JeremiahMScharfMDPhD

Movement Disorder

Assistant Professor, Neurology-Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Office
Division of Movement Disorders, Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street, ACC 835
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-5532

Fax+1 617-726-4101

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.

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

MA State Medical License 2005 - 2025
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
United Council for Neurologic SubspecialtiesBehavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry

PubMed

Sex Differences in Natural History and Health Outcomes Among Individuals With Tic Disorders.
Marisela E Dy-Hollins, Lori B Chibnik, Natasha A Tracy, Lisa Osiecki, Cathy L Budman
Neurology. 2025-02-11
Optimization of self- or parent-reported psychiatric phenotypes in longitudinal studies.
Franjo Ivankovic, Sharon Johnson, James Shen, Jeremiah M Scharf, Carol A Mathews
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines. 2025-02-01
Relationships between the menstrual cycle and neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms in females with Tourette syndrome.
Daisy T Noriega-Makarskyy, Evan Realbuto, Ariadne Kaylor, Lisa Osiecki, Angela Essa
Frontiers in Neurology. 2025-01-01

Journal Articles

Examination of the Shared Genetic Basis of Anorexia Nervosa and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Jeremiah M Scharf, Cynthia M Bulik, Stephanie Zerwas, Gerald Nestadt, Carol A Mathews, Nature

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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Large-Scale Collaborative Genetic and Epigenetic Studies of Tourette SyndromeMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2019–2025
Hoarding disorder in older adults: cognition, etiology and functional impactUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA2018–2025
Integrating Common and Rare Variation to Discover Genes Associated with Tourette SyndromeMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2018–2025
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