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Roee Admon, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
Roee Admon, Ph.D.
Date of Birth
June, 1979
Place of Birth
Haifa, Israel
Office Address
McLean Hospital, de Marneffe Building, Room 233A, Mailstop 331, 115 Mill
Street, Belmont, MA 02478
Email
[email protected]
Higher Education
2001-2004
B.Sc., Life Science, Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
Israel
2005-2006
M.Sc., Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2006-2011
Ph.D., Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
(Talma Hendler, M.D., Ph.D.)
Postdoctoral Training
2012-2013
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School & Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean
Hospital (Diego A. Pizzagalli, Ph.D.)
Faculty Academic Appointments
2014-
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & Center for
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital
Professional Societies
2005-
Member, Human Brain Mapping Organization (HBMO)
2005-
Member, Israeli Society for Neuroscience (ISFN)
2006-
Member, Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
2009-
Member, Israeli Society for Biological Psychiatry (ISBP)
2013-
Member, Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP)
2013-
Member, Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
Editorial Activities
2015-
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Ad-hoc Reviewer
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American Journal of Psychiatry
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Biological Psychiatry
3.
Biological Psychology
4.
British Journal of Psychiatry
5.
Cognition and Emotion
6.
Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy
7.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
8.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
9.
Frontiers in Psychology
10.
Hippocampus
11.
Human Brain Mapping
12.
Journal of Psychiatric Research
13.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
14.
NeuroImage
15.
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
16.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America (PNAS)
17.
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
18.
Psychiatric Genetics
19.
Psychiatry Research
20.
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
21.
Psychological Medicine
22.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
23.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)
24.
Translational Psychiatry
Honors and Prizes
2003
Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Academic Excellence
Research Fellowship
2006
Human Brain Mapping Organization (HBMO) - Travel Award for Top Trainees in
the Human Brain Mapping Field
2006
Adams Super Center for Brain Science, Tel-Aviv University - Prize for Best
Young Researcher
2008
Human Brain Mapping Organization (HBMO) - Travel Award for Top Trainees in
the Human Brain Mapping Field
2011
Aharon Katzir Fellowships - Student Fellowship for Outstanding Scientific
Achievement
2011
Human Brain Mapping Organization (HBMO) - Travel Award for Top Trainees in
the Human Brain Mapping field
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2011
Society for Neuroscience (SFN) - Graduate Student Travel Award
2011
USA-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF) - Grant for Excellent Young
Scientists
2013
McLean Hospital - Adam Corneel Young Investigator Award
2013
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Formerly NARSAD) - Young
Investigator Award
2014
Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) - Career Development
Travel Award
2014
Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, HealthEmotions Research Institute - Travel
Award
2014
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) - Travel Award
2015
Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) - Travel Fellowship Award
2015
Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) - Career Development
Leadership Award
Research Grants Awarded
2013-2014
Adam Corneel Young Investigator Award, McLean Hospital
Neural Networks Mediating Acute and Sustained Positive Mood Deficits in
Depression
Principal Investigator (PI)
Amount Awarded: $19,970
2014-2016
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Formerly NARSAD) Young
Investigator Award
Neural Networks Mediating Acute and Sustained Positive Mood Deficits in
Depression
Principal Investigator (PI)
Amount Awarded: $59,996
Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
PhD:
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Eldar E, Ganor O, Admon R, Bleich A, Hendler T (2007). Feeling the real world:
limbic response to music depends on related content. Cerebral Cortex
17(12):2828-2840.
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Admon R, Lubin G, Stern O, Rosenberg K, Sela L, Ben-Ami H, Hendler T
(2009). Human vulnerability to stress depends on amygdala's predisposition and
hippocampal plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America (PNAS) 106(33):14120-5.
3.
Gonen T*, Admon R*, Klovatch I, Hendler T (2012). From animal model to
human brain networking: dynamic causal modeling of motivational systems.
Journal of Neuroscience 32(21):7218 –24. *equal contribution
4.
Admon R, Bleich-Cohen M, Weizman R, Poyurovsky M, Faragian S, Hendler T
(2012). Functional and structural neural indices of risk aversion in obsessive
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compulsive disorder (OCD). Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 203(2-3): 20713.
5.
Admon R, Milad MR, Hendler T (2013). A causal model of posttraumatic stress
disorder: Disentangling predisposed from acquired neural abnormalities. Trends
in Cognitive Sciences (TiCS) 17(7):337-47.
6.
Admon R, Lubin G, Rosenblatt J, Stern O, Kahn I, Assaf M, Hendler T (2013).
Imbalanced neural responsivity to risk and reward indicates stress vulnerability
in humans. Cerebral Cortex 23(1):28-35.
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Admon R, Leykin D, Lubin G, Engert V, Andrews J, Prussner J, Hendler T
(2013). Stress-induced reduction in hippocampal volume and connectivity with
the ventromedial prefrontal cortex are related to maladaptive responses to
stressful military service. Human Brain Mapping 34(11):2808-16.
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Cohen J, Shalev H, Admon R, Hefetz S, Shelef I, Hendler T, Friedman A
(2013). Emotional brain rhythms and their impairment in post-traumatic patients.
Human Brain Mapping 34(6):1344-56.
9.
Vaisvaser S, Lin T, Admon R, Podlipsky I, Greenman Y, Stern N, Fruchter E,
Wald I, Pine DS, Tarrasch R, Bar-Haim Y, Hendler T (2013). Neural traces of
stress: cortisol related sustained enhancement of amygdala-hippocampal
functional connectivity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5;7:313.
10.
Lin T, Vaisvaser S, Fruchter E, Admon R, Wald I, Pine DS, Bar-Haim Y,
Hendler T (2105). A neurobehavioral account for individual differences in
resilience to chronic military stress. Psychological Medicine 45(5):1011-23.
11.
Raz G, Touroutoglou A, Wilson-Mendenhall C, Gilam G, Lin T, Gonen T, Jacob
Y, Atzil S, Admon R, Bleich-Cohen M, Maron-Katz A, Hendler T, FeldmanBarrett L (Submitted). Stimulus-induced functional connectivity dynamics reveal
common networks for different emotions. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral
Neuroscience (CABN)
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Vaisvaser S, Modai S, Farberov L, Lin T, Sharon H, Gilam A, Admon R, Edry L,
Fruchter E, Wald I, Bar-Haim Y, Tarrasch R, Shomron N, Hendler T (Submitted).
Neuro-epigenetic indications of acute stress response in humans: the case of
microRNA-29c. Journal of Neuroscience
Post-Doc:
1.
Admon R, Holsen LM, Aizley H, Remington A, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Goldstein
JM, Pizzagalli DA (2014). Striatal hyper-sensitivity during stress in remitted
individuals with recurrent depression. Biological Psychiatry Oct 2.
2.
Admon R & Pizzagalli DA (2014). Dysfunctional reward processing in depression.
Current Opinion in Psychology Dec 19.
3.
Auerbach R*, Admon R*, Pizzagalli DA (2014). Adolescent depression: stress
and reward dysfunction. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 22(3):139-48. *equal
contribution
4.
Admon R, Nickerson LD, Dillon DG, Holmes AJ, Bogdan R, Kumar P,
Dougherty DD, Iosifescu DV, Mischoulon D, Fava M, Pizzagalli DA (2015).
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Dissociable cortico-striatal connectivity abnormalities in major depression in
response to monetary gains and penalties. Psychological Medicine 45(1):12131.
5.
Admon R & Pizzagalli DA (Submitted). Cortico-striatal pathways track spontanous
positive mood fluctuations. Nature Neuroscience
Chapters in Books
1.
Hendler T, Admon R, Papo D (2007). In the eyes of the beholder: Neuronal
mediators for the effect of emotional experience on quality of life. Quality of Life
Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders: New Perspectives
on Research and Treatment. Edited by Michael S Ritsner, and A George Awad.
Springer press.
2.
Hendler T & Admon R (2014). Predisposing risk factors for PTSD: Brain
biomarkers. The Comprehensive Guide to Post-traumatic Stress Disorders
(PTSD). Edited by Colin Martin, Victor R Preedy, and Vinood B Patel. Springer
press.
Invited Colloquia, Grand Rounds, and Professional Presentations
2012
Neural Markers of Human Stress Vulnerability. Invited talk presented at the
Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research Lecture Series, McLean
Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA, April 2012.
2013
Disentangling predisposed from acquired neural abnormalities in PTSD. Invited
talk presented at Boston VA Neuroimaging & Neuropsychology Lecture Series,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 2013.
2013
Disentangling predisposed from acquired neural abnormalities in PTSD. Invited
talk presented at the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory Meeting, McLean Hospital,
Belmont, Massachusetts, USA, May 2013.
2013
Cortico-striatal effective connectivity abnormalities in major depression. Invited
talk presented at the Neuroscience Research Works-in-Progress Seminar,
McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA, November 2013.
2014
Stress susceptibility and reward dysfunction in depression. Invited talk
presented at the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory Meeting, McLean Hospital,
Belmont, Massachusetts, USA, December, 2014.
2014
Stress susceptibility and reward dysfunction in depression. Invited talk
presented at the Neuroscience Research Works-in-Progress Seminar, McLean
Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA, December, 2014.
Selected First Author Conference Presentations
2006
Admon R, Lubin G, Hendler T. Individual differences in brain reactivity to
stressful life experience: A prospective fMRI study in soldiers. Poster
presentation, the 12th Human Brain Mapping Organization (HBM) meeting,
Florence, Italy, May 2006.
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2006
Admon R. Individual brain reactivity to stress: A prospective fMRI study. Oral
presentation, the 2nd Tel-Aviv Human Brain Mapping meeting, Tel-Aviv, Israel,
June 2006.
2008
Admon R. State or Trait? The effect of stressful experience on brain activation
correlates with neuroticism. Oral presentation, the 14th Human Brain Mapping
Organization (HBM) meeting, Melbourne, Australia, June 2008.
2008
Admon R. Neural correlates of the individual response to stress: Untangling
cause from consequence. Oral presentation, the 38th Society for Neuroscience
(SFN) annual meeting, Washington, USA, November 2008.
2009
Admon R. Stress related sub-cortical plasticity with regard to reward and
punishment. Oral presentation, the 18th Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN)
annual meeting, Eilat, Israel, December 2009.
2010
Admon R. The harmful effect of stress is predicted by the amygdala and
reflected by the Nacc. Oral presentation, the 14th Israel Society for Biological
Psychiatry annual science meeting, Hagosrim, Israel, March 2010.
2011
Admon R. Imbalanced neural responsivity to punishment and reward indicates
stress vulnerability in humans. Oral presentation, the 41st Society for
Neuroscience (SFN) annual meeting, Washington, USA, November 2011.
2013
Admon R. Reduced fronto-striatal connectivity during reward processing in
major depression. Oral presentation, the 27th Society for Research in
Psychopathology (SRP) annual meeting, Oakland, California, USA, September
2013.
2014
Admon R, Nickerson L, Dillon DG, Holmes AJ, Bogdan R, Dougherty DD,
Iosifescu DV, Mischoulon D, Fava M, Pizzagalli DA. Cortico-striatal effective
connectivity abnormalities in response to incentives in major depression. Poster
presentation, the 34th Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 2014.
2014
Admon R. Over-expression of fear as an intermediate phenotype of trauma
exposure and PTSD. Oral presentation (symposium), the 34th Anxiety and
Depression Association of America (ADAA) annual conference, Chicago, Illinois,
USA, March 2014.
2014
Admon R, Nickerson L, Dillon DG, Holmes AJ, Bogdan R, Dougherty DD,
Iosifescu DV, Mischoulon D, Fava M, Pizzagalli DA. Cortico-striatal effective
connectivity abnormalities in major depression. Poster presentation, the 20th
Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, April 2014.
2014
Admon R, Holsen LM, Aizley H, Remington A, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Goldstein
JM, Pizzagalli DA. Reward circuitry hyperactivity during stress in remitted
individuals with recurrent depression. Poster presentation, the 69th Society of
Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) annual meeting, New York, New York, USA, May
2014.
2014
Admon R, Holsen LM, Aizley H, Remington A, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Goldstein
JM, Pizzagalli DA. Striatal hyper-sensitivity during stress in depression. Poster
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presentation, the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American College of
Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, December 2014.
2015
Admon R. Reward dysfunction as a dimensional neurobiological measure of
stress vulnerability. Co-chair and speaker (symposium), the 19th Israel Society
for Biological Psychiatry annual science meeting, Hagosrim, Israel, March 2015.
2015
Admon R. Examining reward dysfunction as a risk for depression onset,
maintenance, and relapse from adolescence to adulthood. Co-chair and speaker
(symposium), the 35th Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
annual conference, Miami, Florida, USA, April 2015.
Ph.D. Thesis
02/2012
Individual differences in neural representation of vulnerability to military stress: A
prospective fMRI study. Ph.D. Thesis presented to the Department of
Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University,
Israel, February 2012.
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