Jad is postdoctoral research associate in the Kahn Lab. He earned his MD/PhD degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. As a scientist-physician he aims to gain a deeper understanding of the motor system in both health and disease states. In his doctoral research he conducted a study to examine the effects of myelin decompaction on motor behavior, structural and functional connectivity, and the impact of nitric oxide synthase inhibition on these measures. In his study he showed that myelin decompaction resulted in reduced motor coordination and reduced myelin integrity. The administration of L-NAME rescued the pathology, as measured by fMRI and DTI. Currently, he focuses on studying the motor system using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake behaving mice with novel behavioral platforms combined with causal interventions such as optogenetics and chemogenetics to better understand the dynamics of brain wide networks responsible for motor behavior.
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