Research
Functional magnetic resonance imaging, language, memory
Appointments
- Clinical Neuropsychologist, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital
- Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
- Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART)
- Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
- Professor in Residence, Cognitive Psychology
- Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity
- Member, Brain Research Institute
- Neuroengineering Training Program
- Neuroscience GPB Home Area
Biography
Dr. Bookheimer’s research examines the neuroanatomy of higher cognitive functions- specifically, understanding how memory and language functions are organized in the human brain in health and disease.
The laboratory focuses on functional neuroimaging techniques (functional magnetic resonance imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, and optical intrinsic signal imaging), in combination with invasive techniques (electrocorticography and intracarotid amobarbitol (Wada) testing ) to develop an integrated knowledge of language and memory representations in normal humans and those with neurological and psychiatric disorders affecting language and memory.
A large focus of research activity involves developing this new technology into tools that can benefit patients with developmental and neurological disorders.
Publications
- Wagner, L, Banchik, M, Tsang, T, Okada, NJ, Altshuler, R, McDonald, N et al.. Atypical early neural responses to native and non-native language in infants at high likelihood for developing autism. Mol Autism. 2025;16 (1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13229-025-00640-w. PubMed PMID:39901290 PubMed Central PMC11792659.
- Stasenko, A, Kaestner, E, Rodriguez, J, Benjamin, C, Winstanley, FS, Sepeta, L et al.. Neural (re)organisation of language and memory: implications for neuroplasticity and cognition. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2025; :. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2024-333871. PubMed PMID:39890459 .
- Gorka, SM, Jimmy, J, Koning, K, Phan, KL, Rotstein, N, Hoang-Dang, B et al.. Alterations in large-scale resting-state network nodes following transcranial focused ultrasound of deep brain structures. Front Hum Neurosci. 2024;18 :1486770. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1486770. PubMed PMID:39698148 PubMed Central PMC11652661.
- Wagner, L, Banchik, M, Tsang, T, Okada, NJ, Altshuler, R, McDonald, N et al.. Atypical Neural Responses to Native and Non-Native Language in Infants at High Likelihood for Developing Autism. Res Sq. 2024; :. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5190659/v1. PubMed PMID:39678338 PubMed Central PMC11643322.
- Gross, RS, Thaweethai, T, Kleinman, LC, Snowden, JN, Rosenzweig, EB, Milner, JD et al.. Characterizing Long COVID in Children and Adolescents. JAMA. 2024;332 (14):1174-88. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.12747. PubMed PMID:39196964 PubMed Central PMC11339705.