פרופ' ריקרדו טרש

קורות חיים
תאריך ומקום לידה - 02/12/1962 סנטיאגו, צ'ילה
תאריך עליה - 18/1/1982
 שירות צבאי - 1/10/1992 – 30/09/1993 מדור מחקר פסיכולוגיה, ירפ"א, קצין מקצועי אקדמאי
 מצב משפחתי - נשוי +2
 

השכלה

 

1983-1986                    ב.א., האוניברסיטה העברית, ירושלים, פסיכולוגיה וסטטיסטיקה

1988-1992                    מ.א., אוניברסיטת תל אביב, פסיכולוגיה (בהצטיינות יתרה) המגמה הפסיכו ביולוגית. נושא התזה: "תפקיד המסלול ה-subiculo-accumbens בעכבה סמויה".

1996-2002                    Ph. D.., אוניברסיטת תל אביב, פסיכולוגיה (בהצטיינות) המגמה הפסיכוביולוגית. נושא העבודה: "בחינת ההשפעות האנטומיות והפונקציונליות ארוכות הטווח של הרס ב-striatum על ידי quinolinic acid ו-3-nitroprioponic acid

                                     ושינוי השפעות אלה על ידי הוספת הרס ב-globus pallidus באמצעות שיטות היסטולוגיות והדמיית תהודה מגנטית (MRI) אנטומית ופרמקולוגית.                   

 

ניסיון מקצועי:
 

1983-1984 מדריך חברתי, בית חולים פסיכיאטרי טלביה, ירושלים.

1984-1985 רכז קליטה, בי"ס לתלמידי חו"ל האוניברסיטה העברית.

1985-1986 רכז כנסים, מרכז פרויד, האוניברסיטה העברית, ירושלים.

1989-2002 מתרגל סטטיסטיקה, החוג לפסיכולוגיה, אוניברסיטת תל אביב.

1991-1997 מרצה שיטות מחקר, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה

1992-1995 מרצה שיטות מחקר, מכללת רמת גן

1996-1997 חוקר ראשי, CITA (Center for the investigation and treatment of addictions)

1998 מרצה, סמינר הקיבוצים, תל אביב

2000-2005 כריית מידע ואלגוריתמאי, Random Logic

2000 מרצה מבוא לפסיכולוגיה, בית הספר לעבודה סוציאלית, אוניברסיטת תל אביב.

2003 מרצה יישומי מחשב, מכללת תל אביב יפו.

2003-2011 מרצה לסטטיסטיקה, יישומי מחשב, עיבודים סטטיסטיים ושיטות מחקר לתאר שני, החוג לפסיכולוגיה, אוניברסיטת תל אביב.

2005-2019 חונך בתכנית הבינתחומית לתלמידים מצטיינים, אוניברסיטת תל אביב.

2005-2010 מרצה פסיכולוגיה של הלמידה והשפעותיה הפיזיולוגיות והפסיכולוגיות של המדיטציה, מכללת תל אביב יפו.

2006-2011 ראש מחלקת מחקר, Meemix, Ltd.

2011 עד היום מרצה בכיר, ביה"ס לחינוך, אוניברסיטת תל אביב. מלמד את הקורסים: מדיטציה: תיאוריה פרקטיקה ומחקר, מוח תודעה וחינוך, קוגניציה, מוח ולמידה, מיינדפולנס ולמידה חברתית רגשית במערכת החינוך, ניתוח נתונים כמותיים: ניתוח שונות ורגרסיה.

 

תפקידים אקדמיים:

חבר בועדת הוראה, מכללת תל אביב יפו.

יו"ר ועדת מלגות, בית הספר לחינוך אוניברסיטת תל אביב.

יו"ר ועדת הוראה, בית הספר לחינוך אוניברסיטת תל אביב.

ראש החוג לחינוך, בית הספר לחינוך אוניברסיטת תל אביב.

 

השתתפות בכנסים אקדמיים:

2000    European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Paris, France.

2004    American Academy of Neurology, San Francisco, USA.

2005    Mind and life institute, Washington DC, USA.

2006    The "Shoresh" and Biomedical Meeting, Israel.

2010    ISMIR – The international Society for Music Information Retrieval, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2011    Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning: Implications for Education
            The New York Academy of Sciences, Aspen CO, USA.

2012    The MUDA center and the Levinsky College of Education. Nurturing Teacher Mindfulness to Create a Caring Classroom – Updates in the  educational toolbox in the brain era: Brain practice "mindfulness" for dealing with ADHD

2012    Levinsky College of Education:100 Years of Research, Innovation and Discourse in Education, Teacher Education and Music Education: Mindfulness in education: Is it possible to learn and teach differently?

2013    Annual meeting of the Family Medicine dept, Tel Aviv University: Meditation in everyday life: a tool to improve learning ability in adults

2013    Mindfulness in Education: Cultivating the Social and Emotional Competencies of Educators,  Garrison Institute, NY, USA

2014    Ethics, Education, and Human Development. Pilot Teacher Development Program. A call to care, Mind and Life Institute, Amherst, MA, USA

2015    Call to care: Empowering empathy and care in the educational system, IDC Israel

2015    The first conference of the Israeli Association of experts on learning disabilities: Meditation in everyday life: The mindful reader. A tool to improve attentional abilities, Bar Ilan University, Israel

2015    Mindfulness research and practice: Effects of mindfulness practice among ADHD and/or dyslexic students on reading abilities, attentional networks and EEG, IDC, Israel

2015    Tenth International Summer School on Mind, Brain and Education. The teaching brain: Training teachers and pupils with mindfulness, social emotional learning and caring tools, Erice, Italy

2015    Mindfulness IN Education or Mindfulness AS Education?: Mindfulness as part of counselors and special education teachers training, IDC, Israel
2015    The 8th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality: Mindfulness applications in education, Haifa University, Israel

2016       "Day after day" – A spotlight into the complexity of the academic routine of students with disabilities, IDC, Israel

2016       In constant motion: Educational counseling in new spaces, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2016       Annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Jerusalem, Israel

2016       International Symposium for Contemplative Studies, San Diego, USA

2018       The 5th Israeli Conference on Cognition Research, Acre, Israel

2018       Contemplative Pedagogy, Mofet Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel

2018       International Symposium for Contemplative Research, Phoenix, USA

2019       International conference on mindfulness, Auckland, New Zealand

 

 

 הנחיית סטודנטים לעבודות מ"א

Yael Blonder	2008-2009	The relationships between meditation, empathy and attachment style among psychotherapists
Natalie Deitsch	2008-2009	The effects of reflexology treatment on tiredness, quality of sleep and quality of life during and after radiation therapy among breast cancer patients
Orit Leibovitz	2008-2009	From a social good example to the use of drugs: on the subjective experience of drug abuse among outstanding students. A narrative approach
Yael Stoler	2009-2010	The effects of meditation and mindfulness on depression and depressive symptoms
Lior Carmi	2009-2010	The effects of meditation practice on ego resilience and psychological well being on a psychiatric population
Dana Asif	2009-2010	The relationship between meditation and decision making
Inbal Michalovitz	2009-2010	Loss, grief, mourning and Buddhism
Michal Shamir	2009-2011	The implementation of Twina massage as part of the treatment of autistic children
Zohar Berman	2011-2013	The mindful reader: On the effects of mindfulness meditation on attention, reading abilities, EEG and neurological correlates of reading among dyslexic students
Einav Ginesin	2012-2014	The effects of mindfulness training among school children. Comparing a school that practices weekly to a non-practicing school.
Chen Leven	2012-2016	The effects of mindfulness training on EEG power while performing attentional tasks among ADHD students
Adi Yaakov	2013-2015	The effects of computerized attentional training among ADHD students
Guy Armoni	2013-2015	Evoked response potentials during attentional tests among ADHD students
Omer Perry	2013-2014	The effects of mindfulness and arousal control techniques on emotional processing and physical performance
Liron Doyev	2014-2017	The effect of mindfulness and compassion practice  on empathy, compassion, and burnout among educational counselors
Dana Wasser	2014-2017	The effect of mindfulness and compassion practice  on empathy, stress, and burnout among veteran teachers
Natalie Ashkenazi	2014-2015	Effects of mindfulness meditation on long term memory, sustained attention and balance among ADHD students
Julia Bobobitz	2014-2016	Effects of mindfulness meditation on academic achievements, executive functions and motoric abilities among students
Lilach Shalom	2014-2015	The effects of mindfulness and compassion training on fine motoric abilities and psychological factors of basic school children
Hila Shalit	2014-2016	Effects of therapeutic horse riding on attentional functions and social understanding in ADHD children
Carmit Naim	2014-2017	Emotional effects of mindfulness practice among students with ADHD
Tal Shahar	2014-2017	The effects of mindfulness practice among teachers on their teaching abilities, burnout and relation with their pupils
Nikol Asraf	2015-2016	The impact of mindfulness parenting practice on parent-child relations and parents' feelings toward their children among parents with learning disabilities/ADHD
Deby Salzer	2016-2018	The Authenticity of a Smile: Can it serve as a diagnostic tool to mirror social anxiety level? A facial EMG study in healthy individuals
Katia Povzner	2017-2018	Mindfulness practice among teenagers with learning disabilities
Yosi Amrani	2018-2019	The effects of mindfulness practice on working memory, sustained attention, self-control and motor abilities among teenagers with learning disabilities

 

הנחיית סטודנטים לעבודות דוקטורט

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Gana Khaliffo	2014-2020	A call to care: Mindfulness and compassion training among Arab teachers
Roni Nisim	2014-2020	Assessment of resilience factors among combat soldiers with learning disabilities that help them fulfill their potential
Anat Atiya Malki	2015-	The impact of mindfulness practice on attention, memory, anxiety, behavior problems and resilience in preschool children who are at high risk of exposure to terrorism
Orit Shelach	2015-2020	The effect of mindfulness practice on math achievements among elementary school pupils with learning disabilities
Ranit Gabrieli	2015-2021	The impact of mindfulness meditation practice on emotion, cognition and achievements among ADHD students
Tomer Gutman	2017-	Mindfulness training among adolescent competitive athletes

 

 

תחומי מחקר: חקר המח, התמודדות עם לחץ השפעת מדיטציה על סביבה לימודית, חקר המח ובחינת ההשפעות של התערבויות חינוכיות

 

תחומי הוראה: מתודולוגיה מחקרית, סטטיסטיקה, מדיטציה בחינוך, מח וחינוך         

Original articles

Published

 

1. Myslobodsky, M. S., Mintz, M., Tarrasch, R., & Bar-Ziv, J. (1991). A steroid derivative (RU 5135) exhibits epileptogenicity in the presence of deficient blood-brain barrier. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 38(2), 327-331.
2. Kofman, O., Tarrasch, R., Mintz, M., & Myslobodsky, M. S. (1992). Epileptogenic activity in the amygdala is not affected by the amidine steroid, R 5135. Brain Research Bulletin, 29(3-4), 511-514.
3. Weiner, I., Kidron, R., Tarrasch, R., Arnt, J., & Feldon, J. (1994). The effects of the new antipsychotic, sertindole, on latent inhibition in rats. Behavioral Pharmacology, 5(2), 119-124.
4. Weiner, I., Tarrasch, R., Hasson, O., Forian, R., Smith, A. D., Rawlins, J. N. & Feldon, J. (1994). The effects of chronic administration of ceronapril on the partial reinforcement extinction effect and latent inhibition in rats. Behavioral Pharmacology, 5(3), 306-314.
5. Gray, J. A., Joseph, M. H., Hemsley, D. R., Young, A. M. J., Warburton, E. A., Boulenguez, P., Grigoryan, G. A., Peters, S. L., Rawlins, J. N. P., Taib, C. T., Yee, B. K., Cassaday, H., Weiner, I., Gal, G., Gusak, O., Joel, D., Shadach, E., Shalev, U., Tarrasch, R., & Feldon, J. (1995). The role of mesolimbic domapinergic and retrohippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens in latent inhibition: implications for schizophrenia. Behavioral Brain Research, 71, 19-31.
6. Weiner, I., Tarrasch, R., & Feldon, J. (1995). Basolateral amygdala lesions do not disrupt latent inhibition. Behavioral Brain Research, 72(1-2), 73-81.
7. Weiner, I., Shadach, E., Tarrasch, R., Kidron, R., & Feldon, J. (1996). The latent inhibition model of schizophrenia: further validation using the atypical neuroleptic, clozapine. Biological Psychiatry, 40(9), 834-843.
8. Joel, D., Tarrasch, R., Feldon, J., & Weiner, I. (1997). Effects of electrolytic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex or its subfields on 4-arm baited, 8-arm radial maze, two-way active avoidance and conditioned fear tasks in the rat. Brain Research, 765(1), 37-50.
9. Rabinowitz, J., Cohen, H., Tarrasch, R., & Kotler, M. (1997). Compliance to naltrexone treatment after ultra-rapid opiate detoxification: an open label naturalistic study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 47(2), 77-86.
10. Terlo, L., Laudon, M., Tarrasch, R., Schatz, T., Caine, Y. G., & Zisapel, N. (1997). Effects of low doses of melatonin on late afternoon napping and mood. Biological Rhythm Research, 28, 2-15.
11. Weiner, I., Tarrasch, R., Bernasconi, E., Broersen, L. M., Ruttimann, T. C., & Feldon, J. (1997). Amphetamine-induced disruption of latent inhibition is not reinforcer-mediated. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 56(4), 817-826.
12. Zizapel, N., Tarrasch, R., & Laudon, M. (1997). Effect of fast- and controlled-release melatonin formulations on daytime sleep and mood. Pineal Update, 26, 355-360.
13. Joel, D., Ayalon, L., Tarrasch, R., Veenman, L., Feldon, J., & Weiner, I. (1998). Electrolytic lesion of globus pallidus ameliorates the behavioral and neurodegenerative effects of quinolinic acid lesion of the striatum: a potential novel treatment in a rat model of Huntington's disease. Brain Research, 787(1), 143-148.
14. Weiner, I., Feldon, J., Tarrasch, R., Hairston, I., & Joel, D. (1998). Fimbria-fornix cut affects spontaneous activity, two-way avoidance and delayed non matching to sample, but not latent inhibition. Behavioral Brain Research, 96(1-2), 59-70.
15. Stein, D, Luria, O., Tarrasch, R., Yoeli, N, Glick, D., Elizur, A., Weizman, A. (1999) Partial eating disorders in newly drafted female recruits in Israel. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2: 107-115.
16. Slone, M., Tarrasch, R., & Hallis, D. (2000). Ethnic stereotypes attitudes among Israeli children: two intervention programs. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 46, 370-389.
17. Shamir, E., Barak, Y., Shalman, I., Laudon, M., Zisapel, N., Tarrasch, R., Elizur, A. & Weizman, R. (2001). Melatonin treatment for tardive dyskinesia: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 58(11), 1049-1052.
18. Joel, D., Ayalon, L., Tarrasch, R., & Weiner, I. (2003). Deficits induced by quinolinic acid lesion to the striatum in a position discrimination and reversal task are ameliorated by permanent and temporary lesion to the globus pallidus: a potential novel treatment in a rat model of Huntington's disease. Movement Disorders, 18(12), 1499-1507.
19. Tarrasch, R., Laudon, M., & Zisapel, N. (2003). Cross-cultural validation of the Leeds sleep evaluation questionnaire (LSEQ) in insomnia patients. Human Psychopharmacology, 18(8), 603-610.
20. Tarrasch, R., Goelman, G., Joel, D., & Weiner, I. (2005). Long-term functional consequences of quinolinic acid striatal lesions and their alteration following an addition of a globus pallidus lesion assessed using pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging. Experimental Neurology, 196(2), 244-253.
21. Zisapel, N., Tarrasch, R., & Laudon, M. (2005). The relationship between melatonin and cortisol rhythms: clinical implications of melatonin therapy. Drug Development Research, 65(3), 119-125.
22. Stein, D., Luria, O., Tarrasch, R., Goldstein, L., Raviv, G., Weizman, A., & Schwarz, Y. (2006). Factors associated with self-evaluated severity of illness and quality of life in male Israeli asthmatic soldiers. Quality of Life Research, 15(5), 915-924.
23. Ben Bashat, D., Kronfeld-Duenias, V., Zachor, D. A., Ekstein, P. M., Hendler, T., Tarrasch, R., Even, A.,  Levy , Y. & Ben Sira, L. (2007). Accelerated maturation of white matter in young children with autism: a high b value DWI study. Neuroimage, 37(1), 40-47.
24. Lurie, O., Zadik, Y., Einy, S., Tarrasch, R., Raviv, G., & Goldstein, L. (2007). Bruxism in military pilots and non-pilots: tooth wear and psychological stress. Aviation Space and Environmental Medicince, 78(2), 137-139.
25. Schwarz, Y., Greif, J., Lurie, O., Tarrasch, R., & Weinbroum, A. A. (2007). Dextromethorphan premedication reduces midazolam requirement: objective and subjective parameters in peribronchoscopy. Respiration, 74(3), 314-319.
26. Tarrasch, R., Lurie, O., Yanovich, R., & Moran, D. (2011). Psychological aspects of the integration of women in combat roles. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 305-309.
27. Weinstein, M., Ben-Sira, L., Levy, Y., Zachor, D. A., Ben Itzhak, E., Artzi, M., Tarrasch, R., Eksteine, P. M., Hendler, T. & Ben Bashat, D. (2011). Abnormal white matter integrity in young children with autism. Human Brain Mapping, 32(4), 534-543.
28. Ben Bashat, D., Artzi, M., Tarrasch, R., Nefussy, B., Zachor, T., Drory & V. E., Aizenstein, O. (2011). A potential tool for the diagnosis of ALS based on diffusion tensor imaging. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 12(6):398-405.
29. Sasson, E, Doniger G. M., Pasternak, O., Tarrasch, R. & Assaf, Y. (2012) Structural correlates of cognitive domains in normal aging with diffusion tensor imaging. Brain Structure and Function, 217(2), 503-515.
30. Zadik, Y., Levin, L., Bechor, R., Shmuly, T., Sandler, V. & Tarrasch, R. (2012) Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis: Stress, Trait Anger and Anxiety of Patients. Journal of the California Dental Association 40(11): 879-883.
31. Sasson, E, Doniger, G. M., Pasternak, O, Tarrasch, R. & Assaf, Y. (2013) White matter correlates of cognitive domains in normal aging with diffusion tensor imaging. Frontiers in Neuroscience 7: 1-13.
32. Slone, M., Meir, Y. & Tarrasch, R. (2013) Individual differences in referral for help for severe emotional difficulties in adolescence .Children and Youth Services Review 35:1854-1861.
33. Shamir, E. Z., Cassan, S, M., Levy, A., Lifshitz, T. & Tarrasch, R. (2013)  Biometric Parameters of the Hand as an Index of Schizophrenia-A Preliminary Study. Psychiatry Research 210 (3):716-720.
34. Vaisvaser, Sh., Lin, T., Admon, R., Podlipsky, I., Greenman, Y., Stern, N., Fruchter, E., Wald, I., Pine, D., 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 7(313): 1-11.
35. Joel, D., Tarrasch, R., Berman, Z., Mukamel, M. & Ziv, E. (2014) Queering gender: studying gender identity in the normative population.  Psychology and Sexuality 5(4): 291-321. doi: 10.1080/19419899.2013.830640.
36. Levit Binnun, N. & Tarrasch, R. (2014) Relation between contemplative exercises and an enriched psychology students’ experience in a neuroscience course. Frontiers in Psychology 5: article 1296. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01296.
37. Landau, C.,  Lev-Ari, S., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Tillinger, E., Geva, R, Tarrasch, R., Mitnik, I & Friedman, E. (2014) Randomized Controlled Trial of "The Work" Meditation-Based Intervention for BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers. Psycho-Oncology 24: 726-731. doi: 10.1002/pon.3703.
38. Tarrasch, R. (2015) Mindfulness Meditation Training for Graduate Students in Educational Counseling and Special Education A Qualitative Analysis. Journal of Child and Family Studies 24(5):1322-1333.
39. Levy, A., Shamir, E. Z. Cassan, S. M.,Lifshitz, D., Shefler, G. & Tarrasch, R. (2015) Do biometric parameters of the hand differentiate schizophrenia from other psychiatric disorders? A comparative evaluation using three mental health modules. Psychiatry Research 228(3): 425-430. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.06.020.
40. Marom, A. & Tarrasch, R. (2015) On Behalf of Tradition. Clinical Anatomy 28(8):980-984. doi: 10.1002/ca.22621.
41. Zaidman-Zait, A., Most, T., Tarrasch, R., Haddad-eid, E., Brand, D. (2015) The Impact of childhood hearing loss on the family: Mothers and fathers stress and coping resources. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. doi: 10.1093/deafed/env038.
42. Tarrasch, R., Berman, Z., Friedman, N. (2016) Mindful Reading: Mindfulness meditationhelps keep readers with dyslexia or ADHD on the lexical track. Frontiers in Psychology 7:578. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00578.
43. Artzi, M., Shiran, S., Weinstein, M., Myers, V., Tarrasch, R., Schertz. M., Fattal-Valevski, A., Miller, E., Gordon, A., Greeen, D. & Ben Bashat, D. (2016) Cortical Reorganization Following Injury Early in Life. Neural Plasticity. doi: 10.1155/2016/8615872.
44. Sharon, H., Maron-Katz, ,A., Ben Simon, E., Flusser, Y., Hendler, T., Tarrasch, R. & Brill, S. (2016) Mindfulness Meditation Modulates Pain through Endogenous Opiods. The American Journal of Medicine. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.03.002.
45. Sauer, C., Sheppes, G., Lackner, H. K., Arens, E., Tarrasch, R. & Barnow, S. (2016) Emotion regulation choice in female patients with borderline personality disorder: findings from self-reports and experimental measures. Psychiatry Research. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.04.113.
46. Vaisvaser, S., Modai, S., Farberov, L., Lin, T., Sharon, H., Gilam, A., Volkv, N., Admon, R., Edry, L., Fruchter, E., Wald, I., Bar-Haim, Y., Tarrasch, R., Cohen, A., Shomron, N. & Hendler, T. (2016) Neuro-epigenetic indications of acute stress response in humans: the case of microRNA-29c. PLoS One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146236.
47. Oren, N., Shapira-Lichter, I., Lerner, Y., Tarrasch, R., Hendler, T., Giladi, N. & Ash, E. (2016) How Attention Modulates Encoding of Dynamic Stimuli. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00507.
48. Tarrasch, R., Margalit-Shalom, L., & Berger, R. (2017) Enhancing visual perception and motor accuracy among elementary school children through a mindfulness/compassion based program. Frontiers in Psychology 8: 281. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00281.
49. Tarrasch, R. (2017) Mindful schooling: Better attention regulation among elementary school children who practice mindfulness as part of their school policy. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 1(2): 84-95. doi: 10.1007/s41465-017-0024-5.
50. Alkoby, A., Halperin, E., Tarrasch, R. & Levit-Binnun, N. (2017) Increased Support for Political Compromise in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Following an Eight-Week Mindfulness Workshop. Mindfulness 8(5), 1345-1353. doi: 10.1007/s12671-017-0710-5.
51. Tarrasch, R., Carmel–Neiderman, N., Ben-Ami, S., Kaufman, B., Pfeffer, R., Ben-David, M. & Gamus, D. (2017) The effect of reflexology on the pain-insomnia-fatigue disturbance cluster of breast cancer patients during adjuvant radiation therapy. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. doi: 10.1089/acm.2017.0023
52. Oren, N., Ash, E., Tarrasch, R., Hendler, T., Giladi, N., Shapira-Lichter, I., (2017) Neural patterns underlying the effect of negative distractors on working memory in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging 53: 93-102. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.01.020.
53. Oren, N., Shapira-Lichter, I, Lerner, Y., Tarrasch, R., Hendler, T., Giladi, N. & Ash, E. L. (2017) Schema benefit vs. proactive interference: contradicting behavioral outcomes and coexisting neural patterns. NeuroImage 158:271-281 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.07.006
54. Domany, Y., Levy, A., Cassan, S. M., Tarrasch, R., Lifshitz, T., Schreiber, S. & Shamir, E. Y. (2017) Clinical Utility of Biomarkers of the Hand in the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research 260:105-110. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.11.049
55. Link, D, Braginsky, M. B., Joskowicz, L., Ben Sira, L., Harel, S., Many, A., Tarrasch, R., Malinger, G., Artzi, M., Kapoor, C., Miller, E. & Ben Bashat, D. (2018) Automatic measurement of fetal brain development from MRI: New reference data. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy 43(2): 113-122. doi: 10.1159/000475548.
56. Zaidman-Zait, A., Most, T., Tarrasch, R. & Haddad, E. (2018) Mothers' and fathers' involvement in early intervention for deaf and hard of hearing children. Disability and Rehabilitation 40: 1301-1309. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2017.1297491.
57. Tarrasch, R. (2018) The effects of mindfulness practice on attentional functions among primary school children. Journal of Child and Family Studies 27(8): 2632-2642. doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1073-9
58. Berger, R., Brenick, A. & Tarrasch, R. (2018) Reducing Israeli-Jewish pupils’ outgroup prejudice with a mindfulness and compassion-based social-emotional program. Mindfulness 9: 1768-1779. doi: 10.1007/s12671-018-0919-y
59. Tarrasch, R. (2019) Mindfulness for education students: Addressing welfare as part of the professional training. Educational Studies 45: 372-389. doi: 10.1080/03055698.2018.1446337
60. Domany, Y.,  Bleich-Cohen, Tarrasch, R.M., Mei-Dan, R., Litvak-Lazar, O., Stoppleman, N.,Schreiber, S., Bloch, M.,Hendler, T., Sharon, H. (2019) Repeated oral ketamine for out-patient treatment of resistant depression: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry 214:20-26. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2018.196
61. Shany, O., Singer, N., Gold, B. P., Jacoby, N., Tarrasch, R., Hendler, T. & Granot, R. Y. (2019) Surprise-related activation in the nucleus accumbens interacts with music-induced pleasantness, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 459-470. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsz019
62. Berman, Z., Assaf, Y., Tarrasch, R., Joel, D. (2020) Macro- and microstructural gray matter alterations in sexually assaulted women. Journal of Affective Disorders 262: 196-204. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.10.024
63. Tarrasch, R., Berger, R. & Grossman, D. (2020) Mindfulness and compassion as key factors in improving teacher's well being. Mindfulness  11(4): 1049-1061. doi: 10.1007/s12671-020-01304-x
64. Gabriely, R., Tarrasch, R., Velicki, M., Ovadia-Blechman, Z. (2020) The influence of mindfulness meditation on emotion and physiological variables of students with learning disabilities and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities 100:103630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103630.
65. Ben Bashat, D., Link-Sournai, D., Many, A., Ben Sira, L., Tarrasch, R., Bak, S., Gordon, Z., Yagel, S. & Harel, S. (2020) Placental vascular tree characterization based on ex-vivo MRI with a potential application to placental insufficiency assessment. Placenta 96: 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.placenta.2020.05.001
66. Gonda, S., Tarrasch, R. & Ben Shalom, D. (2020) The functional significance of the P600: Some linguistic P600's do localize to language areas. Medicine 99(46): p e23116. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000023116
67. Fuhrman, O., Ackerling, A., Friedmann, N., Tarrasch, R., Raz, G. (2020) The moving learner: Object manipulation in a virtual reality setting improves object name learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 2020: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12515

68. Herzog, N. D., Steinfath, T. P. &  Tarrasch, R. (2021) Critical dynamics in spontaneous resting state oscillations are associated with the attention-related P300 ERP in a go/nogo task. Frontiers in Neuroscience 15, Article 632922. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.632922

69. Ovadia-Blechmana, Z., Tarrasch, R., Velicki, M. & Chalutz Ben-Gal, H. Device-Reducing test anxiety by a device-guided breathing: A pilot study. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.678098

Submitted

1. Yaor, E., Toker, Sh., Tarrasch, R. Improve Your Focus - The Upside of Mind Wandering Before a Cognitive Task. Consciousness and Cognition.
2. Tarrasch, R. & Berger, R. Comparing direct and indirect effects of mindfulness and compassion practice among schoolchildren on inter and intra-personal abilities. Mindfulness
3. Khalifa, G. & Tarrasch, R.  The influence of teacher-guided mindfulness practice on inter and intra-personal abilities among Israeli Arab students. Journal of Teacher Education.

Chapters in books

1. Zisapel, N., Tarrasch, R., & Laudon, M. (2005). A comparison of visual analog scale and categorical ratings in capturing the patient's view on change in sleep quality. In M. Lader, D. P. Cardinali, & S. R. Pandi-Perumal (Eds.), Sleep and sleep disorders: A neuropsychopharmacological approach (vol.1 & II). Georgetown, Texas: Landes Bioscience.
2. Tarrasch, R. (2018). Mndfulness, Science and the Brain (in Hebrew). In M. Lieblich (Ed.), Mindfulness here and now: Practice, theory and application, Moshav Ben-Shemen, Israel: Keter.
3. Tarrasch, R. (2020). Multitasking as a collective attention deficit disorder (in Hebrew). In M. Lieblich (Ed.), Mindfulness paths: Width of practice in everyday life, Moshav Ben-Shemen, Israel: Keter.
4. Ergas, O., Albalda, N., Tarrasch, R., Berkovich-Ohana and A., Levit Binnun, N. (2022). Neuropedagogical aspects of mindfulness and social-emotional learning among teachers (in Hebrew). In O. Ergas and Avisar A. (Eds.), Mindfulness and social-emotional learning in teacher  education, Mofet Institute.
5. Tarrasch, R., Peleg, N., Shelach-Inbar, O. and Ergas, O. (2022). Mindfulness and social-emotional learning in science education: Contemplational pedagogy in 4th and 5th grades (in Hebrew). In O. Ergas and Avisar A. (Eds.), Mindfulness and social-emotional learning in teacher  education, Mofet Institute.

Papers presented at scientific meetings published as proceedings

1. Tarrasch, R., Joel, D., Weiner, I., & Goelman, G. (2000a). Long-term assessment of striatal lesion in rats using several MRI protocols. Paper presented at the The 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Paris, France.
2. Tarrasch, R., Joel, D., Weiner, I., & Goelman, G. (2000b). Pharmacologic MRI following systemic administration of kainic acid or amphetamine in intact and striatal-lesioned rats. Paper presented at the The 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Paris, France.
3. Tarrasch, R. (2010). From theory to practice: The development and application of a music classification and content personalization hybrid system . The 11^th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
4. Tarrasch, R. (2015) Training teachers and pupils with mindfulness, social emotional learning and caring tools. Tenth International Summer School on Mind, Brain and Education. The teaching brain: Training teachers and pupils with mindfulness, social emotional learning and caring tools, Erice, Italy.
5. Tarrasch, R. (2015)  Mindfulness: Research and applications in education. The 8th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality: Mindfuness applictaions in education, Haifa University, Israel.
6. Zuckerman, O., Gal-Oz, A., Peretz, O., Weisberg, O., Tarrasch, R. (2015) Leveraging Mobile Technology to Engage College Students in Scientific Research. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services: 470-477.
7. Tarrasch, R., Friedman, N. (2016)  Mindful reading: Mindfulness meditation positively affects reading, attention and psychological domains among dyslexic adults. Annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Jerusalem, Israel.
8. Tarrasch, R., Alkoby, A., Halperin, E., Levit Binnun, N. (2016) Mindfulness in the context of intractable intergroup conflicts - Can mindfulness practice help overcome barriers to conflict resolution? International Symposium for Contemplative Studies, San Diego, CA, USA.
9. Tarrasch, R., Herzog, N., Strihan, G. (2018) Mindfulness practice effects on alpha-band long-range temporal correlations among adults with attentional deficits The 5th Israeli Conference on Cognition Research, Acre, Israel.
10. Tarrasch, R. (2018) Research advances in mindfulness and education in Israel and abroad. Contemplative Pedagogy, Mofet Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel.
11. Tarrasch, R., Berger, R. (2018) Improving Children’s Welfare by Direct and Indirect Practice of Mindfulness and Care. International Symposium for Contemplative Studies, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
12. Tarrasch, R. (2019) Training children or their teachers? Comparing the effects of different approaches for implementing mindfulness and care among schoolchildren. International conference on mindfulness, Auckland, New Zealand

 

Abstracts

1. Tarrasch, R., Weiner, I., Rawlins, J. N. P., & Feldon, J. (1992). Disruption of latent inhibition by interrupting the subicular input to nucleus accumbens and its antagonism by haloperidol. J Psychopharmacol, 6, 11.
2. Terlo, L., Laudon, M., Tarrasch, R., Caine, Y. G., & Zisapel, N. (1995). Effects of short and long acting melatonin formulations on daytime sleep and mood. Sleep Research, 24A, 546.
3. Terlo, L., Laudon, M., Tarrasch, R., Schatz, T., Caine, Y. G., & Zisapel, N. (1995). Effects of low doses of melatonin on sleep and mood. Sleep Research, 24A, 547.
4. Tarrasch, R., Joel, D., Feldon, J., & Weiner, I. (1997). Electrolytic lesion of the globus pallidus reduces the neurodegenerative effects of quinolinic acid lesion of the striatum in the rat. Neurosci Lett Supp, 48, S49.
5. Joel, D., & Tarrasch, R. (2010). The risk of a wrong conclusion: on testosterone and gender differences in risk aversion and career choices. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107(5), E19; author reply E20.
6. Joel, D., & Tarrasch, R. (2014). On the mis-presentation and misinterpretation of gender-related data: The case of Verma's human connectome study. PNAS 111(6):E637 in press. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1323319111.