Sharon Aharoni, MD | NeuropathyCommons

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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 Services

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

Research

University Title

Lecturer

ORCID URL

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7255-6276

Contact email for potential research subjects

sharonah@clalit.org.il

Biography

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.

Publications

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.