Benjamin Greenberg, MD, Ph.D., Director, COBRE Center for Neuromodulation, Butler Hospital, Associate Director, Center for Neurorestoration & Neurotechnology, VA Providence Healthcare System, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Rhode Island
Dr. Benjamin D. Greenberg graduated from Amherst College and earned a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of California San Diego, an MD in the Ph.D. to MD Program at the University of Miami, trained in neurology at Columbia University, and completed psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins University.
He became Chief of the Adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he initiated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) studies in OCD; since then has continued to work developing brain circuit-based therapies (including deep brain stimulation) for intractable OCD and noninvasive stimulation for PTSD.
Dr. Greenberg is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University, co-Directs a neurotechnology center at the VA Providence Healthcare System, and directs the COBRE Center for Neuromodulation at Butler Hospital; he also incorporates jokes into talks as opportunities arise.