Dr. Frederick received his undergraduate training in Physics (S.B., Yale University, 1985), and his graduate training in Biophysics (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994 - Thesis title “Three Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Sodium Ions Using Stochastic Excitation and Oscillating Gradients”). After graduate school, he did a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. He currently holds a joint appointment as a Biophysicist at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, and is an adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Tufts University. His research focus is on in fMRI and NIRS technique development for substance abuse research. He is currently collaborating with LSEC on a study of olfactory cues to perception of others’ stress.
