DR. HAGGAI SHARON (MD)
Dr. Sharon's current work combines research into what builds the subjective experience of the self in health and disease. He is especially interested in the neurobiology of pain and methods that can rapidly change this aversive experience in a noninvasive, brain-focused and patient-tailored manner. To that aim he combines advanced functional brain imaging, pharmacotherapy and noninvasive brain stimulation and modulation techniques in healthy individuals and in patients.
Dr. Sharon leads the #Consciousness & Psychopharmacolog research team at the Sagol Brain Institute.
Sample of Current Research Projects
Selective emotional processing and its use as a marker for brain plasticity in patients with chronic disorders of consciousness
Disorders of consciousness (DOC), which include the Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States (VS and MSC), are severe disorders of consciousness following extensive brain injury, defined as states of preserved wakefulness but with either absent (VS) or severely impaired (MCS) behavioral evidence of awareness of self and the environment.
Students
Libat Weizman
M.Sc student, Sagol School
of Neuroscience - Tel Aviv University
Collaborations
Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Pain Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine – Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Faculty of Medicine
Tel Aviv University
School of Education
Tel Aviv University
Active Grants
NARDAD Young Investigator Grant, 2016-2018
Excellence Grant, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center 2014 - ongoing
Adopt a Researcher Personal Research Grant 2015-2018, Friends of TASMC
Contact Me
Sagol Brain Institute
Tel-Aviv
6 Weizman St.
Tel Aviv, 64239
(Located at: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Affiliated with Tel Aviv Univeristy)