Izhar Bar-Gad
{{short description|Israeli neurophysiologist}}
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Bar-Ilan University
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Izhar Bar-Gad (Hebrew: יזהר בר-גד) is a full professor at the Leslie and Susan Gonda Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University. Bar-Gad is a researcher in the field of neurophysiology and neural computation.{{cite web |title=Izhar Bar-Gad |url=https://www.jove.com/author/Izhar_Bar-Gad |website=jove}} His main areas of research are information processing in the basal ganglia in a normal state and in various pathologies, such as Parkinson's disease{{cite news |last1=Klein Leichman |first1=Abigail |title=Why Israel is becoming a hub for Parkinson's research |url=https://www.israel21c.org/why-israel-is-becoming-a-hub-for-parkinsons-research/ |access-date=17 October 2021 |publisher=ISRAEL21c |date=5 April 2021}} and Tourette's syndrome.{{cite web | url= https://gondabrain.biu.ac.il/en/node/250 | title= Bar-Gad Izhar - Gonda Multidisciplinary Center for Brain Research | access-date = 2021-10-14}}
Education
In 2003, he completed a Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in neural computation, under the guidance of Prof. Hagai Bergman and Prof. Yaakov Ritov. His doctoral dissertation was written on the subject of "Reinforcement driven dimensionality reduction as a model for information processing in the basal ganglia".{{cite web |title=Izhar Bar-gad |url=https://elsc.huji.ac.il/people-directory/elsc-students/izhar-bar-gad/ |access-date=17 October 2021 |website=Hebrew University}}
Early life
Born in Rehovot and raised in Pretoria, South Africa and Qiryat Gat, Israel. Enlistment in the Israel Defense Forces in 1989 in the Israeli Intelligence Corps, discharge in 1994 with the rank of Captain.{{cite web |title=Izhar Bar-Gad |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-7804,00.html |website=Ynet Encyclopedia |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Career
In the years 1994–1997, he worked for Amdocs, as a researcher and project manager in the development of distributed artificial intelligence. From 1997 to 2002, he worked for Sanctum in Israel and later in California as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
In 2005, he was appointed a lecturer at the Center for Brain Research at Bar-Ilan University. In the years 2008–2011 he served as head of the Department of Neuroscience. In 2010 he was appointed a senior lecturer. In 2012 he was appointed associate professor and since 2018 he has been a full professor at Bar-Ilan University.{{cite web |title=Izhar Bar-Gad, Ph.D. |url=https://www.ibglab.org/cv |website=Izhar Bar-Gad's Lab at Bar Ilan University |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Izhar Bar-Gad researches information processing in the basal ganglia in the normal condition and in various pathological conditions.{{cite news |last1=Binyamini |first1=Israel |title=Deep inside the brain |url=https://timeout.co.il/topic/%d7%92%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%90%d7%95/|access-date=20 October 2021 |publisher=Galileo |date=2010}}{{cite web |title=Izhar Bar-Gad |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Izhar-Bar-Gad |website=ResearchGate |access-date=19 October 2021}} His research combines experimental methods in the fields of systems neurophysiology with computational methods from the fields of data science and neural computation.{{cite web |title=Izhar Bar-Gad's Lab at Bar-Ilan University |url=https://www.ibglab.org/ |website=Bar-Ilan University |access-date=17 October 2021}}
His early research was mainly concerned with changes in brain computation that occur during Parkinson's disease and its treatments,{{cite news |last1=Efrati |first1=Ido |title=Tics is a matter of timing |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/|access-date=20 October 2021 |publisher=Haaretz |date=24 June 2016}} drug therapies and deep brain stimulation (DBS).{{cite news |last1=Edmunds |first1=Donna Rachel |title=Bar-Ilan named co-winners of Parkinson's disease research challenge |url=https://www.jpost.com/health-science/bar-ilan-named-co-winners-of-parkinsons-disease-research-challenge-632645 |access-date=17 October 2021 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post |date=24 June 2020}} His later research deals with the neurophysiological changes that occur in neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Tourette's Syndrome{{cite news |last1=Efrati |first1=Ido |title=Israeli Scientist Leads the Way in Groundbreaking Tourette's Research |url=https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/.premium-israeli-scientist-leads-the-way-in-tourette-s-research-1.5409527 |access-date=17 October 2021 |publisher=Haaretz |date=13 July 2016}} and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
References
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External links
- [https://www.ibglab.org/ Website of Izhar Bar Gad Lab]
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x4nJPJAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Google Scholar Link]
- [https://www.hayadan.org.il/neuroscientists-from-bar-ilan-have-won-an-international-award-sponsored-by-the-michael-j-foxes-parkinsons-foundation-2406207 Researchers Brain from Bar-Ilan won an international award sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research]
- [https://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-7804,00.html Dr. Izhar Bar Gad], on the Ynet website
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