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Wednesday
April 13, 2011
8:30 p.m.
The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious
Heather A. Berlin, Ph.D., MPH
A great deal of complex cognitive processing occurs at the unconscious level and affects how humans behave, think and feel. Scientists are only now beginning to understand how this occurs on the neural level. Research taking advantage of advances in technologies, like functional magnetic resonance imaging, has led to a revival and re-conceptualization of some of the key concepts of psychoanalytic theory and an interest in understanding their neural underpinnings. I will discuss studies from psychology and cognitive neuroscience in both healthy and patient populations that are beginning to elucidate the neural basis of psychodynamic phenomena such as repression, suppression and dissociation.
Dr. Berlin is an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she also completed an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship. As a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College and a Visiting Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/University of Zurich, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem she taught courses on the Neurobiology of Consciousness. Dr. Berlin conducts neuropsychological and psychopharmacological research of brain lesion and compulsive, impulsive, and dissociative disorder patients and is interested in understanding of the neural basis of consciousness and dynamic unconscious processes.
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