The Laboratory for Learning & Memory

The Laboratory For Learning & Memory

Prof. Irit Akirav

School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa

About the Laboratory for Learning & Memory

We study the neural mechanisms underlying the impact of cannabinoids on animal models for psychiatric disorders.

By employing multidisciplinary approaches which include behavioral, pharmacological, electrophysiological, and molecular techniques we study the processes underlying the role of cannabinoids in modulating normal and abnormal memory and plasticity in rat models.

Currently, we are focused on studying the therapeutic potential of cannabinoids in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, sporadic Alzheimer and other stress-related disorders.

Our Lab Latest News

Congratulations to Shira Roni and Tal for receiving the Second-Year Master’s Excellence Award from the Graduate Studies Authority and Bloom School !
Good luck, Uri, with starting your postdoctoral position at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA !
Congratulations to Anna on winning the honors scholarship from the School of Psychological Sciences in memory of Drs. Galit Armon and Ainat Peinsky 2024
Congratulations to Haroon for winning an honors scholarship for year 2 of the master's degree 2023
Congratulations to Shira Roni for winning the outstanding poster award (4th place) at The Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting 2023
Congratulations to Anna for winning the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGSA) travel award for the 24th Annual Genes, Brain and Behavior Meeting (Galway, Ireland) 2023
Congratulations to Uri and Anna for winning the Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry (ISBP) travel grant for the annual meeting in Kfar Blum 2023
Congratulations to Anna for receiving The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center (IBBRC) personal research grant 2022

Congratulations to Haroon for winning the Rhodes Scholarship, an international scholarship for advanced studies at the University of Oxford 2022

Congratulations to Brenda for winning a travel scholarship from FENS Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Forum 2022 Paris
Congratulations to Shira Roni for winning a master's degree scholarship (2022) from the Haifa Brain and Behavior Hub
Congratulations to Tomer for winning the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award at the Jubilee Conference of the Department of Psychology!
Congratulations to Anna for winning the Rector's Award for an outstanding M.A. thesis !
Congratulations to Brenda for winning the outstanding poster award (second place) at the The Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting 2022
Congratulations to Anna for winning the outstanding poster award (second place) at the The Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting 2021