Izhar Bar-Gad, Ph.D.
Principle Investigator
izhar.bar-gad at biu.ac.il
Katya Belelovsky, Ph.D.
Lab Manager
kbelelovsky at gmail.com
Yocheved Loewenstern
Ph.D. student
yloewenstern at gmail.com
Orel Tahari
Ph.D. student
orel.tahary at gmail.com
Yehoshua (Shuki) Stern
M.Sc. student
shukistern at gmail.com
Yonit Zall
M.Sc. student
za.yonit at gmail.com
Kate Zinkovskaia
M.Sc. student
zinkovskayakate at gmail.com
Yuval El-Hanany
M.Sc. student
Alumni
Anan Moran
2005-9 Ph.D. (currently Senior Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Neurophysiological properties of the subthalamic nucleus and their relation to their functional organization
2005-10 Ph.D. (currently Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Stimulation induced changes in the neuronal activity of the globus pallidus in parkinsonian non-human primates
2006-11 Ph.D. (currently Postdoc, Fee lab, MIT, USA)
The neuronal correlates of bicuculline-induced hyperkinetic disorders in the primate cortico-basal ganglia system
2006-12 Ph.D. (currently Lecturer, Jerusalem College of Technology)
Non-invasive magnetic stimulation of the primary motor cortex effect on the neuronal correlates of MPTP induced Parkinsonism in non-human primates
Adi Tzameret
2007-9 M.Sc. (currently Ph.D. student, Tel-Aviv University)
Neurophysiological and behavioral changes in dyskinetic primates following GPi stimulation
2009-15 Ph.D. (currently R&D, IBM)
Correlations and oscillations in the basal-ganglia and their relation to motor function
2010-12 direct M.Sc.
Neurophysiological and behavioral changes in the primate model of motor tics following GPi high frequency stimulation
2013-18 Ph.D. (currently Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science)
Neuronal encoding of motor tic in Tourette syndrome patients and in an animal model of the disorder
2010-18 MSc-PhD. (currently R&D RSIP vision)
Neurophysiological and behavioral characteristics of basal-ganglia hypo and hyperkinetic disorders
2011-13 M.Sc. (currently R&D, Waze)
Environmental cue detection using chronic Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry (FSCV) measurement of dopamine levels
2012-14 M.Sc. (currently R&D, Elminda)
Neuronal and behavioral changes induced by high frequency stimulation in a rat model of motor tics
2012-14 M.Sc.
Detection of neuronal oscillation from spike trains of Poissonian neurons
2014-20 Ph.D. (currently R&D Medtronic)
Computational approaches to the quantification of neurophysiological and clinical changes during Parkinson's Disease
Yonatan Karash
2013-15 direct M.Sc (currently Ph.D. student - Philosophy).
Generating tic-like behavior and tic-related neuronal activity using optical stimulation in the striatum
2014-16 direct M.Sc . (currently Blossom-KC)
Convergence and divergence of bilateral cortico-basal ganglia information
2014-16 direct M.Sc. (currently Ph.D. student IBG lab)
Information processing in the entopeduncular nucleus
2014-17 M.Sc. (currently Ph.D. student - Weizmann)
The role of striatal fast spiking interneurons in shaping basal ganglia activity
Esther (Vinner) Harduf
2014-20 Ph.D. (currently X-Trodes)
The neural basis of motor tic dynamics and its modulation over different timescales
2016-18 M.Sc. (currently surgical neurophysiologist)
The role of the direct and indirect cortico-basal ganglia pathways in normal and abnormal behavior