Heather Berlin

About The Author

Heather Berlin, PhD, MPH, is a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. A leading public voice on the brain and behavior, she hosts the PBS NOVA series Your Brain and the Science of Perception Box podcast, and appears regularly on StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Netflix, National Geographic, TED, and the History Channel. She cowrote and starred in the off-Broadway show Off the Top and the Edinburgh Fringe show Impulse Control. Berlin earned her doctorate from the University of Oxford, and Master of Public Health from Harvard University, and trained in clinical neuropsychology at Weill Cornell Medicine. She lives in New York.

Books by Heather Berlin

The Fine Art of Losing Control

The Neuroscience of Self-Mastery

By Heather Berlin
What if the goal of self-control isn’t mastering every impulse, but learning when to tighten the reins and when to let go? Renowned neuroscientist Heather Berlin teaches you how to recruit your impulses—so your instincts start working for you instead of against you.
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