As the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on psychological well-being unfolds, few studies have focused on pre-pandemic physiological predictors which could identify and treat individuals at risk.
A new Bar-Ilan University study has revealed that physiological information collected from individuals long before the onset of COVID-19 can predict mental well-being during the pandemic.
Bar-Ilan University’s acclaimed International MBA program will be opening its next class in March 2022. A few spaces are still available for the 15-month program.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to study in the heart of the Startup Nation with students from all over the world, at BIU’s IMBA – the first MBA in English in Israel.
Studies are twice a week, Monday afternoons and Friday mornings.
Bar-Ilan University's Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center is opening a new and unique international Master of Science (MSc) degree program in collaboration with the Instituto Superior Técnico from the University of Lisbon, the most important engineering school in Portugal.
Exposure to a traumatic experience can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an incapacitating disorder in susceptible persons with no reliable therapy. Particularly puzzling is understanding how transient exposure to trauma creates persistent long-term suffering from PTSD and why some people are susceptible to PTSD while others that were exposed to the same trauma remain resilient.
On August 4, 1940, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder of the Zionist Revisionist movement and a prominent Zionist leader during the British Mandate period in pre-State Israel, passed away. Dr. Yitzhak Conforti, of BIU’s Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, writes about the leader who was not only an ideologist and a politician, but also a brilliant scholar.
Bar-Ilan University was pleased to welcome Brazilian Ambassador to Israel Gerson Menandro Garcia de Freitas to campus with a Brazilian Embassy delegation.
Coins bearing the inscriptions "Herut Zion" and "LeHerut Yerushalayim" were recently discovered during an archeological survey conducted in Wadi er-Rashash in eastern Binyamin by the Institute of Archeology at Bar-Ilan University.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide suffer from peripheral nerve injuries, which often leave them with long-term disabilities. The peripheral nervous system is analogous to the circulatory system; a network of vessels that reaches all parts of the body, but instead of blood flowing through vessels, electrical signals propagate information through thin fibers called axons, which are engulfed within nerve trunks.
Can music break social barriers? On Thursday, August 5, Dr. David M. Greenberg, a Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar at Bar-Ilan University's Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences and Department of Music presented a special TEDx talk about how music can break social barriers to transform society.
Social networks among animals are critical to various aspects of their lives, including reproductive success and survival, and could even teach us more about human relationships.
