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Susan Y. Bookheimer
Alma materCornell University (BS)
Wayne State University (PhD)
AwardsOHBM Glass Brain Award
Scientific career
FieldsClinical neuroscience
InstitutionsYale University
NIH
UCLA
ThesisEffects of spatial frequency, task demands, and unilateral brain injury on the recognition of faces (1989)
Doctoral advisorRussell Douglas Whitman

Susan Y. Bookheimer is a professor of clinical neuroscience at UCLA School of Medicine. She is best known for her work developing brain imaging techniques to help patients with Alzheimer's disease, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, brain tumors, and epilepsy.

Achievements and awards

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Bookheimer was the Chair of Organization for Human Brain Mapping[1] in 2012–2013. In 2018 Bookheimer has received the Glass Brain lifetime achievement award[2] presented by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. She holds Joaquin M. Fuster Distinguished Professor position on Dept. Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine.

Research

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Bookheimer contributed to understanding of Alzheimer's disease by investigated a common polymorphism, APOE-4, a risk gene for Alzheimer's Disease. Her work showed that normal volunteers who differ in their possession of the risk polymorphism had different brain activation patterns from APOE-4 carriers.[3]

Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ "Past Officers of OHBM - Organization for Human Brain Mapping". humanbrainmapping.org. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  • ^ "Dr. Susan Bookheimer receives lifetime achievement award in brain mapping | Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior". semel.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  • ^ Bookheimer et al. 2000.
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    - https://www.semel.ucla.edu/autism/team/susan-bookheimer-phd


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