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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Hagai Bergman is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has an extensive research portfolio in medicine and neuroscience. Their scholarly output includes contributions across several subfields, notably neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience.

Bergman's research focuses on neurological disorders and treatments with a particular emphasis on mechanisms and treatments related to Parkinson's Disease. Their work also spans neuroscience and neural engineering, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and brain-computer interface technologies.

They have published articles in prominent venues, with multiple papers appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Movement Disorders, Nature Communications, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Cell Reports.

  • Recent papers include:
  • "Mapping dysfunctional circuits in the frontal cortex using deep brain stimulation" (2024, Nature Neuroscience)
  • "Modulation of dopamine tone induces frequency shifts in cortico-basal ganglia beta oscillations" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Phase-Specific Microstimulation Differentially Modulates Beta Oscillations and Affects Behavior" (2020, Cell Reports)
  • "Basal ganglia beta oscillations during sleep underlie Parkinsonian insomnia" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Independently together: subthalamic theta and beta opposite roles in predicting Parkinson's tremor" (2020, Brain Communications)

Coauthor collaborations frequently include researchers such as Zvi Israel, David Arkadir, Halen Baker Erdman, Aviv D. Mizrahi-Kliger, and Andrea A. Kühn.

Bergman's book publication record includes a title published by The MIT Press: "The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia" (2021).

Best Publications

  • Reversal of experimental parkinsonism by lesions of the subthalamic nucleus

    Hagai Bergman;Thomas Wichmann;Mahlon R. DeLong

  • Pathological synchronization in Parkinson's disease: networks, models and treatments

    Constance Hammond;Hagai Bergman;Peter Brown

  • The primate subthalamic nucleus. II. Neuronal activity in the MPTP model of parkinsonism

    H. Bergman;T. Wichmann;B. Karmon;M. R. DeLong

  • Deep brain stimulation: current challenges and future directions

    Andres M. Lozano;Nir Lipsman;Hagai Bergman;Peter Brown

  • Goal-directed and habitual control in the basal ganglia: implications for Parkinson's disease

    Peter Redgrave;Manuel Rodriguez;Manuel Rodriguez;Yoland Smith;Yoland Smith;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz

  • Dynamics of neuronal interactions in monkey cortex in relation to behavioural events

    E. Vaadia;I. Haalman;M. Abeles;H. Bergman

  • Past, present, and future of Parkinson's disease: A special essay on the 200th Anniversary of the Shaking Palsy

    J.A. Obeso;M. Stamelou;M. Stamelou;C.G. Goetz;W. Poewe

  • Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation Is Superior in Ameliorating Parkinsonism

    Boris Rosin;Maya Slovik;Rea Mitelman;Rea Mitelman;Michal Rivlin-Etzion;Michal Rivlin-Etzion

  • Spatiotemporal firing patterns in the frontal cortex of behaving monkeys

    M. Abeles;H. Bergman;E. Margalit;E. Vaadia

  • Firing patterns and correlations of spontaneous discharge of pallidal neurons in the normal and the tremulous 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine vervet model of parkinsonism.

    Aeyal Raz;Eilon Vaadia;Hagai Bergman

  • Physiological aspects of information processing in the basal ganglia of normal and parkinsonian primates

    Hagai Bergman;Ariela Feingold;Asaph Nini;Aeyal Raz

  • Neurons in the globus pallidus do not show correlated activity in the normal monkey, but phase-locked oscillations appear in the MPTP model of parkinsonism

    Asaph Nini;Ariela Feingold;Hamutal Slovin;Hagai Bergman

  • Coincident but Distinct Messages of Midbrain Dopamine and Striatal Tonically Active Neurons

    Genela Morris;Genela Morris;David Arkadir;Alon Nevet;Eilon Vaadia;Eilon Vaadia

  • Midbrain dopamine neurons encode decisions for future action

    Genela Morris;Genela Morris;Alon Nevet;David Arkadir;Eilon Vaadia;Eilon Vaadia

  • Dependence of Cortical Plasticity on Correlated Activity of Single Neurons and on Behavioral Context

    Ehud Ahissar;Eilon Vaadia;Merav Ahissar;Hagai Bergman

  • The primate subthalamic nucleus. III. Changes in motor behavior and neuronal activity in the internal pallidum induced by subthalamic inactivation in the MPTP model of parkinsonism

    T. Wichmann;H. Bergman;M. R. DeLong

  • The Primate Subthalamic Nucleus. I. Functional Properties in Intact Animals

    T. Wichmann;H. Bergman;M. R. DeLong

  • Information processing, dimensionality reduction and reinforcement learning in the basal ganglia.

    Izhar Bar-Gad;Genela Morris;Hagai Bergman

  • Pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease: from clinical neurology to basic neuroscience and back.

    Hagai Bergman;Günther Deuschl

  • Encoding of sound-source location and movement: activity of single neurons and interactions between adjacent neurons in the monkey auditory cortex

    M Ahissar;E Ahissar;H Bergman;E Vaadia

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Israel
Zvi Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eilon Vaadia
Eilon Vaadia Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moshe Abeles
Moshe Abeles Bar-Ilan University
Izhar Bar-Gad
Izhar Bar-Gad Bar-Ilan University
Mahlon R. DeLong
Mahlon R. DeLong Emory University
Suzanne N. Haber
Suzanne N. Haber University of Rochester Medical Center
Opher Donchin
Opher Donchin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Thomas Wichmann
Thomas Wichmann Emory University
Ehud Ahissar
Ehud Ahissar Weizmann Institute of Science
Rony Paz
Rony Paz Weizmann Institute of Science

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