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Elizabeth V. Goldfarb, PhD

   

Elizabeth V. Goldfarb, PhD

Research Scientist

Clinical Neurosciences Division

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Academic Appointment

  • Yale University, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

Education

  • Yale University, Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019
  • New York University, Psychology: Cognition and Perception, PhD, 2017
  • Bard College, Psychology and Creative Writing (double-major), BA, 2010

Expertise and Interests

  • Neural basis of dynamic interactions between stress and memory
  • Neural circuitry underlying multiple learning and memory systems
  • Memory biases to substance use and symptoms of stress-related psychopathology

Awards and Honors

  • Young Investigator Grant, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
  • Harry June Travel Award, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Cermak-Corkin Award, Memory Disorders Research Society

Selected Publications

Goldfarb, E.V., Blow, T., Dunsmoor, J.E., & Phelps, E.A. (2021). Elemental and configural threat learning bias extinction generalization. Neurobiol Learn Mem, 180, 107405. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107405.

Goldfarb, E.V., Rosenberg, M.D., Seo, D., Constable, R.T. & Sinha, R. (2020). Hippocampal seed connectome-based modeling predicts the feeling of stress. Nat Commun, 11, 2650. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16492-2.

Goldfarb, E.V., Fogelman, N. & Sinha, R. (2020). Memory biases in alcohol use disorder: Enhanced memory for contexts associated with alcohol prospectively predicts alcohol use outcomes. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 1297-1305. doi: 10.1038/s41386-020-0650-y.

Goldfarb, E.V., Tompary, A., Davachi, L., & Phelps, E.A. (2019). Acute stress throughout the memory cycle: Diverging effects on associative and item memory. J Exp Psychol: Gen, 148(1), 13-29. doi: 10.1037/xge0000472.

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