Ifat Levy, PhD
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Professor of Comparative Medicine and Vice Chair for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity
Co-director, Science Fellows ProgramBiography
I am interested in the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in humans, in individual differences in these mechanisms, and in the possible contribution of decision traits to pathological behavior. Our research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, and on value learning and encoding. To study these topics we combine behavioral economics methods with functional MRI, as well as eye tracking and physiological measurements.
Appointments
Comparative Medicine
ProfessorPrimaryNeuroscience
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Comparative Medicine
- Decision Neuroscience Lab
- Diabetes Research Center
- Discovery to Cure Internship
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Track
- VA National Center for PTSD
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Center for Molecular and Systems Metabolism (YMSM)
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- PhD
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004)
- LLB
- Tel Aviv University (1997)
- BS
- Tel Aviv University, Physics (1994)
Research
Overview
- Risk and ambiguity in the negative domain – examining behavior and neural activation for decision in terms of risk and ambiguity between outcomes that include losses.
- Behavior and neural correlates of decision under risk and ambiguity across the lifespan.
- Decision parameters in obese and lean individuals – comparing attitudes towards decision parameters such as risk and ambiguity in different BMI groups.
- Implicit learning of value - behavior and neural correlates of value learning in conditioning paradigms and their relationship to choice processes.
- Representation of food in obese and lean subjects - how is food that is depicted in movies perceived and how does it affect choice.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Basal Ganglia; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Central Nervous System; Cerebral Cortex
Links & Media
News
- January 02, 2024
Duek, Harpaz-Rotem Paper Named '2023 Leading Research Achievement' by BBRF
- December 03, 2023
Comparative Medicine DEI Highlight
- November 30, 2023
Neural Patterns Differentiate Traumatic From Sad Autobiographical Memories in PTSD
- June 21, 2023Source: Neuropsychopharmacology
Long term Structural and Functional Neural Changes Following a Single Infusion of Ketamine in PTSD