We are proud to announce the publication of our latest study, “Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing”, in World Psychiatry, one of the leading journals in mental health research. Led by PhD student Ophir Netzer, the research follows the October 7, 2023 Nova Festival attack, where many survivors experienced acute trauma while

Our lab took part in the international webinar “War on Drugs, Drug on War”, which explored how psychedelic research and therapy can contribute to trauma healing and conflict resolution in regions affected by war and violence. Prof. Roy Salomon and PhD student Ophir Netzer from the lab presented their research alongside leading experts in the

Earlier this week, the lab gathered for a farewell toast in honor of Prof. Roy Salomon’s upcoming move to Berlin, where he will spend the next year advancing our research and collaborating on the control group of the NOVA project. The event was marked by warm wishes, a celebratory cake, and lots of good vibes.

We are proud to announce that Ophir Netzer has been awarded the highly prestigious President of Israel’s Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students. This exclusive award is granted annually to a select group of doctoral candidates demonstrating exceptional academic excellence and social impact in their research. Ophir’s work examines the cognitive, emotional, physiological, and neural responses to

We are proud to announce that Prof. Roy Salomon has been awarded a prestigious two year Stiftung Charité Visiting Professor Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding work on trauma and psychedelics. His project—“The Physiological, Cognitive and Clinical Outcomes of Mass Trauma Experienced Under Psychedelics” conducted in collaboration with Dr. Dimitris Repantis at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin—will combine

As we do every year, we wrapped up the academic year with a special lab fun day at the beautiful beach house in Beit Yanai.We opened the day with an academic recap, reflecting on our research activities over the past year and discussing directions for the year ahead.We then enjoyed a delicious lunch followed by

Our lab presented key findings from our research with survivors of the Nova music festival attack (October 7, 2023) at the recent conference “Mental Health in the Context of War: The Consequences of October 7th and the War That Followed”, held in Jerusalem and hosted by the Israel Center for Addiction and Mental Health (ICAMH).

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting students from the Nativ Program—an excellence program for outstanding B.A. students in the School of Psychological Sciences. During their visit, the students attended two lectures highlighting the lab’s primary research domains. Michal Oren, an M.A. student, presented the Nova Project, while Gadi Drori, a Ph.D. student, introduced the Unreal Project.

Our latest preprint is now live on bioRxiv! We developed a new virtual reality paradigm to simulate “Virtual Hallucinations” and explore how people judge the Sense of Reality – our internal gauge for whether experiences feel real. By combining psychophysics, physiology (pupil, heart, and movement), and computational modeling, we show how perception, belief, and prior expectations

Yoni, the first PhD to emerge from the lab, and his dissertation, The Stress-Sensitive Self, explored how stress shapes the cognitive, clinical, and physiological underpinnings of basic self-disturbances in early psychosis—combining virtual reality, computational modeling, and clinical phenomenology. The journey spanned, research, clinical training, and the occasional identity crisis (all in the name of science,