Helen S Mayberg

Dr. Helen S. Mayberg is a Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with appointments in Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Artificial Intelligence and Human Health. She directs The Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics and collaborates with the Center for Neuromodulation, Depression and Anxiety Center, and other neuroscience-focused institutions.

• MD - University of Southern California
• Internship - Los Angeles General Medical Center
• Residency - Columbia University Neurological Institute
• Post-doc - Johns Hopkins Nuclear Medicine

Her research focuses on brain circuit mapping in depression, deep brain stimulation (DBS) development, and neuromodulation for psychiatric disorders. Key projects include real-time brain activity monitoring during DBS using Medtronic Summit RC+S technology and multimodal assessment of DBS effects in treatment-resistant depression.

• 2020 Eisenberg Research Prize
• 2018 Hyman Neuroethics Award
• 2014 AAAS Fellow
• 2008 National Academy of Medicine
• 20+ major national awards

Current grants include NIH UH3NS103550 for electrophysiological biomarkers and NSF funding for connectome-based dynamic network modeling. Her lab collaborates with 5+ major Mount Sinai centers including the Friedman Brain Institute and BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute.