Talma Hendler

Talma Hendler
תלמה הנדלר
Born	(1955-07-09) July 9, 1955
Education	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) Tel Aviv University Stony Brook University (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Professor Director
Known for	Contributions to the field of functional brain imaging.
Title	Psychiatrist and neuroscience researcher.
Spouse	Yehuda Judd Ne'eman
Children	2

Talma Hendler (Hebrew: תלמה הנדלר; born July 9, 1955) is an Israeli psychiatrist and neuroscience researcher whose work specializes in functional brain imaging and understanding human emotional responses to stressful events.

Hendler is the director of the Center for Brain Functions at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. She is a professor at Tel Aviv University, affiliated with the School of Psychological Science, the departments of physiology, pharmacology, and psychiatry within the Faculty of Medicine, and the Sagol School of Neuroscience. She is also the founding director of the Sagol Brain Institute in Tel Aviv.

Biography

Hendler received a bachelor's degree in biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979. She earned a medical degree from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in psychobiology from Stony Brook University in New York State. After returning to Israel, she completed her psychiatry residency at Sheba Medical Center. She subsequently joined the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, where she founded the Sagol Brain Institute, described as Israel's first human neuroimaging research facility.

Hendler joined the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University as a senior faculty member in 2005.

Hendler was married to cinematographer Judd Ne'eman until his death on September 26, 2021. They have two daughters, Liba and Renana.

Research

Hendler's research primarily utilizes brain imaging to characterize vulnerability or resistance to psychiatric disorders. She leads a research group specializing in the study of emotional and perceptual processing in healthy and pathological brains. Her team has studied brain responses in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients exposed to emotionally charged images, such as battlefield scenes. They found that even when images were too blurry for patients to recognize on a conscious level, the visual cortex still showed strong responses to them.