Gender	Female
E-mail	heather.berlin@mssm.edu
Education and Training	M.P.H., Harvard University
	Ph.D., University of Oxford, Magdalen College
	M.A., New School for Social Research
	B.S., SUNY Stony Brook
	NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship , Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Awards	Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Sigma Beta Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor Society, Psi Chi Honor Society
	2008 Health Emotions Research Institute Symposium Fellow and Travel Award
	2007 New York Academy of Sciences Fellowship
	2007 CDI Travel Award to American College of Psychopharmacology annual meeting
	2006 Young Investigator Award American Neuropsychiatric Association
	2005 Young Investigator Award National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), in conjunction with NARSAD, and the BPD Research Foundation
	2002 Oppenheim Scholarship Magdalen College, Oxford
	2000 British Council Overseas Research Scholarship to Oxford University
	1999 New School University Scholarship and Fellowship

Dr. Berlin conducts neuropsychological and psychopharmacological research of brain lesion and compulsive, impulsive, and personality disorder patients. She has conducted clinical research at hospitals in both the US and UK including Bellevue Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry in London.  Dr Berlin has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College (2005-2006) and a Visiting Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)/University of Zurich (2007), and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007).

Education and Training	M.P.H., Harvard University
	Ph.D., University of Oxford, Magdalen College
	M.A., New School for Social Research
	B.S., SUNY Stony Brook
	NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship , Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Current Research
Neural basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, emotion, and personality; Functions of the orbitofrontal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (e.g. emotional processing; decision-making; time perception; sensitivity to reward and punishment, working memory) and their role in mental illness; Psychopharmacological treatment effects on cognition; Deep brain stimulation for treatment of psychiatric illness; Binocular rivalry in psychiatric and brain lesion patients.

Berlin HA, Hamilton H, Hollander E. Experimental therapeutics for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Translational approaches and new somatic developments. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2008; in press;.

Berlin HA. Antiepileptic drugs for the treatment of impulsivity. Current Psychiatry Reviews 2008; in press;.

Berlin HA. Neurobiological explanations of the dynamic unconscious. Impuls-Journal of Psychology 2008; in press;.

Berlin HA, Hollander E. Understanding the differences between impulsivity and compulsivity. Psychiatric Times 2008; in press;.

Hollander F, Buchsbaum MS, Haznedar MM, Berenguer J, Berlin HA, Chaplin W, Goodman C, LiCalzi EM, Newmark R, Pallanti S. Effect of lithium assessed with FDG-PET in pathological gambling patients. Neuropsychobiology 2008; in press;.

Berlin HA. Anticonvulsant drugs for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Current Psychiatry Reports 2007; 9(4): 291-300.

Berlin HA, Rolls ET, Iversen SD. Borderline personality disorder, impulsivity, and the orbitofrontal cortex. American Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 162(12): 2360-2373.

Berlin HA, Rolls ET, Kischka C. Impulsivity, time perception, emotion, and reinforcement sensitivity in patients with orbitofrontal cortex lesions. Brain 2004; 127: 1108-1126.

Berlin HA, Rolls ET. Time perception, impulsivity, emotionality, and personality in self-harming Borderline Personality Disorder patients. Journal of Personality Disorders 2004; 18(4): 358-378.

Berlin HA, Hollander E. Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatment of Impulsivity and Aggression and Impulse Control and Cluster B Personality Disorders. In: McElroy SL, Keck PE, Post R, editors. Antiepileptic Drugs in Psychiatry. New York, Informa Healthcare;.

Hollander E, Berlin HA, Stein D. Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified. In: Hales RE, Yudofsky SC, Gabbard GO, editors. American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th Ediiton; RE Hales, SC Yudofsky, GO Gabbard (Eds). Arlington VA, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc;.

Hollander E, Berlin HA. Impulse-Control Disorders Measures. In: Rush AJ, First MB, Blacker D, editors. American Psychiatric Association's Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, 2nd Ed; AJ Rush, MB First, D Blacker (Eds). Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc; pp667-686.

Hollander E, Berlin HA. Neuropsychiatric aspects of aggression and impulse control disorders. In: The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 5th Edition . Arlington VA, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc;.

Simeon D, Berlin HA, Kay J, Lieberman J, First MB, Maj M. Impulse-Control Disorders. In: Tasman A, editor. Psychiatry, 3rd Ed. West Sussex, UK, Wiley;.