Contact Information

UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
205 Brain Mapping Center
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7085
On-campus mail: 708522
Tel: (310) 794-6386
Fax: (310) 794-7406
E-mail: sbook@ucla.edu

Biosketch

I have been a member of the UCLA Brain Mapping Center since 1993. My research uses functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) to understand the cortical organization of language and memory systems including emergent systems such as social communication and emotion. Clinical applications of my work includes pre-surgical mapping of critical functions; understanding developmental disorders of language such as dyslexia, autism and William's syndrome; and early detection of functional brain abnormalities in individuals at-risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Selected References

Bookheimer SY. Functional MRI of Language: new approaches to understanding the cortical organization of semantic processing. (2002). Annual Review of Neurosciences, 25:151-88

Zeineh M, Engel S, Thompson P and Bookheimer S. Dynamics of the Hippocampus during encoding and retrieval of face-name pairs (2003). Science, 299, pp. 577-580.

Gelfand J. and Bookheimer SY. (2003). Dissociating Neural Mechanisms of Temporal Sequencing and Processing Phonemes. Neuron 38(5):831-42.