Itamar Lerner
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I am a cognitive and computational neuroscientist. My research focuses on how the brain encodes, stores, and organizes information in memory. I approach these questions by studying unique learning states (e.g., during sleep, or in patients with psychiatric disorders) to elucidate the general underlying mechanisms involved.

My research interests include: The effects of sleep on learning; hippocampal-dependent memory and its involvement in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); the brain mechanisms behind creativity and insight; associative processes in semantic memory in healthy and schizophrenic individuals;  and language acquisition.

Please visit my lab's website at: ​lerner.sleepmemory.lab.utsa.edu
Potential Graduate students  interested in sleep and memory research are welcome to apply by email.

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Education

​Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013. Computational Neuroscience. ​  Advisors: Dr. Shlomo Bentin, Dr. Oren Shriki.
​B.S., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. Psychobiology. Magna Cum Laude​

Research Grants

2021 – 2022  SWCOEH NIH/NIOSH 5T42OH008421 (Lerner, PI) $19,947 
Investigating Objective Measures of Habitual Pre-Trauma Sleep as Potential Risk Factors for Future PTSD
 
2021 – 2021  HCaP Jump-Start Seed Grant (Lerner, PI) $4,975
The Effects of Sleep on the Formation of False Composite Memories

​2019 – 2021  NIH/NIMH 1R21MH119020-01A1 (Lerner, Co-PI; 32% share) $442,094    
 Enhancing the Efficiency of Non-REM Sleep Temporal Dynamics to Improve Insight Learning

2015 – 2019  NSF/BCS 1461009 (Lerner, Co-PI) $586,326                        
 Neurocognitive Studies of Sleep and the Generalization of Emotional Learning and Threat Detection.      
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2016 – 2018  DoD W911NF-16-C-0018 (Lerner, Co-PI)  $465,435
 IMPACTS: Improving Memory Performance by Augmenting Consolidation with Transcranial Stimulation

2012 – 2016  NSF/SHB:EXP 1231515 (as effective co-PI)  $552,307             ​            
 Long-Term Mobile Monitoring and Analysis of Sleep-Cognition Relationship.      

Contact Me

itamar.lerner@utsa.edu         
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