Prof. Segev Barak
Prof. Segev Barak joined the School of Psychological Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience in 2012. His research focuses on the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol and drug addiction, with emphasis on aberrant learning and memory processes in substance abuse. His lab is using a multidisciplinary approach, which combines sophisticated behavioral analysis of drug and alcohol-related behaviors, molecular biology, and biochemistry.
Segev did his postdoctoral training in the at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), one of the world’s preeminent academic centers for the study of the biological basis of alcohol and drug addiction.
He is currently the head of the Psychobiology Graduate program in the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University.
Segev received his academic degrees from Tel Aviv University, where he graduated in 2003 in Psychology and Communication, and earned his Ph.D. in 2009 in Psychobiology.