From Neuron to Human Being

Prof. Itai Berger (MD) – is a specialist in Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology, and Child Development.

Prof. Berger Serves as the Head of Pediatric Neurology at Assuta-Ashdod University Hospital, Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. He is also an Associate Professor (adjunct) at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His primary clinical and research interests involve:

• Early brain development.

• The factors affecting brain development are both genetic and environmental.

• The impact on long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes with a particular focus on cognitive (higher) functions and the prenatal (in-utero) environment.

Dr. Irith Barzel-Raveh is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and supervisor in Psychotherapy. She is the Founder and Chairwoman of the Israeli Neuropsychoanalytic Society, and a founder member and a Board member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She coordinated the course “Normalcy in Infancy” at the Tel Aviv University Medical School. She taught Infant Observation in collaboration with Tavistock to a range of professionals from multiple disciplines. She was a head clinical psychologist of the Neuropediatric infant development center for the Tel-Aviv area and was head of 26 well-baby transdisciplinary clinics. She is a specialist in Professor Heinz Prechtel’s method of functional assessment of fetus General Movement (functional assessment of the brain). She is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics at Bar-Ilan University, where she is working on her dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Aner Govrin and Professor Mark Solms. She also works at her private clinic.