Ziv Ben-Zion, Ph.D.

Ziv is a Fulbright Postdoc Fellow in the Decision Neuroscience Lab and the Stress & PTSD Lab at Yale University. He received his B.Sc. in Biology and in Psychology with an emphasis on Neuroscience (Summa Cum Laude) from the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel-Aviv University in 2015. In 2020, he completed an Interdisciplinary Direct Ph.D. in Neuroscience program under the supervision of Prof. Talma Hendler, at the Sagol Brain Institute, Tel-Aviv University and Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Ziv’s Ph.D. research focused on uncovering neural and cognitive moderators of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom trajectories. In his postdoc at Yale, under the mutual supervision of Prof. Ifat Levy & Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, he aims to further elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying anxiety- and stress-related disorders, in order to advance novel mechanism-based treatments and improved clinical outcomes for individuals suffering from these debilitating disorders.