Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
Aviva Berkovich Ohana is a professor of neuroscience, at the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, in the Faculty of Education, at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is currently head of the Integrative Psychotherapy Program in the Department of Counseling and Human Development. She received her PhD in neurobiology from the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-llan University, Israel, and did her post-doctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute, Israel. Her major research interests include: the effects of various contemplative mental training, including meditation, psychedelics, lucid dreaming and channeling, on consciousness, cognition, and sense of self. Her lab utilizes a broad spectrum of neuroimaging tools, behavioral and cognitive tasks, and phenomenology, with an emphasis on neurophenomenology in collaboration with proficient contemplative practitioners.