Dr. Hanna Keren

מרצה בכירה Senior Lecturer
Bar-Ilan Email
hanna.keren@biu.ac.il
Fields of Interest

Computational psychiatry, Neuroscience, Human behavior and cognition, Human-Machine-Interfaces, Neuro-engineering, Bio-signals

Research field
Computational study of human psychopathology and mood
Research Center
Bar-Ilan University Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Safed
    CV

    Dr. Keren finished her undergraduate and PhD studies at the Technion in Israel, and did her postdoc at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) in Maryland, USA.

    EDUCATION

    2010- 2016, PhD (direct track) -  Network Biology Center / Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Electrical Engineering / Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology / Israel
    PhD Supervisor: Prof. Shimon Marom
    PhD thesis title: Synchronization of Neural Networks: Dynamics and Control

    2001-2005, BSc - Biotechnology Engineering / Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology / Israel

    CURRENT POSITIONS

    ​​​​​​​2022 – present     Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer rank)
                               PI of the HacK Lab / Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    2023 – present    Affiliate Researcher
                               The Gonda Brain Multidisciplinary Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    2023 – present    Affiliate Member
                               The Data Science Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    2024 – present    Co-Head of the Brain and Mind Center, Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University

    2024 – present    Committee member, Society of Neuroscience, organizing committee of the international SfN conference

    Full CV here.

    Research

    Full list can be found here.

    First or last authorships:

    The Predictive potential of Heart Rate Variability to depression
    S Galin and H Keren
    Neuroscience, 2024


    Emotion-related impulsivity and risky decision-making: A systematic review and meta-regression.

    MV Elliott, SL Johnson, JG Pearlstein, DEM Lopez, H Keren
    Clinical Psychology Review, 2022

    Timing matters: The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood reports

    Keren H, Zheng C, Jangraw D, Chang K, Vitale A, Nielson D, Rutledge R B., Pereira F, Stringaris A.

    eLife, 2021


    A biohybrid setup for coupling biological and neuromorphic neural networks

    Keren H, Partzsch J, Marom S, Mayr C.

    Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019

    Chosen to be featured in the Neural Technology Editors' Pick, 2021, link

    Reward processing in depression: a conceptual and meta-analytic review across electrophysiological and fMRI studies.

    Keren H, O’Callaghan G, Vidal-Ribas P, Buzzell G A. Brotman M, Leibenluft E, Pan P M., Meffert L, Kaiser A, Wolke S, Pine D S., Stringaris A.

    American Journal of Psychiatry, 2018

     

    Is the encoding of the Reward Prediction Error reliable during development?

    Keren H, Chen G, Benson B, Ernst M, Leibenluft E, Fox N A., Pine D S., Stringaris A.

    Neuroimage, 2018

    Development of cortical networks under continuous stimulation. Orenshtein O, Keren H.

    Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2017

    Long-range synchrony and emergence of reentry in neural networks.

    Keren H, Marom S.

    Scientific Reports, 2016

    Controlling neural network responsiveness: tradeoffs and constraints.

    Keren H, Marom S.

    Frontiers in Neuroengineering, 7: 11, 2014

    Diffuse nonepidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma caused by a recurrent nonsense mutation in DSG1.

    Keren H, Bergman R, Mizrachi M, Kashi Y, Sprecher E.

    Arch Dermatol. 141(5): 625–628, 2005
     

    Co-authorships:

    A highly replicable decline in mood during rest and simple tasks
    DC Jangraw, H Keren, H Sun, RL Bedder, RB Rutledge, F Pereira

    Nature Human Behaviour, 2023

     

    Neural responses to reward valence and magnitude from pre-to early adolescence.

    RG Polack, JA Mollick, H Keren, J Joormann, R Watts

    NeuroImage 2023

    Electrophysiological correlates of mood and reward dynamics in human adolescents. Liuzzi L, Chang K, Keren H, Saha D, Zheng C, Nielson D, Stringaris A.

    Cerebral Cortex, 2021

     

    Great Expectations: A critical review of and recommendations for the study of reward processing as a cause and predictor of depression

    Nielson D, Keren H, O’Callaghan G, Jackson S, Douka J, Zheng C, Vidal-Ribas P, Pornpattananangkul N, Camp CC, Gorham L, Wei C, Kirwan S, Stringaris A. Biological Psychiatry , 2020

    Unstructured network topology begets order-based representation by privileged neurons Bauermeister C, Keren H, Braun J.

    Biological Cybernetics, 2020

    Modulation of ACC reward signaling in medication-naive young-adult subjects with depression following acute dose lurasidone.

    Wolke S A, Mehta M A, O'Daly O, Zelaya F, Zahreddine N, Keren H, O'Callaghan G, Young A, Leibenluft E, Pine D S, Stringaris A.

    Psychological Medicine, 2019

    Bidirectional associations between stress and reward processing in children and adolescents: a longitudinal neuroimaging study.

    Vidal-Ribas P, Benson B, Vitale A, Keren H, Harrewijn A, Fox N A, Pine D, Stringaris A.

    Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2019

    A role for the snare complex in epidermal and neuronal differentiation emerges from a nononsence mutation in SNAP29, causing a novel neurocutaneous syndrome.

    Mandel H, Ishida-Yamamoto A, Koren M, Goldsher D, Indelman M, Topaz O, Keren H, Berkowitz D, Shalev S, Geiger D, Bergman R, Horowitz M, Sprecher E.

    Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 28:249, 2005 link

    A mutation in SNAP29, coding for a SNARE protein involved in intracellular trafficking, causes a novel neurocutaneous syndrome characterized by cerebral dysgenesis, neuropathy, ichthyosis and palmoplantar keratoderma.

    Sprecher E, Ishida-Yamamoto A, Mizrahi-Koren M, Rapaport D, Goldsher D, Indelman M, Topaz O, Chefetz I, Keren H, O’Brien TJ, Bercovich D, Shalev S, Geiger D, Bergman R, Horowitz M, Mandel H.

    American Journal of Human Genetics. 77: 242-251, 2005
     

     

     

     

    Last Updated Date : 07/08/2024