Aviv Mizrahi Kliger, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association, USA, 2025-2027
• EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship, EMBC, Germany, 2023-2025
• Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yad Hanadiv Foundation, Israel, 2022-2023
• Aharon Katzir Prize for Exceptional PhD Dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2022
• Omer Dauber Prize in Neuroscience, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2020
• Nitza Ilan Prize for Excellence in Electrophysiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2019

Education & Training

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• MD Hebrew University of Jerusalem 11/2021
• PhD Neuroscience Hebrew University of Jerusalem 08/2021
• BSc Medical Sciences Hebrew University of Jerusalem 07/2014

Publications (9)

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1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridineSleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersBeta RhythmSleepBasal ForebrainBiological ClocksExploratory BehaviorNerve NetBrain WavesParkinson DiseaseMembrane PotentialsHaplorhiniBasal GangliaGlobus PallidusAction Potentials

• Entrainment to sleep spindles reflects dissociable patterns of connectivity between cortex and basal ganglia
  Cell Reports 2022 Mizrahi-Kliger, A.D., Kaplan, A., Israel, Z., Bergman, H.
• Non-uniform distribution of dendritic nonlinearities differentially engages thalamostriatal and corticostriatal inputs onto cholinergic interneurons.
  eLife 2022 Oz O, Matityahu L, Mizrahi-Kliger A, Kaplan A, Berkowitz N, Tiroshi L, Bergman H, Goldberg JA
• Spontaneous pauses in firing of external pallidum neurons are associated with exploratory behavior.
  Communications biology 2022 Kaplan A, Mizrahi-Kliger AD, Rappel P, Iskhakova L, Fonar G, Israel Z, Bergman H
• Etiologies of insomnia in Parkinson's disease - Lessons from human studies and animal models.
  Experimental neurology 2022 Mizrahi-Kliger AD, Feldmann LK, Kühn AA, Bergman H
• Basal ganglia beta oscillations during sleep underlie Parkinsonian insomnia.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 Mizrahi-Kliger AD, Kaplan A, Israel Z, Deffains M, Bergman H

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• Dissociable roles of ventral pallidum neurons in the basal ganglia reinforcement learning network.
  Nature neuroscience 2020 Kaplan A, Mizrahi-Kliger AD, Israel Z, Adler A, Bergman H
• Desynchronization of slow oscillations in the basal ganglia during natural sleep.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018 Mizrahi-Kliger AD, Kaplan A, Israel Z, Bergman H
• Pallidal spiking activity reflects learning dynamics and predicts performance.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 Schechtman E, Noblejas MI, Mizrahi AD, Dauber O, Bergman H
• Coinciding decreases in discharge rate suggest that spontaneous pauses in firing of external pallidum neurons are network driven.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015 Schechtman E, Adler A, Deffains M, Gabbay H, Katabi S, Mizrahi A, Bergman H