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(JTA) — Yehuda Ben-Yishay, a psychologist whose experience treating Israeli soldiers after the Yom Kippur War led to pioneering therapy for traumatic brain injuries, has died. Ben-Yishay, the founder and retired director of New York University’s Rusk Holistic Day Program, died March 24 at the NYU Langone Health hospital in Manhattan. He was 88. His “holistic cognitive therapy,” developed with colleague Leonard Diller, demonstrated that contrary to the scientific consensus of the time, the adult brain is malleable and memory, attention and reasoning could be relearned or st...

Israeli-born therapist demonstrated that because adult brain is malleable, attention and reasoning can be strengthened after injury; first tested treatment on IDF veterans

Yehuda Ben-Yishay, Pioneer in Treating Brain Injuries, Dies at 88 After working with wounded Israeli soldiers in the 1970s, he developed a holistic approach to helping patients regain some semblance of the life they had before. The psychologist Yehuda Ben-Yishay in an undated photo. He was able to make pioneering advances in treating traumatic brain injuries.Credit...via Ben-Yishay family April 9, 2021 Yehuda Ben-Yishay, a psychologist whose experience working with wounded Israeli soldiers led him to make pioneering advances in treating traumatic brain injuries, helping countless patients ret...