I read one study a few years back that people with tourettes tend to have bigger prefrontal cortexes as a ratio, the part of the brain that is responsible for higher order thinking and planning
it's basically because they need to constantly use a lot of that brain capacity to try and regulate or suppress the involuntary tics that bubble up from their misfiring basal ganglia
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