Bio

Dr. Heather Berlin is a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and Associate Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai in NY. She explores the neural basis of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric and
neurological disorders with the goal of developing novel treatments. She is also
interested in the brain basis of consciousness, dynamic unconscious processes, and
creativity. Clinically she specializes in lifespan treatment of anxiety, and impulsive and
compulsive disorders, blending her neural perspective with cognitive behavioral therapy,
mindfulness, and humanistic approaches.

Berlin is a committee member of the National Academy of Sciences, and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a passionate science
communicator. She hosts the PBS Nova series Your Brain, and the Science of
Perception Box podcast (the #1 Science podcast on Apple Podcasts).

She also hosted PBS’ Science Goes to the Movies, and Discovery Channel’s
Superhuman Showdown. Dr. Berlin makes regular appearances on StarTalk with Neil
DeGrasse Tyson, History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, and TED, and was
featured in the documentary Bill Nye: Science Guy. She co-wrote and starred in the
critically acclaimed off-Broadway show, Off the Top, about the neuroscience of
improvisation, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Impulse Control.

She is the recipient of numerous honors including the Young Investigator Award
from the American Neuropsychiatric Association, the Young Investigator Award from the
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, and the Clifford Yorke
Prize from the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She was honored as one of
Stony Brook University’s “40 Under Forty”, and won the 2015 BBC University Challenge
as part of the Magdalen College, Oxford team.

Berlin received her doctorate from the University of Oxford, Master of Public
Health from Harvard University, and Master’s in Psychology from the New School for
Social Research. She completed her NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at the Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai and trained in clinical neuropsychology at Weill Cornell
Medicine in the Department of Neurological Surgery. Berlin has published extensively in
high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and textbooks, and was a Visiting Professor at the
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Vassar College, the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology/University of Zurich, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.