ד"ר רותם סער-אשכנזי

Dr. Rotem Saar-ashkenazy

מוסד עיקרי

המכללה האקדמית אשקלון

Ashkelon Academic College

דוא״ל

saararotem@edu.aac.ac.il

דיסציפלינות ראשיותMain Disciplines

Neuroscience and Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychobiology, Social Work

דיסציפלינות משניותSecondary Disciplines

Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology

תחומי מחקר / מילות מפתחKeywords

Aging, Anxiety, Diffusion tensor imaging [DTI], DTI, MCI, Memory, MRI, Neuro-imaging (including magnetic), Neuroimaging, PCS, PTSD, Resonance imaging [MRI], Stress, Trauma and post-trauma

פרסומים ויצירות עיקריים / עדכנייםMain / Recent Publications

Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Bergman, Y. S., Ashkenazy, O., & Guez, J. (2024). Traumatic stress, active engagement and resilience in first responders and civilians in the outbreak of war. European journal of psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2328506. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2024.2328506
Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Naparstek, S., Dizitzer, Y. et al. Neuro-psychiatric symptoms in directly and indirectly blast exposed civilian survivors of urban missile attacks. BMC Psychiatry 23, 423 (2023).
Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Guez, J., Jacob, Y., Veksler, R., Cohen, J. E., Shelef, I., Friedman, A., & Benifla, M. (2022). White-matter correlates of anxiety: The contribution of the corpus-callosum to the study of anxiety and stress-related disorders. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, e1955.
R. Saar Ashkenazy, S. Naparstek, Y. Dizitzer, N. Zimhoni, A. Friedman, I. Shelef, H. Cohen, H. Shalev, L. Oxman, V. Novack, G. Ifergane, Posttraumatic and post-concussive symptoms in civilian survivors of urban missile attacks,
Neuroscience Applied, Volume 1, Supplement 2, 2022, 100311
Citation: Guez J, Saar-Ashkenazy R, Poznanski Y (2022) Associative-memory deficit as a function of age and stimuli serial position. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0268557.
Veksler, R., Vazana, U., Serlin, Y., Prager, O., Ofer, J., Shemen, M., Fisher, A.M., Minaeva, O., Hua, N., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Benou, I., Riklin-Raviv, T., Parker, E., Mumby, G., Kamintsky, L., Bayea, S., Bowen, C.V., Shelef, I., O’Keefe, E., Campbell, M., Kaufer, D., Goldstein, L.E., Friedman, A. (2020). Slow blood-to-brain transport underlies enduring barrier dysfunction in American football players. BRAIN, awaa140
Milikovsky, D., Ofer, J., Senatorov, V., Friedman, A., Prager, O., Sheintuch, L., Elazari, N., Veksler, R., Zelig, D., Weissberg, I., Bar-Klein, G., Swissa, E., Hanael, E., Ben-Arie, G., Schefenbauer, O., Kamintsky, L., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Shelef, I., Shamir, M., Goldberg, I., Glik, A., Benninger, F., Kaufer, D., & Friedman A. (2019). Paroxysmal slow cortical activity in Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy is associated with blood-brain barrier dysfunction. Science Translational Medicine, 11(521).
Senatorov, V.V., Friedman, A.R., Milikovsky, D.Z., Ofer, J., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Charbash, A., Jahan, N., Chin, G., Mihaly, E., Lin, J.M., Ramsay, H.J., Moghbel, A., Preininger, M.K., Eddings, C.R., Harrison, H.V., Patel, R., Shen, Y., Ghanim, H., Sheng, H., Veksler, R., Sudmant, P.H., Becker, A., Hart, B., Rogawski, M.A., Dillin, A., Friedman, A., & Kaufer, D. (2019). Blood-brain barrier dysfunction in aging induces hyper-activation of TGF-β signaling and chronic yet reversible neural dysfunction. Science Translational Medicine, 11(521).
Schindler, L., Shaheen, M., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Bani Odeh, K., Sass, S-H., Friedman, A. & Kirschbaum, C. (2019). Victims of War: Dehydroepiandrosterone Concentrations in Hair and Their Associations with Trauma Sequelae in Palestinian Adolescents Living in the West Bank. Brain Science, 9(2), 20
Guez, J., Saar-Ashkenazy, R. & Tiferet-Dweck, C. (2019). Dissociative Associative Memory Deficit as a Function of Primacy and Recency Effects. Psychological Research
Shaheen, M., Schindler, L., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Bani Odeh, K., Soreq, H., Friedman, A. & Kirschbaum, C. (2018). Victims of War – Psychoendocrine Evidence for the Impact of Traumatic Stress on Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents growing up during the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Psychophysiology
Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Veksler, R., Guez, J., Jacob., Y., Shelef, I., Shalev, H., Friedman, A. & Cohen, J. (2016). Breakdown of Inter-hemispheric Connectivity is Associated with Posttraumatic Symptomatology and Memory impairment. Plos One 11(2)
Guez, J. †, Saar-Ashkenazy, R†., Keha, E. & Tiferet-Dweck, C. (2016). The effect of Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) on item and associative recognition of words and pictures in healthy participants. Frontiers in Psychology 7(105). † = Equal contribution to manuscript.
Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Shalev, H., Kanthak, MK., Guez, J., Friedman, A. & Cohen, J. (2015). Altered processing of visual emotional stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder: an event-related potential study. Psychiatry Research-Neuroimaging.
Guez, J., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Mualem, L., Efrati, M. & Keha, E. (2015). Negative Emotional Arousal Impair Associative Memory Performance for Emotionally Neutral Content in Normal Participants. Plos One, 10(7).
Bar-Klein, G., Swissa, E., Kamintsky, L., Shekh-Ahmad, T., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Hubary, Y., Shrot, S., Stetlander, L., Eisenkraft, A., Friedman, A., Bialer, M. (2014). sec-Butyl-propylacetamide (SPD) and two of its stereoisomers rapidly terminate paraoxon-induced status epilepticus in rats. Epilepsia, 1-6.
Weissberg, I., Veksler, R., Kamintsky, L., Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Milikovsky, D., Shelef, I. & Friedman, A (2014). Imaging Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in American Football Players. Jama Neurology, 71(11), 1453-1455.
Saar-Ashkenazy, R., Cohen, J., Guez J., Gasho C., Shelef I., Friedman A. & Shalev H. (2014). Reduced Corpus-Callosum Volume in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Highlights the Importance of Inter-Hemispheric Connectivity for Associative Memory. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 27(1), 18-26,.
Guez, J., Cohen, J., Naveh-Benjamin, M., Shiber, A.,Yankovsky, Y., Saar, R. & Shalev, H. (2013). Associative memory impairment in Acute Stress Disorder: Characteristics and Time Course. Psychiatry Research, 209(3), 479-484.