Pregnancy, Chromosomes, and Receptors
Martha Shenton is what you might call a maverick. As the director of Brigham and Women's Hospital's Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory in Boston, she is driven by one thing in particular: a desire to get inside the brain. And she's not at all shy about taking risks and marching into unchartered territory in order to get there.
"I tend to gravitate towards things that are a new frontier," she says in her bright office on Boylston Street next to Fenway Park, where her laboratory has been based since 2005. Shenton's nonconformist spirit is somewhat betrayed by her conservative appearance and soft-spoken, warm demeanor. But over the past 21 years, she has applied up-and-coming--and often poorly understood--imaging technologies to the study of schizophrenia, paving the way for others to follow.
Shenton, who traces her desire to study schizophrenia back to ...
