Associate Professor/Director

Guinevere Eden received her BS from University College London and her Ph.D. in Physiology from Oxford University. She engaged in postdoctoral training in the area of functional brain imaging at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland and in 1996 Dr. Eden joined the Faculty at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Dr. Eden is currently an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and directs the Center for the Study of Learning, funded by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation. The center’s research is a collaborative effort with Gallaudet University and Wake Forest School of Medicine, and the center’s research focuses on the neural representation of reading and how it may be altered in individuals with developmental disorders, learning differences or altered early sensory experience. Further, she and her colleagues are researching how reading is impacted by instructions or mode of communication and are utilizing functional MRI to study the neurobiological correlates of reading remediation. Dr. Eden also serves as a Scientific Co-Director of the Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet University.

Dr. Eden and her colleagues were the first to report the use of fMRI to demonstrate differences between individuals with and without dyslexia. This finding was published in the journal Nature. Her work on the neural correlates of typical reading and reading intervention has been published in the journals Nature Neuroscience and Neuron.

At Georgetown University, Dr. Eden teaches students enrolled in the undergraduate psychology program, the graduate neuroscience programme as well as medical students. In the Medical Center she has served as a member of the M.D./Ph.D. Oversight Committee, the Graduate Admissions Committee, the Research Integrity Committee and has chaired the Student Advisory Committee for the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Ph.D. Program.

Dr. Eden is president-elect of the International Dyslexia Association and serves on the editorial boards of the Annals of Dyslexia, Dyslexia, and Human Brain Mapping. She has served as a permanent member of a standing NIH Study Section and as ad-hoc member and chair for special emphasis panels. Dr. Eden serves on the board of several local schools that enroll students challenged by language-based learning differences. Dr. Eden speaks widely about reading, learning, learning differences and the brain to both scientific and lay audiences and has published widely on these topics.