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Suzanne Naomi Haber is a world-leading neuroscientist from the United States of America. She is Professor of pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry and neuroscience in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in the city of Rochester, New York.

Haber's research focuses on understanding the connections between the basal ganglia, thalamus and the cerebral cortex, and how these brain areas are involved in reward and psychiatric illnesses, such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and schizophrenia.

Her work on parallel and segregated projections from the basal ganglia to cortex has been highly influential in cognitive and clinical neuroscience, and her work has received over 25,000 citations.

Education and Career
Haber studied her Bachelor's Degree at Kent State University, and earned her Ph.D in Neuroscience with distinction from Stanford University in 1978. She did her first postdoc in the lab of Dr. Robert Elde at the University of Minnesota, then moved to the lab of Dr. Walle J.H.Nauta at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before moving to Rochester, she was a lecturer and assistant professor in Psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has visiting professor and scientist positions at, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mclean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the CNRS, Paris, France.

Research
Haber has extensively studied the network connecting the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia and thalamus, and its involvement in reward and motivation, cognition, and motor control. This network is thought to be involved in several mental health disorders including drug addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia.

Her recent work has focused on the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS). This technique has been highly successful in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, but is less well studied in the context of treating depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. Her lab uses 3D brain imaging to identify how placement of DBS electrodes may affect treatment outcomes differently.

Awards and Honours
She has received numerous awards and grants for her work, including NIH Research Career Development Award (1985 - 1990), including NIMH Merit Award (1989 - 1997), and the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award (2011 - present). She was elected to the council American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2012, and has served on numerous committees both nationally and internationally. She is chair of the executive committee of the Motivational Neuronal Network Society (MNN), is on the board of NARSAD, and is on committees of Society of Biological Psychiatry, Society for Neuroscience, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Foundation For OCD Research.

See Also
 * List of woman neuroscientists