Professor Noga Cohen won a research grant from Israel’s National Institute of Psychobiology for research on the subject: “How emotion regulation strategies influence the physiological reaction to food in women with bulimia nervosa.” The grant is shared with Dr. Noam Weinbach from the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa. 

Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education and the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa. Professor Cohen’s work includes the cognitive, physiological, and neural processes involved in emotion and emotion regulation. Her work employs an affective neuroscience approach that integrates behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques. Cohen received her bachelor’s degree in psychology & biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her master’s and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in the lab of Professor Avishai Henik. She also received postdoctoral training in neuroimaging at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the labs of Professor Yadin Dudai and Professor Rony Paz and in affective neuroscience at Columbia University in the lab of Professor Kevin Ochsner.