Rachel Tomer

Summary

Affiliation: University of Haifa
Country: Israel

Publications

  1. ncbi Deficit in understanding sarcasm in patients with prefronal lesion is related to impaired empathic ability
    S G Shamay
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel
    Brain Cogn 48:558-63. 2002
  2. ncbi Dopamine asymmetry interacts with medication to affect cognition in Parkinson's disease
    Rachel Tomer
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychologia 45:357-67. 2007
  3. ncbi Incentive motivation is associated with striatal dopamine asymmetry
    Rachel Tomer
    Department of Psychology and Brain and Behavior Center, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31905, Israel
    Biol Psychol 77:98-101. 2008
  4. ncbi Attentional bias as trait: correlations with novelty seeking
    Rachel Tomer
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
    Neuropsychologia 46:2064-70. 2008
  5. ncbi Novelty seeking and harm avoidance in Parkinson's disease: effects of asymmetric dopamine deficiency
    R Tomer
    Department of Psychology and Brain and Behavior Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75:972-5. 2004
  6. ncbi Dissociation between spontaneous and reactive flexibility in early Parkinson's disease
    Rachel Tomer
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 15:106-12. 2002
  7. ncbi Progression of dementia associated with lacunar infarctions
    Judith Aharon-Peretz
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 16:71-7. 2003
  8. ncbi Impaired "affective theory of mind" is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Cogn Behav Neurol 18:55-67. 2005
  9. ncbi The neural correlates of understanding the other's distress: a positron emission tomography investigation of accurate empathy
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa 3109, Israel
    Neuroimage 27:468-72. 2005
  10. ncbi The neuroanatomical basis of understanding sarcasm and its relationship to social cognition
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychology 19:288-300. 2005

Detail Information

Publications17

  1. ncbi Deficit in understanding sarcasm in patients with prefronal lesion is related to impaired empathic ability
    S G Shamay
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel
    Brain Cogn 48:558-63. 2002
  2. ncbi Dopamine asymmetry interacts with medication to affect cognition in Parkinson's disease
    Rachel Tomer
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychologia 45:357-67. 2007
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  3. ncbi Incentive motivation is associated with striatal dopamine asymmetry
    Rachel Tomer
    Department of Psychology and Brain and Behavior Center, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31905, Israel
    Biol Psychol 77:98-101. 2008
    ..721, p=.001), suggesting that greater positive incentive motivation is associated with higher receptor availability in the left relative to the right hemisphere...
  4. ncbi Attentional bias as trait: correlations with novelty seeking
    Rachel Tomer
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
    Neuropsychologia 46:2064-70. 2008
    ..As predicted, higher scores on novelty seeking were associated with rightward attentional bias, suggesting that this bias may reflect asymmetries in dopaminergic circuits in healthy individuals...
  5. ncbi Novelty seeking and harm avoidance in Parkinson's disease: effects of asymmetric dopamine deficiency
    R Tomer
    Department of Psychology and Brain and Behavior Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75:972-5. 2004
    ..This study was designed to examine the hypothesis that different patterns of motor and neurochemical asymmetry in PD may have contributed to the conflicting results...
  6. ncbi Dissociation between spontaneous and reactive flexibility in early Parkinson's disease
    Rachel Tomer
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 15:106-12. 2002
    ..This study was designed to examine the relations between the severity of motor symptoms and impaired cognitive flexibility in Parkinson's disease...
  7. ncbi Progression of dementia associated with lacunar infarctions
    Judith Aharon-Peretz
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 16:71-7. 2003
    ..Lacunar stroke (L) is the most common stroke subtype associated with vascular dementia (VaD-L)...
  8. ncbi Impaired "affective theory of mind" is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Cogn Behav Neurol 18:55-67. 2005
    ..To examine the hypothesis that patients with ventromedial (VM) frontal lesions are impaired in the affective rather than cognitive facets of theory of mind (ToM)...
  9. ncbi The neural correlates of understanding the other's distress: a positron emission tomography investigation of accurate empathy
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa 3109, Israel
    Neuroimage 27:468-72. 2005
    ..Our results suggest that empathy consists of both affective and cognitive components and hence may involve cortices that mediate simulation of emotional processing and mental state attribution...
  10. ncbi The neuroanatomical basis of understanding sarcasm and its relationship to social cognition
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychology 19:288-300. 2005
    ..This suggests that the right frontal lobe mediates understanding of sarcasm by integrating affective processing with perspective taking...
  11. ncbi Impairment in cognitive and affective empathy in patients with brain lesions: anatomical and cognitive correlates
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:1113-27. 2004
    ..The pattern of relationships between cognitive performance and empathy suggested dissociation between the cognitive correlates of affective and cognitive empathy...
  12. ncbi Empathy deficits in Asperger syndrome: a cognitive profile
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel
    Neurocase 8:245-52. 2002
    ..These results suggest that impaired empathy in individuals with Asperger syndrome may be due to impaired integration of the cognitive and affective facets of the other person's mental state...
  13. ncbi Characterization of empathy deficits following prefrontal brain damage: the role of the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    J Cogn Neurosci 15:324-37. 2003
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  14. ncbi Spatial attention and neural asymmetry in obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Sari Maril
    Department of Psychology and Brain and Behavior Center, Haifa University, Israel
    Psychiatry Res 153:189-93. 2007
    ..Reversal of normal asymmetry was correlated with obsession severity. Findings support aberrant hemispheric balance in OCD...
  15. ncbi Cognitive performance following endarterectomy in asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis
    J Aharon-Peretz
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    Eur J Neurol 10:525-8. 2003
    ..Non-demented subjects with VRF, with or without carotid stenosis scored inferior to HC. It is concluded that carotid stenosis is not a primary cause of cognitive deterioration and CEA does not improve cognition in patients with ASCAS...
  16. ncbi Natural history of dementia associated with lacunar infarctions
    Judith Aharon-Peretz
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, PO Box 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel
    J Neurol Sci 203:53-5. 2002
    ..Lacunar stroke (VaD-L) is the most common stroke subtype associated with vascular dementia (VaD)...
  17. ncbi Behavioral differences between white matter lacunar dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a comparison on the neuropsychiatric inventory
    J Aharon-Peretz
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 11:294-8. 2000
    ..The goals of the study were to compare the behavioral changes in patients with VaD associated with ischemic white matter subcortical changes and lacunar infarctions (VaD-WSI) to those in patients with AD...