Dr. Herman is a Neuropathologist and Senior Staff Scientist in the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch
of the DIRP, NIMH. She graduated from the University and Medical School at the
University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wisconsin, and completed residencies in
Pathology and Neuropathology at Yale and Stanford Universities. She was on the
faculty of Stanford University for fifteen years, rising to
Associate Professor of Pathology with tenure, followed by eleven years as
Professor of Pathology and Co-Director of Neuropathology at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Herman joined the NIMH in 1991 as a Special Expert in Neuropathology
followed by her present appointment in 1996. She is board-certified in
Anatomical Pathology and Neuropathology. Dr. Herman has been a member of the
Editorial Board of the Journal of Neuropathology on two occasions and is a
member of numerous pathology societies as well as the Society of Biological Psychiatry
and the Society for Neuroscience, among others. She has received the
Merck Faculty Development award from the Merck Foundation, a Research Career Development Award,
and the Weil Award from the AANP. She has published over 200 scientific articles.
Research Interests
Dr. Herman is the Neuropathologist at the NIMH and collaborates with the
Clinical Brain Disorders Branch. She will be the Neuropathologist for the
proposed Neuropathology Core Facility in the DIRP, NIMH. Her research
interests in schizophrenia encompass an evaluation of glial pathology and of
COMT, growth factors, and the morphometric analysis of neuronal populations
in the cerebrum and cerebellum.
