
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
Position
Research Topics
Brain, Brain Imaging, Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex
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
Position
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