Martha E Shenton
Biography
Dr. Martha E. Shenton is Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, and Director of the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (http://pnl.bwh.harvard.edu). She is also a Health Scientist at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Her laboratory has pioneered in developing neuroimaging tools to understand brain alterations in schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, as well as other disorders. She received her A.B. degree in Psychology from Wellesley College where she graduated Durant Scholar (Summa cum laude) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University, with a post-doctoral fellowship in Biological Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She received several career awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, including a K01 Mentored Award (1988-1993), two K02 Independent Investigator Awards (1994-1999, 1998-2004), and a K05 Senior Scientist Award (2004-2009). She has also been the recipient of the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award for Research in Psychopathology, the William Silen Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring, and a Distinguished NARSAD Award. She has served on numerous study sections at the National Institute of Health and has authored >400 peer-reviewed empirical articles and proceedings, as well as authored multiple books chapters, and edited two books. She is Associate Editor of Brain Imaging and Behavior, and is on the editorial board of Schizophrenia Research, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, BMC Psychiatry, Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, Journal of Neuroimaging in Psychiatry & Neurology, Journal of Neuroimaging, and the World Journal of Psychiatry.
