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Gal Yadid is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Developmental Neuroscience.

Their research focuses on diverse topics related to brain function, behavior, and molecular mechanisms. Main areas of interest include:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms
  • Nerve Injury and Regeneration
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Hormonal and Reproductive Studies

Gal Yadid has published in several scientific journals with notable frequency in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, alongside Psychiatry Research, Translational Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, and General and Comparative Endocrinology.

Some recent research papers by Gal Yadid or closely associated with their group include:

  • Who becomes addicted and to what? Psychosocial predictors of substance and behavioral addictive disorders, 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • RNA editing of the 5-HT2C receptor in the central nucleus of the amygdala is involved in resilience behavior, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Reduction of DNMT3a and RORA in the nucleus accumbens plays a causal role in post-traumatic stress disorder-like behavior: reversal by combinatorial epigenetic therapy, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Discovering the Lost Reward: Critical Locations for Endocannabinoid Modulation of the Cortico-Striatal Loop That Are Implicated in Major Depression, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Sex differences in testosterone reactivity and sensitivity in a non-model gerbil, 2020, General and Comparative Endocrinology

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Gal Warhaftig, Tzofnat Bareli, Hilla Pe'er-Nissan, Iris Gispan, and Hadas Levi Ahdoot, with repeated co-authorship occurrences indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • The Flinders Sensitive Line rat: a selectively bred putative animal model of depression.

    David H. Overstreet;Elliot Friedman;Aleksander A. Mathé;Gal Yadid

  • Heterogeneous neurochemical responses to different stressors: a test of Selye’s doctrine of nonspecificity

    Karel Pacak;Miklos Palkovits;Gal Yadid;Richard Kvetnansky

  • In Vivo Neuroimaging of Exosomes Using Gold Nanoparticles

    Oshra Betzer;Nisim Perets;Ariel Angel;Menachem Motiei

  • The effect of nanoparticle size on the ability to cross the blood–brain barrier: an in vivo study

    Oshra Betzer;Malka Shilo;Renana Opochinsky;Eran Barnoy

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

    Gal Yadid;Rachel Nakash;Ilana Deri;Grin Tamar

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

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

  • High Serotonin and 5‐Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid Levels in Limbic Brain Regions in a Rat Model of Depression; Normalization by Chronic Antidepressant Treatment

    Abraham Zangen;David H. Overstreet;Gal Yadid

  • Effects of Various Stressors on In Vivo Norepinephrine Release in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus and on the Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis

    Karel Pacák;Miklos Palkovits;Richard Kvetňansky;Gal Yadid

  • Dynamics of the dopaminergic system as a key component to the understanding of depression.

    Gal Yadid;Alexander Friedman

  • Protective effect of MK801 in experimental brain injury.

    Y. Shapira;G. Yadid;S. Cotev;A. Niska

  • Brain Phospholipase A2 Is Activated After Experimental Closed Head Injury in the Rat

    E. Shohami;Y. Shapira;G. Yadid;N. Reisfeld

  • Electrical stimulation of the lateral habenula produces enduring inhibitory effect on cocaine seeking behavior.

    Alexander Friedman;Elad Lax;Yahav Dikshtein;Lital Abraham

  • Limbic dopaminergic adaptation to a stressful stimulus in a rat model of depression.

    Gal Yadid;David H. Overstreet;Abraham Zangen

  • Role of DNA Methylation in the Nucleus Accumbens in Incubation of Cocaine Craving

    Renaud Massart;Royi Barnea;Yahav Dikshtein;Matthew Suderman

  • Increased catecholamine levels in specific brain regions of a rat model of depression: normalization by chronic antidepressant treatment.

    Abraham Zangen;David H. Overstreet;Gal Yadid

  • Beta-endorphin and drug-induced reward and reinforcement.

    Ilana Roth-Deri;Tamar Green-Sadan;Gal Yadid

  • The serotonin-dopamine interaction is critical for fast-onset action of antidepressant treatment: in vivo studies in an animal model of depression.

    Eliyahu Dremencov;Iris Gispan-Herman;Merav Rosenstein;Avivit Mendelman

  • Mesenchymal stem cells increase hippocampal neurogenesis and counteract depressive-like behavior.

    M Tfilin;E Sudai;A Merenlender;I Gispan

  • Electrical stimulation of the lateral habenula produces an inhibitory effect on sucrose self-administration

    Alexander Friedman;Elad Lax;Yahav Dikshtein;Lital Abraham

  • Hyperfunctionality of serotonin-2C receptor-mediated inhibition of accumbal dopamine release in an animal model of depression is reversed by antidepressant treatment.

    Eliyahu Dremencov;Michael E. Newman;Noa Kinor;Gitit Blatman-Jan

  • Endogenous serotonin stimulates striatal dopamine release in conscious rats.

    Gal Yadid;K. Pacak;I. J. Kopin;D. S. Goldstein

  • Programmed acute electrical stimulation of ventral tegmental area alleviates depressive-like behavior.

    Alexander Friedman;Michael Frankel;Yakov Flaumenhaft;Avia Merenlender

Frequent Co-Authors

Abraham Zangen
Abraham Zangen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Aron Weller
Aron Weller Bar-Ilan University
David S. Goldstein
David S. Goldstein National Institutes of Health
A. Allan Degen
A. Allan Degen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Moshe Abeles
Moshe Abeles Bar-Ilan University
Joseph Zohar
Joseph Zohar Sheba Medical Center
Erez Y. Levanon
Erez Y. Levanon Bar-Ilan University
Irina S. Khokhlova
Irina S. Khokhlova Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael Kam
Michael Kam Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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