Bar-Haim, Yair
Phone at TAU: 03-6405465
Fax: 03-6409547
E-mail: yair1@post.tau.ac.il
Homepage: http://www.tau.ac.il/~yair1

Research area:
Developmental Psychopathology and Personality Development

Current Research Topics:
Biological bases of social withdrawal, shyness, and social anxiety in children and adults.

Methods and Techniques:
Electroencephalography (EEG), Event-Related Brain Potentials (ERP), Electrocardiogram (ECG), Behavioral Observations.

Ben-Eliyahu, Shamgar
Phone at TAU: 03-6407266
Fax: 03-6409547, 03-6409520
E-mail: shamgar@post.tau.ac.il
Homepage: http://freud.tau.ac.il/~shamgar/

Research area:
Cancer and metastasis. Neuroendocrine immunology. Psychoneuroimmunology.

Current Research Topics:
The effects of stress hormones and sex hormones on immunity, natural killer cell activity, and the susceptibility to cancer development. Tumor immunology.

Methods and Techniques:
Tumor models. FACS analysis. ELISA. Natural killer cytotoxicity assays. RIA. Stress paradigms.

Dagan, Yaron
Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Phone at TAU: 03-6407349
Fax: 03-6409547
E-mail: dagany@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Sleep and dreaming. Sleep disorders. Biological rhythms. Melatonin. Light.

Current Research Topics:
Sleep-wake schedule disorders [SWSD] and psychopathology. Malatonin and light therapy for SWSD. Night eating syndrome in SWSD patients. Sleep-wake rhythm. Melatonin secretion and body temperature of schizophrenic patients. Methods and Techniques:
Sleep home monitoring [actigraphy]. Body temperature monitoring. Urinary melatonin metabolite measuring. Clinical evaluation. Psychological and sleep questionnaires.

Frenk, Hanan
Phone at TAU: 03-6406388
Fax: 03-9247675
E-mail: Frenk@Freud.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Pain, Analgesia, Opiates.

Current Research Topics:
Development of pain and analgesia, opiate tolerance.

Methods and Techniques:
Psychopharmacological and behavioral.

Grodzinsy, Yosef
Phone at TAU: 03-6409037
Fax: 03-6409574
E-mail: yosef1@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Neuropsychology of language. Psycholinguistics. Language acquisition.

Current Research Topics:
Aphasia. Neural substrate for language processes.

Methods and Techniques:
Experiments with impaired human subjects, testing their language skills and studying the nature of their lesions through CT and MRI.

Hadar, Uri
Phone at TAU: 03-6408970
Fax: 03-6405749
E-mail: uri-h@freud.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Human cognitive neuropsychology

Current Research Topics:
fMRI of lexical processes; fMRI of emotion; Coverbal gesture production

Methods and Techniques:
fMRI; Cognitive neuropsychology

List of selected publications

Joel, Daphna
Phone at TAU: 03-6408996
Fax: 03-6407391
E-mail: djoel@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuitry: organization and function; Rat models of basal ganglia-related disorders, including obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and Huntington's disease.

Current Research Topics:
The neural substrates and pharmacology of a new rat model of obsessive compulsive disorder, i.e., the post-training signal attenuation model; Development of a potential novel treatment for Huntington's disease in a rat model; Development of animal model of chronic/negative schizophrenia.

Methods and Techniques:
Behavioral, Psychopharmacological, Lesion.

List of selected publications

Mintz, Matti
Phone at TAU: 6408625
Fax: 6409547
E-mail: mintz@freud.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Neurobiology of learning, Epilepsy, Experimental models of Parkinson Disease.

Current Research Topics:
Involvement of amygdala and cerebellum in conditioning. Involvement of stress in focal epilepsy.

Methods and Techniques:
Electrophysiology, In vivo microdialysis, Behavior.

Sadeh, Avi
Dept. of Psychology:
Phone at TAU: 6409296
Fax: 972-3-6409547
E-mail: sadeh@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:

• sleep and its disorders in children;
• stress, trauma and psychopathology in children

Tsal, Yehoshua
Psychology, School of Social Sciences.
Phone at TAU: 03-6409144
Fax: 03-6409547
E-mail: jehoshua@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Visual attention

Current Research Topics:
Object perception. Feature integration. Attentional spotlight.

Weiner, Ina
Phone at TAU: 03-6408993
Fax: 03-6407391
E-mail: weiner@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Behavioral Neuroscience.

Current Research Topics:
Learning and memory, Animal models of psychopathology, Schizophrenia, Huntington's Disease, Models of basal ganglia thalamocortical circuitry, Psychostimulants and antipsychotic drugs.

Methods and Techniques:
Behavioral assessment - attention, learning, memory, Psychopharmacology, Brain lesions, Intracerebral injections.

Yovel Galit
Phone at TAU: 03-6405474
Fax: 03-6409547
E-mail: galit@freud.tau.ac.il

Current Research Topics:
The neural basis of face, body and object processing

Methods and Techniques:
fMRI, EEG, Eye tracking, TMS, Behavior.