She received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the Johns Hopkins University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship focused on the dementias of aging under the direction of Dr Marshal Folstein. She is currently Director of Psychiatric Neuroimaging within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The division is highly active in neuropsychiatric research using imaging methods such as MRI, fMRI, PET and DTI, and has published papers on a variety of brain disorders which include but are not limited to Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease.