An fMRI Study of Frontostriatal Circuits During the Inhibition of Eye Blinking in Persons With Tourette Syndrome

Received Dec. 17, 2008; revision received Sept. 2, 2009; accepted Oct. 5, 2009. From the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Division of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, Department of Pediatrics, University of Catania, Catania, Italy; and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Peterson, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 78, New York, NY 10032; [email protected] (e-mail).