Susan Y. Bookheimer - Senior Editor

Dr Susan Bookheimer is Clinical Neuropsychologist and is the Joaquin Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology. Dr Bookheimer specializes in functional brain imaging with PET and functional MRI. Her work has focused on the organization of language and memory in the brain, in healthy adults and children and in neurologic conditions and developmental disorders. Recent work focuses on understanding the neural basis of social communication deficits in autism using functional MRI, encompassing both verbal and non-verbal communication, and focusing on emotional aspects of social comprehension. Dr Bookheimer also maintains active research programmes imaging dyslexia, Alzheimer’s disease, and pre-surgical planning in patients with brain lesions such as tumours, arterio-venous malformations and epilepsy.