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Galila Agam is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields including Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Biological Psychiatry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Genetics.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Galila Agam has coauthored numerous papers with recurring collaborators, including Odeya Damri, Serena Asslih, Nofar Shemesh, Sarya Natur, and S. Natour.

Their publications appear frequently in specific academic journals, such as:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Selected recent publications by Galila Agam include:

  • Neuroinflammation as a Common Denominator of Complex Diseases (Cancer, Diabetes Type 2, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders), 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Is There Justification to Treat Neurodegenerative Disorders by Repurposing Drugs? The Case of Alzheimer's Disease, Lithium, and Autophagy, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The Effect of Global Warming on Complex Disorders (Mental Disorders, Primary Hypertension, and Type 2 Diabetes), 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Mitochondrial function parameters as a tool for tailored drug treatment of an individual with psychosis: a proof of concept study, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Does treatment with autophagy-enhancers and/or ROS-scavengers alleviate behavioral and neurochemical consequences of low-dose rotenone-induced mild mitochondrial dysfunction in mice?, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Major depressive disorder.

    R H Belmaker;Galila Agam

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • A CSF and postmortem brain study of D-serine metabolic parameters in schizophrenia.

    Inna Bendikov;Carmit Nadri;Shirly Amar;Rogerio Panizzutti

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Individual differences in allocation of funds in the dictator game associated with length of the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor RS3 promoter region and correlation between RS3 length and hippocampal mRNA

    A Knafo;S Israel;A Darvasi;R Bachner-Melman

  • Low GSK-3beta immunoreactivity in postmortem frontal cortex of schizophrenic patients.

    Nitsan Kozlovsky;R.H. Belmaker;Galila Agam

  • Autophagy has a key role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

    A Merenlender-Wagner;A Malishkevich;Z Shemer;M Udawela

  • Reduced frontal cortex inositol levels in postmortem brain of suicide victims and patients with bipolar disorder.

    Hady Shimon;Galila Agam;R. H. Belmaker;Thomas M. Hyde

  • Search for a common mechanism of mood stabilizers.

    Adrian J. Harwood;Galila Agam

  • The mechanism of lithium action: state of the art, ten years later.

    Alona Shaldubina;Galila Agam;Robert H. Belmaker

  • GSK-3 and the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia

    Nitsan Kozlovsky;R.H Belmaker;R.H Belmaker;Galila Agam

  • Low GSK-3 activity in frontal cortex of schizophrenic patients

    N. Kozlovsky;R.H. Belmaker;G. Agam

  • Valproate decreases inositol biosynthesis

    Galit Shaltiel;Alon Shamir;Joseph Shapiro;Daobin Ding

  • Antidepressive-like effects of rapamycin in animal models: Implications for mTOR inhibition as a new target for treatment of affective disorders.

    C. Cleary;J.A.S. Linde;K.M. Hiscock;I. Hadas

  • Dual Role of Autophagy in Diseases of the Central Nervous System.

    Tamara Bar-Yosef;Odeya Damri;Galila Agam

  • Inositol treatment raises CSF inositol levels.

    J. Levine;A. Rapaport;L. Lev;Y. Bersudsky

  • Reduced GSK-3β mRNA levels in postmortem dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenic patients

    N. Kozlovsky;C. Shanon-Weickert;E. Tomaskovic-Crook;J. E. Kleinman

  • HOW DOES LITHIUM WORK ON MANIC DEPRESSION? Clinical and Psychological Correlates of the Inositol Theory

    R. H. Belmaker;Yuly Bersudsky;Galila Agam;Joseph Levine

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Haim Einat
Haim Einat Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Brian Dean
Brian Dean Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Junying Yuan
Junying Yuan Harvard University
Elizabeth Scarr
Elizabeth Scarr University of Melbourne
Isabel Varela-Nieto
Isabel Varela-Nieto Spanish National Research Council
Joel E. Kleinman
Joel E. Kleinman Johns Hopkins University

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