• Research Questions

  • Unrevealing of molecular mechanisms underlying social behavior.

  • Molecular biology of depressive and anxiety disorders.

  • What is the role of personality in stress-induced drug dependency

  • How interplay aging-related cognitive impairments and depression? – in collaboration with Prof. Izhak Michaelevski

  • How resilience and sensitivity to stress influence on ageing and related cognitive impairments

  • Identifying at-risk populations for maladaptive response to prenatal stress

  • Assessing the link between the gut microbiome and behavior using a mouse model of dominance and submissiveness. In collaboration with Prof. Shiri Navon-Venezia

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• Methodologies used

  • Molecular Neuroscience

  • Optical Imaging

  • Behavioral Neuroscience

  • Transcriptomics, Bioinformatics

  • Biochemical methods

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• Keywords

  • Social Behavior, Dominance, Submissiveness, Drug addiction, Stress adaptation, HPA axis activity, Glucocorticoids, Microbiome

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• Courses for Advanced Neuroscience Study

  • Molecular Mechanisms of Mental Diseases