Publications by authors named "Lior Solomon"

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  • COVID-19 caused two nationwide lockdowns in Israel, significantly impacting medical services within the Israel Defense Force (IDF) by reducing both patient visits and the number of services available.
  • An analysis revealed a consistent 27-30% drop in primary care encounters, with emergency department referrals declining by 50-54% during lockdowns, while specialist services and elective surgeries decreased and then rebounded during the second lockdown.
  • The study recommends maintaining telehealth initiatives for future lockdowns and implementing a flexible sick leave policy to decrease unnecessary hospital visits and reduce infection risks.
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. The goal of this study is to decode the electrical activity of single neurons in the human subthalamic nucleus (STN) to infer the speech features that a person articulated, heard or imagined. We also aim to evaluate the amount of subthalamic neurons required for high accuracy decoding suitable for real-life speech brain-machine interfaces (BMI).

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