Heather Berlin: Cognitive Science of the Unconscious Mind

Heather A. Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NY. Berlin explores the complex interactions of the human brain and mind with the goal of developing more targeted treatments for impulsive and compulsive psychiatric disorders. She is also interested in the neural basis of consciousness and dynamic unconscious processes.
Berlin 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. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, and Master of Public Health from Harvard University.

[SteamyTigerCoitis]

What an incredibly intelligent individual. Very interesting talk.

[bradicneuro]

I thought you did very well and I learned two things I didn't know before this video. Thanks Bradicneuro

[chauncey]

Ahhh ..the great question, !, thanks gr8 talk ) nxtime ur on star talk see if you can get a word in)

[lagaman]

I know that she speaks very intelligently, about very important subject matter, but watching her speak, she seems to be triggering a very primortal part of my brain that is redirecting bloodflow to my nether regions... I'm just say'n! LOL!!!

[OMAR-vqyb]

Smart and SO hot. She's a unicorn. With that said, her field is being used by big corp to manipulate people.

[iranjackheelson]

her hotness is actually really distracting. can she not wear something more conservative?

[johnbuell]

This dress is appropriate for getting picked up in a bar. Women who deliberately make themselves a sexual distraction in the workplace do not deserve to be taken seriously.