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Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Affect, Memories and Stress (CAMS) Lab, Psychiatry

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Affect, Memories and Stress (CAMS) Lab, Psychiatry

Biography

Dr. Goldfarb is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and member of the Wu Tsai Institute. She completed her PhD in Psychology: Cognition & Perception with Dr. Elizabeth Phelps at New York University and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry with Dr. Rajita Sinha at Yale. Her research investigates different forms of learning and memory, how stress changes which parts of our experiences we remember, and the impact of memory on later behavior.

Appointments

Education & Training

PhD
New York University, Psychology: Cognition and Perception (2017)
BA
Bard College, Psychology and Creative Writing (double major) (2010)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Alcohol Drinking; Association Learning; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Emotions; Functional Neuroimaging; Glucocorticoids; Habits; Memory, Episodic; Memory, Long-Term; Stress, Physiological; Stress, Psychological; Substance-Related Disorders

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Elizabeth Goldfarb's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Clinical Trials

Current Trials

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    Memory Disorders Research Society

  • honor

    Young Investigator Award

  • honor

    Rising Star Award

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