CLINICAL RESEARCH FOR BRAIN SCIENCES
The Center for Brain Sciences conducts multidisciplinary research focusing on the brain, blending basic and applied clinical sciences.
The Center focuses on:
- Neurodegenerative Diseases - with a special emphasis on Parkinson’s disease and related disorders
- Strokes - researching the process of neuro-rehabilitation via Transcranial Direct and Alternating Current Stimulation (a growing field in the science of cognition and stroke recovery)
- Anoxic Brain Damage – aiding survivors of successful cardiac resuscitation through concepts of neuro-rehabilitation
- Psychiatric Disorders – how to improve the functional capacity of psychiatric (e.g., schizophrenia and depression) patients
- Electrophysiology and Neurocognition – identifying neurobehavioral mechanisms associated with particular EEG patterns and discrete cognitive function to aid the development of illness-specific treatment
Current ongoing and planned research projects at CRCBS:
- Anxiety treatments – meta analysis
- Association between physical activity and symptoms in schizophrenia patients
- Growth patterns of children dependent on chronic ventilation
- Emotional reactions of families of PVS and unconscious patients
- New potential drugs for prevention of cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
- Understanding changes to the cerebellum in human Parkinson’s disease
- Religious and spiritual quality of life and Alzheimer’s disease – “Tiferet Zkenim” project
- Genetic factors in psychiatric disorders (in collaboration with the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine)
- D-serine treatment for ADHD
- Transcranial Current Stimulation Treatments of Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
- Transcranial Current Stimulation treatment for depressive symptoms in treatment resistant depression patients
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Treatment for motor recovery in acute and chronic stroke patients
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and D-cycloserine add-on treatment for depressive symptoms in treatment resistant depression
- Transcranial current stimulation for Parkinson’s disease
- Transcranial current stimulation in pediatric intractable epilepsy cases
- Biofeedback for ADHD and Depression