Thomas L. Lowe, M.D.

Psychiatrist

Dr. Thomas L. Lowe is a psychiatrist and director of the Tourette's and Tic Disorders Clinic, who treats children, adolescents and adults. He also provides consultations with children and adolescents, their families and health care providers about psychotropic medicines used to treat conditions such as mood, obsessive compulsive and movement disorders.

Lowe earned a medical degree at the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital in New York and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. He then completed a fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center in movement disorders and developmental disabilities. He is an associate professor of psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCSF.

Clinics

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Education

University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1974

Selected Research and Publications

1. Nag A, Bochukova EG, Kremeyer B, Campbell DD, Muller H, Valencia-Duarte AV, Cardona J, Rivas IC, Mesa SC, Cuartas M, Garcia J, Bedoya G, Cornejo W, Herrera LD, Romero R, Fournier E, Reus VI, Lowe TL, Farooqi IS. CNV Analysis in Tourette Syndrome Implicates Large Genomic Rearrangements in COL8A1 and NRXN1. PLoS One. 2013; 8(3):e59061.
2. Chen K, Budman CL, Diego Herrera L, Witkin JE, Weiss NT, Lowe TL, Freimer NB, Reus VI, Mathews CA. Prevalence and clinical correlates of explosive outbursts in Tourette Syndrome. Psychiatry Res. 2013 Feb 28; 205(3):269-75.
3. Scharf JM, Yu D, Mathews CA, Neale BM, Stewart SE, Fagerness JA, Evans P, Gamazon E, Edlund CK, Service SK, Tikhomirov A, Osiecki L, Illmann C, Pluzhnikov A, Konkashbaev A, Davis LK, Han B, Crane J, Moorjani P, Crenshaw AT, Parkin MA, Reus VI, Lowe TL, Rangel-Lugo M, Chouinard S, Dion Y, Girard S, Cath DC, Smit JH, King RA, Fernandez TV, Leckman JF, Kidd KK, Kidd JR, Pakstis AJ, State MW, Herrera LD, Romero R, Fournier E, Sandor P, Barr CL, Phan N, Gross-Tsur V, Benarroch F, Pollak Y, Budman CL, Bruun RD, Erenberg G, Naarden AL, Lee PC, Weiss N, Kremeyer B, Berrío GB, Campbell DD, Cardona Silgado JC, Ochoa WC, Mesa Restrepo SC, Muller H, Valencia Duarte AV, Lyon GJ, Leppert M, Morgan J, Weiss R, Grados MA, Anderson K, Davarya S, Singer H, Walkup J, Jankovic J, Tischfield JA, Heiman GA, Gilbert DL, Hoekstra PJ, Robertson MM, Kurlan R, Liu C, Gibbs JR, Singleton A. Genome-wide association study of Tourette's syndrome. Mol Psychiatry. 2012 Aug 14.
4. Singer HS, Gause C, Morris C, Lopez P. Serial immune markers do not correlate with clinical exacerbations in pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections. Pediatrics. 2008 Jun; 121(6):1198-205.
5. Kurlan R, Johnson D, Kaplan EL. Streptococcal infection and exacerbations of childhood tics and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: a prospective blinded cohort study. Pediatrics. 2008 Jun; 121(6):1188-97.
6. Keen-Kim D, Mathews CA, Reus VI, Lowe TL, Herrera LD, Budman CL, Gross-Tsur V, Pulver AE, Bruun RD, Erenberg G, Naarden A, Sabatti C, Freimer NB. Overrepresentation of rare variants in a specific ethnic group may confuse interpretation of association analyses. Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Nov 15; 15(22):3324-8.
7. Mathews CA, Bimson B, Lowe TL, Herrera LD, Budman CL, Erenberg G, Naarden A, Bruun RD, Freimer NB, Reus VI. Association between maternal smoking and increased symptom severity in Tourette's syndrome. Am J Psychiatry. 2006 Jun; 163(6):1066-73.
8. Mathews CA, Jang KL, Herrera LD, Lowe TL, Budman CL, Erenberg G, Naarden A, Bruun RD, Schork NJ, Freimer NB, Reus VI. Tic symptom profiles in subjects with Tourette Syndrome from two genetically isolated populations. Biol Psychiatry. 2007 Feb 1; 61(3):292-300.
9. Budman C, Coffey B, Dure L, Gilbert D, Juncos J, Kaplan E, King R, Kurlan R, Lowe T, Mack K, Mink J, Schlaggar B, Singer H. Regarding "antibiotic prophylaxis with azithromycin or penicillin for childhood-onset neuropsychiatric disorders". Biol Psychiatry. 2005 Dec 1; 58(11):917; author reply 918-9.
10. Mathews CA, Waller J, Glidden D, Lowe TL, Herrera LD, Budman CL, Erenberg G, Naarden A, Bruun RD, Freimer NB, Reus VI. Self injurious behaviour in Tourette syndrome: correlates with impulsivity and impulse control. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004 Aug; 75(8):1149-55.
11. Mathews CA, Reus VI, Bejarano J, Escamilla MA, Fournier E, Herrera LD, Lowe TL, McInnes LA, Molina J, Ophoff RA, Raventos H, Sandkuijl LA, Service SK, Spesny M, León PE, Freimer NB. Genetic studies of neuropsychiatric disorders in Costa Rica: a model for the use of isolated populations. Psychiatr Genet. 2004 Mar; 14(1):13-23.
12. Wilson PL, Newton PO, Wenger DR, Haher T, Merola A, Lenke L, Lowe T, Clements D, Betz R. A multicenter study analyzing the relationship of a standardized radiographic scoring system of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and the Scoliosis Research Society outcomes instrument. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2002 Sep 15; 27(18):2036-40.
13. Mathews CA, Herrera Amighetti LD, Lowe TL, van de Wetering BJ, Freimer NB, Reus VI. Cultural influences on diagnosis and perception of Tourette syndrome in Costa Rica. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2001 Apr; 40(4):456-63.
14. Mathews,CA, DeMille,MMC, Herrera,LD, Reus,VI, Lowe,TL. Amer J Med Genetics Neuropsych Genetics. Population Genetic Mapping of Tourette Syndrome. 1997; (74):659.
15. Mathews,CA, DeMille,MMC, Herrera,LD, Reus,VI, Lowe,TL. Amer J of Human Genetics. Population Mapping of Tourette Syndrome. 1997; (61):A401.
16. Enoch JM, Lakshminarayanan V, Itzhaki A, Khamar BM, Landau K, Lowe T, Surendran T, Comerford J. Anomalous kinetic visual fields found in family members of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Optom Vis Sci. 1991 Oct; 68(10):807-12.
17. Khamar BM, Enoch JM, Lowe T, Schrier H. Temporal steps in the visual field in neuropsychiatric disorders. Lancet. 1989 Nov 25; 2(8674):1283-4.
18. Enoch,JM, Itzhaki,A, Lowe,TL. Perimetry Update 1988/89. Anomalous kinetic visual fields in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome patients and family members. 1989; 77-84.
19. Enoch,JM, Itzhaki,A, Lowe,TL. Neuro-Opthalmology. Gille de la Tourette Syndrome: Visual Effects. 1988; 5(8):251-257.
20. Enoch,JM, Itzhaki,A, Lowe,TL. Neuro-Ophthalmology. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: Genetic marker?. 1988; 5(8):259-265.

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