Talma Hendler (Hebrew: תלמה הנדלר; born July 9, 1955) is an Israeli psychiatrist and neuroscience researcher who specializes in functional brain imaging, specifically understanding human emotional responses to stressful events.
[5] She then joined the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and founded the human neuroimaging research facility in Israel, the Sagol Brain Institute.
[8] She leads a research group specializing in the study of emotional and perceptual processing in healthy and pathological brains.
[9] The team 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.