Amy Peters, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Psychaitry, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Amy Peters, PhD, received her undergraduate degree from Boston College and her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her predoctoral clinical internship in neuropsychology (2018) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a licensed psychologist in the state of Massachusetts. She completed her postdoctoral research fellowship (2020) in the Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital and joined the faculty as Instructor of Psychology (2020). Dr. Peters is a past recipient of the Samuel Gershon Junior Investigator Award from the International Society for Bipolar Disorder and an Early Career Investigator Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry. She is currently a faculty member at MGH and Harvard Medical School, where she conducts research using neuroimaging to determine how immune dysregulation affects cognition and mood in psychiatric illness. This research is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Her clinical expertise includes neuropsychological assessment of adults with mild cognitive impairment or neurodegenerative conditions, acquired brain injuries, and other neurological conditions. She also assesses adults and adolescents with learning or intellectual disabilities, ADHD, concussion, or psychiatric illness.
Publications
Major Research Interests: : Psychiatric and mood disorder, Adult and Pediatric bipolar disorders.
Lau ES, Binek A, Parker SJ, Shah SH, Zanni MV, Van Eyk JE, Ho JE.Circ Res. Sexual Dimorphism in Cardiovascular Biomarkers: Clinical and Research Implications. 2022 Feb 18;130(4):578-592. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.319916. Epub 2022 Feb 17.PMID: 35175850 Review. PMID: 35175850
Peters AT, Millett CE, Harder J, Potter J, Fichorova R, Nierenberg AA, Burdick KE. C-reactive protein and affective inhibition in bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord. 2022 06 01; 306:39-46. PMID: 35248663. PMID: 35248663
Bessette KL, Karstens AJ, Crane NA, Peters AT, Stange JP, Elverman KH, Morimoto SS, Weisenbach SL, Langenecker SA. A Lifespan Model of Interference Resolution and Inhibitory Control: Risk for Depression and Changes with Illness Progression. Neuropsychol Rev. 2020 12; 30(4):477-498. PMID: 31942706. PMID: 31942706
Tseng CJ, Gilbert TM, Catanese MC, Hightower BG, Peters AT, Parmar AJ, Kim M, Wang C, Roffman JL, Brown HE, Perlis RH, Zürcher NR, Hooker JM. In vivo human brain expression of histone deacetylases in bipolar disorder. Transl Psychiatry. 2020 07 08; 10(1):224. PMID: 32641695. PMID: 32641695
Peters AT, Ren X, Bessette KL, Goldstein BI, West AE, Langenecker SA, Pandey GN. Interplay between pro-inflammatory cytokines, childhood trauma, and executive function in depressed adolescents. J Psychiatr Res. 2019 07; 114:1-10. PMID: 30978658. Peters AT, Burkhouse KL, Kinney KL, Phan KL. The roles of early-life adversity and rumination in neural response to emotional faces amongst anxious and depressed adults. Psychol Med. 2019 10; 49(13):2267-2278. PMID: 30419983. PMID: 30419983
Peters AT, Jenkins LM, Stange JP, Bessette KL, Skerrett KA, Kling LR, Welsh RC, Milad MR, Phan KL, Langenecker SA. Pre-scan cortisol is differentially associated with enhanced connectivity to the cognitive control network in young adults with a history of depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2019 06; 104:219-227. PMID: 30889471. PMID: 30889471
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