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  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Karen F. Berman is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. The scope of their work includes several main research topics.

  • Williams Syndrome Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

The scientist has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, frequently contributing to specific venues. Their most common publication outlets include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • NeuroImage
  • Neuropsychopharmacology

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Karen F. Berman include the following:

  • Dissecting transcriptomic signatures of neuronal differentiation and maturation using iPSCs, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Electrophysiological measures from human iPSC-derived neurons are associated with schizophrenia clinical status and predict individual cognitive performance, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neanderthal-Derived Genetic Variation is Associated with Functional Connectivity in the Brains of Living Humans, 2020, Brain Connectivity
  • Parietal-Prefrontal Feedforward Connectivity in Association With Schizophrenia Genetic Risk and Delusions, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Neanderthal-derived genetic variation in living humans relates to schizophrenia diagnosis, to psychotic symptom severity, and to dopamine synthesis, 2021, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Throughout their career, Karen F. Berman has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Michael D. Gregory
  • Daniel P. Eisenberg
  • Philip D. Kohn
  • John H. Krystal
  • Anissa Abi-Dargham

Karen F. Berman is a recognized member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Physiologic dysfunction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. I. Regional cerebral blood flow evidence.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Karen Faith Berman;Ronald F. Zec

  • Prefrontal neurons and the genetics of schizophrenia.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Michael F. Egan;Alessandro Bertolino;Joseph H. Callicott

  • Physiological dysfunction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. III. A new cohort and evidence for a monoaminergic mechanism.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Karen Faith Berman;Barbara P. Illowsky

  • Evidence of dysfunction of a prefrontal-limbic network in schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance imaging and regional cerebral blood flow study of discordant monozygotic twins.

    D R Weinberger;K F Berman;R Suddath;E F Torrey

  • Reduced prefrontal activity predicts exaggerated striatal dopaminergic function in schizophrenia.

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Robert S. Miletich;Philip D. Kohn;Giuseppe Esposito

  • Further Evidence for Dementia of the Prefrontal Type in Schizophrenia?: A Controlled Study of Teaching the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

    Terry E. Goldberg;Daniel R. Weinberger;Karen Faith Berman;Neil H. Pliskin

  • Physiological activation of a cortical network during performance of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: A positron emission tomography study

    Karen Faith Berman;Jill L. Ostrem;Christopher Randolph;James Gold

  • Evidence for abnormal cortical functional connectivity during working memory in schizophrenia.

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Jean-Baptiste Poline;Philip D. Kohn;John L. Holt

  • Regionally specific disturbance of dorsolateral prefrontal-hippocampal functional connectivity in schizophrenia.

    Andreas S. Meyer-Lindenberg;Rosanna K. Olsen;Philip D. Kohn;Timothy Brown

  • Menstrual cycle phase modulates reward-related neural function in women

    Jean Claude Dreher;Peter J. Schmidt;Philip Kohn;Daniella Furman

  • The GPCOG: A New Screening Test for Dementia Designed for General Practice

    Henry Brodaty;Dimity Pond;Nicola M. Kemp;Georgina Luscombe

  • Meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of the Wisconsin card-sorting task and component processes.

    Bradley R. Buchsbaum;Stephanie Greer;Wei-Li Chang;Karen Faith Berman

  • Prefrontal function in schizophrenia: Confounds and controversies

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Karen Faith Berman

  • Physiologic dysfunction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. II. Role of neuroleptic treatment, attention, and mental effort.

    Karen Faith Berman;Ronald F. Zec;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Neural mechanisms in Williams syndrome: a unique window to genetic influences on cognition and behaviour.

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Carolyn B. Mervis;Karen Faith Berman

  • Midbrain dopamine and prefrontal function in humans: Interaction and modulation by COMT genotype

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Philip D Kohn;Bhaskar Kolachana;Shane Kippenhan

  • Neurophysiological correlates of age-related changes in working memory capacity.

    Venkata. S. Mattay;Francesco Fera;Alessandro Tessitore;Ahmad R. Hariri

  • Neural correlates of genetically abnormal social cognition in Williams syndrome

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Ahmad R Hariri;Ahmad R Hariri;Karen E Munoz;Carolyn B Mervis

  • Variation in dopamine genes influences responsivity of the human reward system

    Jean Claude Dreher;Philip Kohn;Bhaskar Kolachana;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Neural activation during acute capsaicin-evoked pain and allodynia assessed with PET.

    Michael J. Iadarola;Karen Faith Berman;Thomas A. Zeffiro;Michael G. Byas-Smith;Michael G. Byas-Smith

  • Physiological dysfunction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. IV. Further evidence for regional and behavioral specificity

    Karen Faith Berman;Barbara P. Illowsky;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Prefrontal Neurons and the Genetics of Schizophrenia

    Daniel R. Weinberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Joseph H. Callicott
Joseph H. Callicott National Institutes of Health
Dwight Dickinson
Dwight Dickinson National Institutes of Health
Venkata S. Mattay
Venkata S. Mattay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Bhaskar Kolachana
Bhaskar Kolachana National Institutes of Health
Carolyn B. Mervis
Carolyn B. Mervis University of Louisville
Terry E. Goldberg
Terry E. Goldberg Columbia University
John D. Van Horn
John D. Van Horn University of Virginia
Alessandro Bertolino
Alessandro Bertolino University of Bari Aldo Moro

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