She completed a Neurology Residency, a Behavioral Neurology Fellowship and a Psychiatry Residency. She is boarded in Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry, and Forensics. She is the Director of Functional Neuroimaging for the Department of Psychiatry and the Boston Yoga Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine. She is an Instructor at Harvard School of Medicine and a Research Associate at the McLean Hospital. During 20 years of NIH funding, she has served as the Principal Investigator on numerous study involving alcohol and substance abuse. Most recently, her research interests have focused on a series of studies looking at the association between yoga-based practices, brain gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels and mood. Her most recent study has used Iyengar yoga and coherent breathing to treat Major Depressive Disorder.