Amidst the splendor of the inner courtyard with its retractable roof open to a beautiful Jerusalem nighttime sky, Hebrew University President Menahem Ben-Sasson presented Madame Lily Safra with a...

  Five years after its initial donation of $20 million for the establishment of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Edmond J....

The brain is constantly abuzz with electrical signals transferring information between brain cells. The results of this intense electrical activity are the perceptions, thoughts, ideas, decisions,...

The ancient Greek philosophers understood that nature’s most sophisticated wonders could be described entirely through the languages of mathematics and physics. Now ELSC researcher, Dr. Yoram...

Drug addiction is one of the most prominent neuropsychiatric disorders, affecting up to 3% of the U.S. population. While the cost of drug addiction to society is tremendous, the neurological cause...

Optogenetics is the relatively new science that enables light beams inside the brain to activate and control the brain’s nerve cells. New ELSC researcher Dr. Inbal Goshen is using this advanced...