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| Karen Faith Berman, M.D., Investigator |
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Dr. Berman received her B.S. degree from the University of Rochester and her M.D. from St. Louis University Medical School. She completed her medical internship at Washington University in St. Louis and had residency training in psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Berman also completed residency training in nuclear medicine at the NIH Warren G. Magnusen Clinical Center and is board certified in both psychiatry and nuclear medicine. She has received the A.E. Bennett Award for Neuropsychiatric Research of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Berman's group uses a variety of neuroimaging techniques to investigate the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders (such as schizophrenia) and genetic diseases (such as Williams Syndrome) that affect cognition.
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Staff:
- Aaron Bonner-Jackson, Research Assistant Aaron.bonner-jackson@nih.gov
- Brad Buchsbaum, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow Brad.Buchsbaum@nih.gov
- Jean-Claude Dreher, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow dreherj@intra.nimh.nih.gov
- J. Shane Kippenhan, Ph.D., Special Expert shane.kippenhan@nih.gov
- Philip Kohn, Special Expert philip.kohn@nih.gov
- Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Clinician AM-L@nih.gov
- Rosanna Olsen, Research Assistant Rosanna.olsen@nih.gov
Research Interests:
We use functional neuroimaging Functional and structural MRI, PET, and others) to map brain activity and neurochemical mechanisms associated with normal higher cognitive function as well as dysfunction in neuropsychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, illnesses having genetic sources of cognitive dysfunction such as Williams syndrome, and other conditions impacting cognition such as normal aging. We also study the effects of gonadal steroid hormones on brain function.
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Selected Recent Publications:
Dreher JC and Berman KF (2002) Fractionating the neural substrate of cognitive control processes, PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99.
Meyer-Lindenberg A, Miletich RW, Kohn P, Esposito G, Carson RE, Quarantelli M, Weinberger DR, Berman KF (2002) Prefrontal cortex dysfunction predicts exaggerated striatal dopamine uptake in schizophrenia, Nature Neuroscience 5, 1809-17.
Meyer-Lindenberg A, Ziemann U, Hajak G, Cohen L, Berman KF (2002) Transitions between unstable and stable dynamical states in the human brain, PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99.
Meyer-Lindenberg A, Poline J-B, Kohn P, Holt JL, Egan MF, Weinberger DR, Berman KF (2001) Evidence for altered cortical functional connectivity during working memory in schizophrenia, American Journal of Psychiatry 158(11).
All Selected Publications
Contact Information:
Dr. Karen Faith Berman
Integrative Neuroimaging Unit
Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH
Building 10, Room 4C101
10 Center Drive, MSC 1365
Bethesda, MD 20892-1365
Telephone: (301) 496-7603 (office),
(301) 496-7437 (fax)
Email: karen.berman@nih.gov
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