Julie Elizabeth Petersen, PhD
Neuropsychology
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Young Adult 18-25
- Adult 26-64
- Older Adult 65+
Languages
- English
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FemaleJohns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Julie Elizabeth Petersen
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins Clinician
Background
Dr. Julie Petersen is a clinical neuropsychologist in the Division of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She completed her undergraduate and master’s training in psychology and behavioral neuroscience at Drexel University, followed by her PhD in Clinical Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology Focus) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She then completed an APA-accredited internship in neuropsychology at West Virginia University Medicine and a two-year clinical neuropsychology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Petersen has broad clinical expertise in adult neuropsychological assessment across neurologic, medical, and psychiatric conditions. Her background also includes presurgical evaluations for deep brain stimulation, MR-guided focused ultrasound, epilepsy surgery, and tumor resection, as well as participation in intraoperative language mapping during awake craniotomy.
Research Interests
Dr. Petersen’s research integrates structural and functional MRI with cognitive outcomes to examine brain–behavior relationships in neurologic conditions and in patients undergoing systemic medical treatments. Her doctoral work evaluated cortical morphometry, resting-state functional connectivity, and fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in breast cancer patients receiving hormone therapy, using advanced approaches such as empirical Bayesian harmonization. She has also contributed to the first U.S.-based investigations of cognitive outcomes following MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor, co-authoring studies on both unilateral and bilateral procedures. Her research emphasizes translational neuroimaging methods with direct clinical relevance and has spanned a range of medical conditions.
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 600 North Wolfe Street, Meyer RM 218, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Get Directions
- phone: 410-955-3268
- fax: 410-955-0504
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 600 North Wolfe Street, Meyer RM 218, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Get Directions
- phone: 410-955-3268
- fax: 410-955-0504
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Neuropsychology, 2025
- Graduate School: Northwestern University School of Medicine, Clinical Psychology, PhD, 2023
Insurance
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)