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Dr. Elizabeth Goldfarb is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at Yale School of Medicine, and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Affect, Memories and Stress (CAMS) Lab. She holds affiliations with the Wu Tsai Institute and the Yale Stress Center. Her research focuses on learning, memory, stress effects on memory encoding, and the interplay between memory and behavior, particularly in contexts of substance use disorders and psychological stress.
Education: PhD in Psychology (Cognition & Perception) from New York University (2017), BA in Psychology and Creative Writing from Bard College (2010).
Research Interests: Memory systems, stress neurobiology, alcohol and substance use disorders, functional neuroimaging, and translational research linking brain mechanisms to behavioral outcomes. Her lab investigates how stress and alcohol influence memory integration and fragmentation, with implications for addictive and stress-related disorders.
Key Findings: Cortisol’s role in memory enhancement, stress-predictive brain networks in high-risk drinkers, and the impact of stress on associative learning. Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience and clinical applications, such as interventions targeting memory biases in addiction.
Grants & Trials: Leading studies like the Brain Imaging Study of Affect and Learning (Sub-Investigator) and the Multiple Cognitive and Neurobiological Mechanisms of Alcohol Processing (Principal Investigator). These focus on neural mechanisms underlying alcohol processing and stress responses.
Awards: NIH/NIAAA Young Investigator Award (2023), APS Rising Star Award (2022), and honorable mention for the 2024 Klerman Prize.
Labs & Teams: Directs the CAMS Lab, collaborates with the Janeway Society and MR Core, and participates in interdepartmental initiatives like the Neuroscience Track and the Wu Tsai Institute.