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D-Index
109
Citations
52756
World Ranking
552
National Ranking
314

Overview

Susan Y. Bookheimer is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry and mental health. Additional subfields include clinical psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly output encompasses a range of topics, notably in functional brain connectivity studies, autism spectrum disorder research, and dementia and cognitive impairment research. They also engage in investigations related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and the neurobiology of language and bilingualism.

Frequently publishing in prominent academic venues, the scientist has contributed extensively to:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Autism Research
  • UNC Libraries

Notable recent papers include:

  • Brain health consequences of digital technology use (2020) published in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
  • Baseline brain function in the preadolescents of the ABCD Study (2021) published in Nature Neuroscience
  • Sex Differences in Functional Connectivity of the Salience, Default Mode, and Central Executive Networks in Youth with ASD (2020) published in Cerebral Cortex
  • Graded Variation in T1w/T2w Ratio during Adolescence: Measurement, Caveats, and Implications for Development of Cortical Myelin (2022) published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Sensory over-responsivity is related to GABAergic inhibition in thalamocortical circuits (2021) published in Translational Psychiatry

Collaborative work characterizes much of their research, with frequent coauthors including Mirella Dapretto, Shafali Jeste, James C. McPartland, John D. Van Horn, and Raphael Bernier. This indicates a collaborative approach across various studies within the neuroscientific and clinical psychological disciplines.

Best Publications

  • The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

    A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

  • Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders

    Mirella Dapretto;Mari S Davies;Jennifer H Pfeifer;Ashley A Scott

  • Functional MRI of Language: New Approaches to Understanding the Cortical Organization of Semantic Processing

    Susan Bookheimer

  • Modulating emotional responses: effects of a neocortical network on the limbic system.

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Susan Y. Bookheimer;John C. Mazziotta

  • Patterns of brain activation in people at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    Susan Y. Bookheimer;Magdalena H. Strojwas;Mark S. Cohen;Ann M. Saunders

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • Remembering episodes: a selective role for the hippocampus during retrieval

    Laura L. Eldridge;Barbara J. Knowlton;Christopher S. Furmanski;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • Changes in cortical activity during mental rotation. A mapping study using functional MRI.

    M. S. Cohen;M. S. Cohen;S. M. Kosslyn;H. C. Breiter;G. J. DiGirolamo

  • Cerebral metabolic and cognitive decline in persons at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

    Gary W. Small;Linda M. Ercoli;Daniel H. S. Silverman;S.-C. Huang

  • Early developmental emergence of human amygdala-prefrontal connectivity after maternal deprivation.

    Dylan G. Gee;Laurel J. Gabard-Durnam;Jessica Flannery;Bonnie Goff

  • Form and Content: Dissociating Syntax and Semantics in Sentence Comprehension

    Mirella Dapretto;Susan Y Bookheimer

  • PET of Brain Amyloid and Tau in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Gary W. Small;Vladimir Kepe;Linda M. Ercoli;Prabha Siddarth

  • A Developmental Shift from Positive to Negative Connectivity in Human Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry

    Dylan G. Gee;Kathryn L. Humphreys;Jessica Flannery;Bonnie Goff

  • Reward Processing in Autism

    Ashley A Scott-van Zeeland;Mirella Dapretto;Dara G Ghahremani;Russell A Poldrack

  • The Neural Correlates of Motor Skill Automaticity

    Russell A. Poldrack;Fred W. Sabb;Karin Foerde;Sabrina M. Tom

  • Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II

    Adriana Di Martino;David O'Connor;David O'Connor;Bosi Chen;Kaat Alaerts

  • Recruitment of Anterior Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Human Reasoning: a Parametric Study of Relational Complexity

    James K. Kroger;Fred W. Sabb;Christina L. Fales;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • Language switching and language representation in Spanish-English bilinguals: an fMRI study.

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Mirella Dapretto;John C. Mazziotta;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • Dynamics of the hippocampus during encoding and retrieval of face-name pairs.

    Michael M. Zeineh;Stephen A. Engel;Paul M. Thompson;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: Imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects

    Michael P. Harms;Leah H. Somerville;Beau M. Ances;Jesper Andersson

  • An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individuals

    Matthew D Lieberman;Ahmad Hariri;Johanna M Jarcho;Naomi I Eisenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirella Dapretto
Mirella Dapretto University of California, Los Angeles
Linda M. Ercoli
Linda M. Ercoli University of California, Los Angeles
Prabha Siddarth
Prabha Siddarth University of California, Los Angeles
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Lori L. Altshuler
Lori L. Altshuler University of California, Los Angeles
Jorge R. Barrio
Jorge R. Barrio University of California, Los Angeles
Arne D. Ekstrom
Arne D. Ekstrom University of Arizona
Elizabeth R. Sowell
Elizabeth R. Sowell University of Southern California
Nanthia Suthana
Nanthia Suthana University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California

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