I’m a PhD student in the lab, under the supervision of Prof. Noa Vilchinsky.
Im currently investigating psycho-physiological co-regulation processes among cardiac patients and their spouses, trying to understand how biological synchrony might affect rehabilitation outcomes.
I’m also a rehabilitation psychologist and a neuropsychologist who treats children and adults in my private clinic in Tel-Aviv.
I also work at “Bait Echad” an ASD center that provides evidence-based diagnosis and intervention services to children, adolescents, adults, and their families, in Tel-Aviv.
during interpersonal interactions lead to health behaviors and outcomes. The current study will, therefore, examine to what extent the different expressions of a dyadic synchrony (physiological, behavioral), as measured in the lab, contribute to future cardiac patients’ emotional, behavioral and physical outcomes. In this longitudinal study, we will observe 100 patients who have recently gone through acute cardiac syndrome, during structured interpersonal interaction tasks in the lab with their partners, while simultaneously recording both members’ interactive behaviors and physiological arousal. We will calculate behavioral synchrony and physiological synchrony as assessed by the following measures of the autonomic nervous system (ANS): Heart Rate Variability, Cardiac Impedance and Galvanic Skin Response. We hypothesize that higher levels of behavioral synchrony and physiological synchrony, will be associated with patients' recovery outcomes three months later, on three dimensions: emotional (anxiety and depression reduction); behavioral (smoking cessation, medication adherence, cardiac rehabilitation participation) and physical (weight reduction, increased fitness)