ד"ר אלקנה אודליה

פרופ' אודליה אלקנה

מדעי התנהגות תואר ראשון ושני

    ראשת המגמה לנוירופסיכולוגיה שיקומית, פסיכולוגית שיקומית מומחית ומדריכה. לאודליה תואר דוקטור בנוירופסיכולוגיה ובחקר המוח מהאוניברסיטה העברית שבירושלים. היא מרצה בכירה וחוקרת תחומים הקשורים לתפקודי חשיבה, לאבחון נוירופסיכולוגי, לפלסטיות מוחית ולרזרבות קוגניטיביות.

    פרופ' אלקנה יצרה שיתופי פעולה במחקרים קליניים עם המרכזים הרפואיים המובילים בארץ, העוסקים בפיתוח ובאיתור כלים המאבחנים ירידה קוגניטיבית באוכלוסייה המבוגרת והמשכילה, בקשר שבין גוף לנפש ובהפרעות כאב כרוני. בחלק ממחקריה המתבצעים במעבדה הנוירופסיכולוגית שהקימה באקדמית תל­־אביב-יפו היא משתפת סטודנטיות וסטודנטים שלהן ולהם תואר ראשון ושני.

    מאמריה פורסמו בכתבי עת מובילים, כמו: Cortex, Neuropsychology Review, Psychiatry Research, World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, Personality and Individual Differences.

    פרופ' אודליה אלקנה הייתה עורכת חברה בכתב העת היוקרתי (JAD) Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

    נוירופסיכולוגיה קלינית: תפקודי חשיבה, אבחון נוירופסיכולוגי, פלסטיות מוחית ורזרבות קוגניטיביות.

    נוירופסיכולוגיה קלינית, נוירופתולוגיה ואבחון נוירופסיכולוגי מקיף.

    Bajjaleh, C., Braw, Y. C., & Elkana, O. (2023). Adaptation and initial validation of the Arabic version of the Word Memory Test (WMTARB). Applied neuropsychology. Adult, 30(2), 204–213.
    Segal, O., & Elkana, O. (2023). The ventrolateral prefrontal cortex is part of the modular working memory system: A functional neuroanatomical perspective. Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 17, 1076095.
    Oryan, Z., Avinir, A., Levy, S., Kodesh, E., & Elkana, O. (2023). Risk and protective factors for psychological distress during COVID-19 in Israel. Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 42(3), 2448–2459.
    Elkana O., Louzia-Timen R., Kodesh E., Levy S., Netz Y. (2020). The effect of a single training session on cognition and mood in young adults—Is there added value of a dual-task over a single-task paradigm? International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Advance online publication.
    Margalit, I., Yelin, D., Sagi, M., Rahat, M. M., Sheena, L., Mizrahi, N., Gordin, Y., Agmon, H., Epstein, N. K., Atamna, A., Tishler, O., Daitch, V., Babich, T., Abecasis, D., Yarom, Y., Kazum, S., Shitenberg, D., Baltaxe, E., Elkana, O., Shapira-Lichter, I., … Yahav, D. (2022). Risk Factors and Multidimensional Assessment of Long Coronavirus Disease Fatigue: A Nested Case-Control Study. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 75(10), 1688–1697.
    Xi, Y., Elkana, O., Jiao, W. E., Li, D., & Tao, Z. Z. (2022). Associations between social support and anxiety during the COVID-19 lockdown in young and middle-aged Israelis: A cross-sectional study. World journal of psychiatry, 12(9), 1194–1203.
    Hacohen, M., Stolar, O. E., Berkovitch, M., Elkana, O., Kohn, E., Hazan, A., Heyman, E., Sobol, Y., Waissengreen, D., Gal, E., & Dinstein, I. (2022). Children and adolescents with ASD treated with CBD-rich cannabis exhibit significant improvements particularly in social symptoms: an open label study. Translational psychiatry, 12(1), 375.
    Elkana, O., Nimni, Y., Ablin, J. N., Shorer, R., & Aloush, V. (2022). The Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (MoCA) as a screening tool for cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia. Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 40(6), 1136–1142.
    Adar, T., Davidof, M., & Elkana, O. (2022). Social Support Mediates the Association between Attachment Style and Psychological Distress during COVID-19 in Israel. Viruses, 14(4), 693.
    Kordahji, H., Ben-David, S., & Elkana, O. (2021). Attachment Anxiety Moderates the Association Between ADHD and Psychological Distress. The Psychiatric quarterly, 92(4), 1711–1724.
    Kahana Levy, N., Segalovsky, J., Benifla, M., & Elkana, O. (2021). Quantitative Meta-Analyses: Lateralization of Memory Functions Before and After Surgery in Children with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Neuropsychology review, 31(4), 535–568.
    Dawidowicz, L., L Ash, E., Korczyn, A. D., Andelman, F., Levy, S., & Elkana, O. (2021). Can the RAVLT predict deterioration from MCI to dementia? Data from long term follow up. Experimental aging research, 47(4), 347–356.
    Aloush, V., Gurfinkel, A., Shachar, N., Ablin, J. N., & Elkana, O. (2021). Physical and mental impact of COVID-19 outbreak on fibromyalgia patients. Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 39 Suppl 130(3), 108–114.
    Elkana, O., Yaalon, C., Raev, S., Sobol, N., Ablin, J. N., Shorer, R., & Aloush, V. (2021). A modified version of the 2016 ACR fibromyalgia criteria cognitive items results in stronger correlations between subjective and objective measures of cognitive impairment. Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 39 Suppl 130(3), 66–71.
    Aloush, V., Niv, D., Ablin, J. N., Yaish, I., Elkayam, O., & Elkana, O. (2021). Good pain, bad pain: illness perception and physician attitudes towards rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia patients. Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 39 Suppl 130(3), 54–60.
    Orland, Y., Beeri, M. S., Levy, S., Israel, A., Ravona-Springer, R., Segev, S., & Elkana, O. (2021). Physical fitness mediates the association between age and cognition in healthy adults. Aging clinical and experimental research, 33(5), 1359–1366
    Elkana, O., Adelson, M., Sason, A., Doniger, G. M., & Peles, E. (2020). Improvement in Cognitive Performance after One Year of Methadone Maintenance Treatment. Psychiatry research, 294, 113526.
    Elkana, O., Soffer, S., Eisikovits, O. R., Oren, N., Bezalel, V., & Ash, E. L. (2020). WAIS Information Subtest as an indicator of crystallized cognitive abilities and brain reserve among highly educated older adults: A three-year longitudinal study. Applied neuropsychology. Adult, 27(6), 525–531.
    Conti, Y., Vatine, J. J., Levy, S., Levin Meltz, Y., Hamdan, S., & Elkana, O. (2020). Pain Catastrophizing Mediates the Association Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress in Chronic Pain Syndrome. Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain, 20(7), 714–723.
    Elkana, O., Conti, Y., Heyman, O., Hamdan, S., Franko, M., & Vatine, J. J. (2020). The associations between executive functions and different aspects of perceived pain, beyond the influence of depression, in rehabilitation setting. Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 30(7), 1303–1317.
    Elkana, O., Tal, N., Oren, N., Soffer, S., & Ash, E. L. (2020). Is the Cutoff of the MoCA too High? Longitudinal Data From Highly Educated Older Adults. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology, 33(3), 155–160.
    Oren, N., Ash, E. L., Shapira-Lichter, I., Elkana, O., Reichman-Eisikovits, O., Chomsky, L., & Lerner, Y. (2019). Changes in Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Hippocampus Following Cognitive Effort Predict Memory Decline at Older Age-A Longitudinal fMRI Study. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 11, 163.
    Elkana, O., Adelson, M., Doniger, G. M., Sason, A., & Peles, E. (2019). Cognitive function is largely intact in methadone maintenance treatment patients. The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, 20(3), 219–229.
    Elkana, O., Falcofsky, A. K., Shorer, R., Bar-On Kalfon, T., & Ablin, J. N. (2019). Does the cognitive index of the symptom severity scale evaluate cognition? Data from subjective and objective cognitive measures in fibromyalgia. Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 37 Suppl 116(1), 51–57.
    Elkana, O., Krueger Bustanai, N. Y., Louzia-Timen, R., Kodesh, E., Franco, M., and Doniger, G. M. (2018). Conscientiousness is associated with improvement in visuospatial working memory and mood following acute physical exercise: a randomized controlled trial. Pers. Individ. Differ. 132, 126–132.
    Elkana, O., Dayman, V., Franko, M., Israel, A., Springer, R. R., Segev, S., & Beeri, M. S. (2018). The association of total cholesterol with processing speed is moderated by age in mid- to late-age healthy adults. Experimental aging research, 44(2), 179–186.
    Kovatch, M., Feingold, D., Elkana, O., & Lev-Ran, S. (2017). Evaluation and comparison of tools for diagnosing problematic prescription opioid use among chronic pain patients. International journal of methods in psychiatric research, 26(4), e1542.
    Gazit, S., Elkana, O., Dawidowicz, L., Yeshayahu, L., & Biran, I. (2017). Downwards Vertical Attention Bias in Conversion Disorder vs Controls: A Pilot Study. Psychosomatics, 58(6), 633–642.
    Pustilnik, A., Elkana, O., Vatine, J. J., Franko, M., & Hamdan, S. (2017). Neuropsychological Markers of Suicidal Risk in the Context of Medical Rehabilitation. Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research, 21(2), 293–306.
    Elkana, O., Eisikovits, O. R., Oren, N., Betzale, V., Giladi, N., & Ash, E. L. (2016). Sensitivity of Neuropsychological Tests to Identify Cognitive Decline in Highly Educated Elderly Individuals: 12 Months Follow up. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 49(3), 607–616.
    Raizes, M., Elkana, O., Franko, M., Ravona Springer, R., Segev, S., & Beeri, M. S. (2016). Higher Fasting Plasma Glucose Levels, within the Normal Range, are Associated with Decreased Processing Speed in High Functioning Young Elderly. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 49(3), 589–592.
    Elkana, O., Frost, R., Kramer, U., Ben-Bashat, D., & Schweiger, A. (2013). Cerebral language reorganization in the chronic stage of recovery: a longitudinal fMRI study. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 49(1), 71–81.
    Elkana, O., Frost, R., Kramer, U., Ben-Bashat, D., Hendler, T., Schmidt, D., & Schweiger, A. (2011). Cerebral reorganization as a function of linguistic recovery in children: An fMRI study. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 47(2), 202–216.

    April 2023, Poster Presented at the 5th Conference of the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH). Ireland. “Evaluation of the emotional and cognitive effects of hormone therapy in transgender people”.

    March 2022, Paper Presented at the 20th European Congress of Internal Medicine (ECIM 2022), Malaga, Spain. “The Hun is at the gate: Emotional distress among female and male physicians on the brink of the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel”.

    March 2022, Paper Presented at the 16th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy 2022), virtually. “Does phonemic verbal fluency rely primarily on a switching strategy and semantic verbal fluency on a clustering strategy? A longitudinal study of healthy older adults”.

    November 2021, Poster (English) presented at the Annual Conference of Rehabilitation Division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA), Israel. “Is the SIMS a valid tool for the detection of PTSD malingering?”.

    November 2021, Poster (English) presented at the Annual Conference of Rehabilitation Division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA), Israel. “Does phonemic verbal fluency rely primarily on a switching strategy and semantic verbal fluency on a clustering strategy? A longitudinal study of healthy older adults”.

    November 2021, Poster (English) presented at the Annual Conference of Rehabilitation Division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA), Israel. “Does the New Subjective Measures of Cognitive Decline in Fibromyalgia Patients Evaluate Cognition? Data from Subjective and Objective Cognitive Measures”.

    November 2021, Poster (English) presented at the Annual Conference of Rehabilitation Division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA), Israel. “Risk and protective factors for psychological distress during COVID-19 in Israel”.

    November (2020), Poster (English) presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting. Zoom, “Pain in the Time of Corona: Impact of COVID 19 outbreak on fibromyalgia patients".

    November (2020), Poster (English) presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting. Zoom, “subjective and objective measures of cognitive impairment: fibromyalgia patients”.

    October (2020), Paper Presented at the 14th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy 2020). Zoom, “Can the RAVLT predict deterioration from MCI to dementia?”.

    July (2020), Poster (English) presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). Zoom, “A modified version of the 2016 ACR fibromyalgia criteria cognitive item achieves improved correlation between subjective and objective measures of cognitive impairment”.

    July (2020), Poster (English) presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). Zoom, “Does the MoCA evaluate cognition in Fibromyalgia? Data from computerized cognitive assessment versus MoCA screening test”.

    March (2020), Poster (English) presented at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. “A modified version of the 2016 ACR fibromyalgia criteria cognitive item achieves improved correlation between subjective and objective measures of cognitive impairment”.

    March (2020), Poster (English) presented at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. "Quantitative Meta-Analyses: Lateralization of Memory Functions Before and After Surgery in Children with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy".

    March (2020), Poster (English) presented at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. "Can the RAVLT predict deterioration from MCI to dementia?”

    March (2020), Poster (English) presented at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. Does the MoCA evaluate cognition in Fibromyalgia? Data from computerized cognitive assessment versus MoCA screening test".

    November )2019), Poster (English) presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting. Atlanta, IL. ” Good Pain, Bad Pain: Illness Perception and Physicians Attitude Towards Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia Patients”.

    November (2019), Poster presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. “Alexithymia – Data from Children with High Function ASD”.

    November (2019), Poster presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel.
    “Short vs Long Duration of Facial Recognition – Data from Children with High-Functioning Autism”.

    November (2019), Poster presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. “Paradoxical Response Following Hypnotic Relaxation: Conversion Disorder versus Functional Somatic Syndromes”.

    June (2019), Poster presentation (English) at the international society of gait and posture research (ISPGR) Scotland. “Specific gait measures predict cognitive decline in highly educated older adults”.

    March (2019), Poster presentation (English) at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. “A novel highly engaging method of ToM deficit assessment in high functioning ASD children, using popular cartoons. A preliminary study”.

    February (2019), Poster presentation (English) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). New York. "Gait measures predict Cognitive decline in Highly Educated Older Adults: 4-year Longitudinal Study".

    February (2019), Poster presentation (English) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). New York. "Is the Cutoff of the MoCA too high? Longitudinal Data from Highly Educated Older Healthy Adults".

    December (2018), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. "Development and Validation of an Arabic Version of the Word Memory Test (WMT)”.

    December (2018), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. "Is the Cutoff of the MoCA too high? Longitudinal Data from Highly Educated Older Healthy Adults ".

    December (2018), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual Neurological Meeting (INA). Israel. “Can the RAVLT Predict Deterioration from MCI to Dementia?

    December (2018), Paper Presented, at the Rehab Science & Technology update (RSTU). Israel. "A Randomized Trial on the Effect of Acute Physical Exercise and Cognitive Exercise Simultaneously and Separately on Cognitive Performance and Mood State".

    October (2018), Paper Presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. "Validity of the cognitive index of the symptom Severity Scale (SSS-Cog) in Assessing Cognitive Impairment in Fibromyalgia”.

    July (2018), Paper Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). Prague. "The WAIS Information Subtest as an Indicator of Crystallized Intelligence and Brain Reserve among Highly Educated Older Adults: A 3 years Longitudinal Study”.

    November (2017), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. "Openness to experience is associated with Improvement of executive function Following Acute Physical Exercise: Randomized Controlled Trial".

    November (2017), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel "The WAIS Information Subtest as an Indicator of Crystallized Intelligence and Brain Reserve among Highly Educated Older Adults: A 3 years Longitudinal Study".

    November (2017), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. "Higher Physical Fitness Level is Associated with Better Processing Speed in Highly Functioning Adults".

    November (2017), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. "Physical Activity Level mediates the Association between Age and Processing Speed in High Functioning, Mid to Late Age Healthy Adult".

    November (2017), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. "Pain Catastrophizing is mediating the Association between Trait Mindfulness and Psychological Distress in Chronic Pain Syndrome".

    May (2017), Paper Presented at the International Conference on Neuropsychology and Brain Research (ICNBR). Barcelona. "Executive Functions Directly Associated with Severity of Perceived Pain, above and beyond Depression, in the Context of Medical Rehabilitation".

    May (2017), Paper Presented at the Israeli Forum for Neuropsychoanalysis. IPA. Israel. "A Downward Spatial – Bodily – Motor Bias in Patients with Conversion Disorder (CD)".

    February (2017), Invited Lecture at the Annual Memory Conference Tel-Aviv University. EMDA – the Alzheimer's Association of Israel. "Neuropsychological Assessment- Memory Tests".

    February (2017), Poster Presentation (English) at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. "Conscientiousness Level is associated with Improvement of Visuospatial Working Memory and Positive Mood Following Acute Physical Exercise: Randomized Controlled Trial".

    February (2016), Paper Presented at the Rehab Science & Technology update (RSTU). Israel. "Higher fasting plasma glucose levels, within the normal range, are associated with decreased processing speed in high functioning young elderly".

    February (2016), Paper Presented at the Rehab Science & Technology update (RSTU). Israel. "Executive deficits associated with pain perception, beyond depression".

    February (2016), Poster Presentation (English) at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. "Neurocognitive and emotional characteristics of preterm birth: long term consequences".

    February (2016), Poster Presentation (English) at the Rehab Science & Technology update (RSTU). Israel. "Neuropsychological Markers of Suicidal Risk".

    February (2016), Poster Presentation (English) at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. "Neuropsychological Markers of Suicidal Risk".

    February (2016), Poster Presentation (English) at the Neuropsychological society, Israel. "The effect of acute physical and cognitive exercises on cognition and mood".

    December (2015), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel.
    "Sensitivity of neuropsychological tests to identify cognitive decline in highly educated elderly individuals. 12 months follow up".

    December (2015), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel. "Neurocognitive and emotional characteristics of preterm birth: long term consequences".

    December (2015), Poster Presentation (English) at the annual conference of Rehabilitation division of Israel Psychological Association (IPA). Israel.
    "The effect of acute physical and cognitive exercises on cognition and mood".

    June (2015), Invited Lecture at the 23rd Tel-Aviv University Alzheimer's disease Conference. Israel. "Higher normal blood glucose level are associated with decreased processing speed in high functioning young elderly".

    February (2009), Invited Lecture at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Speech Hearing and Language Association. Israel. “The use of fMRI to explore linguistic brain reorganization following cerebral vascular accident (CVA)”.

    June (2008), Paper Presented at the Israeli Association of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine. Israel. “Brain plasticity and recovery from aphasia”.

    February (2008), Poster Presentation (English) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), Hawaii. ” Hemispheric lateralization following recovery from childhood insult depends on age at onset: Longitudinal fMRI data.

    November (2007), Keynote Lecture at the Israeli Association of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine. Israel. “Patterns of brain language organization as a function of linguistic performance following recovery from childhood insults to the language dominant hemisphere”.

    November (2007), Paper Presented, at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association of P&RM. Israel. Pre-Congress Workshop “Brain Plasticity and Functional recovery of aphasia patients”.

    February (2007), Paper Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), Portland. “Neuroanatomical Representation of Language Recovery Following Unilateral Brain Damage in Children: Preliminary Data from fMRI and Neuropsychological Testing”.

    November (2006), Paper Presented at the Israeli Association of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine. Israel. “Reorganization of language functioning following focal brain lesions in children: Data from fMRI and neuropsychological testing”.

    October (2006), Poster Presentation (English)at the Sixth Mediterranean Congress of PRM, Portugal. (Best Poster Award) “Reorganization of language after focal lesion in children: Data from fMRI and linguistic tests”.

    February (2006), Poster Presentation (English) at the Israeli society for neuroscience (ISFN). Israel. ‘Neuroanatomical Representation of Language Recovery following focal lesion to the dominant hemisphere”.