Stress Circuitry and Regulation

Yair received his PhD at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He uses systems neuroscience approaches to dissect behavioral roles of the CRF system, and the role of early postnatal experience in priming adulthood stress responses.

Tommaso is a neuroscientist who is deeply interested in improving the understanding of psychiatric disorders like PTSD, ADHD and mood disorders.

Maya obtained her PhD at the Weizmann Institute. She is a neuroscientist interested in biomarkers in post-traumtic stress disorder and other psychopathologies. She also really likes the BNST.

Keren is a neuroscientist interested in the epigenetic mechanisms mediating the effects of early life stress on behavior and stress resiliency.

Asaf uses methods from machine learning, data science and AI to study the neural underpinnings of complex social behavior and stress-related psychiatric disorders. 
He completed his BSc in computer science and philosophy, and his MSc in neuroscience, jointly with Prof. Ofer Yizhar.