Barbara Coffey, MD
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ADJUNCT PROFESSOR | Psychiatry
Dr. Coffey’s research has focused on the clinical course, comorbidity, phenomenology, and treatment of Tourette’s Disorder and related problems.

A unique focus of Dr. Coffey’s work has been comorbid anxiety and mood disorders in TD. She initially reported that separation anxiety disorder, independent of OCD, predicted greater tic severity, and that major mood disorders were a more robust predictor of functional impairment than tic severity in youth with TD. More recently, Dr. Coffey and her colleagues are investigating the neurobiology of TD with both genomics and neuroimaging techniques.