Melanie L Peterson, DO
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Email petersonml8@upmc.edu
Education & Training
DO
Osteopathic Medicine, Marian University, School of Osteopathic Medicine
General Psychiatry, West Virginia University School of Medicine
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Professional Affiliations
Member, Society for Neuroscience
Member, American Psychiatric Association
Member, Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Member, National Alliance of Mental Illness
Clinical Interests
Neuropsychiatry; Substance use disorders
Selected Clinical Publications & Products- Kim G, Ahmadian SS, Peterson M, Parton Z, Memon R, Weintraub S, Rademaker A, Bigio E, Mesulam MM, Geula C. Asymmetric pathology in primary progressive aphasia with progranulin mutations and TDP inclusions. Neurology. 2016 Feb 16;86(7):627-36
- Ahmadian S, Rezvania A, Peterson M, Weintraub S, Bigio E, Mesulam M-M, and Geula C. Loss of calbindin-D28K is associated with the full range of tangle pathology within basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in Alzheimer's disease Neurobiology of Aging. 2015 Dec;36(12):3163-70.
- Gefen T, Peterson M, Papastefan ST, Martersteck A, Whitney K, Rademaker A, Bigio EH, Weintraub S, Rogalski E, Mesulam MM, Geula C. Morphometric and histologic substrates of cingulate integrity in elders with exceptional memory capacity. Journal of Neuroscience. 2015 Jan 28;35(4):1781-91.
