Menahem Segal

Menahem Segal graduated from the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, where he studied the activity of single cells in regions of the brain related to learning and memory, under the supervision of the late Dr. J. Olds. He then joined the Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, Washington, D.C.) and studied the action of noradrenaline in the brain with Dr. F.E. Bloom. Those were the early days of neuroscience as a discipline, and at the NIMH, Prof. Segal was first exposed to the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of brain research. Equipped with a host of new methodologies, Prof. Segal joined the faculty of the Weizmann Institute in 1975, and began his research into mechanisms of plasticity in the brain. At the Weizmann Institute, Prof. Segal has served as the Head of the Department of Neurobiology (1991-1994), Director of the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases (2003-2009), and Head of the Ethics committe