Heather Berlin

Heather Berlin, PhD

About Me


Dr. Berlin conducts research to better understand the neural basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, and emotion with the goal of more targeted treatment. She employs neuroimaging and neuropsychological and psychopharmacological testing of brain lesion and compulsive, impulsive, and personality disorder patients.  She is also interested in the neural basis of consciousness and dynamic unconscious processes. Dr. Berlin has conducted clinical research at hospitals in both the US and UK including Bellevue Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She is a Visiting Scholar at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)/University of Zurich, and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Language
English
Position
ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Psychiatry, ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Neuroscience
Research Topics

Brain, Brain Imaging, Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex

Education

NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
MPH, Harvard University
PhD, University of Oxford, Magdalen College

Awards

2011

Presentation Award

Translational Molecular Imaging Institute Annual Symposium

2010

Clifford Yorke Prize

International Neuropsychoanalysis Society

2008

Symposium Fellow and Travel Award

Health Emotions Research Institute

2008

Phillip M. Rennick Award

International Neuropsychological Society

2007

CDI Travel Award

American College of Psychopharmacology Annual Meeting

2007

New York Academy of Sciences Fellowship

2006

Young Investigator Award

American Neuropsychiatric Association

2005

Young Investigator Award

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

2004

Harvard University Fellowship

2002

Oppenheim Scholarship

Magdalen College, Oxford

2000

British Council Overseas Research Scholarship

Locations