
End of year lab day 2025
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

A Symposium on Trauma and Psychoactive Substances at the ICAMH “Mental Health in the Context of War” Conference
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).

Visit from the Nativ Program
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.

New Preprint: Modeling the Sense of Reality with Virtual Hallucinations
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

Bravo to Dr. Yoni Stern on completing his doctorate in psychology!
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,

Congratulations to Post Doctoral student Lisa Simon for winning the University of Haifa’s Excellence PhD Award from the Faculty of Psychological Sciences!
Lisa’s doctoral research focused on the early prediction of stress vulnerability in healthy adults and posttraumatic stress disorder in vulnerable populations, harnessing wearable sensors in real-life focusing on psycho-physiological functioning, in the hope that it will improve early detection and intervention.

Prof. Roy Salomon and Nova Survivor Rita Yedid Speak at the United Nations on Trauma and Resilience Following the Nova Attack
Prof. Roy Salomon, together with Nova survivor Rita Yedid, was invited to speak at a special session at the United Nations focusing on trauma and resilience.In their talk, Prof. Salomon presented scientific insights into the psychological impact of trauma and the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying resilience, while Ms. Yedid shared her personal journey of survival and
The 2024 ISBP Conference: Initial Findings on Trauma Experienced Under Psychedelics
For the first time, the Salomon and Admon Labs proudly presented preliminary findings from our groundbreaking collaborative project, which investigates trauma experienced under psychoactive substances with the brave survivors of the Supernova Music Festival attack on October 7th, 2023. This unique collaboration enabled us to explore uncharted aspects of trauma and recovery. Noa Magal presented