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Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD

Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD

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Jurriaan M. Peters MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and is a pediatric epileptologist with additional expertise in clinical neurophysiology and neuroimaging. He earned his MD at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and his PhD at the University of Utrecht. He did his Child Neurology training and Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital.

He is the principal epileptologist at the Multidisciplinary Tuberous Sclerosis Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital. His research in the Laboratory of Translational Neuroimaging and in the Computational Radiology Laboratory focuses on novel MRI and EEG modeling techniques in the localization of the seizure onset zone in children with medically refractory epilepsy, on how focal lesions give rise to a generalized epileptic encephalopathy; and on early medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy to mitigate detrimental effects on neurodevelopment.

Selected publications

  1. Lesion network mapping in pediatric epilepsy

    Sánchez Fernández I , Kampman SL , Schaper FLWVJ , Fox MD , Warren AEL , Cohen AL , Peters J

    Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry · 2026

    Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD Alexander Li Cohen Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD Jurriaan M. Peters
    Collaboration DOI Scholar

  2. Accumulated seizure burden predicts neurodevelopmental outcome at 36months of age in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex

    Ihnen SKZ , Alperin S , Capal JK , Cohen AL , Peters J , Bebin EM , Northrup HA , Sahin M , Krueger DA , TACERN Study Group

    Epilepsia · 2025

    Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD Alexander Li Cohen Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD Jurriaan M. Peters
    Cited by 11 Collaboration Open access DOI Scholar

  3. Convolutional neural networks for automatic tuber segmentation and quantification of tuber burden in tuberous sclerosis complex

    Sánchez Fernández I , Soldatelli MD , Miller GN , Gout CF , Broekhuizen EC , den Hertog ICJ , Pijs DA , Apostolopoulos E , Kaur P , Ouaalam A , Bebin ME , Northrup H , Krueger DA , Wu J , Cohen AL , Sahin M , Karimi D , Warfield SK , Peters J

    Epilepsia · 2025

    Gillian Miller, BA Gillian Miller Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD Alexander Li Cohen Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD Jurriaan M. Peters
    Collaboration Open access DOI Scholar

  4. Lesions associated with autism symptoms map to a cerebellar brain network in tuberous sclerosis complex

    Herman WX , Miller GN , Sahin M , Peters J , Warfield SK , Krueger DA , Bebin EM , Northrup H , Wu JY , Fox MD , Cohen AL , on behalf of the TACERN Group

    Annals of the Child Neurology Society · 2025

    Wendy Xiao Herman, MD, PhD Wendy Xiao Herman Gillian Miller, BA Gillian Miller Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD Jurriaan M. Peters Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD Alexander Li Cohen
    Mentee-led Collaboration DOI Scholar

  5. Mapping Lesion-Related Epilepsy to a Human Brain Network

    Schaper FLWVJ , Nordberg J , Cohen AL , Lin C , Hsu J , Horn A , Ferguson M , Siddiqi SH , Drew W , Soussand L , Winkler AM , Simó M , Bruna J , Rheims S , Guenot M , Bucci M , Nummenmaa L , Staals J , Colon AJ , Ackermans L , Bubrick EJ , Peters J , Wu O , Rost NS , Grafman J , Blumenfeld H , Temel Y , Rouhl RPW , Joutsa J , Fox MD

    JAMA Neurology · 2023

    Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD Alexander Li Cohen Louis Soussand Louis Soussand Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD Jurriaan M. Peters
    Cited by 119 Collaboration Open access DOI Scholar

  6. Tubers Affecting the Fusiform Face Area Are Associated with Autism Diagnosis

    Cohen AL * , Kroeck MR * , Wall J , McManus P , Ovchinnikova A , Sahin M , Krueger DA , Bebin EM , Northrup H , Wu J , Warfield SK , Peters J , Fox MD

    Annals of Neurology · 2023

    Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD Alexander Li Cohen Mallory Kroeck Mallory Kroeck Juliana Wall Juliana Wall Peter McManus Peter McManus Arina Ovchinnikova Arina Ovchinnikova Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD Jurriaan M. Peters
    Cited by 13 Cohen first/senior Collaboration Open access DOI Scholar

  7. Tuber Locations Associated with Infantile Spasms Map to a Common Brain Network

    Cohen AL , Mulder BPF , Prohl AK , Soussand L , Davis P , Kroeck MR , McManus P , Gholipour A , Scherrer B , Bebin EM , Wu J , Northrup H , Krueger DA , Sahin M , Warfield SK , Fox MD * , Peters J *

    Annals of Neurology · 2021

    Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD Alexander Li Cohen Brechtje Mulder Brechtje Mulder Louis Soussand Louis Soussand Mallory Kroeck Mallory Kroeck Peter McManus Peter McManus Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD Jurriaan M. Peters
    Cited by 58 Cohen first/senior Open access DOI Scholar

* co-first / co-senior author