The PsyACT Lab includes researchers and students with backgrounds in psychiatry, neuroscience, psychology, and computational methods.
Principal investigator
MD PhD MRCPsych
Listed alphabetically
Postdoctoral researcher
Daniel is a senior psychiatrist who has worked at Rambam mental health department. He trained as a medical doctor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For his postdoctoral ISF Mavri fellowship in the lab, Daniel is examining the hypothesis that depression in young and older adults differ both in terms of patient experience and in terms of the underlying mechanisms.
Research assistant · Lab manager
Goni recently completed her medical degree at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She is currently a research assistant and lab manager in the lab. Her research focuses primarily on negative symptoms in schizophrenia, as well as the interplay between depression, cognition, and aging.
MSc student
Hiddai is an MSc student at the Sagol Clinical Neuroscience Programme. He is interested in how computational models of belief updating can be applied to understand clinical conditions. Previously, Hiddai completed his Dual BSc degree in Computer Science and Chemistry specializing in Biophysics and Bioinformatics at Ben Gurion University.
MSc student
Lauren is an MSc student in the Sagol International Neuroscience Program in the Cognitive Track. She is interested in how motivational and cognitive processes interact in psychopathology, particularly in the context of depression and anhedonia. Lauren completed her BSc in Psychology at Emory University, where she became interested in the mechanisms linking reward processing and mental health.
MSc student
Noa is an MSc student at Sagol Clinical Neuroscience programme. She is interested in how people update their beliefs about their self-efficacy, using computational tools to model this process. Noa previously completed her BSc in Cognitive and Brain Sciences combined with Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
PhD student
Shulamit is a Ph.D. student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience. Her research focuses on how context influences the experience of effort. Specifically, she studies how the tendency to avoid aversive stimuli shapes both the willingness to exert effort and the way effort is exerted, in the general population and among individuals with major depressive disorder and apathy. In addition, Shulamit is interested in how the brain computes the subjective value of effort in the context of aversive stimuli compared to rewards. She previously completed a B.A. in Behavioral Sciences at Ariel University and an M.A. in Cognitive Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Eddie was a visiting student in the lab. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.
Dana was an MSc student at the Sagol neural computation and brain modelling programme.
Denise was an MSc student at the Sagol International Neuroscience programme. Her research interests focused on how rumination in depressive symptoms influences cognitive performance and the experience of mental effort.
Ela was an MSc student at the Sagol clinical neuroscience programme.
Gal was a software developer in the lab.
Ido was an MSc student at the Sagol neural computation and brain modelling programme.
Jakub was an academic foundation clinician, and is currently an Internal Medicine trainee in London
Moti was the head of IT in the lab, and is currently a software developer at Sahar Online Mental Support.
Nitsan was an MSc student at the Sagol International Neuroscience programme. Her research interests included the interplay between mental effort, perception, and mental health conditions.
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