About Erica Harris
72 East Concord St.
Boston, MA 02118
Erica R. Harris completed her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia (UVA) in January 2001 with a major in Psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. While at UVA, she had the opportunity to work on a spatial learning project with Alzheimer’s disease patients within the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia Medical Center. After graduating from UVA, she worked at Duke University Medical Center on studies involving at-risk youths and preventive intervention, aggression, substance abuse, and school transitions for adolescents. It was the work with these adolescents that prompted her to pursue a Master of Public Health degree from Boston University in January 2005 with dual concentrations in Epidemiology and in Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is currently a Laboratory Supervisor (in the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory, www.bumc.bu.edu/len) in the Department of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. She works on a variety of projects including sleep, Parkinson’s disease, pragmatic language skills, social cognition, dreams, the concept of the self, the frontal lobes, and the evolution of religion. She is concurrently pursuing her Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience at Boston University within the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences.
