About Dr. Berlin

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._A._Berlin

Education

  • NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Department of Psychiatry
  • M.P.H., Harvard University
  • Ph.D., 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     ​
  • 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

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Heather Berlin, DPhil, MPH, Assistant Professor
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1230
Department of Psychiatry 
New York, NY  10029-6574

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Tel.:  212. 241.4761
Fax: 212.241.5670                          
Email: heather.berlin@mssm.edu