In this paper we get the existence of nodal solutions and we will study some bifurcation properties for the following class of nonlocal problems P \(\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{lcl} -\Delta e^{-c\Delta }u+u =g(x,u), \text{ in } \mathbb {R}^N\\ \lim _{|x|\rightarrow \infty }u(x)=0,\quad \\ \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}\) where \(N\ge 3\) , \(c>0\) , \(g: \mathbb {R}^N\times \mathbb {R} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) is a \(C^1-\) function, \(\Delta \) is the euclidean Laplacian and the linear operator \(e^{-c\Delta }\) is defined by the Fourier transform on a certain Hilbert space. This class of problems arises as models in the mathematical physics literature.