Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Levin is a senior physician in the Department of Neurology leading the clinical service and the research lab in the fMRI unit at the Hadassah Ein Kerem university hospital. Dr. Levin graduated from the Hebrew University Medical School and specialized in Neurology. In addition, Dr. Levin holds a PhD from the Department of Neurobiology of the Hebrew University (2003-2007). Her doctorate work dealt with brain reorganization following peripheral damages to the visual system. After completing her doctorate, Dr. Levin did her post-doctorate at the Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA (2007-2009), where she specialized in novel functional imaging methods. Dr. Levin is a member of the Israel Neurological Association, the American Academy of Neurology, the International MS Vision Consortium and the European Consortium (Horizon 2020) for Training the Next Generation European Visual Neuroscientists. Dr. Levin published many articles and won awards and grants. She has been recognized for excellence in research at Hadassah for 2012.  Research Interest: The fMRI unit, celebrating now 5 years of activity, aims to combine both research and clinical work in a multi-disciplinary approach combining psychophysics, electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods (http://fmri-hadassah.org/home/). The unit currently includes two researchers Dr. Noa Raz & Dr. Atira Bick and 3 PhD candidates. The main field of research in the unit is studying the changes in functional organization of the cortex following peripheral or central insults; especially in the visual system. To that end we study longitudinally, patients following an optic neuritis attack. We demonstrated a persistent motion perception deficit in these patients (Raz et al. Neurology, 2011). Electrophysiological results suggested that demyelination was probably the cause for these temporal deficits in perception (Raz et al. Annals of Neurology, 2012). In addition, we suggested a novel cortical mechanism to overcome monocular demyelination in this patient's population (Raz et al. Neurology 2013). Using DTI we could gain knowledge on the effect of this focal demyelinative damage on neighboring white matter integrity (Raz et al. MS Journal 2014). Our studies in the field resulted in a Provisional application for a patent (Computer based assessment for dynamic visual functions) and winning the National MS Society Research Grant Award (2014-2017). We are also honored to be part of the H2020 Consortium "Training the Next Generation of European Visual Neuroscientists for the benefit of innovation in health care and high-tech industry" (2015-2017). Beyond our interest in the visual system, the fMRI unit offers a clinical diagnostic service for pre-surgical evaluation (brain tumor and epileptic surgeries) as well as awareness assessment in chronic vegetative patients. We map both relevant cortical activation areas and white matter tracks integrating fMRI & DTI. This service applies state of the art paradigms and analysis methods and constantly adopts and develops new applications to answer the clinical needs. In the last year we also established a diagnostic and rehabilitation clinic for high order visual disorders. The clinical arm of the unit is also involved in various other projects. For example, collaborating with the Psychiatry Department studying PTSD patients and with the metabolic and endocrinology Department studying the effect of the menstrual cycle on the appetite. In the future, we hope to provide a unique perspective of the reorganization process as well as helpful tools in the clinical assessment and the rehabilitation process of disorders generated by neural injuries. Publications: 1. Levin N., Dumoulin SO, Dougherty RF, Wandell BA. (2010)Cortical maps and white matter tracts measured after 40 years of visual deprivation. Neuron 65(1): 21-31. 2. Raz N., Dotan S., Ben-Oliel T., Chokron S., Ben-Hur T., Levin N. (2011) Sustained motion perception deficit following optic neuritis: Behavioral and Cortical evidence. Neurology 76(24): 2119-2123. 3. Bick AS., Mayer A., Levin N. (2012) fMRI from research to clinical practice: Implementation of functional magnetic imaging in the clinical environment. J Neurol Sci. 15; 312(1-2):158-65. 4. Raz N., Dotan S., Chokron S., Ben-Hur T., Levin N. (2012) Demyelination affects temporal aspects of perception: an optic neuritis study. Ann Neurol; 71(4):531-8. 5. Raz N., Chokron S., Ben-Hur T., Levin N. (2013) Temporal reorganization to overcome monocular demyelination. Neurology. 81(8):702-729. 6. Bick AS., Leker RR., Ben-Hur T., Levin N.( 2013) Implementing novel imaging methods for improved diagnosis of disorder of consciousness patients. J Neurol Sci. 15; 334 (1-2):130-138. 7. Raz N., Hallak M., Ben-Hur T., Levin N. (2014) Dynamic visual tests to quantify demyelination and remyelination in the central nervous system. JOVE. 14;(86). 8. Raz N. & Levin N.(2014) Cortical and white matter mapping in the visual system- more than meets the eye: on the importance of functional imaging to understand visual system pathologies. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 27; 8:68. 9. Raz N., Bick AS., Ben-Hur T., Levin N. (2014). Focal demyelinative damage and neighboring white matter integrity: an optic neuritis study. MS Journal.