Lucy L. Brown

Lucy L. Brown is a Clinical Professor in Neurology at Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental/Physiological Psychology from NYU in 1973. During a post-doctoral fellowship at Einstein, she worked on visualizing dopamine neurons and testing their plasticity in reward systems in animals. She also learned about brain mapping techniques during the fellowship, and continued at Einstein as a grant-funded investigator. She was Director of the Laboratory for Functional Neuroanatomy and Movement Disorders for over twenty years. Currently, she collaborates with several other investigators on brain imaging of romantic love and personality traits, in addition to studying mobility and cognition in normal aging.