Tics and Tourette

Our guest today (the episode was recorded in late April 2025) is Dr Noa Benaroya Milstein, Head of the Child Psychiatry Division Schneider's Children Medical Centre of Israel, where she also serves as Head of the Tourette Clinic. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine and actively involved in local and multi-centre studies specialised in Tourette syndrome and associated disorders. 

We talk about first-line pharmacological treatments, co-occurring condition-treatment-prioritisation cases, assessing tic-related impairment, botulinum toxin injections, DBS, promising molecules, the effects of pregnancy and postpartum period on tics and the current landscape and available treatments in Israel.