Michael J. Schrift, DO, MA, FANPA

Dr. Michael Schrift is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He currently is an attending neuropsychiatrist at the Brain & Memory Center at Harborview Medical Center. He is he the director of the Behavioral Neurology/Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Training Program. He previously was the Division Director of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He was also the director of the fellowship training program in Geriatric Psychiatry, co-director of the Clinical Neuroscience Fellowship program, and the director of the Neuromodulation Program and the Cancer Neuropsychiatry Program. He has many years of experience treating patients with Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and Wilson’s, among other neuropsychiatric disorders. He also is an attending neuropsychiatrist in the Harborview Memory and Brain Wellness Clinic.

Dr. Schrift is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

He is board-certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as well as board certified in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He has training in Bioethics and serves on the ethics committee at Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Schrift is a fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.

Department Affiliations

Recent Publications

A pilot study of assessing visual hallucinations using virtual reality in lewy body disorders.
(2026 Apr 3)
Sci Rep
Hirczy SS, Lin YH, Xiong W, Schrift M, Kojima Y

Clinical Associations and Possible Risk Factors for Affective Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Impairment.
(2026 Mar 6)
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry
Fisher DW, Mehta R, Morrow CB, Kerr KF, Jayadev S, Domoto-Reilly K, Schrift MJ, Darvas M

Affective neuropsychiatric symptom metrics in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center dataset.
(2026 Mar 25)
J Alzheimers Dis
Fisher DW, Mehta R, Morrow CB, Kerr KF, Jayadev S, Domoto-Reilly K, Schrift MJ, Darvas M

Affective Neuropsychiatric Symptom Metrics in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Dataset.
(2025 Oct 24)
medRxiv
Fisher DW, Mehta R, Morrow CB, Kerr KF, Jayadev S, Domoto-Reilly K, Schrift MJ, Darvas M

Catatonia: State-of-the-Science Advances in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.
(2025 Spring)
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 37(2): 189-191
Ashurst S, Gomoll BP, Schrift MJ, Arciniegas DB, American Neuropsychiatric Association Catatonia Special Interest Group

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