Sharon Aharoni, MD

Contact
Medical Specialty
Neurology
Hospital or Clinic Affiliation
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Department or Group
Institute of Pediaric Neurology
Links
https://www.schneider.org.il/?CategoryID=1049&ArticleID=3155
Patient Age Group(s)
Pediatric
Location
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
14 Kaplan Street
Petach Tikva
Israel
Appointments
972-3-9253615
Fax (Medical Records)
972-3-9253887
Clinical Areas of Interest
Inherited Peripheral Neuropathies
Neuromuscular diseases
small fiber neuropathy
Pediatric Clinical Services
Electromyography/Nerve Conduction Studies
Infusion Center
Laboratory Provider

Tel Aviv University

University Title
Lecturer
ORCID URL
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7255-6276
Contact email for potential research subjects
sharonah@clalit.org.il

Sharon Aharoni, MD, is a pediatric neurologist specializing in neuromuscular disorders. She is the director of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Program at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. Her research focus is on molecular genetic studies of various neuromuscular diseases including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, congenital myasthenic syndrome and hereditary myopathies.

Small-fiber neuropathy associated with autoinflammatory syndromes in children and adolescents.
Shinkarevsky Fleitman I, Nevo Y, Harel L, Amarilyo G, Dori A, Agmon-Levin N, Kachko L, Zaks Hoffer G, Dabby R, Rabie M, Aharoni S.
Muscle Nerve. 2020 Mar 4.

Handwriting in children with Attention Deficient Hyperactive Disorder: role of graphology.
Cohen R, Cohen-Kroitoru B, Halevy A, Aharoni S, Aizenberg I, Shuper A.
BMC Pediatr. 2019 Dec 10;19(1):484.

Atypical Clinical Presentations of Pediatric Acute Immune-Mediated Polyneuropathy.
Yosha-Orpaz N, Aharoni S, Rabie M, Nevo Y.
J Child Neurol. 2019 Apr;34(5):268-276.

Substrate interaction defects in histidyl-tRNA synthetase linked to dominant axonal peripheral neuropathy.
Abbott JA, Meyer-Schuman R, Lupo V, Feely S, Mademan I, Oprescu SN, Griffin LB, Alberti MA, Casasnovas C, Aharoni S, Basel-Vanagaite L, Züchner S, De Jonghe P, Baets J, Shy ME, Espinós C, Demeler B, Antonellis A, Francklyn C.
Hum Mutat. 2018 Mar;39(3):415-432.

Thick Corpus Callosum in Children.
Schupper A, Konen O, Halevy A, Cohen R, Aharoni S, Shuper A.
J Clin Neurol. 2017 Apr;13(2):170-174. doi: 10.3988/jcn.2017.13.2.170.

Homozygous mutations in VAMP1 cause a presynaptic congenital myasthenic syndrome.
Salpietro V, Lin W, Delle Vedove A, Storbeck M, Liu Y, Efthymiou S, Manole A, Wiethoff S, Ye Q, Saggar A, McElreavey K, Krishnakumar SS; SYNAPS Study Group, Pitt M, Bello OD, Rothman JE, Basel-Vanagaite L, Hubshman MW, Aharoni S, Manzur AY, Wirth B, Houlden H.
Ann Neurol. 2017 Apr;81(4):597-603.

Congenital myasthenic syndrome in Israel: Genetic and clinical characterization.
Aharoni S, Sadeh M, Shapira Y, Edvardson S, Daana M, Dor-Wollman T, Mimouni-Bloch A, Halevy A, Cohen R, Sagie L, Argov Z, Rabie M, Spiegel R, Chervinsky I, Orenstein N, Engel AG, Nevo Y.
Neuromuscul Disord. 2017 Feb;27(2):136-140.

Novel homozygous missense mutation in GAN associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 in a large consanguineous family from Israel.
Aharoni S, Barwick KE, Straussberg R, Harlalka GV, Nevo Y, Chioza BA, McEntagart MM, Mimouni-Bloch A, Weedon M, Crosby AH.
BMC Med Genet. 2016 Nov 16;17(1):82.

Polymicrogyria and myoclonic epilepsy in autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 2A.
Cohen R, Halevy A, Aharoni S, Kraus D, Konen O, Basel-Vanagaite L, Goldberg-Stern H, Straussberg R.
Neurogenetics. 2016 Oct;17(4):251-257. Epub 2016 Sep 8.