The Team
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Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal
Associate Professor
Sagol school of neuroscience
School of psychological science
Tel Aviv University, Sharet building R119
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Keren Ruzal
PhD candidate, Sagol school of Neuroscience.
Interested in the neural correlates of helping behavior. Using behavioral, chemogenetic and optogenetic tools in rats to study how group identity influences the decision to help others, and which brain area(s) are involved in this processing.
Michal Turovets

PhD candidate,
Sagol school of Neuroscience.
Michal focuses on how multi-brain dynamics contribute to prosocial behaviors such as empathy and helping.
Ben Kantor

PhD Candidate
School of psychological sciences
Ben is an expert in computer vision and his research focuses on developing AI tools for analysis of neural activity.
Creator of Brainways
Bar Shvalbo

Ph.D. Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Bar studies the long-term impact of social environmental stability during early adolescence on adult psychological and physical health, with a focus on neuroimmune mechanisms.

Hila Flumin
Ph.D. Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Hila focuses on the effects of prosocial behavior on alcohol addiction, and is a dopamine affectionado.

Freya Prein
M.Sc. candidate
Sagol int'l school of neuroscience
Freya researches the serotonergic system in social behavior, using psychedelic pharmacological interventions and ML–based recognition of rodent interactions.
Júlia Schönfeldová

M.Sc Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Julia is interested in the effect of maternal immune activation on PV+ interneuron activity in the offspring.
Lee Dahan

M.Sc Candidate & Lab manager
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Lee studies neurobiological mechanisms mediating the effects of immune activation on development.
Elena Karlinskaya

M.Sc Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Lena studies neural mechanisms of prosocial behavior via the serotonergic system.
Lab Alumni


Dr. Einat Bigelman
Lab manager
Reut Hazani
PhD

Nataly Urshansky

Estherina Trachtenberg
P.hD, Sagol school of Neuroscience.
