Dr. Schrift specializes in the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric, cognitive, memory, and behavioral problems that can occur following or as part of neurological and medical diseases. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with added qualifications in geriatric and addiction psychiatry. He formerly was director of psychiatry residency training at Chicago Medical School and at Rush where he was also director of medical student education in psychiatry. He attended medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. His psychiatry residency training and subsequent fellowship training in neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology and behavioral neurology was at Chicago Medical School . Dr. Schrift's teaching and research interests include brain-behavior relationships in psychopathology and neuroethics. He has won numerous awards for medical student and residency education, both at Chicago Medical School and at Rush.

Representative Publications

Sierles FS, Dinwiddie SH, Patroi D, Atre-Vaidya N, Schrift MJ, Woodard, JL: Factors Affecting Medical Student Career Choice of Psychiatry From 1999 to 2001. Academic Psychiatry, 27:4, 2003

Consultant: AMA Complete Medical Encyclopedia American Medical Association, Random House, New York 2003.

Consultant: AMA Family Medicine Guide, 4 th Ed. Wiley, 2004 American Medical Association

Sandler RH, Bolte ER, Chez MG, Schrift MJ. Relief of psychiatric symptoms in a patient with Crohn's disease after metronidazole therapy. Clin Infect Dis. 2000 Jan;30(1):213-4

Zeitlin SB, Lane RD, O'Leary DS, Schrift MJ. Interhemispheric transfer deficit and alexithymia. Am J Psychiatry. 1989 Nov;146(11):1434-9