Erica Berlin Baller
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Neuroscience Curriculum for Psychiatry Residency, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
3700 Hamilton Walk
Richards Building, 5th floor, Pod A
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Richards Building, 5th floor, Pod A
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
BA (Computer Science and Psychology)
Yale University, 2006.
MS (Physiology and Biophysics)
Georgetown University, 2010.
MD (Medicine)
Drexel University College of Medicine, 2015.
BA (Computer Science and Psychology)
Yale University, 2006.
MS (Physiology and Biophysics)
Georgetown University, 2010.
MD (Medicine)
Drexel University College of Medicine, 2015.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern in Psychiatry, Child Track, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015-2016.
Resident in Psychiatry, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2019.
Fellow in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2019-2020.
T32 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuropsychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2023.
Permanent linkIntern in Psychiatry, Child Track, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015-2016.
Resident in Psychiatry, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2019.
Fellow in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2019-2020.
T32 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuropsychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2023.
Description of Research Expertise
Multiple sclerosis and psychiatry, psychiatric neuroimaging, electronic medical recordsSelected Publications
Rauland A, Meisler SL, Alexander-Bloch AF, Bagautdinova J, Baller EB, Gur RE, Gur RC, Luo AC, Moore TM, Popovych OV, Reetz K, Roalf DR, Shinohara RT, Sotardi S, Sydnor VJ, Vossough A, Eickhoff SB, Cieslak M, Satterthwaite TD.: Benchmarking Orientation Distribution Function Estimation Methods for Tractometry in Single-Shell Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging - An Evaluation of Test-Retest Reliability and Predictive Capability. bioRxiv Sep 2025.Baller EB.: From Billing Codes to Breakthroughs: Filtering Signal From Noise in Electronic Medical Records-Based Research. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Sep 2025.
Pan R, Weinstein SM, Tu D, Hu F, Tanrıverdi B, Zhang R, Vandekar SN, Baller EB, Gur RC, Gur RE, Alexander-Bloch AF, Satterthwaite TD, Park JY.: Mapping individual differences in intermodal coupling in neurodevelopment. Imaging Neuroscience 3: IMAG, Sep 2025.
Erica B. Baller: "Interpreting the Signal" National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative Sep 2025 Notes: https://nncionline.org/course/dr-erica-baller-interpreting-the-signal/
Brook JBH, Salo T, Luo AC, Bagautdinova J, Rush S, Alexander-Bloch AF, Baller EB, Calkins ME, Cieslak M, Cooper EC, Detre JA, Elliot MA, Fair DA, Freedman P, Gehrman PR, Gur RC, Gur RE, Klein A, Laney N, Laumann TO, Mehta K, Merikangas K, Milham MP, Mitchell JA, Moore TM, Nelson SM, Ruparel K, Sevchik BL, Shanmugan S, Shou H, Taso M, White LK, Wolf DH, Tisdall MD, Roalf DR, Satterthwaite TD.: An open, fully-processed data resource for studying mood and sleep variability in the developing brain. bioRxiv May 2025.
Cooper EC, Schindler MK, Bar-Or A, Brandstadter RB, Calkins ME, Gur R, Jacobs DA, Markowitz C, Moore T, Naydovich LR, Perrone CM, Ruparel K, Spangler BC, Troyan S, Shinohara RT, Satterthwaite TD, Baller EB.: Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol. BMJ Open 15: e094733, May 2025.
Baller EB, Luo AC, Schindler MK, Cooper EC, Pecsok MK, Cieslak MC, Martin ML, Bar-Or A, Elahi A, Perrone CM, Reid D, Spangler BC, Satterthwaite TD, Shinohara RT.: Uncinate Fasciculus Lesion Burden and Anxiety in Multiple Sclerosis. JAMA Network Open 8(4): e254751, April 2025.
Baller EB, Cooper EC, Schindler MK, Bar-Or A, Fox MD, Shinohara RT, Satterthwaite TD. Depression : Depression as a disease of white matter network disruption: Learning from Multiple Sclerosis. Biological Psychiatry 2025.
Martin ML, Robert-Fitzgerald T, Schindler MK, Perrone C, Schultz G, Lynch S, Mirkovic N, Thomas S, Elahi A, Reid D, Moore TM, Baller EB, Satterthwaite TD, Cieslak M, Covitz S, Adebimpe A, Manning A, Markowitz CE, Detre JA, Bar-Or A, Kakara M, Shinohara RT.: Impact of insurance status on MRI phenotypes in MS. Mult Scler Relat Disord 92: 105919, Oct 2024.
Erica Baller: “Please let this work...” National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative August 2024 Notes: https://nncionline.org/course/dr-erica-berlin-baller-please-let-this-work/