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Helen S. Mayberg, M.D.

Helen Mayberg, is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Her studies over the past 20 years have systematically examined neural mechanisms mediating depression pathogenesis in both psychiatric and neurological patient subgroups, as well as antidepressant response to various treatments including pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and placebo with a goal towards identification of neurobiological markers predicting treatment response and optimized treatment selection. Her long-term interest in neural network models of mood regulation in health and disease led to the recent development of a new intervention for treatment resistant patients using deep brain stimulation, a study initiated at the University of Toronto and now continuing at Emory.

Dr. Mayberg is a Board Certified Neurologist, trained at Columbia University's Neurological Institute in New York, with fellowship training in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins Universiy. She received a B.A. in Psychobiology from University of California, Los Angeles and an M.D. from University of Southern California.

Dr. Mayberg is currently a member of the NINDS Advisory Council, the American Neurological Association Council and the Scientific Advisory Board for NARSAD. She is active in the Society for Neuroscience, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Her research program has ongoing funding from the NIMH, NARSAD, the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the Dana Foundation, and the Woodruff Fund.

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