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Brain and EEG: More than Seizures—Sleep, Sensory, Language, Learning, and Subgrouping
Saturday, July 25, 2009
New Orleans Ballroom (Pheasant Run Resort and Conference Center)
What are the rhythms, cycles, and disruptions of the autistic brain? Altered brain electrical activity underlies many levels of autism including seizures, sensory processing challenges, sleep problems, language and learning problems, and motor tone and coordination challenges. Emerging EEG analysis methods may contribute clinically beyond seizure diagnosis.
Katherine Martien, M.D.
Clinical Research Director
TRANSCEND Research Program
Dr. Katherine Martien is a Principal Investigator and a Neurodevelopmental Pediatrician with subspecialty certification in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities with the LADDERS (Learning and Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Rehabilitation Services) Clinic, an outpatient clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital located in Wellesley. Educated at Mount Holyoke College and the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Martien did her internship and residency at Boston Children’s Hospital. After practicing primary care pediatrics at the M.I.T. Health Service for 10 years, she spent the next five years at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto where she did further fellowship training in Developmental Pediatrics, Neurology and Epilepsy and began clinical research on autism and on the relationship between autism and epilepsy. She is the Clinical Research Director of the TRANSCEND (Treatment Research and NeuroSCience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) research program at Massachusetts General Hospital.