Senior Neurologist
Department of Neurology
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel.
Educational Background
1989-1992: Hadassah - Hebrew Univ. Medical School B. Med. Sci., Pre-clinical studies
1993-1996: M.D. degree, Hadassah-Hebrew Univ. Medical School
1998-2002: Hadassah-Hebrew Univ. Medical School, Specialist in Neurology
2003-2007: Ph.D. in Neurosciences Hebrew Univ., Dept. of Neurobiology
2007- 2009: Post-Doc Neuroimaging, Stanford University, CA
Professional Experience and Degrees
1998-2003: Neurology Residency, Dept. of Neurology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
2000: Instructor in Neurology, the Hebrew Univ., Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem
2003: Board certification in Neurology, Israel Medical Council
2007-2009: Post-doctoral fellowship, the Psychology Dept., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
2003-present: Senior Neurologist, Dept. of Neurology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
List of Publications
1. Steiner I., Steiner-Birmanns B., Levin N., Hershko K., Korn Lubetzki I., Biran I.(2001) Spinal cord involvement in uncomplicated herpes zoster. Clin Diagn Lab. Immunol. 8(4) 850-1.
2. Levin N, Karussis D. (2002) Influence of progesterone and clomiphene on Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome. Neurology. Nov 26; 59(10): 1661-2.
3. Levin N, Karussis D, Abramsky O. (2003) Parkinson's disease associated with myasthenia gravis. A report of 4 cases. J Neurol. 250(6): 766-7.
4. Levin N, Mor M, Ben-Hur T. (2003) Patterns of misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Isr Med Assoc J. 5(7): 489-90.
5. Levin N, Argov Z. (2003) Painful eye movements in aseptic meningitis. J Neurol. 250(10): 1257-8.
6. Barkana Y, Levin N, Goldhammer Y, Steiner I. (2004) Chronic intracranial hypertension with unexplained cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis. J Neuroophthalmol. 24(2): 106-8.
7. Levin N, Gomori JM, Siegal T. (2004) Chemotherapy as initial treatment in gliomatosis cerebri: Results with temozolomide. Neurology. 27; 63(2): 354-6.
8. Levin N, Ben-Hur T, Biran I, Wertman E. (2005) Category specific semantic deficit in anterior thalamic infarction. Neuropsychologia. 43(9):1385-90.
9. Levin N, Abramsky O, Lossos A, Karussis D, Siegal T, Argov Z and Ben Hur T. (2005) Extrathymic malignancies in patients with myasthenia gravis. J. Neurol. Sci. 237:39-43.
10. Levin N, Mali A., Karussis D. (2005) Severe skin reaction related to Mycophenolate mofetil for myasthenia gravis (MG): A case report. Clin Neuropharmacol. .28(3):152-153.
11. Levin N., Lavon I., Zelikovitsh B., Fucks D., Bokstein F., Fellig Y., Siegal T. (2006) Response to temozolomide and correlation between genetic profile and MGMT protein expression. Cancer. 15 (8):1759-65.
12. Levin N. Dotan S., Orlov T. Zohary E. (2006) Normal and abnormal fMRI activation patterns in the visual cortex following optic neuritis. Neuroimage. 33(4):1161-8.
13. Levin N., Soffer D., Biran I., Gomori J.M., Bocher M., Blumen S.C., Abramsky O., Segal R., Lossos A. (2008) Leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids (LENAS) presenting as frontotemporal dementia. IMAJ 10(5):386-7.
14. Levin N., Soffer D, Grissaru S Gomori J.M, Siegal T. (2008) Primary T-cell CNS lymphoma presenting with leptomeningeal spread and neurolymphomatosis. J NeurOncl. 90(1):77-83.
15. Levin N., Dumoulin SO, Dougherty RF, Wandell BA. (2010)Cortical maps and white matter tracts measured after 40 years of visual deprivation. Neuron 65(1): 21-31.
16. Raz N., Vaknin A., Chokron S., Ben-Hur T., Levin N.(2010) Cortical fMRI activation patterns following chiasmal visual defect in Neuromyelitis optica. JNNP (accepted)
17. Strak A., Miener Z., Levin N. (2010) Upper-limb motor homunculus plasticity in sub-cortical stroke is further mediated by constrained-induced movement therapy. (Under review).
18. Raz N., Dotan S., Ben-Oliel T., Chokron S., Ben-Hur T. and Levin N. (2010) Sustained visual motion deficit following optic neuritis: Behavioral, Electro-physiological and Functional neuroimaging findings. (Under review).
Chapters in book
Siegal T. Levin N. Neurologic Complications of Systemic Cancer Infectious, Metabolic, and Endocrine Complications. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd Series. In press.