Assistant professor at Haifa University, interested in how humans smell, breathe, remember and recall their world.
Tel Aviv
Joined September 2017
- Tweets1.2K
- Following1.7K
- Followers1.1K
- Likes3.7K
Pinned Tweet
Time has come to share some exciting news! I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Haifa University in Spring 2025!
#AcademicTwitter #Neuroscience #NewYear #newPI
Ofer Perl retweeted
When I started my PhD, I ran into a puzzle that fascinated me: why is the sense of smell affected so early in Parkinson's disease?
Olfactory dysfunction can appear years before the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, making it a potential window for early detection.
We are recruiting!
My lab at the University of Haifa is looking for new team members to join our research on the links between sensory perception (focus on #smell and human #olfaction) and human memory.
Please help me spread the word
@SocialM76238155 @IBBRCHaifa
Ofer Perl retweeted
15-year-old me: “Academic research is going to be the most amazing job in the world.”
The reality of my postdoc…
#Throwback!
This finding still blows my mind. 🤯
We demonstrated that beliefs about nicotine strength drive dose-dependent signals in the brain, physiologically mimicking the drug itself, even when the actual dose is constant.
Beliefs change biology 👇 nature.com/articles/s44220-0…
Ofer Perl retweeted
Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T
Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @XiaosiGu, @JoeBarnby, & I call for models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms
🚨To celebrate #WorldMentalHealthDay, our October issue includes a Focus that examines the advances in computational psychiatry and the challenges of developing and deploying computational models to address mental health disorders.
➡️nature.com/collections/cdfgg…
🧵(1/8)
ALT A robot on a chair sits next to a patient against a backdrop of a medical report. Credit: mathisworks / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Images
Ofer Perl retweeted
Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health: Trends in Neurosciences cell.com/trends/neuroscience…
Always nice when science translates to real world observations (watch till the end!)
Frumin et al. "A social chemosignaling function for human handshaking" 👋👃🏻
elifesciences.org/articles/0…
Ofer Perl retweeted
New fMRI study shows the hippocampus signals mismatches only when our expectations are based on episodic memories — not general knowledge. Challenges theories of the hippocampus as a domain-general comparator: doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.04.6…
I'm grateful for the welcoming atmosphere and support endowed by @ELSCbrain as a whole and Dr. Aya Ben Yakov's guidance in particular 🙏
Ofer Perl retweeted
My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.
Hey #academia , raise your hand if your alma mater was struck by a missile barrage today
We can't share the pics but they're dreadful.
👋
Ofer Perl retweeted
👃🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT🚨👃
Just out in @CurrentBiology - "Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints" by Timna Soroka et al.
(link to #OpenAccess paper @ comment!)
TL;DR - Human nasal respiratory fingerprints are individually unique patterns that reflect brain-driven respiration
Ofer Perl retweeted
Nachum's new book Natural Neuroscience is out! A fresh take on how brains work in the real world—well worth a read.
An incredibly comprehensive piece by Tort and colleagues showing to what extent brain activity is shaped by respiration. Take a deep breath and dive in 🤿
nature.com/articles/s41583-0…
Yesterday was my last day with the
Ben-Yakov human memory lab at @ELSCbrain.
After two and a half wonderful years, going away is bittersweet.
I now look forward to starting a new path as a PI @UofHaifa and to forming new hippocampus-mediated memories.
