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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/91726, first published .
Closing the Gap to Interventions for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex–Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (TAND): Protocol for a Longitudinal Study of TAND Severity, Predictors, and Caregiver Well-Being (TANDem-2)

Closing the Gap to Interventions for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex–Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (TAND): Protocol for a Longitudinal Study of TAND Severity, Predictors, and Caregiver Well-Being (TANDem-2)

Closing the Gap to Interventions for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex–Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (TAND): Protocol for a Longitudinal Study of TAND Severity, Predictors, and Caregiver Well-Being (TANDem-2)

Petrus J de Vries   1 , MBChB, FRCPsych, PhD ;   Nola Chambers   1 , PhD ;   Erin Campbell   1 , MBChB ;   Lucas Gutierrez-Lafrentz   2, 3 , MD ;   Tosca-Marie Heunis   3 , PhD ;   Liezl Schlebusch   1 , PhD ;   Guillaume Beaure d'Augères   4 , MSc ;   Stacey Bissell   5 , PhD ;   Anna Byars   6, 7 , PhD ;   Jamie Capal   6, 8 , MD ;   Laís Cardozo   9 , PhD ;   Sebastian Cukier   10 , MD ;   Peter Davis   11 , MD ;   Naomi Beth Epstein   12 , MA ;   Carla Fladrowski   13, 14 , BSc ;   Jennifer Flinn   15 , EdD ;   Tanjala Gipson   16, 17 , MD ;   Sarah Louise Goy   18, 19 , MA ;   John Christopher Kingswood   20 , FRCP, MSc ;   Darcy Krueger   8, 21 , PhD ;   Francesca Little   22, 23 , PhD ;   Sugnet Lubbe   24 , PhD ;   Rebecca Mitchell   25 , PhD ;   Micaela Rozenberg   14, 26 , DipHE ;   Mustafa Sahin   11, 27 , MD-PhD ;   Mitchell Silva   28 , PhD ;   Catherine Smith   29 , BA ;   Shoba Srivastava   1, 30 , PhD ;   Megumi Takei   12 , BA ;   Agnies van Eeghen   31, 32 , PhD ;   Mary Vasseghi   33, 34 , PhD ;   Jan-Paul Wagenaar   35 , MSc ;   Robert Waltereit   36, 37, 38 , MD ;   Liesbeth De Waele   39, 40 , MD, PhD ;   Anna C Jansen   3, 41, 42 , MD, PhD

1 Centre for Autism Research in Africa, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

2 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Art, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

3 Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium

4 Association TSC Bourneville France, Angers, France

5 School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

6 Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States

7 College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States

8 Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States

9 Department of Psychology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

10 Department of Psychopathology and Mental Health, Hospital Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires, Argentina

11 Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

12 Japanese Society of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Tokyo, Japan

13 Associazione Sclerosi Tuberosa APS, ETS, Rome, Italy

14 European Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Association, Wiesbaden, Germany

15 TSC Canada, Mississauga, ON, Canada

16 Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States

17 The Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States

18 Rare Disease Research UK, London, United Kingdom

19 Patient Research Network, Tuberous Sclerosis Association, London, United Kingdom

20 Department of Clinical Genetics, St George's University Hospital, London, United Kingdom

21 TSC Clinic, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States

22 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

23 Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

24 MuViSU (Centre for Multi-Dimensional Data Visualisation), Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

25 Clinical Neurosciences, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

26 Associação de Esclerose Tuberosa em Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal

27 Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

28 Esperity, Brussels, Belgium

29 TSC Alliance, Silver Springs, MD, United States

30 Society of Parents of Children with Autistic Disorders (SOPAN), Mumbai, India

31 Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

32 TAND Expert Centre, 's Heeren Loo, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

33 TSC Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

34 School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

35 Stichting Tubereuze Sclerosis Nederland (STSN), Volendam, The Netherlands

36 LWL-University Hospital Hamm for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ruhr University Bochum, Hamm, Germany

37 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL-University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

38 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, LWL-Klinikum Marsberg, Marsberg, Germany

39 Department of Paediatric Neurology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

40 Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

41 Department of Pediatrics, Koningin Mathilde Moeder- en Kindcentrum, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium

42 Department of Translational Neurosciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Corresponding Author:

  • Nola Chambers, PhD
  • Centre for Autism Research in Africa
  • Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • University of Cape Town
  • 46 Sawkins Road
  • Cape Town 7700
  • South Africa
  • Phone: 27 216854103
  • Email: nola.chambers@uct.ac.za