Tourette’s and Impulsivity: Creating Space Between Impulse and Action

Ticcami | Tourette & Me · Aug 13, 2026 · 6m

Impulsivity can make it feel as though the body or the voice acts before the mind has time to intervene. In Tourette’s, this is not simply carelessness or a lack of self-control, but a difficulty in the brain’s response-inhibition system, which normally creates a pause between an impulse and an action. In this episode, we...