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- BF Psychology
- Empathy
- Development
- Autism
- Hormones
- Genetics
- Oxytocin
- Vasopressin
- Cortisol
- Puberty
- RNA
- Social cognition
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Child and maternal hair oxytocin: A novel biomarker of dyadic emotional availability
Zelikovich Moyal, L., Kadosh-Laor, T., Sultan, L. D., Israeli-Ran, L. & Uzefovsky, F., 1 Apr 2026, In: European Neuropsychopharmacology. 105, 112763.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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Empathic Disequilibrium in Autistic Traits and CU Traits: Investigating Empathy Imbalance in Children
Georgiou, G., Shalev, I., Fanti, K. A. & Uzefovsky, F., 1 Feb 2026, In: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. 54, 1, 26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Examining the relation between empathy and hair cortisol levels
Kadosh-Laor, T., Israeli-Ran, L., Zelikovich-Moyal, L., Sultan, L. D. & Uzefovsky, F., 1 Jul 2026, In: Journal of Psychiatric Research. 198, p. 80-84 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Infants’ empathic concern responses moderate the association between maternal and child depressive symptoms
Gordon-Hacker, A., Levy, M., Egotubov, A., Sheiner, E., Uzefovsky, F. & Gueron-Sela, N., 1 Dec 2026, In: Scientific Reports. 16, 1, 469.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Maternal empathy and emotional availability: the moderating role of child negative affectivity
Hijleh, A., Kadosh-Laor, T., Israeli-Ran, L. & Uzefovsky, F., 1 Jan 2026, In: Attachment and Human Development. 28, 3, p. 251-274 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism after 25 years
the APEX consortium, 1 May 2026, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 10, 5, p. 841-848 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Cell-type-specific DNA methylation dynamics in the prenatal and postnatal human cortex
Franklin, A., Davies, J. P., Clifton, N. E., Blake, G. E. T., Bamford, R., Walker, E. M., Chioza, B., Frith, M., Baron-Cohen, S., Allison, C., Warrier, V., Tsompanidis, A., Adhya, D., Holt, R., Davis, J., Gu, G., Zhang, Y., Okewole, N., Al-Rubaie, O. & Geschwind, D. H. & 104 others, , 10 Dec 2025, In: Cell Genomics. 5, 12, 101010.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Change in empathic disequilibrium across childhood and associations with socioemotional difficulties
Shalev, I., Waller, R., Wagner, N. J. & Uzefovsky, F., 1 Nov 2025, In: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 34, 11, p. 3655-3664 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Contribution of autosomal rare and de novo variants to sex differences in autism
Autism Sequencing Consortium & APEX Consortium, 6 Mar 2025, In: American Journal of Human Genetics. 112, 3, p. 599-614 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Convergence and divergence of empathic concern and empathic happiness in early childhood: Evidence from young infants and children
Zach, M., Palgi-Hacker, A., Israeli-Ran, L., Meidan, A., Seidmann, M., Hijleh, A., Birnbaum, R., Gueron-Sela, N. & Uzefovsky, F., 1 Jan 2025, In: Child Development. 96, 1, p. 341-354 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Scopus citations
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Ben-Gurion University Research Identifies Two Distinct Groups of Children with Delayed Autism Diagnoses
11/02/25
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Charting Typical Development of Empathic Disequilibrium: Relationships with Outcomes and Biomarkers
Uzefovsky, F. (PI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/29
Project: Research
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The transcriptomic basis of empathic disequilibrium in autism
Uzefovsky, F. (PI) & Eran, A. (CoPI)
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
1/01/22 → …
Project: Research
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The transcriptomic basis of empathic disequilibrium in autism
Uzefovsky, F. (PI) & Eran, A. (CoPI)
1/01/22 → …
Project: Research
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Equipment for establishing a lab investigating the biological basis of empathy
Uzefovsky, F. (PI)
1/01/18 → …
Project: Research
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The biological basis of early empathy development
Uzefovsky, F. (PI)
1/01/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Research