פרופ' משה אבלס

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03-5352184
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moshe.abeles@mail.biu.ac.il
שיטות מחקר
    קורות חיים
     

    Academic background:

    1956-1960 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem M.Sc. Physiology,

    1960-1966 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Ph.D. Neurophysiology

    1966-1968 Johns-Hopkins Univ., Baltimore Post Doc. Biomedical Engineering

     

    Previous employment:

    2003 – Bar-Ilan University           Professor                Brain Research

    1981- The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.      Professor   Neurophysiology

    1973 - 1981 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem    Assoc. Prof.Neurophysiology

    1969 - 1973 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Senior Lect. Neurophysiology 1968 - 1969 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Lecturer

     1966 - 1968 Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore Post doc. Biomed.Eng

     

    Administrative appointments:

    2003 - Director, Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University

    2003 - Member, BMBF committee on establishing Computational Neuroscience in Germany.

    1996 – 1999 Director, Life-Sciences division of the Israel National Science Foundation.

    1992 - 1999 Director, The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University.

    1984 - 1994 Director, The Israel Center for Psychobiology.

    1977 - 1980 Director, The Israel Center for Psychobiology.

    1974 - 1977 Chairman, Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University

     

    Honors:

     1968 Back prize for 3 papers on excitability of EEG synchronizing and desynchronizing neurons.

    1971   I.A.P.I. First prize for work on "Computer aided analysis of nerve cell activity".

    1980 Dr. Mona and Dr. Ernest Spiegel Chair of Neurophysiology

    1980 Visiting professor, Universite de Lausanne

    1986 Visiting professor, University of Pennsylvania

    1986 Johns Hopkins Society of scholars

    1996 Teva founders prize for outstanding work in brain research

    1999 Miller visiting professor, UC Berkeley, USA 2004 Emet prize, Israel

    2004 - Emet prize, Israel

     

    Editorial Tasks:

    Advisory Board of NETWORK: Computation in Neural Systems. Action Editor of Journal of Computational Neuroscience. Editorial Board of Neuroscience. Reviewer for: Nature, Science, J. Neuroscience, J. Neurophysiology, Biol. Cybern., J. Neurosci. Methods

     

    Grants (Last Years):

    1997-2000 USA-Israel Binational Science Foundation (with G. L. Gerstein, Philadelphia)

    1998-2001 GIF (with A. Aertsen, Freiburg)

    2000-2006 Center of Excellence of Israel Science Foundation (with H. Bergman, H. Sompolinsky, N. Tishby & E. Vaadia, all from Jerusalem). 2002-2005 GIF (with A. Aertsen, Freiburg)

    2003-2005 Horowitz fund

    2004-2008 DIP (with M. Teicher, T. Flash and T. Geisel, Goetingen)

    מחקר

    Research Interests

     

    The way in which perceptions, memories, intentions, etc., are represented in the nervous activity of the brain is not known. The main focus of this field of investigation is to discover these representations and understand the neuronal mechanism which generates them. This is a combined effort including recording the activities of several nerve cells in parallel from appropriate places in the brain of behaving monkeys, devising new mathematical methods for analyzing the data, and verifying the theory by constructing (by way of simulations) neural networks which mimic the postulated brain processes.

     

    So far the results indicate that the prevailing view about coding by enhanced neural activity is only part of the truth. The exact timing of nerve cell activity contains much of the information about what is happening in the brain. This timing can be "read" by neurons due to their sensitivity to synchronized activation. This same property also serves as the basic mechanism by which exact timing is generated. A neural-network known as a synfire chain can both read and generate such well -timed activities. The experimental results support the synfire hypothesis and extend it by suggesting that activity reverberates in such synfire modes. We assume that reverberating synfire chains in different brain locations can resonate with each other, thereby generating a unified "mental" experience.

    תאריך עדכון אחרון : 25/06/2022