Prof. Yulia Lerner

The lab focuses on the study of the neural activity underlying complex naturalistic conditions. Our research involves functional and structural brain imaging, neuropsychological assessments and physiological measurements. We apply our paradigms to neuro-psychiatric disorders (e.g. mild cognitive impairment (MCI), schizophrenia, etc.), in order to better understand various pathological conditions.
To study factors of vulnerability in a causal manner we apply either a prospective imaging approach, or compare groups of affected and unaffected individuals under similar conditions (e.g. older adults and participants with MCI, patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected siblings). While applying multi-modal paradigms, we are focused on developing methods for the identification of "functional neuromarkers" for these diseases.