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Silvia Bernardi, M.D.

  • Columbia University-trained adult psychiatrist practicing in New York City, NY.

  • Faculty member at Columbia University.

  • Extensive experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

  • Certified Transference Focused Psychotherapist.

  • Extensive experience in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Services provided:

  • Medication Management

  • Weekly or twice a week psychotherapy

  • Transference Focused Psychotherapy

  • Psychoanalysis

  • Coordination of care with medical physicians and psychotherapists

  • Consultations and second opinions

Selected Publications

2017 Fellowship in Neuroscience, Leon Levy Foundation.

2016 BBRF Young Investigator Award (NARSAD)

2015 SOBP Travel Award; APA Psychiatry Research Award

2014 Samuel W. Perry III, M.D. Distinguished Award in Psychiatric Medicine

2014 AADPRT Brain Scholar and International Medical Graduate fellowship

Selected Honors

1. Bernardi S, Benna M, Rigotti M, Munuera J, Fusi S, Salzman CD. The geometry of abstraction in hippocampus and prefrontal cortext. Cell, 2020; 183(4): 954-967

2. Bernardi S, Salzman CDS. The contribution of nonhuman primate research to the understanding of emotion and cognition and its clinical relevance. PNAS December 26, 2019 116 (52) 26305-26312

3. Cortese S, Faraone SV, Bernardi S, Wang S, Blanco C. Gender differences in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 2016; 77(4):e421-8

4. Okuda M, Picazo J, Olfson M, Hasin DS, Liu SM, Bernardi S, Blanco C. Prevalence and correlates of anger in the community: results from a national survey. CNS spectrums. 2015; 20(2):130-9.

5. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, Antonini S, Singh N, Hollander E. Ondansetron augmentation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who are inadequate responders to serotonin reuptake inhibitors: Improvement with treatment and worsening following European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2014; 24(3):375-80.

6.  Cortese S, Faraone S, Bernardi S, Wang S, Blanco C. Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity: epidemiological study. The British Journal of Psychiatry, The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 2013; 203(1):24-34

7. Fan J, Bernardi S, Van Dam NT, Anagnostou E, Gu X, Martin L, Park Y, Liu X, Kolevzon A, Soorya L, Grodberg D, Hollander E, Hof PR. Functional deficits of the attentional networks in autism. Brain Behav. 2012 Sep;2(5):647-60

8. Chamorro J, Bernardi S, Potenza MN, Grant JE, Marsh R, Wang S, Blanco C. Impulsivity in the general population: A national study. J Psychiatr Res. 2012 Aug;46(8):994-1001.

9. Bernardi S, Faraone SV, Cortese S, Kerridge BT, Pallanti S, Wang S, Blanco C. The lifetime impact of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). Psychol Med. 2011 Aug 16:1-13.

10. Bernardi S, Anagnostou E, Shen J, Kolevzon A, Buxbaum JD, Hollander E, Hof PR, Fan J. In vivo (1)H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of the attentional networks in autism. Brain Res. 2011 Mar 22;1380:198-205.

11. Bernardi S, Cortese S, Solanto S, Hollander E, Pallanti S.Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. A distinct clinical phenotype? Clinical Characteristics and Temperamental Traits. World J Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Jun;11(4):656-66.

12. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, Ramar S, Raglione L, Sorbi S. Complex Repetitive Behavior: Punding After Bilateral Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2010 Jul;16(6):376-80.

13. Pallanti S, Haznedar MM, Hollander E, Licalzi EM, Bernardi S, Newmark R, Buchsbaum MS. Basal Ganglia Activity in Pathological Gambling: A Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography Study. Neuropsychobiology. 2010 Jun 30;62(2):132-138

14. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, Rollo AD, Antonini S, Quercioli L. Unilateral low frequency versus sequential bilateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: is simpler better for treatment of resistant depression? Neuroscience. 2010 May 5;167(2):323-8.

15. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, Antonini A, Singh N, Hollander E. Ondansetron Augmentation in Treatment Resistant OCD: A Preliminary Single-Blind Prospective Study. CNS Drugs. 2009 Dec 1;23(12):1047-55

16. Pallanti S, Borgheresi A, Pampaloni I, Giovannelli F, Bernardi S, Cantisani A, Zaccara G, Cincotta M. Motor cortex excitability correlates with novelty seeking in social anxiety: a transcranial magnetic stimulation investigation. J Neurol. 2010 Aug;257(8):1362-8

17. Pallanti S, Bernardi S. Neurobiology of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of anxiety: a critical review. Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 2009 Jul;24(4):163-73

18. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, Allen A, Hollander E. Serotonin function in Pathological Gambling:  Blunted Growth Hormone response to Sumatriptan. J Psychopharmacol. 2010 Dec;24(12):1802-9.

19. Bernardi S, Pallanti S. Internet Addiction: a descriptive clinical study focusing on comorbidities and dissociative symptoms. Compr Psychiatry. 2009 Nov-Dec;50(6):510-6.

20. Bernardi S, Pallanti S. Successful duloxetine treatment of a binge-eating disorder: a case report. J Psychopharmacol. 2010 Aug;24(8):1269-72.

21. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, William C, Allen A, DeCaria C, Hollander E. Noradrenergic Function in Pathological Gambling:  Blunted Growth Hormone Response to Clonidine. J Psychopharmacol. 2010 Jun;24(6):847-53. 

22. Pallanti S, Masetti S, Bernardi S, Innocenti A, Markella M, Hollander E. Obsessive compulsive disorder comorbidity in DBA.Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health. 2008 Mar 10;4:6.

23. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, Quercioli L. The Shorter PROMIS Questionnaire and the Internet Addiction Scale in the assessment of multiple addictions in a high-school population: prevalence and related disability.CNS Spectr. 2006 Dec;11(12):966-74.

24. Pallanti S, Bernardi S, Quercioli L, DeCaria C, Hollander E. Serotonin dysfunction in pathological gamblers: increased prolactin response to oral m-CPP versus placebo.CNS Spectr. 2006 Dec;11(12):956-64.

Book Chapter(s)

(1) Bernardi S, Salzman CD. Appetitive and aversive systems in the amygdala. to Decision Neuroscience/Handbook of Reward and Decision Making, second edition. Editors Dreher JC, Tremblay L. Elsevier, 2016.

(2) Bernardi S, Blanco C. Gambling disorder In: DSM-V Casebook: A Learning Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. 2015.

(3) Bernardi S, Blanco C. Treatment of gambling disorder In: Gabbard Treatment of Psychiatric Disorder, 5th Edition. McDuffie J, editor. American Psychiatric Publishing. Arlington, VA. 2015.

(4) Okuda M, Bernardi S, Blanco C. The Woman who became tired of predicting the future. In: The Addiction Casebook. American Psychiatric Publishing. Arlington, VA. 2014.

(5) Pallanti S, Bernardi S. Liason-Consultation Psychiatry. In Cassano et al. Disturbi dell’umore, Masson, Milano (eds) 2007