Dear Colleagues,
Please bring these job opportunities to the attention of your best students and more senior co-workers. A summary is below, and more information is in the attachment. All best wishes,
Karen
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The Section on Integrative Neuroimaging (under the direction of Dr. Karen Berman) at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program, offers several openings for clinical and postdoctoral
fellows and a Senior Staff Scientist (Ph.D.s and/or M.D.s). The 300 acre campus of the NIH Intramural Research Program, near Washington D.C., houses state-of-the-art neuroimaging facilities (MRI, PET and MEG) dedicated to research and is one of the premier
research sites in the world. The strong scientific environment and superb resources make this a unique opportunity for outstanding scientists. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team using multimodal neuroimaging to map genetic and neurochemical
mechanisms associated with normal higher cognitive function as well as dysfunction in neuropsychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, those with genetic sources of behavioral dysfunction such as Williams syndrome, and other conditions such as normal aging.
We also have a strong neurodevelopmental imaging component. Possible research areas include 1) neurofunctional bases of neuropsychiatric illnesses, especially schizophrenia, 2) neurodevelopmental neuroimaging, 3) neurochemical and hormonal underpinnings of
higher cognitive function and dysfunction, and 4) imaging genetics.
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- Dreher JC, Kohn P, Kolachana B, Weinberger DR, Berman KF: Variation in dopamine genes influences responsivity of the human reward system. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106: 617-622, 2009.
- Dreher JC, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Kohn P, Berman KF: Age-related changes in midbrain dopaminergic regulation of the human reward system. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105:15106-15111, 2008 (“From the Cover” and
commentary: PNAS 105:14751-14752, 2008).
- Meyer-Lindenberg A, Hariri A, Munuz KE, Mervis CB, Mattay VS, Morris CA, Berman KF: Neural correlates of genetically abnormal social cognition in Williams syndrome. Nature Neuroscience, 8:991-993, 2005.
- Meyer-Lindenberg AS, Olsen RK, Kohn PD, Egan MF, Weinberger DR, and Berman KF: Regionally specific disturbance of dorsolateral prefrontal-hippocampal functional connectivity in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 62:379-386,
2005.
- Kippenhan JS, Olsen RK, Mervis CB, Morris CA, Kohn PD, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Berman KF: Genetic contributions to human gyrification: Sulcal morphometry in Williams syndrome. Journal of Neuroscience, 25:7840-7846, 2005.
- Buchsbaum BR, Olsen RK, Koch PF and Berman KF: Human dorsal and ventral auditory streams subserve rehearsal-based and echoic processes during verbal working memory. Neuron, 48:687-97, 2005.
- Meyer-Lindenberg A, Mervis CB, Sarpal D, Koch P, Steele S, Kohn P, Marenco S, Morris CA, Das S, Kippenhan JS, Mattay VS, Weinberger DR and Berman KF: Functional, structural and metabolic abnormalities of the hippocampal function in Williams syndrome. Journal
of Clinical Investigation 115:1888-1895, 2005.
- Meyer-Lindenberg AS, Kohn PD, Kolachana B, Kippenhan JS, McInerney-Leo A, Nussbaum R, Weinberger DR, and Berman KF: Midbrain dopamine and prefrontal function in humans: interaction and modulation by COMT genotype. Nature Neuroscience,
8:594-596, 2005.
- Meyer-Lindenberg A, Kohn P, Mervis CB, Kippenhan JS, Olsen RK, Morris CA, and Berman KF: Neural basis of genetically determined visuospatial construction deficit in Williams syndrome. Neuron, 43:623-631, 2004
- Meyer-Lindenberg A, Miletich RW, Kohn P, Esposito G, Carson RE, Quarantelli M, Weinberger DR, Berman KF: Prefrontal cortex dysfunction predicts exaggerated striatal dopamine uptake in schizophrenia. Nature Neuroscience, 5:267-271, 2002
- Dreher JC and Berman KF: Fractionating the neural substrate of cognitive control processes. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(22):14595-14600, 2002.
- Berman KF, Schmidt PJ, Rubinow DR, Danaceau MA, Van Horn JD, Esposito E, Ostrem JL, Weinberger DR: Modulation of cognition-specific cortical activity by gonadal steroids: A PET study in women. PNAS-Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,
94:8836-8841, 1997.
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Karen Faith Berman, M.D.
Chief, Section on Integrative Neuroimaging
National Institutes of Health, NIMH
Intramural Research Program
9000 Rockville Pike, MSC 1365
Building 10, Room 3C109
Bethesda, MD 20892-1365
phone: 301/496-7603
fax: 301/480-7795