Projects and Collaborations
Funded Projects
Current Funding
- Mobile cognition- novel virtual reality based paradigm to study cognitive – motor interactions in the context of fall risk in ageing.
BSF Grant (in collaboration with Dr. Geoffrey Wright, Temple University, USA). - Leveraging deep learning, virtual reality and miniaturized wearable sensors for the diagnosis of cognitive-motor impairments in health and disease.
Ministry of Science and Technology (in collaboration with Prof. Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute). - Disentangling the physiological and cognitive pathways of anxiety. Weizmann-Sheba research grant (in collaboration with Dr. Michal Ramot).
- Novel Virtual Reality Method to distinguish Apathy from Depression in the Context of Dementia.
Grant #GDADB-201906-2018926 (In collaboration with Prof. Ramit Ravona, Dept. Psychiatry Sheba Medical Center). - Using virtual reality as a tool for predicting cognitive-motor deteriorations due to fatigue among physicians and high-performance professionals.
ARC – XR initiative grant.
Terminated Funding
- Studying the Dynamics of Neurophysiological Networks' Interactions predisposing Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's disease with Virtual Reality. ISF Grant # 1657-2016 (In collaboration with Bar Ilan University).
- Combining electroencephalography and motion sensor-based biofeedback to alleviate freezing of gait and fall prevention in Parkinson's disease.
Ministry of Health Translational Science Program Grant #3-14527. - Cognitive-motor rehabilitation program using virtual reality for middle-aged individuals at high dementia risk.
Nissim Family donation. (A collaboration with JSNC - The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center). - Gait adaptation patterns in subjects with neurological diseases introduced with split belt treadmill technology.
Grant # 27535 SHEBA FUND. - Promobilia Fund- Novel ways of improving the outcomes of chronically ill cardiac patients at home: The HFMONITORING@HOME project (Sweden).
- Evaluation of the physiological-cognitive-autonomic interaction during combat-related physical strains in a virtual reality environment.
The Israel Defense force (IDF) – Medical Core Grant #33-18 (In collaboration with The Heler Institute). - The effect of cognitive load during lengthy effortful walking (i.e., 2 h with heavy load), on the physical and cognitive performance to follow, in young well fit adults – full scale simulation in virtual reality conditions.
The Israel Defense force (IDF) – Medical Core Grant # 4440939339 (In collaboration with The Heler Institute). - Algorithm development for the analysis of physiological networks for fall prevention in elderly participants with and without neurological disease using a virtual reality environment.
Grant # 3-12072 (Ministry of Science and Technology – "Science, Technology and Innovation for the Elderly Population”, in collaboration with Bar Ilan University). - Perception and Action in Complex Environments (PACE).
Grant # MSCA-ITN 642961 (European Union H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie program). - ICT 22(b) – 2014: Multimodal and Natural Computer Interaction Multimedia Authoring and Management using your Eyes and Mind (MAMEM).
Grant # ICT 644780 (European Union H2020 Research and Innovation Action (RIA)). - Pathogenesis of neural mechanisms associated with the freezing of gait phenomenon in Parkinson's disease.
Grant # I-1298-415.13 (A collaboration with GIF- German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development).
Academic Collaborations
International
Germany – Kiel University, Halle University, Potsdam University, University of Koblenz, SensoMotoric Instruments
Italy – University of Padova, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, EB Neuro SpA
France – Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Université De Lille, L'Université Paris Descartes
UK – Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Durham University
Spain – Universitat De Barcelona
Netherlands – Faculty of Human Movement Science VU, Perceptual and Cognitive Systems Group TNO, Eindhoven University of Technology
Greece – Centre for Research & Technology, MDA Hellas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
North America – Temple University, University of Toronto, John Hopkins University Baltimore, Washington University St. Louis
Sweden – Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
National
Weizmann Institute of Science – Department of Neuroscience, Department of Applied Mathematics
Tel Aviv University – Sagol School of Neuroscience, Department of Physiotherapy, Department of Psychology, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Ben Gurion University – Department of Physiotherapy, Department of Biomedical engineering
Bar Ilan University – Department of Physics, Gonda Brain research center
Haifa University – Department of Occupational Therapy
Belinson Hospital – Department of Cardiology
HIT – Faculty of Engineering
