Ph.D., Yulia Golland

Dr. Yulia Golland is a neuroscientist and director of the Interpersonal Neurobiology Lab at the Dina Recanati School of Medicine and the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology at Reichman University. Her research explores how physiological systems of arousal and regulation function in real-world social contexts, with the long-term goal of identifying the mechanisms that support adaptation and flourishing under challenge, uncertainty, and change.

Yulia's lab specializes in naturalistic paradigms which enable a neurobiological study of complex human behavior in controlled yet real-life like
settings. Using multimodal measures such as autonomic activity, facial expressions, hormonal processes, and subjective experience, the lab investigates how people respond in social and clinical contexts. Core topics of this research include mechanisms of social interaction, interpersonal synchrony, and adaptive stress.

In recent years, the lab’s research has expanded into clinical domains, as part of a broader effort to translate mechanistic insights from healthy populations into clinically meaningful applications. One example is an ongoing collaboration with HaEmek Medical Center on the physiological processes underlying MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.

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