{{Short description|American psychiatrist and physician-scientist}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Karen Berman | image = Karen Faith Berman 2016.jpg | birth_name = Karen Faith Berman | fields = Integrative neuroimaging, psychosis, cognitive studies | workplaces = National Institute of Mental Health | alma_mater = University of Rochester<br>Saint Louis University }}
'''Karen Faith Berman''' is an American psychiatrist and physician-scientist who is a senior investigator and chief of the section on integrative neuroimaging, the psychosis and cognitive studies section, and the clinical and translational neuroscience branch of the National Institute of Mental Health's division of intramural research.
== Life == Berman received a B.S. degree from the University of Rochester and a M.D. from Saint Louis University School of Medicine.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Neuroscience@NIH > Faculty > Profile |url=https://dir.ninds.nih.gov/Faculty/Profile/karen-berman.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019091057/https://dir.ninds.nih.gov/Faculty/Profile/karen-berman.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=2022-10-05 |website=dir.ninds.nih.gov}}{{PD-notice}}</ref> She completed her medical internship at Washington University in St. Louis and had residency training in psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.<ref name=":0" /> Berman also completed residency training in nuclear medicine at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is board certified in both psychiatry and nuclear medicine.<ref name=":0" />
She is a senior investigator and chief of the section on integrative neuroimaging, the psychosis and cognitive studies section, and the clinical and translational neuroscience branch of the National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) division of intramural research.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2016-10-24 |title=Four NIH IRP Researchers Elected to National Academy of Medicine |url=https://irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2016/10/four-nih-irp-researchers-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine |access-date=2022-10-05 |website=NIH Intramural Research Program |language=en}}{{PD-notice}}</ref> Berman's group uses functional neuroimaging to map brain activity and neurochemical mechanisms associated with normal higher cognitive function as well as dysfunction in neuropsychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, illnesses having genetic sources of cognitive dysfunction such as Williams syndrome, and other conditions impacting cognition such as normal aging.<ref name=":1" /> They also study the effects of gonadal steroid hormones on brain function.<ref name=":1" /> In 2016, Berman was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.<ref name=":1" /> In 2023, she became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-07 |title=NIMH Researcher Karen Berman Elected as AAAS Fellow - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) |url=https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-updates/2023/nimh-researcher-karen-berman-elected-as-aaas-fellow |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=www.nimh.nih.gov |language=en}}</ref>
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