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Overview

Zvi Israel is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with significant contributions in Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics including:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

Zvi Israel has published extensively, with 69 publications categorized under Neuroscience and 61 in Medicine. Subfields of note where they have made contributions include Neurology (57 publications), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (36 publications), and Cognitive Neuroscience (33 publications), along with involvement in Radiology and Imaging as well as Genetics.

Their recent prominent papers include:

  • "Modulation of dopamine tone induces frequency shifts in cortico-basal ganglia beta oscillations" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Phase-Specific Microstimulation Differentially Modulates Beta Oscillations and Affects Behavior" (2020) published in Cell Reports
  • "Basal ganglia beta oscillations during sleep underlie Parkinsonian insomnia" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Independently together: subthalamic theta and beta opposite roles in predicting Parkinson's tremor" (2020) published in Brain Communications
  • "Dissociable roles of ventral pallidum neurons in the basal ganglia reinforcement learning network" (2020) published in Nature Neuroscience

Zvi Israel frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Hagai Bergman
  • David Arkadir
  • Sami Heymann
  • Halen Baker Erdman
  • Uri Werner-Reiss

Their work is published in a variety of scientific venues, often appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Movement Disorders
  • Brain Communications
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell Reports

Best Publications

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

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

  • Subthalamic span of β oscillations predicts deep brain stimulation efficacy for patients with Parkinson’s disease

    Adam Zaidel;Alexander Spivak;Benjamin Grieb;Hagai Bergman

  • Mutations in the histone methyltransferase gene KMT2B cause complex early-onset dystonia

    Esther Meyer;Keren J Carss;Keren J Carss;Julia Rankin;John M E Nichols

  • Subthalamic nucleus functional organization revealed by parkinsonian neuronal oscillations and synchrony

    A. Moran;H. Bergman;Z. Israel;I. Bar-Gad

  • Long non-coding RNA and alternative splicing modulations in Parkinson's leukocytes identified by RNA sequencing.

    Lilach Soreq;Alessandro Guffanti;Nathan Salomonis;Alon Simchovitz

  • Akineto-rigid vs. tremor syndromes in Parkinsonism.

    Adam Zaidel;David Arkadir;Zvi Israel;Hagai Bergman

  • Prognosis and clinical relevance of anisocoria-craniotomy latency for epidural hematoma in comatose patients

    Jose E. Cohen;Antonio Montero;Zvi H. Israel

  • Small RNA sequencing-microarray analyses in Parkinson leukocytes reveal deep brain stimulation-induced splicing changes that classify brain region transcriptomes.

    Lilach Soreq;Nathan Salomonis;Michal Bronstein;David S. Greenberg

  • Inducing Gamma Oscillations and Precise Spike Synchrony by Operant Conditioning via Brain-Machine Interface

    Ben Engelhard;Ben Engelhard;Nofar Ozeri;Zvi Israel;Hagai Bergman;Hagai Bergman

  • Delimiting Subterritories of the Human Subthalamic Nucleus by Means of Microelectrode Recordings and a Hidden Markov Model

    Adam Zaidel;Adam Zaidel;Alexander Spivak;Lavi Shpigelman;Lavi Shpigelman;Hagai Bergman;Hagai Bergman

  • Subthalamic, not striatal, activity correlates with basal ganglia downstream activity in normal and parkinsonian monkeys

    Marc Deffains;Liliya Iskhakova;Shiran Katabi;Suzanne N Haber

  • Real-time refinement of subthalamic nucleus targeting using Bayesian decision-making on the root mean square measure.

    Anan Moran;Izhar Bar-Gad;Hagai Bergman;Zvi Israel

  • Radiation-induced meningioma: a distinct molecular genetic pattern?

    Yigal Shoshan;Olga Chernova;Sin Soo Jeun;Robert P. Somerville

  • Stop! border ahead: Automatic detection of subthalamic exit during deep brain stimulation surgery.

    Dan Valsky;Odeya Marmor-Levin;Marc Deffains;Renana Eitan

  • Temporal Convergence of Dynamic Cell Assemblies in the Striato-Pallidal Network

    Avital Adler;Shiran Katabi;Inna Finkes;Zvi Israel

  • Safety of perioperative minidose heparin in patients undergoing brain tumor surgery: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study.

    Shlomi Constantini;Andy Kanner;Adi Friedman;Ygal Shoshan

  • Longer β oscillatory episodes reliably identify pathological subthalamic activity in Parkinsonism

    Marc Deffains;Liliya Iskhakova;Shiran Katabi;Zvi Israel

  • Propofol decreases neuronal population spiking activity in the subthalamic nucleus of Parkinsonian patients.

    Aeyal Raz;Dan Eimerl;Adam Zaidel;Hagai Bergman

  • The rationale driving the evolution of deep brain stimulation to constant-current devices.

    Jeff M. Bronstein;Michele Tagliati;Cameron McIntyre;Robert Chen

  • Microelectrode Recording in Movement Disorder Surgery

    Zvi Israel;Kim J. Burchiel

  • Reversing a Model of Parkinson's Disease With In Situ Converted Nigral Neurons.

    Zvi Israel;Nir Asch

Frequent Co-Authors

Hagai Bergman
Hagai Bergman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eilon Vaadia
Eilon Vaadia Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Manju A. Kurian
Manju A. Kurian University College London
Dagmar Wieczorek
Dagmar Wieczorek Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Patricia Limousin
Patricia Limousin University College London
Suzanne N. Haber
Suzanne N. Haber University of Rochester Medical Center
Henry Houlden
Henry Houlden University College London
André Reis
André Reis University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Nicholas W. Wood
Nicholas W. Wood University College London
Abraham J. Domb
Abraham J. Domb Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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