Martha Herbert, MD, PhD
- Pediatric Neurologist and Director, TRANSCEND Research Program
- Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Bio
Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and affiliated faculty at the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She directs the TRANSCEND Research Program, Treatment Research and NeuroSCience Evaluation of NeuroDevelopmental Disorders. Dr. Herbert did her medical training at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, her pediatrics residency at Cornell University Medical Center and her neurology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to attending medical school she obtained a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. For her brain imaging research on white matter and asymmetry changes in autism, she received the Cure Autism Now Innovator Award. With the Autism Society of America she is the Co-Chair of the Environmental Health Project and directs the Treatment Guided Research Initiative. Her research program includes studying what makes some autistic brains unusually large, how the parts of the brain are connected and coordinated with each other, how to incorporate metabolic biomarkers into brain research, and how we can develop measure sensitive to changes in brain function that could result from treatment interventions.