Eilon Vaadia Lab

ELSC Members

Vaadia's Lab

Prof. Vaadia Former (Founding) Director of ELSC (2009-2016) combines theory and experiments to the study brain sensorimotor functions. The team at the lab uses brain-machine interfaces (BMI) electrical activity of neurons in brain circuits. In simple words, BMIs can read to modulate and decipher the brain’s “intention” from its activity and further; BMI can be used to detect in real-time electrical patterns involved in a brain disease, and re-adjust these patterns to ameliorate the disease.

Eilon Vaadia

Exploring the Wonders of the Brain by Directly Connecting it to a Computer

Frontiers for Young Minds (2025)

Oren Peles, Uri Werner-Reiss, Hagai Bergman, Zvi Israel, Eilon Vaadia

Phase-Specific Microstimulation Differentially Modulates Beta Oscillations and Affects Behavior

Cell Reports (2020)

Hagai Lalazar, L. F. Abbott, Eilon Vaadia

Tuning Curves for Arm Posture Control in Motor Cortex Are Consistent with Random Connectivity

PLoS Computational Biology (2016)

Ben Engelhard, Eilon Vaadia

Spatial computation with gamma oscillations

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (2014)

Hadas Taubman, Eilon Vaadia, Rony Paz, Gal Chechik

A Bayesian approach for characterizing direction tuning curves in the supplementary motor area of behaving monkeys

Journal of Neurophysiology (2013)

Ben Engelhard, Nofar Ozeri, Zvi Israel, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Inducing γ oscillations and precise spike synchrony by operant conditioning via brain-machine interface

Neuron (2013)

Shelly Levy‐Tzedek, Itai Novick, Roni Arbel, Sami Abboud, Shachar Maidenbaum, Eilon Vaadia, Amir Amedi

Cross-sensory transfer of sensory-motor information: visuomotor learning affects performance on an audiomotor task, using sensory-substitution

Scientific Reports (2012)

Neta Zach, Dorrit Inbar, Yael Grinvald, Eilon Vaadia

Single Neurons in M1 and Premotor Cortex Directly Reflect Behavioral Interference

PLoS ONE (2012)

Itai Novick, Eilon Vaadia

Just Do It: Action-Dependent Learning Allows Sensory Prediction

PLoS ONE (2011)

Boris Rosin, Maya Slovik, Rea Mitelman, Michal Rivlin‐Etzion, Suzanne N. Haber, Zvi Israel, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation Is Superior in Ameliorating Parkinsonism

Neuron (2011)

Michal Eisenberg, Lior Shmuelof, Eilon Vaadia, Ehud Zohary

The Representation of Visual and Motor Aspects of Reaching Movements in the Human Motor Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience (2011)

Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, Itai Novick, Eilon Vaadia

Expressions of Multiple Neuronal Dynamics during Sensorimotor Learning in the Motor Cortex of Behaving Monkeys

PLoS ONE (2011)

Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, Itai Novick, Rony Paz, Yuval Link, Sharon Freeman, Eilon Vaadia

The Neuronal Basis of Long-Term Sensorimotor Learning

Journal of Neuroscience (2011)

Daniel A. Braun, Ad Aertsen, Rony Paz, Eilon Vaadia, Stefan Rotter, Carsten Mehring

Frontiers: Online Adaptation and Over-Trial Learning in Macaque Visuomotor Control

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (2011)

Daniel A. Braun, Ad Aertsen, Rony Paz, Eilon Vaadia, Stefan Rotter, Carsten Mehring

Online Adaptation and Over-Trial Learning in Macaque Visuomotor Control

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (2011)

Fritzie I. Arce‐McShane, Itai Novick, Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, Eilon Vaadia

Neuronal Correlates of Memory Formation in Motor Cortex after Adaptation to Force Field

Journal of Neuroscience (2010)

Merle Eisenberg, Lior Shmuelof, Eilon Vaadia, Ehud Zohary

Functional Organization of Human Motor Cortex: Directional Selectivity for Movement

Journal of Neuroscience (2010)

Fritzie I. Arce‐McShane, Itai Novick, Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, Zvi Israel, Claude Ghez, Eilon Vaadia

Combined Adaptiveness of Specific Motor Cortical Ensembles Underlies Learning

Journal of Neuroscience (2010)

Fritzie Arce, Itai Novick, Eilon Vaadia

Discordant Tasks and Motor Adjustments Affect Interactions between Adaptations to Altered Kinematics and Dynamics

Frontiers in human neuroscience (2010)

Eilon Vaadia

Learning about the learning-Brain: mutual learning of brain and Machine in adaptive BMI settings

Frontiers in Neuroscience (2010)

Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, Rony Paz, Eilon Vaadia

Trial-to-Trial Variability of Single Cells in Motor Cortices Is Dynamically Modified during Visuomotor Adaptation

Journal of Neuroscience (2009)

Eilon Vaadia

Grand challenges of brain computer interfaces in the years to come

Frontiers in Neuroscience (2009)

Mati Joshua, Avital Adler, Yifat Prut, Eilon Vaadia, Jeffery R. Wickens, Hagai Bergman

Synchronization of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons Is Enhanced by Rewarding Events

Neuron (2009)

Amir Globerson, Eran Stark, Eilon Vaadia, Naftali Tishby

The minimum information principle and its application to neural code analysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2009)

Fritzie Arce, Itai Novick, Maayan Shahar, Yuval Link, Claude Ghez, Eilon Vaadia

Differences in context and feedback result in different trajectories and adaptation strategies in reaching

PloS one (2009)

Rony Paz, Eilon Vaadia

Learning from Learning: What Can Visuomotor Adaptations Tell us About the Neuronal Representation of Movement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology (2008)

Mati Joshua, Avital Adler, Boris Rosin, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Encoding of Probabilistic Rewarding and Aversive Events by Pallidal and Nigral Neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology (2008)

Hagai Lalazar, Eilon Vaadia

Neural basis of sensorimotor learning: modifying internal models

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2008)

Mati Joshua, Avital Adler, Rea Mitelman, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons and Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Encode the Difference between Reward and Aversive Events at Different Epochs of Probabilistic Classical Conditioning Trials

Journal of Neuroscience (2008)

Neta Zach, Dorrit Inbar, Yael Grinvald, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Emergence of Novel Representations in Primary Motor Cortex and Premotor Neurons during Associative Learning

Journal of Neuroscience (2008)

Eilon Vaadia

Single-Unit Activity Related to Active Localization of Acoustic and Visual Stimuli in the Frontal Cortex of the Rhesus Monkey

Brain Behavior and Evolution (2008)

Michal Rivlin‐Etzion, Odeya Marmor, Guy Saban, Boris Rosin, Suzanne N. Haber, Eilon Vaadia, Yifat Prut, Hagai Bergman

Low-Pass Filter Properties of Basal Ganglia–Cortical–Muscle Loops in the Normal and MPTP Primate Model of Parkinsonism

Journal of Neuroscience (2008)

Alexa Riehle, Eilon Vaadia

Motor Cortex in Voluntary Movements: A Distributed System for Distributed Functions

Medical Entomology and Zoology (2007)

Genela Morris, Alon Nevet, David Arkadir, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Midbrain dopamine neurons encode decisions for future action

Nature Neuroscience (2006)

Rony Paz, Chen Natan, Thomas Boraud, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Emerging Patterns of Neuronal Responses in Supplementary and Primary Motor Areas during Sensorimotor Adaptation

Journal of Neuroscience (2005)

Neta Zach, Naama Kanarek, Dorrit Inbar, Yael Grinvald, Tomer Milestein, Eilon Vaadia

Segregation between acquisition and long‐term memory in sensorimotor learning

European Journal of Neuroscience (2005)

Jörn Rickert, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, Eilon Vaadia, Ad Aertsen, Stefan Rotter, Carsten Mehring

Encoding of Movement Direction in Different Frequency Ranges of Motor Cortical Local Field Potentials

Journal of Neuroscience (2005)

Lavi Shpigelman, Yoram Singer, Rony Paz, Eilon Vaadia

Spikernels: Predicting Arm Movements by Embedding Population Spike Rate Patterns in Inner-Product Spaces

Neural Computation (2005)

David Arkadir, Genela Morris, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Independent Coding of Movement Direction and Reward Prediction by Single Pallidal Neurons

Journal of Neuroscience (2004)

Rony Paz, Chen Nathan, Thomas Boraud, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Acquisition and generalization of visuomotor transformations by nonhuman primates

Experimental Brain Research (2004)

Izhar Bar‐Gad, Shlomo Elias, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Complex Locking Rather Than Complete Cessation of Neuronal Activity in the Globus Pallidus of a 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydropyridine-Treated Primate in Response to Pallidal Microstimulation

Journal of Neuroscience (2004)

Genela Morris, David Arkadir, Alon Nevet, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Coincident but Distinct Messages of Midbrain Dopamine and Striatal Tonically Active Neurons

Neuron (2004)

Carsten Mehring, Martin Paul Nawrot, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, Eilon Vaadia, Andreas Schulze‐Bonhage, Ad Aertsen, Tonio Ball

Comparing information about arm movement direction in single channels of local and epicortical field potentials from monkey and human motor cortex

Journal of Physiology-Paris (2004)

Rony Paz, Eilon Vaadia

Specificity of sensorimotor learning and the neural code: Neuronal representations in the primary motor cortex

Journal of Physiology-Paris (2004)

Joshua A. Goldberg, Uri Rokni, Thomas Boraud, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Spike Synchronization in the Cortex-Basal Ganglia Networks of Parkinsonian Primates Reflects Global Dynamics of the Local Field Potentials

Journal of Neuroscience (2004)

Rony Paz, Steven P Wise, Eilon Vaadia

Viewing and doing: similar cortical mechanisms for perceptual and motor learning

Trends in Neurosciences (2004)

Rony Paz, Eilon Vaadia

Learning-Induced Improvement in Encoding and Decoding of Specific Movement Directions by Neurons in the Primary Motor Cortex

PLoS Biology (2004)

Carsten Mehring, Jörn Rickert, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, Eilon Vaadia, Ad Aertsen, Stefan Rotter

Hints for a topographic map of tuning properties in primate motor cortex

FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) (2003)

Uri Rokni, O. Steinberg, Eilon Vaadia, Haim Sompolinsky

Cortical Representation of Bimanual Movements

Journal of Neuroscience (2003)

Carsten Mehring, Jörn Rickert, Eilon Vaadia, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, Ad Aertsen, Stefan Rotter

Inference of hand movements from local field potentials in monkey motor cortex

Nature Neuroscience (2003)

Rony Paz, Thomas Boraud, Chen Natan, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Preparatory activity in motor cortex reflects learning of local visuomotor skills

Nature Neuroscience (2003)

Opher Donchin, A. Gribova, O. Steinberg, Andrew R. Mitz, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Single-Unit Activity Related to Bimanual Arm Movements in the Primary and Supplementary Motor Cortices

Journal of Neurophysiology (2002)

A. Gribova, Opher Donchin, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira

Timing of bimanual movements in human and non-human primates in relation to neuronal activity in primary motor cortex and supplementary motor area

Experimental Brain Research (2002)

Joshua A. Goldberg, Thomas Boraud, Sharon Maraton, Suzanne N. Haber, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Enhanced Synchrony among Primary Motor Cortex Neurons in the 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydropyridine Primate Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Journal of Neuroscience (2002)

O. Steinberg, Opher Donchin, A. Gribova, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Neuronal populations in primary motor cortex encode bimanual arm movements

European Journal of Neuroscience (2002)

Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, A. Gribova, Opher Donchin, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Neural interactions between motor cortical hemispheres during bimanual and unimanual arm movements

European Journal of Neuroscience (2001)

Opher Donchin, A. Gribova, O. Steinberg, Hagai Bergman, Rodrigo Cardoso de Oliveira, Eilon Vaadia

Local field potentials related to bimanual movements in the primary and supplementary motor cortices

Experimental Brain Research (2001)

Valeria Del Prete, O. Steinberg, Alessandro Treves, Eilon Vaadia

How much do they tell us to move

Neurocomputing (2001)

I Bar-Gad, Y Ritov, E Vaadia, H Bergman

Failure in identification of overlapping spikes from multiple neuron activity causes artificial correlations

Journal of neuroscience methods (2001)

Aeyal Raz, Vered Frechter-Mazar, Ariela Feingold, Moshe Abeles, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Activity of Pallidal and Striatal Tonically Active Neurons Is Correlated in MPTP-Treated Monkeys But Not in Normal Monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience (2001)

Aeyal Raz, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Firing Patterns and Correlations of Spontaneous Discharge of Pallidal Neurons in the Normal and the Tremulous 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydropyridine Vervet Model of Parkinsonism

Journal of Neuroscience (2000)

Laura Martignon, Gustavo Deco, Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Mathew E. Diamond, Winrich A. Freiwald, Eilon Vaadia

Neural Coding: Higher-Order Temporal Patterns in the Neurostatistics of Cell Assemblies

Neural Computation (2000)

Eilon Vaadia

Learning how the brain learns

Nature (2000)

Opher Donchin, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira, Eilon Vaadia

Who Tells One Hand What the Other Is Doing

Neuron (1999)

Hamutal Slovin, Moshe Abeles, Eilon Vaadia, Iris Haalman, Yifat Prut, Hagai Bergman

Frontal Cognitive Impairments and Saccadic Deficits in Low-Dose MPTP-Treated Monkeys

Journal of Neurophysiology (1999)

O Donchin, A Gribova, O Steinberg, H Bergman, E Vaadia

Primary motor cortex is involved in bimanual coordination

Nature (1998)

Iris Haalman, Eilon Vaadia

Emergence of Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Neuronal Activity

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C (1998)

Yifat Prut, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman, Iris Haalman, Hamutal Slovin, Moshe Abeles

Spatiotemporal Structure of Cortical Activity: Properties and Behavioral Relevance

Journal of Neurophysiology (1998)

Ehud Ahissar, Moshe Abeles, Merav Ahissar, Sebastian Haidarliu, Eilon Vaadia

Hebbian-like functional plasticity in the auditory cortex of the behaving monkey

Neuropharmacology (1998)

Hagai Bergman, Ariela Feingold, Asaph Nini, Aeyal Raz, Hamutal Slovin, Moshe Abeles, Eilon Vaadia

Physiological aspects of information processing in the basal ganglia of normal and parkinsonian primates

Trends in Neurosciences (1998)

Opher Donchin, O. Steinberg, A. Gribova, Howard Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Effect of ipsilateral movements on preferred direction of cells in MI and SMA

Neuroscience Letters (1997)

Iris Haalman, Eilon Vaadia

Dynamics of neuronal interactions: Relation to behavior, firing rates, and distance between neurons

Human Brain Mapping (1997)

Laura Martignon, Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Gustavo Deco, Eilon Vaadia

Learning Exact Patterns of Quasi-synchronization among Spiking Neurons from Data on Multi-unit Recordings

neural information processing systems (1996)

Aeyal Raz, Ariela Feingold, V. Zelanskaya, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Neuronal synchronization of tonically active neurons in the striatum of normal and parkinsonian primates

Journal of Neurophysiology (1996)

Eyal Seidemann, Isaac Meilijson, Micha Abeles, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Simultaneously recorded single units in the frontal cortex go through sequences of discrete and stable states in monkeys performing a delayed localization task

Journal of Neuroscience (1996)

Eilon Vaadia, Ad Aertsen, Israel Nelken

‘Dynamics of neuronal interactions’ cannot be explained by ‘neuronal transients’

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (1995)

Micha Abeles, H. C. Bergman, Itai Gat, Isaac Meilijson, Eyal Seidemann, Naftali Tishby, Eilon Vaadia

Cortical activity flips among quasi-stationary states

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1995)

E Vaadia, I Haalman, M Abeles, H Bergman, Y Prut, H Slovin, A Aertsen

Dynamics of neuronal interactions in monkey cortex in relation to behavioural events

Nature (1995)

Israel Nelken, Yifat Prut, Eilon Vaadia, Micha Abeles

In search of the best stimulus: An optimization procedure for finding efficient stimuli in the cat auditory cortex

Hearing Research (1994)

Israel Nelken, Yifat Prut, Eilon Vaadia, Micha Abeles

Population responses to multifrequency sounds in the cat auditory cortex: One- and two-parameter families of sounds

Hearing Research (1994)

Micha Abeles, Yifat Prut, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Synchronization in neuronal transmission and its importance for information processing

Progress in brain research (1994)

Micha Abeles, H. C. Bergman, E. Margalit, Eilon Vaadia

Spatiotemporal firing patterns in the frontal cortex of behaving monkeys

Journal of Neurophysiology (1993)

Ehud Ahissar, Eilon Vaadia, Merav Ahissar, Hagai Bergman, Amos Arieli, Moshe Abeles

Dependence of Cortical Plasticity on Correlated Activity of Single Neurons and on Behavioral Context

Science (1992)

Merav Ahissar, Ehud Ahissar, Hagai Bergman, Eilon Vaadia

Encoding of sound-source location and movement: activity of single neurons and interactions between adjacent neurons in the monkey auditory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology (1992)

Ad Aertsen, Eilon Vaadia, Micha Abeles, Ehud Ahissar, H. C. Bergman, Benny Karmon, Yizhar Lavner, E. Margalit, Israel Nelken, Stefan Rotter

Neural interactions in the frontal cortex of a behaving monkey: signs of dependence on stimulus context and behavioral state

PubMed (1991)

Israel Nelken, Eilon Vaadia

A sensitive estimator for crosscorrelograms

Biological Cybernetics (1990)

Ehud Ahissar, Eilon Vaadia

Oscillatory activity of single units in a somatosensory cortex of an awake monkey and their possible role in texture analysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1990)

Micha Abeles, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Reply to ‘Cortex, spikes and waves’ by H Stowell

Network Computation in Neural Systems (1990)

Micha Abeles, Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman

Firing patterns of single units in the prefrontal cortex and neural network models

Network Computation in Neural Systems (1990)

Eilon Vaadia, Hagai Bergman, Micha Abeles

Neuronal activities related to higher brain functions-theoretical and experimental implications

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (1989)

Yechezkel Gottlieb, Eilon Vaadia, Micha Abeles

Single unit activity in the auditory cortex of a monkey performing a short term memory task

Experimental Brain Research (1989)

Eilon Vaadia, Kiyoshi Kurata, Steven P. Wise

Neuronal Activity Preceding Directional and Nondirectional Cues in the Premotor Cortex of Rhesus Monkeys

Somatosensory & Motor Research (1988)

Eilon Vaadia, Micha Abeles

Temporal firing patterns of single units, pairs and triplets of units in the auditory cortex

PubMed (1987)

Eilon Vaadia, D. A. Benson, Robert D. Hienz, Moïse H. Goldstein

Unit study of monkey frontal cortex: active localization of auditory and of visual stimuli

Journal of Neurophysiology (1986)

Amos Arieli, Eilon Vaadia, Micha Abeles

Relationship between single-unit activity, local and surface electro-cortico-gram demonstrate dynamic organization of cell population in the cortex

Behavioural Brain Research (1986)

Ron D. Frostig, Yechezkel Gottlieb, Eilon Vaadia, Moshe Abeles

The effects of stimuli on the activity and functional connectivity of local neuronal groups in the cat auditory cortex

Brain Research (1983)

Eilon Vaadia, Yechezkel Gottlieb, Micha Abeles

Single-unit activity related to sensorimotor association in auditory cortex of a monkey

Journal of Neurophysiology (1982)

Eilon Vaadia

Professor Emeritus

Email: eilon.vaadia@elsc.huji.ac.il

Eilon Vaadia

@eilon_vaadia

Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 1205, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401

Vaadia's Lab

People

Lee Cohen

Lab Manager

Dr. Rona Shaharabani

Researcher

Dr. Tal Finkelman

Post Doc

Elior Drori

PhD Student

Mehdi Rhibi

Undergraduate Student

Idan Reuveny

PhD Student

Maryana Pozina

PhD Student

Meitav Melchior

PhD Student

Hagit Eliyahu

Undergraduate Student

Ahmad Abusway

Undergraduate Student

Ronny Yariv

Undergraduate Student

Dr. Roey Schurr

Dr. Asier Erramuzpe

Dr. Noam Saadon-Grosman

Dr. Jonathan Bain

Dr. Shai Berman

Dr. Shir Filo

Dr. Oshrat Shtangel

David Cohen

Gai Gefen

Shachar Moskovich

Batsheva Weisinger

Niv Amos

Amitay Nachmani

Eden Mama

Publications

Eden Mama, Rona Shaharabani, José P. Marques, Aviv Mezer

Mapping a reproducible water fraction and T 1 using MP2RAGE and variable flip angle quantitative MRI protocols

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2025)

Elior Drori, Lee S. Cohen, David Arkadir, Gilad Yahalom, Aviv Mezer

Multiparametric quantitative MRI uncovers putamen microstructural changes in Parkinson’s disease

npj Parkinson s Disease (2025)

Shachar Moskovich, Oshrat Shtangel, Aviv Mezer

Approximating R1 and R2 : A Quantitative Approach to Clinical Weighted MRI

Human Brain Mapping (2024)

Eden Mama, José P. Marques, Aviv Mezer

A new approach for reproducible water fraction and T1 mapping across different qMRI acquisition protocols

Proceedings on CD-ROM – International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition (2024)

Henri Trang, Qianlan Chen, Shir Filo, Darius Mewes, Claudia Chien, Stefan Hetzer, Lina Anderhalten, Tanja Schmitz‐Hübsch, Alexander U. Brandt, Aviv Mezer, Friedemann Paul

Biophysical models on multi-parametric maps reveal brain tissue changes in molecular environments of iron and myelin in multiple sclerosis at 3T

Shir Filo, Aviv Mezer

A new qMRI approach for mapping microscopic water populations and tissue relaxivity in the in-vivo human brain

Rona Shaharabani, Aviv Mezer

In-vivo water gap mapping as a new myelin packing marker

Elior Drori, Lee S. Cohen, Einat Kohn, David Arkadir, Gilad Yahalom, Aviv Mezer

Multiparametric qMRI and dMRI gradients in the striatum are associated with Parkinson’s disease motor dysfunction

Shachar Moskovich, Oshrat Shtangel, Aviv Mezer

New semi-quantitative contrasts can approximate R1 and R2 in clinical setting

Oshrat Shtangel, Aviv Mezer

Testing quantitative magnetization transfer models with membrane lipids

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2024)

Dvir Radunsky, Chen Solomon, Neta Stern, Tamar Blumenfeld‐Katzir, Shir Filo, Aviv Mezer, Anita Karsa, Karin Shmueli, Lucas Soustelle, Guillaume Duhamel, Olivier M. Girard, Gal Kepler, Shai Shrot, Chen Hoffmann, Noam Ben‐Eliezer

A comprehensive protocol for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of the brain at 3 Tesla

PLoS ONE (2024)

Shir Filo, Rona Shaharabani, Daniel Bar Hanin, Miriam Adam, Eliel Ben-David, Hanan Schoffman, Nevo Margalit, Naomi Habib, Tal Shahar, Aviv Mezer

Non-invasive assessment of normal and impaired iron homeostasis in the brain

Nature Communications (2023)

Dvir Radunsky, Chen Solomon, Tamar Blumenfeld‐Katzir, Neta Stern, Shir Filo, Aviv Mezer, Anita Karsa, Karin Shmueli, Lucas Soustelle, Guillaume Duhamel, Olivier M. Girard, Noam Ben‐Eliezer

A comprehensive protocol for multiparametric brain MRI

Elior Drori, Shai Berman, Aviv Mezer

Parkinson’s disease local atrophies measured in the striatum in vivo explain patients’ asymmetric motor symptoms and dopamine loss

Shai Berman, Elior Drori, Aviv Mezer

Spatial profiles provide sensitive MRI measures of the midbrain micro- and macrostructure

NeuroImage (2022)

Elior Drori, Shai Berman, Aviv Mezer

Mapping microstructural gradients of the human striatum in normal aging and Parkinson’s disease

Science Advances (2022)

Edith Brignoni‐Pérez, Sarah E. Dubner, Michal Ben‐Shachar, Shai Berman, Aviv Mezer, Heidi M. Feldman, Katherine E. Travis

White matter properties underlying reading abilities differ in 8-year-old children born full term and preterm: A multi-modal approach

NeuroImage (2022)

Roey Schurr, Aviv Mezer

The glial framework reveals white matter fiber architecture in human and primate brains

Science (2021)

Vaidehi Natu, Mona Rosenke, Hua Wu, Francesca R. Querdasi, Holly Kular, Nancy Lopez-Alvarez, Mareike Grotheer, Shai Berman, Aviv Mezer, Kalanit Grill‐Spector

Infants’ cortex undergoes microstructural growth coupled with myelination during development

Communications Biology (2021)

Elizabeth Huber, Aviv Mezer, Jason D. Yeatman

Neurobiological underpinnings of rapid white matter plasticity during intensive reading instruction

NeuroImage (2021)

Asier Erramuzpe, Roey Schurr, Jason D. Yeatman, Ian H. Gotlib, Matthew D. Sacchet, Katherine E. Travis, Heidi M. Feldman, Aviv Mezer

A Comparison of Quantitative R1 and Cortical Thickness in Identifying Age, Lifespan Dynamics, and Disease States of the Human Cortex

Cerebral Cortex (2020)

Shai Berman, Yael Backner, Ronnie Krupnik, Friedemann Paul, Panayiota Petrou, Dimitrios Karussis, Netta Levin, Aviv Mezer

Conduction delays in the visual pathways of progressive multiple sclerosis patients covary with brain structure

NeuroImage (2020)

Lisa Bruckert, Katherine E. Travis, Aviv Mezer, Michal Ben‐Shachar, Heidi M. Feldman

Associations of Reading Efficiency with White Matter Properties of the Cerebellar Peduncles in Children

The Cerebellum (2020)

Oshrat Shtangel, Aviv Mezer

A phantom system for assessing the effects of membrane lipids on water proton relaxation

NMR in Biomedicine (2020)

Shai Berman, Roey Schurr, Gal Atlan, Ami Citri, Aviv Mezer

Automatic Segmentation of the Dorsal Claustrum in Humans Using in vivo High-Resolution MRI

Cerebral Cortex Communications (2020)

Roey Schurr, Ady Zelman, Aviv Mezer

Subdividing the superior longitudinal fasciculus using local quantitative MRI

NeuroImage (2019)

Jonathan S. Bain, Shir Filo, Aviv Mezer

The robust and independent nature of structural STS asymmetries

Brain Structure and Function (2019)

Roey Schurr, Shir Filo, Aviv Mezer

Tractography delineation of the vertical occipital fasciculus using quantitative T1 mapping

NeuroImage (2019)

Shir Filo, Oshrat Shtangel, Noga Salamon, Adi Kol, Batsheva Weisinger, Sagiv Shifman, Aviv Mezer

Disentangling molecular alterations from water-content changes in the aging human brain using quantitative MRI

Nature Communications (2019)

Jonathan S. Bain, Jason D. Yeatman, Roey Schurr, Ariel Rokem, Aviv Mezer

Evaluating arcuate fasciculus laterality measurements across dataset and tractography pipelines

Human Brain Mapping (2019)

Shai Berman, Shir Filo, Aviv Mezer

Modeling conduction delays in the corpus callosum using MRI-measured g-ratio

NeuroImage (2019)

Hiromasa Takemura, Shumpei Ogawa, Aviv Mezer, Hiroshi Horiguchi, Atsushi Miyazaki, Kenji Matsumoto, Keigo Shikishima, Tadashi Nakano, Yoichiro Masuda

Diffusivity and quantitative T1 profile of human visual white matter tracts after retinal ganglion cell damage

NeuroImage Clinical (2019)

Katherine E. Travis, Maria Castro, Shai Berman, Cory K. Dodson, Aviv Mezer, Michal Ben‐Shachar, Heidi M. Feldman

More than myelin: Probing white matter differences in prematurity with quantitative T1 and diffusion MRI

NeuroImage Clinical (2019)

Amitay Nachmani, Roey Schurr, Leo Joskowicz, Aviv Mezer

The effect of motion correction interpolation on quantitative T1 mapping with MRI

Medical Image Analysis (2018)

Roey Schurr, Yiran Duan, Anthony M. Norcia, Shumpei Ogawa, Jason D. Yeatman, Aviv Mezer

Tractography optimization using quantitative T1 mapping in the human optic radiation

NeuroImage (2018)

Simon Lévy, Marie‐Claude Guertin, Ali Khatibi, Aviv Mezer, Kristina Martinu, Jen-I Chen, Nikola Stikov, Pierre Rainville, Julien Cohen‐Adad

Test-retest reliability of myelin imaging in the human spinal cord: Measurement errors versus region- and aging-induced variations

PLoS ONE (2018)

Shai Berman, Kathryn L. West, Mark D. Does, Jason D. Yeatman, Aviv Mezer

Evaluating g-ratio weighted changes in the corpus callosum as a function of age and sex

NeuroImage (2017)

Jesse Gomez, Michael Barnett, Vaidehi Natu, Aviv Mezer, Nicola Palomero‐Gallagher, Kevin S. Weiner, Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Kalanit Grill‐Spector

Microstructural proliferation in human cortex is coupled with the development of face processing

Science (2017)

Tanguy Duval, Simon Lévy, Nikola Stikov, Jennifer S. W. Campbell, Aviv Mezer, Thomas Witzel, Boris Keil, Victoria M. Smith, Lawrence L. Wald, Eric C. Klawiter, Julien Cohen‐Adad

g-Ratio weighted imaging of the human spinal cord in vivo

NeuroImage (2016)

Jesse Gomez, Michael Barnett, Vaidehi Natu, Aviv Mezer, Kevin S. Weiner, Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Kalanit Grill‐Spector

Macromolecular proliferation in human high-level visual cortex constrains development of function and behavior

Journal of Vision (2016)

Aviv Mezer, Ariel Rokem, Shai Berman, Trevor Hastie, Brian A. Wandell

Evaluating quantitative proton‐density‐mapping methods

Human Brain Mapping (2016)

Yiran Duan, Anthony M. Norcia, Jason D. Yeatman, Aviv Mezer

A survey of the integrity of major white matter tracts in strabismic amblyopia

Journal of Vision (2015)

Yiran Duan, Anthony M. Norcia, Jason D. Yeatman, Aviv Mezer

The Structural Properties of Major White Matter Tracts in Strabismic Amblyopia

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (2015)

Ariel Rokem, Jason D. Yeatman, Franco Pestilli, Kendrick Kay, Aviv Mezer, Stéfan van der Walt, Brian A. Wandell

Evaluating the Accuracy of Diffusion MRI Models in White Matter

PLoS ONE (2015)

Katherine E. Travis, Neville H. Golden, Heidi M. Feldman, Murray A. Solomon, Jenny Nguyen, Aviv Mezer, Jason D. Yeatman, Robert F. Dougherty

Abnormal white matter properties in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa

NeuroImage Clinical (2015)

Jason D. Yeatman, Kevin S. Weiner, Franco Pestilli, Ariel Rokem, Aviv Mezer, Brian A. Wandell

The vertical occipital fasciculus: A century of controversy resolved by in vivo measurements

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)

Keith Main, Franco Pestilli, Aviv Mezer, Jason D. Yeatman, Ryan C. Martin, Stephanie Phipps, Brian A. Wandell

Speed discrimination predicts word but not pseudo-word reading rate in adults and children

Brain and Language (2014)

Jason D. Yeatman, Brian A. Wandell, Aviv Mezer

Lifespan maturation and degeneration of human brain white matter

Nature Communications (2014)

Aviv Mezer, Jason D. Yeatman, Nikola Stikov, Kendrick Kay, Nam‐Joon Cho, Robert F. Dougherty, Michael L Perry, Josef Parvizi, Le H. Hua, Kim Butts Pauly, Brian A. Wandell

Quantifying the local tissue volume and composition in individual brains with magnetic resonance imaging

Nature Medicine (2013)

Ido Tavor, Maya Yablonski, Aviv Mezer, Shirley Rom, Yaniv Assaf, Galit Yovel

Separate parts of occipito-temporal white matter fibers are associated with recognition of faces and places

NeuroImage (2013)

Kendrick Kay, Jonathan Winawer, Ariel Rokem, Aviv Mezer, Brian A. Wandell

A Two-Stage Cascade Model of BOLD Responses in Human Visual Cortex

PLoS Computational Biology (2013)

Kendrick Kay, Jonathan Winawer, Aviv Mezer, Brian A. Wandell

Compressive spatial summation in human visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology (2013)

Franco Pestilli, Keith Main, Jason D. Yeatman, Aviv Mezer, Rebecca Martin, Shelley Phipps, Brian A. Wandell

Speed discrimination performance in adults but not children correlates with single-word reading rate

Journal of Vision (2012)

Kendrick Kay, Jonathan Winawer, Aviv Mezer, Brian A. Wandell

Spatial saturation in human visual cortex

Journal of Vision (2011)

Nikola Stikov, Lee M. Perry, Aviv Mezer, Elena Rykhlevskaia, Brian A. Wandell, John M. Pauly, Robert F. Dougherty

Bound pool fractions complement diffusion measures to describe white matter micro and macrostructure

NeuroImage (2010)

Dana Bar-On, Menachem Gutman, Aviv Mezer, Uri Ashery, Thorsten Lang, Esther Nachliel

Evaluation of the Heterogeneous Reactivity of the Syntaxin Molecules on the Inner Leaflet of the Plasma Membrane

Journal of Neuroscience (2009)

Aviv Mezer, Yossi Yovel, Ofer Pasternak, Tali Gorfine, Yaniv Assaf

Cluster analysis of resting-state fMRI time series

NeuroImage (2008)

Dragoslav Zikich, Aviv Mezer, Frédérique Varoqueaux, Anton Sheinin, Harald J. Junge, Esther Nachliel, Rely Melamed, Nils Brose, Menachem Gutman, Uri Ashery

Vesicle Priming and Recruitment by ubMunc13-2 Are Differentially Regulated by Calcium and Calmodulin

Journal of Neuroscience (2008)

Aviv Mezer, Uri Ashery, Menachem Gutman, Elad Project, Eran Bosis, Gadi Fibich, Esther Nachliel

Systematic search for the rate constants that control the exocytotic process from chromaffin cells by a Genetic Algorithm

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Cell Research (2006)

Aviv Mezer, Ran Friedman, Orly Noivirt, Esther Nachliel, Menachem Gutman

The Mechanism of Proton Transfer between Adjacent Sites Exposed to Water

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2005)

Aviv Mezer, Esther Nachliel, Menachem Gutman, Uri Ashery

A New Platform to Study the Molecular Mechanisms of Exocytosis

Journal of Neuroscience (2004)

D. Moscovitch, Orly Noivirt, Aviv Mezer, E. Nachliel, T.D. Märk, M. Gutman, Gadi Fibich

Determination of a Unique Solution to Parallel Proton Transfer Reactions Using the Genetic Algorithm

Biophysical Journal (2004)

Open Positions

Our Lab is now recruiting students and postdocs interested in human brain imaging. Background in MR, biophysics, computer-science, engineering or other related fields can be advantageous.

We are also looking for post-docs or researchers (full/part time) with background in MR-physics.

Please send CV, a short research interests statement, and names of potential references to: aviv.mezer@elsc.huji.ac.il

Additional Information

Lab software:
https://github.com/mezera/mrQ

https://github.com/MezerLab

Media:
In the news: (English)
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthcare-of-tomorrow/articles/2020-01-14/commentary-a-better-mri-test-to-study-aging-in-the-brain.

In the news: (Hebrew):
https://www.haaretz.co.il/science/.premium-1.7606717

TV: (French)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj5clh3u-hs&app=desktop&ab_channel=i24NEWSFran%C3%A7ais

Gallery:

Aviv Mezer

Professor

Email: aviv.mezer@elsc.huji.ac.il

Phone: +972-2-6584617

@AvivMezer

Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 2202, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401