Prof.
Rany
Abend
- School of Psychology
Reichman University
English, Hebrew
- STEM Life Sciences
- Fields: Life Sciences
- Life Sciences Sub-Fields: Brain, Computational Neuroscience, Neuroscience
- Social Sciences Psychology
- Fields: Psychology
- Psychology Sub-Fields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Brain Science, Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology
- Research Keywords: anxiety, neuroimaging, Neuroscience, psychedelics, psychobiology, Psychological Interventions, psychology, PTSD
Research Interests
The overarching mission of our lab is to use advanced tools from clinical neuroscience (such as neuroimaging and psychophysiology) — to improve our understanding of the brain mechanisms driving psychopathology and resilience, and pave the way for the development of novel therapeutic interventions. We focus on the neural mechanisms underlying anxiety and PTSD and their treatment, for example using psychedelics-assisted (MDMA) psychotherapy.
Selected Awards
Israel Science Foundation: Anticipating threat: Identifying a novel circuit-based biomarker for pediatric anxiety.
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation: Perturbed fear learning in children growing up in proximity to military-conflict and its effect on the development of pediatric anxiety disorders.
Donation: Neural mechanisms of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation: Perturbed fear learning in children growing up in proximity to military-conflict and its effect on the development of pediatric anxiety disorders.
Donation: Neural mechanisms of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
