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phone: (845) 437-7723
Contact Heather Berlin
Heather Berlin received her doctorate in neuropsychology from Oxford University and her Master of Public Health in psychiatric epidemiology and heath care management/policy from Harvard University. She earned her M.A in psychology from the New School for Social Research and B.S. from SUNY Stony Brook. Ms. Berlin completed an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where she conducted neuropsychological, psychopharmacological, and outcomes research of compulsive, impulsive, personality, and anxiety disorders. She has conducted clinical research at hospitals in both the US and UK including Bellevue Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry in London. Ms. Berlin recently received a Young Investigator Award from the American Neuropsychiatric Association for her research implicating orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in patients with borderline personality disorder.
The broad aim of her research is to discover and further delineate brain-behavior relationships that can contribute to the prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Among other things she is interested in the neuropsychological/biological basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, emotionality, and personality; the functions of the orbitofrontal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (including learning and alteration of stimulus-reinforcement associations; emotional processing; decision-making; time perception; and working memory); and the effects of psychopharmacological treatments on cognition and personality.
She currently teaches: Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 105), Human Neuropsychology (PSYC 243), and a Seminar on States of Consciousness (PSYC 378).