Contact erin.rich (at) mssm (dot) edu
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I will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai (Icahn) School of Medicine starting in the spring of 2017. I am currently a Post-doc in Wallis Lab at the University of California Berkeley, and collaborate with the Chang Lab at the University of California San Francisco.
Post-doc positions are available in my new lab, to start on or after May 1, 2017. Please visit my website at the link above for more information.
Research
My research focuses on understanding the biological basis of complex behavior and cognition. I am particularly interested in how affective processing - in other words how much you do or don't like something - interacts with cognitive and perceptual processing to give rise to learning, memory and decision-making. My principal approach is recording neurophysiological signals from the brain while a subject engages in tasks that tax these abilities.
Recent Papers
My full CV can be downloaded here
Rich, E.L., Wallis, J.D. Decoding subjective decisions from Orbitofrontal Cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Jul;19(7):973-80.
Rich, E.L., Wallis, J.D. What stays the same in orbitofrontal cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2016 May 26;19(6):768-70. Commentary for Xie and Padoa-Schioppa, 2016.
Rich, E.L., Wallis, J.D. Medial-lateral organization of the orbitofrontal cortex. J Cogn Neurosci. 2014 Jul; 26(7):1347-62.
Rich, E.L., Wallis, J.D. Prefrontal-Amygdala Interactions Underlying Value Coding. Neuron. 2013 Dec; 80(6):1344-1346. Commentary for Rudebeck and Murray, 2013.
Perez-Rodriguez, M.M., Hazlett, E.A., Rich, E.L., Ripoll, L.H., Weiner, D.M., Spence, N., Goodman, M., Koenigsberg, H.W., Siever, L.J., New, A.S. Striatal activity in borderline personality disorder with comorbid intermittent explosive disorder: sex differences. J Psychiatr Res. 2012 Jun;46(6):797-804.
Wallis, J.D., Rich, E.L. Challenges of Interpreting Frontal Neurons during Value-Based Decision-Making. Front Neurosci. 2011;5:124.
Rich, E.L., Shapiro, M.L. Rat prefrontal cortical neurons selectively code strategy switches. J Neurosci. 2009 Jun:29(22):7208-19.