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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2023

Maayan Abargil, Merav Irani, Nathalie klein Selle & ShirAtzil. Breastfeeding at Any Cost? Adverse Effects of Breastfeeding Pain on Mother–Infant Behavior. Biology.

Miada Abu Salih, MaayanAbargil, Saja Badarneh, Nathalie klein Selle, Merav Irani1 & ShirAtzil. Evidence for cultural diferences in afect during mother–infant interactions. Scientific reports.

Shir Atzil, Ajay B Satpute, Jiahe Zhang, Michael H Parrish, Holly Shablack, Jennifer K MacCormack, Joseph Leshin, Srishti Goel, Jeffrey A Brooks, Jian Kang, Yuliang Xu, Matan Cohen, Kristen A Lindquist. The impact of sociality and affective valence on brain activation: A meta-analysis. Neuroimage.

2022

Marci Lobel, Heidi Preis, Brittain Mahaffey, Nora K. Schaal, Karen Yirmiya, Shir Atzil, Inbal Reuveni, Matteo Balestrieri, Chiara Penengo, Chiara Colli, Marco Garzitto, Lorenza Driul, Michalina Ilska, Anna Brandt-Salmeri j, Anna Kołodziej-Zaleska j, Rafael A. Caparros-Gonzalez k l, Rita Amiel Castro, Pearl La Marca-Ghaemmaghami, Hannah Meyerhoff. Common model of stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in pregnant women from seven high-income Western countries at the COVID-19 pandemic onset. Social Science & Medicine.

Lior Zeevi, Merav Irani, Ciprian Catana, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil. Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Lior Zeevi*, Nathalie klein Selle*, Eva Ludmilla Kellmann, Gal Boiman, Yuval Hart & Shir Atzil. Bio-behavioral synchrony is a potential mechanism for mate selection in humans. Scientific Reports

2021

Shir Atzil and Lior Abramson. Musicality was not selected for, rather humans have a good reason to learn music. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Meshi Djerassi, Shachar Ophir, and Shir Atzil. What Is Social about Autism? The Role of Allostasis-Driven Learning. Brain Sciences.

Karen Yirmiya, Noa Yakirevich-Amir, Heidi Preis, Amit Lotan, Shir Atzil, Inbal Reuveni. Women’s depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

2019

2018

Shir Atzil, Wei Gao, Isaac Fradkin & Lisa Feldman Barrett.

Growing a social brain. Nature Human Behaviour

2017

Shir Atzil & Maria Gendron. Bio-behavioral synchrony promotes the development of conceptualized emotions. Current Opinion in Psychology.

Shir Atzil, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Tali Rudy, Stephanie Salcedo, Ruth Feldman, Jacob M Hooker, Bradford C Dickerson, Ciprian Catana, Lisa Feldman Barrett. Dopamine in the medial amygdala network mediates human bonding. PNAS.

Shir Atzil & Lisa Feldman Barrett. Social regulation of allostasis: Commentary on “Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference” by Fotopoulou and Tsakiris, Neuropsychoanalysis.

Pantelis Samartsidis, Claudia R. Eickhoff, Simon B. Eickhoff, Tor D. Wager, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Timothy D. Johnson, Thomas E. Nichols. Bayesian log-Gaussian Cox process regression with applications to fMRI meta-analysis. Royal Statistical Society.

2016

Gal Raz, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall, Gadi Gilam, Tamar Lin, Tal Gonen, Yael Jacob, Shir Atzil, Roee Admon, Maya Bleich-Cohen, Adi Maron-Katz, Talma Hendler & Lisa Feldman Barrett. Functional connectivity dynamics during film viewing reveal common networks for different emotional experiences. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.

2014

Shir Atzil, Talma Hendler, Ruth Feldman.The brain basis of social synchrony, SCAN.

2013

ENDOGENOUS-DRIVEN AFFECTIVE PROCESSING: A META-ANALYSIS

2012

Shir Atzil, Talma Hendler, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Yonatan Winetraub, Ruth Feldman . Synchrony and specificity in the maternal and the paternal brain: relations to oxytocin and vasopressin. Jaacap.

2011

Shir Atzil, Talma Hendler & Ruth Feldman .Specifying the neurobiological basis of human attachment: brain, hormones, and behavior in synchronous and intrusive mothers. Neuropsychopharmacology.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2023

2022

Lior Zeevi, Merav Irani, Ciprian Catana, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil. Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

2021

Meshi Djerassi, Shachar Ophir, and Shir Atzil. What Is Social about Autism? The Role of Allostasis-Driven Learning. Brain Sciences.

Karen Yirmiya, Noa Yakirevich-Amir, Heidi Preis, Amit Lotan, Shir Atzil, Inbal Reuveni. Women’s depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

2019

Pantelis Samartsidis, Claudia R. Eickhoff, Simon B. Eickhoff, Tor D. Wager, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Timothy D. Johnson, Thomas E. Nichols. Bayesian log‐Gaussian Cox process regression: applications to meta‐analysis of neuroimaging working memory studies. Royal Statistical Society.

2018

2017

Shir Atzil, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Tali Rudy, Stephanie Salcedo, Ruth Feldman, Jacob M Hooker, Bradford C Dickerson, Ciprian Catana, Lisa Feldman Barrett. Dopamine in the medial amygdala network mediates human bonding. PNAS.

Pantelis Samartsidis, Claudia R. Eickhoff, Simon B. Eickhoff, Tor D. Wager, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Timothy D. Johnson, Thomas E. Nichols. Bayesian log-Gaussian Cox process regression with applications to fMRI meta-analysis. Royal Statistical Society.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2023

2022

Lior Zeevi, Merav Irani, Ciprian Catana, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil. Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

2021

Meshi Djerassi, Shachar Ophir, and Shir Atzil. What Is Social about Autism? The Role of Allostasis-Driven Learning. Brain Sciences.

Karen Yirmiya, Noa Yakirevich-Amir, Heidi Preis, Amit Lotan, Shir Atzil*, Inbal Reuveni*. Women’s depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

2019

Pantelis Samartsidis, Claudia R. Eickhoff, Simon B. Eickhoff, Tor D. Wager, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Timothy D. Johnson, Thomas E. Nichols. Bayesian log‐Gaussian Cox process regression: applications to meta‐analysis of neuroimaging working memory studies. Royal Statistical Society.

2018

2017

Shir Atzil, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Tali Rudy, Stephanie Salcedo, Ruth Feldman, Jacob M Hooker, Bradford C Dickerson, Ciprian Catana, Lisa Feldman Barrett. Dopamine in the medial amygdala network mediates human bonding. PNAS.

Pantelis Samartsidis, Claudia R. Eickhoff, Simon B. Eickhoff, Tor D. Wager, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil, Timothy D. Johnson, Thomas E. Nichols. Bayesian log-Gaussian Cox process regression with applications to fMRI meta-analysis. Royal Statistical Society.

2016

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010 and Older

Karen Yirmiya, Noa Yakirevich-Amir, Heidi Preis, Amit Lotan, Shir Atzil, Inbal Reuveni. Women’s depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.