פרופ' אלקנה אודליה

Prof. Odelia Elkana

מוסד עיקרי

המכללה האקדמית ת"א יפו

The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo

טלפון

054-7406611

דוא״ל

elkana at mta.ac.il

ORCID ID URL

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1862-4930

דיסציפלינות ראשיותMain Disciplines

Medicine - Neurological, Behavioural sciences, Psychobiology, Psychology, Neuroscience and Neurobiology, Psychiatry

דיסציפלינות משניותSecondary Disciplines

Aging, Alzheimer, Brain and Behavior, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Rehabilitative Psychology

תחומי מחקר / מילות מפתחKeywords

Clinical Neuropsychology, Cognitive decline, Cognitive Health, Dementia, Mental Health., Mild Cognitive impairment (MCI)

פרסומים ויצירות עיקריים / עדכנייםMain / Recent Publications

Raev, S., Aloush, V., Gilam, G., & Elkana, O. (2025). The Mediating Role of Depression in the Relationship Between Perceived Injustice and Pain Intensity Among Fibromyalgia Patients. Journal of pain research, 18, 3077–3085. https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S518357
Elkana, O., Beheshti, I., & Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (2025). The protective role of education in white matter lesions and cognitive decline. Brain and cognition, 187, 106304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106304
Elkana, O., & Beheshti, I. (2025). Functional brain changes in Mexican women with fibromyalgia. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease, 1871(1), 167564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2024.167564
Aloush, V., Gurfinkel, A., Ablin, J. N., & Elkana, O. (2025). Physical and Mental Health of Fibromyalgia Patients Following October 7th Attack and the Ensuing Military Conflict: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. European journal of pain (London, England), 29(6), e70075. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70075
Avinir, A., Kupershmidt, A., Amsterdam, D. et al. Personality and neuropsychiatric symptoms in individuals diagnosed with long COVID. BMC Infect Dis 24, 1449 (2024).
Gilam, Gadi; Silvert, Jemma; Raev, Sheer; Malka, Din; Gluzman, Inbar; Rush, Melissa; Elkana, Odelia; Aloush, Valerie . Perceived Injustice and Anger in Fibromyalgia With and Without Comorbid Mental Health Conditions: A Hebrew Validation of the Injustice Experience Questionnaire. The Clinical Journal of Pain 40(6):p 356-366, June 2024
Elkana O (2024) Navigating the “frontal lobe paradox”: integrating Real-Life Tasks (RLTs) approach into neuropsychological evaluations. Front. Psychol. 15:1394483
Caspi I, Freund O, Pines O, Elkana O, Ablin JN, Bornstein G. Effect of patient COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy on hospital care team perceptions. World J Clin Cases. 2023 Feb 6;11(4):821-829.
Segal O and Elkana O (2023) The ventrolateral prefrontal cortex is part of the modular working memory system: A functional neuroanatomical perspective. Front. Neuroanat. 17:1076095
Xi Y, Elkana O, Jiao WE, Li D, Tao ZZ. Associations between social support and anxiety during the COVID-19 lockdown in young and middle-aged Israelis: A cross-sectional study. World J Psychiatry. 2022 Sep 19;12(9):1194-1203.
Odelia Elkana, Rona Louzia-Timen, Einat Kodesh, Sigal Levy & Yael Netz (2022) The effect of a single training session on cognition and mood in young adults – is there added value of a dual-task over a single-task paradigm?, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20:1, 36-56
Ili Margalit, Dana Yelin, Moshe Sagi, Maya Merav Rahat, Liron Sheena, Nadav Mizrahi, Yael Gordin, Hadar Agmon, Nitzan Karny Epstein, Alaa Atamna, Ori Tishler, Vered Daitch, Tanya Babich, Donna Abecasis, Yoni Yarom, Shirit Kazum, Dorit Shitenberg, Erik Baltaxe, Odelia Elkana, Irit Shapira-Lichter, Leonard Leibovici, Dafna Yahav, Risk Factors and Multidimensional Assessment of Long-COVID Fatigue: A Nested Case-Control Study, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2022;, ciac283,
Hacohen, M., Stolar, O.E., Berkovitch, M. et al. Children and adolescents with ASD treated with CBD-rich cannabis exhibit significant improvements particularly in social symptoms: an open label study. Transl Psychiatry 12, 375 (2022).
Elkana O, Nimni Y, Ablin JN, Shorer R, Aloush V. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (MoCA) as a screening tool for cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2022 Jun;40(6):1136-1142.
Adar, T.; Davidof, M.; Elkana, O. Social Support Mediates the Association between Attachment Style and Psychological Distress during COVID-19 in Israel. Viruses 2022, 14, 693.
Liraz Dawidowicz, Elissa L. Ash, Amos D. Korczyn, Fani Andelman, Sigal Levy & Odelia Elkana (2021) Can the RAVLT predict deterioration from MCI to dementia? Data from long term follow up, Experimental Aging Research, 47:4, 347-356
Oryan, Z., Avinir, A., Levy, S. et al. Risk and protective factors for psychological distress during COVID-19 in Israel. Curr Psychol (2021).
Orland, Y., Beeri, M.S., Levy, S. et al. Physical fitness mediates the association between age and cognition in healthy adults. Aging Clin Exp Res 33, 1359–1366 (2021).
Kordahji, H., Ben-David, S. & Elkana, O. Attachment Anxiety Moderates the Association Between ADHD and Psychological Distress. Psychiatr Q (2021).
Kahana Levy, N., Segalovsky, J., Benifla, M. et al. Quantitative Meta-Analyses: Lateralization of Memory Functions Before and After Surgery in Children with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Neuropsychol Rev (2021).
Elkana, O., Yaalon, C., Raev, S., Sobol, N., Ablin, J. N., Shorer, R., & Aloush, V. (2021). A modified version of the 2016 ACR fibromyalgia criteria cognitive items results in stronger correlations between subjective and objective measures of cognitive impairment. Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 39 Suppl 130(3), 66–71.
Christine Bajjaleh, Yoram C. Braw & Odelia Elkana (2021) Adaptation and initial validation of the Arabic version of the Word Memory Test (WMTARB), Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
Aloush, V., Niv, D., Ablin, J. N., Yaish, I., Elkayam, O., & Elkana, O. (2021). Good pain, bad pain: illness perception and physician attitudes towards rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia patients. Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 39 Suppl 130(3), 54–60.
Elkana O, Tal N, Oren N, Soffer S, Ash EL. Is the Cutoff of the MoCA too High? Longitudinal Data From Highly Educated Older Adults. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology. 2020;33(3):155-160.
Aloush, V.; Gurfinkel, A.; Shachar, N.; Ablin, J.; Elkana, O.. Pain in the Time of Corona: Impact of COVID 19 Outbreak on Fibromyalgia Patients. Arthritis & Rheumatology ; 72:2, 2020
Conti, Y., Vatine, J.-J., Levy, S., Levin Meltz, Y., Hamdan, S. and Elkana, O. (2020), Pain Catastrophizing Mediates the Association Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress in Chronic Pain Syndrome. Pain Pract, 20: 714-723. ‏
Odelia Elkana, Miriam Adelson, Anat Sason, Glen M. Doniger, Einat Peles, Improvement in Cognitive Performance after One Year of Methadone Maintenance Treatment, Psychiatry Research, Volume 294, 2020
Odelia Elkana, Shani Soffer, Osnat Reichman Eisikovits, Noga Oren, Vered Bezalel & Elissa L. Ash (2020) WAIS Information Subtest as an indicator of crystallized cognitive abilities and brain reserve among highly educated older adults: A three-year longitudinal study, Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 27:6, 525-531
Odelia Elkana, Yael Conti, Ofir Heyman, Sami Hamdan, Motty Franko & Jean-Jacques Vatine (2020) The associations between executive functions and different aspects of perceived pain, beyond the influence of depression, in rehabilitation setting, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 30:7, 1303-1317
Stress and Cognition Among Patients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment. E Peles, O Elkana, A Sason, M Adeson - Biological Psychiatry, 2020
Odelia Elkana, Miriam Adelson, Glen M. Doniger, Anat Sason & Einat Peles (2019) Cognitive function is largely intact in methadone maintenance treatment patients, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 20:3, 219-229
Odelia Elkana, Vitali Dayman, Motty Franko, Ariel Israel, Ramit Ravona Springer, Shlomo Segev & Michal Schnaider Beeri (2018) The association of total cholesterol with processing speed is moderated by age in mid- to late-age healthy adults, Experimental Aging Research, 44:2, 179-186
Odelia Elkana, Nina Yaara Krueger Bustanai, Rona Louzia-Timen, Einat Kodesh, Motty Franco, Glen M. Doniger, Conscientiousness is associated with improvement in visuospatial working memory and mood following acute physical exercise: A randomized controlled trial, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 132, 2018, Pages 126-132
Alexandra Pustilnik, Odelia Elkana, Jean-Jacques Vatine, Motty Franko & Sami Hamdan (2017) Neuropsychological Markers of Suicidal Risk in the Context of Medical Rehabilitation, Archives of Suicide Research, 21:2, 293-306
Sivan Gazit, Odelia Elkana, Liraz Dawidowicz, Liel Yeshayahu, Iftah Biran, Downwards Vertical Attention Bias in Conversion Disorder vs Controls: A Pilot Study, Psychosomatics,
Volume 58, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 633-642
Kovatch, M, Feingold, D, Elkana, O, Lev-Ran, S. Evaluation and comparison of tools for diagnosing problematic prescription opioid use among chronic pain patients. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2017; 26:e1542.
Raizes, Meytal et al. ‘Higher Fasting Plasma Glucose Levels, Within the Normal Range, Are Associated with Decreased Processing Speed in High Functioning Young Elderly’. 1 Jan. 2016 : 589 – 592.
Elkana, Odelia et al. ‘Sensitivity of Neuropsychological Tests to Identify Cognitive Decline in Highly Educated Elderly Individuals: 12 Months Follow Up’. 1 Jan. 2016 : 607 – 616.