Specifically, tic severity dropped by 26 percent among the behavioral intervention patients, but only by about 12 percent among the other group.
Follow-up testing further showed that behavioral-intervention patients who did derive benefit maintained their symptom improvement six months down the road.
"The obvious next step," Wilhelm said, "is to teach clinicians how to administer CBIT."
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