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| Specialty Resource Contacts: | MECP2 duplication syndrome
Rett Syndrome |
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| Project/Program/Clinic Contacts: | Rett Syndrome Clinic | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline(s): |
Psychology Psychiatry Human Development/Child Development Genetics/Genetic Counseling Medicine-Pediatrics |
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| AUCD Council Membership: |
No Council Membership |
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| Research: | Dr. Peters is a psychologist who has extensive experience in the detailed behavioral and neurophysiological characterization of neurogenetic disorders, including the creation of new methods of assessment for these conditions. She currently studies Markers of Disease Progression in MECP2 duplication syndrome (a Rett-related disorder). Data from this study will assist in creating a new disease-specific clinical severity scale for MECP2 Duplication Syndrome and identifying potential biomarkers for disease progression. She also participates in a natural history study of Rett Syndrome and Rett-Related disorders, as well as clinical trials in Rett Syndrome. She has started to incorporate the use of wearable devices to track sleep as well as autonomic parameters in RTT. She has had other pilot grants that utilize auditory event-related potentials and novel assessment methods to track clinical severity as well as higher level cognitive and language functioning in RTT and related disorders. Through these studies, she has collaborated with physician-scientists as well as engineers to refine measures so that they are clinically valid and can detect clinically meaningful differences and are most appropriate given the nature of the specific syndrome being studied. | ||||||||||||||||||
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