Vision:
Our vision is to understand brain activity during sleep and the functions it supports. Our lab is internationally recognized as a center of excellence in sleep research and its relationship to cognition.
We conduct fundamental research on sleep electrophysiology and sleep functions, including the neuronal basis of sensory disconnection during sleep and anesthesia (with a focus on the auditory system), wake-promoting neuromodulation (particularly the locus coeruleus–noradrenaline system), and the role of sleep in learning and memory. In parallel, we develop approaches that leverage sleep to improve diagnosis in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Our work integrates diverse experimental methods across species. In humans, we use intracranial electrophysiology in epilepsy patients, EEG, MRI/fMRI, pharmacological interventions, and eye tracking. In rodents, we combine single-neuron electrophysiology, optogenetics, and pharmacology to uncover underlying mechanisms.
Laboratory for the Neuroscience of Sleep and Cognition PI
Team
Dr. Noa Regev
Dr. Flavio Schmidig
Dr. Halen Baker
Rotem Falach
Vlad Zheleznyakov
Omer Ben-Barak Dror
Noam Zelinger
Ido Strauss (Ichilov Neurosurgery)
Jonathan Roth (Ichilov Neurosurgery)
Tal Shachar (Ichilov Neurosurgery)
Lottem Bergman (Ichilov Neurosurgery)
Avi Gadoth (Ichilov neurological institute)
Jeremy Molad (Ichilov neurological institute)
Riva Tauman (Ichilov sleep institute)
Noa Bregman (Ichilov cognitive neurology)
Tamara Shiner (Ichilov cognitive neurology)
Roy Alacalay (Ichilov movement disorders)
Anat Mirelman (Ichilov movement disorders)
Firas Fahoum (Ichilov epilepsy)
Lilac Goldstein (Ichilov epilepsy)
Noam Fallik (Ichilov epilepsy)
Talma Hendler (Ichilov Sagol Brain Institute)
Dafna Ben Bashat (Ichilov Sagol Brain Institute)
Liat Arad (Ichilov I-Next data)
Or Kamara (Ichilov I-Next data)
Rony Paz (Weizmann Institute)
Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute)
Inna Slutsky (TAU medicine)
Hagai Bergman (ELSC, Hebrew U.)
Lior Appelbaum (Bar Ilan U.)
Ami Citri (ELSC, Hebrew U.)
Rafael Malach (WIS)
Itzhak Fried (UCLA, IDC)
Dawn Eliashiv (UCLA)
Florian Mormann (Bonn)
Marcello Massimini (Milan)
Vlad Vyazovskiy (Oxford)
Giulio Tononi (UW-Madison)
Chiara Cirelli (UW-Madison)
Luis de Lecea (Stanford)
Thomas Andrillon (Paris)
Hal Blumenfeld (Yale)
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