OR BURSTEIN

PhD Student
​Determinants of Neurobehavioral Synchrony in Novel Human Encounters: Study in Dyads of Typical Young Adults

I am currently doing my internship as a clinical psychologist, working with children under foster care in Israel. I have obtained a master's degree in clinical psychology at the 'Academic College Tel Aviv – Yaffo' (2017; magna cum laude) and have received the '2018 Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry Award for Excellent Study in Psychiatry'. My current research focuses on the development of attention functions through the life span and on social synchrony.

Publications

Burstein, O., Shoshan, N., Doron, R. & Akirav, I. (2018). Cannabinoids prevent depressive-like symptoms and alterations in BDNF expression in a rat model of PTSD. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 84, 129–139.

Burstein, O., Franko, M., Gale, E., Handelsman, A., Barak, S., Motsan, S., Shamir, A., Toledano, R., Simhon, O., Hirshler, Y., Chen, G. & Doron, R. (2017). Escitalopram and NHT normalized stress-induced anhedonia and molecular neuroadaptations in a mouse model of depression. PLoS One, 12(11), e0188043.

Doron, R., Sever, A., Handelsman, A., Toledano, R., Franko, M., Hirshler, Y., Shamir, A., Burstein, O. & Rehavi, M. (2018). GABAA receptor density is not altered by a novel herbal anxiolytic treatment. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 65(1), 110–117.

Burstein, O. & Doron, R. (2018). The unpredictable chronic mild stress protocol for inducing anhedonia in mice. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 140, e58184.

Burstein, O. (2018). Thou shall do thy Good, thy Truth and thy Self: Genealogy of the Self from St. Augustine of Hippo to the psychoanalytic discourse. Hayo Haya (Hebrew), 13, 52–81.