Nancy Coover Andreasen (born November 11, 1938) is an American neuroscientist and neuropsychiatrist.
She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska with majors in English, History, and Philosophy.
[5][6] She attended medical school at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, graduated in 1970 and completed her psychiatry residency in 1973.
[14] Andreasen pioneered the application of neuroimaging techniques in major mental illnesses, and published the first quantitative study of magnetic resonance imaging of brain abnormalities in schizophrenia.
[23] She is past president of the American Psychopathological Association and the Psychiatric Research Society.
[4] She is a member of the Society for Neuroscience[4] and on the Honorary International Editorial Advisory Board of the Mens Sana Monographs.
Suz Andreasen, who was a jewelry designer who lived in New York City, died from ovarian cancer on November 10, 2010.
She is married to Captain Terry Gwinn, a retired military officer who flew helicopter gunships for 3.5 tours during the Vietnam War.