Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli is a Research Scientist at MIT.  Her primary mission is to understand the brain basis of psychiatric disorders and to promote translation of this knowledge into clinical practice.  Towards this end, she employs multimodal neuroimaging techniques to investigate the pathophysiology of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism, and dyslexia.  Her goals are to discover biomarkers for improved diagnosis, early detection (potentiating early intervention and possibly prevention), prediction of therapeutic response (targeted towards precision medicine), and development of novel therapeutic techniques (e.g., real-time fMRI neurofeedback) with the hope of improving (or augmenting) currently available treatments.  A secondary goal of her research is to develop functional imaging analysis tools to share with clinicians and the neuroimaging community at large.

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