Shlomit Beker, PhD

Dr. Beker is a cognitive Neuroscientist, focusing on studying physiological mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders. She gained her BSc in Psychology and Philosophy and MSc. in Cognitive Psychology from Tel Aviv University, and PhD in neurophysiology from Bar Ilan University, Israel. In her PhD work, she studied the effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology on neuronal structure and function using intracellular recordings in-vivo from an AD mouse model. Following her PhD, Dr. Beker moved to New York for her post-doctoral training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she studied altered EEG functions in children and adults with autism.
Dr. Beker has recently joined the faculty of the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai as an Assistant Professor. The study in the Beker lab will seek to identify physiological measures of altered synchronization between individuals with autism, and their physical and social environment, using EEG, behavior and measures from the body. Alongside the goal of elucidating the understanding of the latter, Dr. Beker’s long-term goal is to use these noninvasive readouts to advance biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.