Susan Y. Bookheimer | |
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| Alma mater | Cornell University (BS) Wayne State University (PhD) |
| Awards | OHBM Glass Brain Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Clinical neuroscience |
| Institutions | Yale University NIH UCLA |
| Thesis | Effects of spatial frequency, task demands, and unilateral brain injury on the recognition of faces (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Russell 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.