No-No Jitter

Have you heard of “no-no” jitters? This is a type of facial microkinetics that manifests itself in a slow shaking of the head from side to side, as if the person is trying to avoid an invisible obstacle or is staring into space, not realizing what is happening. This pattern of facial movements is known throughout the world as “No-no” or “cracoid”. Despite the fact that this phenomenon is not a pathology, it can serve as an indicator of certain mental disorders in humans.

Despite the fact that crocoid tremors cannot be classified as the main clinical symptoms, it nevertheless often accompanies other mental disorders. This type of movement occurs not only in people who suffer from psychosis, but also in other mental disorders. Such conditions include schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, asthenia and other diseases. This indicates the nonspecificity of this symptom and the likelihood of occurrence in both strong (due to organic damage) and mild mental illnesses.

Essentially, this phenomenon consists of moving the head from one side to the other, and can also represent static tapping, shaking the head, jerking the head from side to side. Movements are often repetitive or cyclical in nature and can occur spontaneously, appear rarely or intermittently over a long period of time. If such changes are observed for more than two years, then they should be considered as pathological tremors. In addition, a person with this type of misalignment may experience various symptoms, such as feeling tired and decreased activity.

It is worth mentioning another type of behavioral



Trembling of the “No-no” type is static trembling (SD) in the form of unidirectional movements of the head from side to side. This is one of the rare types of tics - obsessive repetitive movements that can be either harmless or very unpleasant. A more reliable name for this type of diabetes is the Chaika microphenomenon. Some experts use the expression “feminized form of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.”

The first person to describe this type of diabetes and include it in his book on tics in 1884 was physician Julius Berthold Kirk. Other doctors became interested in his observations, and the term “microphenomenon of seagulls” began to be widely used almost a century later - at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2007, Dr. J. L. Dowsett and Professor Robert S. Schmidt expanded on the concept of the gull microphenomenon by describing another DS in children called the fox microphenomenon. However, the DM from our description is precisely a micro-phenomenon of a seagull, and there is only this variant of one of the rare tics known in medicine today.

This type of trembling is easy to identify - when a child and even an adult makes repeated unidirectional movements of the head from one side to the other, tilting it towards the shoulder, parallel to the movement of the arm. The malfunction may appear under provoking conditions - anxiety or intense mental stress. For example, a child’s eyes do not move, which is a feature of his behavior while thinking, but his head will definitely move from side to side. Over time, this movement became a habit and is often copied throughout life.



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Trembling is anxiety and manifests itself as a nervous tic. It carries a name that explains the essence of the problem. With a nervous tic, a person involuntarily experiences convulsive movements that frighten and worry him. Appearing at an early age, this disease can haunt a person throughout his life, acquiring severe forms and threatening life as a whole.

The true nature of the occurrence of this disease has not been clarified, but the appearance of neurological reflexes is often associated with emotional and psychological stress. Nervous tics often appear as a consequence of serious experiences and shocks that occur in life. In addition, factors such as conflicts at work, family quarrels, constant stress, prolonged physical and emotional stress, etc. can serve as causative agents of a nervous disorder.

With the normal functioning of the human brain, his thoughts, internal sensations and emotions are interconnected. Sometimes information about external stimuli is not fully perceived by the senses. It is worth emphasizing that this theory is adhered to by many scientific institutes and clinics around the world. That is why this theory of nervous development is not considered the main one, although it should be given its due. So, the nervous system, receiving signals from the brain, can respond to them immediately, that is, instantly. However, sometimes the brain impulse does not reach the nerves in time, then protective mechanisms are triggered, the work of which is expressed in the form of movements of various parts of the human body. Thus, with a neuromuscular tic, chaotic movements of the shoulders and head may be observed during an attack. This phenomenon characterizes it as type B. In accordance with the stage of nervous psychosis, symptoms can have very different degrees of severity. In the case of a mild stage of the disease, a sharp single voluntary unconscious movement of the head or hands is observed. At a more pronounced stage of a nervous tic, a whole complex of similar convulsions may occur. They occur with a certain frequency and are characterized by the complexity and repetition of movements. A typical reaction of the nervous system to stress is involuntary repeated repetition of movements, which has a complex origin and requires an integrated approach to treatment. The processes that accompany nervous stress occur at an accelerated pace. The most common stage for it is the tic form of the disease. This can be judged by the following signs: * Constant contractions of the facial muscles; * Monotonous hand movements (rotations, joint clicks); * Trembling fingers; * Change of motor impulses, such as squeezing and unclenching hands, tapping on the table and others.