The Open university Psychobiology lab of Prof. Ravid Doron, located at the The Biotechnology Park (JBP building) in Campus Hadassah Ein-Karem, focuses on development of herbal treatments for anxiety and depression. Herbal treatments have been found to be quick and effective, without side effects that typically accompany the conventional treatments. This has been proven with behavioral models and biological tests with mice to be effective.
In addition, the lab also studies the effects of cannabis on memory at different ages and treatments for neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's Disease.
Further projects involve investigating the role of the neurotrophic system in development, Alzheimer's Disease and stress, across the lifespan, with special emphasis on sex-differences.