Researcher

Paula Fredrikson

Profile

Institution

Boston University School of Medicine

Field

Neuroscience / History of Medicine

Paula Fredrikson is a historian of medicine and cognitive neuroscientist whose interdisciplinary work traces how cultural frameworks of religious experience and moral panic have shaped psychiatric categorization. Her NIMH-funded comparative imaging work provided the first quantitative neuroimaging distinguishing ecstatic religious states from prodromal psychosis. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Industry Ties

Industry Ties

National Institutes of Mental HealthHoward Hughes Medical Institute