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Heather Berlin

Psychology

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#4510

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#1451

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Neuropsychology

#141

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#144

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#18

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Biology

#15485

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#19471

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#3044

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Neuroscience

#2788

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#2861

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#353

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Heather Berlin's Degrees

Bachelors Psychology University of Pennsylvania
PhD Neuroscience University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Heather A. Berlin is an American neuroscientist and licensed clinical psychologist noted for her work in science communication and science outreach. Her research focuses on brain-behavior relationships affecting the prevention and treatment of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric disorders. She is also interested in the neural basis of consciousness, dynamic unconscious processes, and creativity. Berlin is host of the PBS Nova series Your Brain, the PBS series Science Goes to the Movies, the Discovery Channel series Superhuman Showdown, and StarTalk All-Stars with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

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Heather Berlin's Published Works

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Published Works

Probing Compulsive and Impulsive Behaviors, from Animal Models to Endophenotypes: A Narrative Review (2010) (604)
Impulsivity, time perception, emotion and reinforcement sensitivity in patients with orbitofrontal cortex lesions. (2004) (556)
Borderline personality disorder, impulsivity, and the orbitofrontal cortex. (2005) (195)
Duration of untreated illness and suicide in bipolar disorder: a naturalistic study (2010) (171)
Time perception, impulsivity, emotionality, and personality in self-harming borderline personality disorder patients. (2004) (109)
A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of topiramate for pathological gambling (2013) (102)
Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of topiramate augmentation in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. (2011) (96)
The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious (2011) (92)
Sexual Impulsivity in Hypersexual Men (2015) (83)
Neuropsychobiological Aspects, Comorbidity Patterns and Dimensional Models in Borderline Personality Disorder (2010) (61)
Neuromodulation for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (2014) (54)
FDG-PET Study in Pathological Gamblers (2008) (48)
Antiepileptic drugs for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (2007) (48)
The influence of age of onset and acute anabolic steroid exposure on cognitive performance, impulsivity, and aggression in men. (2014) (31)
Altered olfactory processing and increased insula activity in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: An fMRI study (2017) (27)
Dorso- and ventro-lateral prefrontal volume and spatial working memory in schizotypal personality disorder (2011) (24)
Neural correlates of emotional response inhibition in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A preliminary study (2015) (23)
Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis (2009) (16)
Impulse-control disorders not elsewhere classified. (2012) (14)
Impulse‐Control Disorders (2008) (14)
Experimental therapeutics for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: translational approaches and new somatic developments. (2008) (12)
Understanding the differences between impulsivity and compulsivity (2008) (11)
Implicit Self-Esteem in Borderline Personality and Depersonalization Disorder (2012) (11)
Neuropsychiatric aspects of aggression and impulse-control disorders. (2008) (10)
Antiepileptic Drugs for the Treatment of Impulsivity (2008) (7)
Communicating Science: Lessons from Film. (2016) (6)
The Brainstem Begs the Question: “Petitio Principii” (2013) (5)
The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious: Response to Commentaries (2011) (4)
Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders: Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Kleptomania, and Pyromania (2015) (4)
P02-243 - Neurocognition and Temperament in Borderline and Schizotypal Personality Disorder (2010) (2)
Neural basis of intrapsychic and unconscious conflict and repetition compulsion (2017) (2)
Delving within: the new science of the unconscious (2017) (2)
Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatment of Impulsivity and Aggression and Impulse Control and Cluster B Personality Disorders (2008) (2)
Functional neuroimaging and models for obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders. (2014) (2)
Neurocognition and temperament in borderline and schizotypal personality disorder (2009) (1)
Cognitive and Mood Functioning in Borderline and Schizotypal Personality Disorders (2016) (1)
Un approccio dimensionale al disturbo di personalità borderline (2009) (1)
Contents Vol. 61, 2010 (2010) (0)
The Brainstem Begs the Question : “ Petitio Principii ” Commentary (2013) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 61, 2010 (2010) (0)
Neuromodulation for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (2014) (0)
The moral animal: virtue, vice, and human nature (2016) (0)
S.06.01 The obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (2008) (0)
A dimensional approach to borderline personality disorder (2009) (0)
Optimized fMRI imaging protocol and hardware for studying the orbitofrontal cortex in the presence of olfactory stimulation (2010) (0)
668 Section III : Measures Related to DSM-IV Diagnostic Categories Part 1 : Overview INTRODUCTION Major Domains (2007) (0)
Meets Psychoanalysis Suppression and dissociation , two psychoanalytic defense mechanisms , are now studied by modern neuroscience (0)
Impulse Control Disorders : Intermittent Explosive Disorder , Kleptomania , and Pyromania (2013) (0)
Impulsivity, the orbitofrontal cortex and borderline personality disorder (2003) (0)
Chapter 3 NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY , COMORBIDITY AND DIMENSIONAL MODELS IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER : CRITICAL ISSUES FOR TREATMENT (2009) (0)
Neurophysiology, comorbidity and dimensional models in borderline personality disorder : critical issues for treatment (2009) (0)

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