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Abraham Zangen is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in fields such as neurology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and biomedical engineering.

Their main research topics encompass transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, neurological disorders and treatments, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and muscle activation and electromyography studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Abraham Zangen include Yiftach Roth, Aron Tendler, Uri Alyagon, Gaby S. Pell, and Samuel Zibman.

Publication venues where they have contributed extensively consist of Brain Stimulation, Clinical Neurophysiology, Biological Psychiatry, NeuroImage Clinical, and the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Among recent publications are:

  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Alcohol Dependence: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Proof-of-Concept Trial Targeting the Medial Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortices, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined With Brief Exposure for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Prospective Multisite Randomized Trial, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Alleviation of ADHD symptoms by non-invasive right prefrontal stimulation is correlated with EEG activity, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical

Best Publications

  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines

    Simone Rossi;Andrea Antal;Sven Bestmann;Marom Bikson

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of deep brain regions: evidence for efficacy of the H-Coil

    Abraham Zangen;Yiftach Roth;Bernhard Voller;Mark Hallett

  • Knockdown of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in specific brain sites precipitates behaviors associated with depression and reduces neurogenesis.

    D Taliaz;N Stall;D E Dar;A Zangen

  • Three-dimensional distribution of the electric field induced in the brain by transcranial magnetic stimulation using figure-8 and deep H-coils.

    Yiftach Roth;Alon Amir;Yechiel Levkovitz;Abraham Zangen

  • Efficacy and safety of deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depression: a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial

    Yechiel Levkovitz;Moshe Isserles;Frank Padberg;Sarah H. Lisanby

  • Modulation of cortical excitability induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: influence of timing and geometrical parameters and underlying mechanisms

    Gaby S. Pell;Yiftach Roth;Abraham Zangen

  • Repeated high-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reduces cigarette craving and consumption.

    Revital Amiaz;Dino Levy;Dana Vainiger;Leon Grunhaus

  • Efficacy and Safety of Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Prospective Multicenter Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial.

    Lior Carmi;Aron Tendler;Alexander Bystritsky;Eric Hollander

  • A Coil Design for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Deep Brain Regions

    Yiftach Roth;Abraham Zangen;Mark Hallett

  • Smoking Cessation Induced by Deep Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Prefrontal and Insular Cortices: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial

    Limor Dinur-Klein;Limor Dinur-Klein;Pinhas Dannon;Aviad Hadar;Oded Rosenberg

  • Resilience to Chronic Stress Is Mediated by Hippocampal Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

    Dekel Taliaz;Assaf Loya;Roman Gersner;Sharon Haramati

  • Long-Term Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Markers for Neuroplasticity: Differential Outcomes in Anesthetized and Awake Animals

    Roman Gersner;Elena Kravetz;Jodie Feil;Gaby Pell

  • Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation (tES and TMS) for addiction medicine: A consensus paper on the present state of the science and the road ahead

    Hamed Ekhtiari;Hosna Tavakoli;Giovanni Addolorato;Chris Baeken

  • Effectiveness of deep transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with a brief exposure procedure in post-traumatic stress disorder--a pilot study.

    Moshe Isserles;Arieh Y. Shalev;Yiftach Roth;Tuvia Peri

  • Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation over the prefrontal cortex: Evaluation of antidepressant and cognitive effects in depressive patients

    Yechiel Levkovitz;Eiran V. Harel;Yiftach Roth;Yoram Braw

  • Clinical and electrophysiological outcomes of deep TMS over the medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in OCD patients.

    Lior Carmi;Uri Alyagon;Noam Barnea-Ygael;Joseph Zohar

  • Age-dependent effects of chronic stress on brain plasticity and depressive behavior.

    Erika Toth;Roman Gersner;Adi Wilf-Yarkoni;Hagit Raizel

  • Elucidation of the neurobiology of depression: insights from a novel genetic animal model.

    Gal Yadid;Rachel Nakash;Ilana Deri;Grin Tamar

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of substance addiction

    David A. Gorelick;David A. Gorelick;Abraham Zangen;Mark S. George;Mark S. George

  • Brain stimulation in the study and treatment of addiction

    Jodie Feil;Abraham Zangen

  • Association between depressive behavior and absence of serotonin–dopamine interaction in the nucleus accumbens

    Abraham Zangen;Rachel Nakash;David H. Overstreet;Gal Yadid

  • Two Brain Sites for Cannabinoid Reward

    Abraham Zangen;Marcello Solinas;Satoshi Ikemoto;Steven R Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Letizia Leocani
Letizia Leocani University of Milan
Elise Houdayer
Elise Houdayer San Raffaele Hospital
Gal Yadid
Gal Yadid Bar-Ilan University
Yechiel Levkovitz
Yechiel Levkovitz Tel Aviv University
Zafiris J. Daskalakis
Zafiris J. Daskalakis University of California - San Diego School of Medicine
Mark S. George
Mark S. George Medical University of South Carolina
Alexander Rotenberg
Alexander Rotenberg Boston Children's Hospital
Joseph Zohar
Joseph Zohar Sheba Medical Center
Moshe Kotler
Moshe Kotler Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Pinhas N. Dannon
Pinhas N. Dannon Tel Aviv University

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