Helen Mayberg

Dr. Mayberg is a Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Neuroscience and AI and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY, USA. After completing her MD degree from the University of Southern California, she trained at the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia University and was a post-doctoral fellow in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Immediately prior to joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Mayberg was Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Radiology and held the inaugural Dorothy C. Fuqua Chair in Psychiatric Neuroimaging and Therapeutics at Emory University School of Medicine.

As a behavioral neurologist, Dr. Mayberg has established an international reputation for her pioneering research to map the brain circuits implicated in depression. Early in her career, she developed one of the first “network” models for mood disorders—incorporating fundamentals of neuroanatomy and brain connections with imaging technologies—to propose an alternative neurological view of this classical psychiatric condition that extended beyond the neurochemical models that had dominated for decades. This circuit approach evolved over the years and continues to anchor many contemporary studies of mood disorders, including the development and refinements of deep brain stimulation and other neuromodulation strategies for treatment-resistant depression.

Dr. Mayberg is the founding director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutic, and Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Neuroscience and AI and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

After completing her MD degree from the University of Southern California, she trained at the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia University and was a post-doctoral fellow in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Immediately prior to joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Mayberg was Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Radiology and held the inaugural Dorothy C. Fuqua Chair in Psychiatric Neuroimaging and Therapeutics at Emory University School of Medicine.