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Office
Division of Movement Disorders, Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street, ACC 835
Boston, MA 02114Phone+1 617-726-5532Fax+1 617-726-4101- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Jeremiah Scharf is a behavioral neurologist and neuropsychiatric geneticist in Boston, MA and is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and has been in practice 14 years. He specializes in behavioral neurology/ neuropsychiatry with a focus on Tourette syndrome, tic disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He is a principal research faculty member in the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Associate Member in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research focuses on identifying clinical and genetic risk factors for Tourette syndrome, tic disorders and OCD through a combination of computational, molecular and cellular biology techniques.
Education & Training
- Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Neurology, 2002 - 2005
- Brigham and Women's HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2001 - 2002
- Harvard UniversityPhD, Neurobiology, 1995 - 2001
- Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 2001
Certifications & Licensure
- MA State Medical License 2005 - 2025
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
- United Council for Neurologic SubspecialtiesBehavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 1 citationsPolygenic risk score-based phenome-wide association study identifies novel associations for Tourette syndrome.Pritesh Jain, Tyne Miller-Fleming, Apostolia Topaloudi, Dongmei Yu, Petros Drineas, Marianthi Georgitsi, Zhiyu Yang, Renata Rizzo, Kirsten R Müller-Vahl, Zeynep Tumer,...> ;Translational Psychiatry. 2023 Feb 23
- Developing a Phenotype Risk Score for Tic Disorders in a Large, Clinical Biobank.Tyne W Miller-Fleming, Annmarie Allos, Emily Gantz, Dongmei Yu, David A Isaacs, Carol A Mathews, Jeremiah M Scharf, Lea K Davis> ;Medrxiv. 2023 Feb 23
- 1 citationsGenome-wide Association Study Points to Novel Locus for Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome.Fotis Tsetsos, Apostolia Topaloudi, Pritesh Jain, Zhiyu Yang, Dongmei Yu, Petros Kolovos, Zeynep Tumer, Renata Rizzo, Andreas Hartmann, Christel Depienne, Yulia Worbe,...> ;Biological Psychiatry. 2023 Feb 2
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Journal Articles
- Examination of the Shared Genetic Basis of Anorexia Nervosa and Obsessive–Compulsive DisorderJeremiah M Scharf, Cynthia M Bulik, Stephanie Zerwas, Gerald Nestadt, Carol A Mathews, Nature
Press Mentions
- Six from HMS Elected 2020 AAAS FellowsNovember 24th, 2020
- Hundreds of Genes May Contribute to Risk for Tourette’s SyndromeMarch 2nd, 2019
- Major Genetic Study Confirms That Many Genes Contribute to Risk for Tourette's SyndromeMarch 1st, 2019
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Grant Support
- Large-scale collaborative genetic and epigenetic studies of Tourette SyndromeNIH/NINDS2019–2024
- Hoarding and aging: epidemiology, neurocognition and etiologyNIH/NIMH2018–2023
- Integrating common and rare variation to discover genes for Tourette SyndromeNIH/NINDS2018–2023
- Translational Phenomics And Genomics Of Gilles DE LA Tourette SyndromeNational Institute Of Mental Health2009–2012
- A Genetic Linkage Study Of GtsNational Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke2010
Hospital Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
- Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
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