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

Bookheimer was the Chair of

Organization for Human Brain Mapping The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is an organization of scientists with the main aim of organizing an annual meeting ("Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping"). The organization was established in 1995 at the fir ...

in 2012–2013. In 2018 Bookheimer has received the Glass Brain lifetime achievement award presented by the

. She holds Joaquin M. Fuster Distinguished Professor position on Dept. Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine.

Research

Bookheimer contributed to understanding of

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in short-term me ...

by investigated a common polymorphism, APOE-4, a risk gene for

Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in short-term me ...

. Her work showed that normal volunteers who differ in their possession of the risk polymorphism had different brain activation patterns from APOE-4 carriers.

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- https://www.semel.ucla.edu/autism/team/susan-bookheimer-phd {{DEFAULTSORT:Bookheimer, Susan Y. Living people American women neuroscientists American neuroscientists Cornell University alumni David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women