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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Utah School of Medicine

Neurologist
Movement Disorders, Neurology
Banner Health

Cleo Roberts Center
10515 West Santa Fe Drive, Building B
Sun City, AZ 85351
contact address
https://doctors.bannerhealth.com/provider/David+Shprecher/452122

Biosketch:

Dr. Shprecher is a neurologist specializing in movement disorders, providing clinical care and conducting clinical trials. Recent or ongoing trials have focused on Lewy body dementia, Parkinson disease, Tourette syndrome, Huntington disease, tardive dyskinesia, and progressive supranuclear palsy. He has published several widely read reviews on rare movement disorders including normal pressure hydrocephalus, delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy, and Tourette syndrome.

Dr. Shprecher joined Banner Research in October 2015. Previously, he mentored numerous students and trainees while serving as Movement Disorders Division Chief at the University of Utah from 2011-2015 and he maintains an Adjunct Assistant Professorship there for clinical trials. His work with the Brain and Body Donation Program is aimed at improving early diagnosis of, and biomarkers for, neurodegenerative disease by enrolling individuals with REM sleep behavior disorder. This work will guide design of trials aimed at delaying or preventing onset of synucleinopathies including Parkinson’s, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple system atrophy.

Declared conflicts of interest on file (09/23/2022)

Selected Bibliography:

Kious BM, Jimenez-Shahed J, Shprecher DR.
Treatment-refractory Tourette Syndrome.
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2016;70:227-36. PubMed abstract

Shprecher DR, Kious BM, Himle MH.
Advances in mechanistic understanding and treatment approaches to Tourette syndrome.
Discov Med. 2015;20(111):295-301. PubMed abstract

Shprecher DR, Rubenstein LA, Gannon K, Frank SA, Kurlan R.
Temporal course of the tourette syndrome clinical triad.
Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2014;4:243. PubMed abstract / Full Text

Shprecher DR, Schrock L, Himle M.
Neurobehavioral aspects, pathophysiology, and management of Tourette syndrome.
Curr Opin Neurol. 2014;27(4):484-92. PubMed abstract

Shprecher DR, Gannon K, Agarwal N, Shi X, Anderson JS.
Elucidating the nature and mechanism of tic improvement in tourette syndrome: a pilot study.
Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2014;4:217. PubMed abstract / Full Text