Elizabeth Goldfarb

About

Elizabeth Goldfarb is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Yale University. She earned her PhD in 2017 from New York University. Dr. Goldfarb is the director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Affect, Memories and Stress (CAMS) Lab within the Department of Psychiatry. Her research focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying affect, memory, and stress, contributing to the field of cognitive neuroscience. She is involved in advancing knowledge about how affective processes and stress influence memory and brain function, with an emphasis on affective neuroscience and stress-related research.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Neuroscience
• Developmental psychology
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Hippocampal seed connectome-based modeling predicts the feeling of stress

  Nature Communications · 2020-05-27 · 96 citations

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  Although the feeling of stress is ubiquitous, the neural mechanisms underlying this affective experience remain unclear. Here, we investigate functional hippocampal connectivity throughout the brain during an acute stressor and use machine learning to demonstrate that these networks can specifically predict the subjective feeling of stress. During a stressor, hippocampal connectivity with a network including the hypothalamus (known to regulate physiological stress) predicts feeling more stressed…

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• Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain

  Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2023-06-30 · 39 citations

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  The multiple-memory-systems framework-that distinct types of memory are supported by distinct brain systems-has guided learning and memory research for decades. However, recent work challenges the one-to-one mapping between brain structures and memory types central to this taxonomy, with key memory-related structures supporting multiple functions across substructures. Here we integrate cross-species findings in the hippocampus, striatum, and amygdala to propose an updated framework of multiple m…

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• Participant stress in the COVID-19 era and beyond

  Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2020-09-25 · 29 citations

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• Hippocampal Mechanisms Support Cortisol-Induced Memory Enhancements

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2023-10-09 · 26 citations

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  Stress can powerfully influence episodic memory, often enhancing memory encoding for emotionally salient information. These stress-induced memory enhancements stand at odds with demonstrations that stress and the stress-related hormone cortisol can negatively affect the hippocampus, a brain region important for episodic memory encoding. To resolve this apparent conflict and determine whether and how the hippocampus supports memory encoding under cortisol, we combined behavioral assays of associa…

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• Binge drinking is associated with higher cortisol and lower hippocampal and prefrontal gray matter volume: Prospective association with future alcohol intake

  Neurobiology of Stress · 2023-05-30 · 11 citations

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  Background: Cortisol is a significant driver of the biological stress response that is potently activated by acute alcohol intake and increased with binge drinking. Binge drinking is associated with negative social and health consequences and risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD). Both cortisol levels and AUD are also associated with changes in hippocampal and prefrontal regions. However, no previous research has assessed structural gray matter volume (GMV) and cortisol concurrently to e…

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Recent grants

• Neuroimaging multiple memory processes, glucocorticoids and alcoholism risk

  NIH · $701k · 2020–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Elizabeth A. Phelps

  New York University

  41 shared

• Joseph E. Dunsmoor

  The University of Texas at Austin

  26 shared

• Tahj Blow

  Cornell University

  26 shared

• Jennifer C. Harper

  Washington University in St. Louis

  25 shared

• Andrew T. Drysdale

  New York State Psychiatric Institute

  25 shared

• Sonalee Joshi

  University of Pennsylvania

  25 shared

• Sanne van Rooij

  25 shared

• Barbara O. Rothbaum

  Emory University

  25 shared

Education

• PhD, Psychology: Cognition and Perception

  New York University

  2017

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