Idan Shalev

Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health

Idan Shalev

Research Summary

Interdisciplinary approach to identify mechanisms underpinning the biological embedding of stress across the lifespan with a special focus on biological aging.

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Publication Tags

Telomere Health Child Epigenomics Psychiatry Genes Exposure To Violence Oxytocin Receptors Obesity Mental Disorders Dna Longitudinal Studies Psychopathology Research Wounds And Injuries Body Mass Index Cellular Senescence Biomarkers Longevity Sex Offenses Erosion Mental Disorder Prospective Studies Telomere Shortening Child Health

Most Recent Publications

Obesity and accelerated epigenetic aging in a high-risk cohort of children

Laura Etzel, Waylon J. Hastings, Molly A. Hall, Christine M. Heim, Michael J. Meaney, Jennie G. Noll, Kieran J. O’Donnell, Irina Pokhvisneva, Emma J. Rose, Hannah M.C. Schreier, Chad E. Shenk, Idan Shalev, 2022, Scientific Reports

Conceptual and Analytical Overlap between Allostatic Load and Systemic Biological Aging Measures: Analyses from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States

Waylon J. Hastings, David M. Almeida, Idan Shalev, 2022, Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences on p. 1179-1188

Telomere shortening and the transition to family caregiving in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study

Nicole D. Armstrong, Marguerite R. Irvin, William E. Haley, Marcela D. Blinka, Debora Kamin Mukaz, Amit Patki, Sue Rutherford Siegel, Idan Shalev, Peter Durda, Rasika A. Mathias, Jeremy D. Walston, David L. Roth, 2022, PLoS One

The Flexible Regulation of Emotional Expression Scale for Youth (FREE-Y): Adaptation and Validation Across a Varied Sample of Children and Adolescents

Ann Christin Haag, Christine B. Cha, Jennie G. Noll, Dylan G. Gee, Chad E. Shenk, Hannah M.C. Schreier, Christine M. Heim, Idan Shalev, Emma Jane Rose, Alana Jorgensen, George A. Bonanno, 2022, Assessment

Social evaluation under stress: Does acute stress affect social attributions and eye gaze?

Hagar Azulay, Nitzan Guy, Idan Shalev, Yoni Pertzov, Salomon Israel, 2021, Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis attenuation and obesity risk in sexually abused females

Jacinda Li, Molly A. Hall, Idan Shalev, Hannah M.C. Schreier, Tom´as Gonz´alez Zarzar, Isabel Marcovici, Frank Putnam, Jennie G. Noll, 2021, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Assembling a cohort for in-depth, longitudinal assessments of the biological embedding of child maltreatment: Methods, complexities, and lessons learned

Hannah M.C. Schreier, Christine M. Heim, Emma J. Rose, Idan Shalev, Chad E. Shenk, Jennie G. Noll, 2021, Development and Psychopathology on p. 394-408

Effects of psychological stress on telomeres as genome regulators

Laura Etzel, Idan Shalev, 2021, on p. 109-117

Internalizing symptoms associate with the pace of epigenetic aging in childhood

Marieke S. Tollenaar, Roseriet Beijers, Elika Garg, T. T.Thao Nguyen, David T.S. Lin, Julia L. MacIsaac, Idan Shalev, Michael S. Kobor, Michael J. Meaney, Kieran J. O'Donnell, Carolina de Weerth, 2021, Biological Psychology

Intergenerational transmission of childhood trauma? Testing cellular aging in mothers exposed to sexual abuse and their children.

Laura Etzel, Waylon J. Hastings, Brooke C. Mattern, Monica L. Oxford, Christine Heim, Frank W. Putnam, Jennie G. Noll, Idan Shalev, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 104781

Most-Cited Papers

The p factor

Avshalom Caspi, Renate M. Houts, Daniel W. Belsky, Sidra J. Goldman-Mellor, Honalee Harrington, Salomon Israel, Madeline H. Meier, Sandhya Ramrakha, Idan Shalev, Richie Poulton, Terrie E. Moffitt, 2014, Clinical Psychological Science on p. 119-137

Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age

I. Shalev, T. E. Moffitt, K. Sugden, B. Williams, R. M. Houts, A. Danese, J. Mill, L. Arseneault, A. Caspi, 2013, Molecular Psychiatry on p. 576-581

Sensitive parenting is associated with plasma oxytocin and polymorphisms in the OXTR and CD38 genes

Ruth Feldman, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Omri Weisman, Inna Schneiderman, Ilanit Gordon, Rina Maoz, Idan Shalev, Richard P. Ebstein, 2012, Biological Psychiatry on p. 175-181

Stress and telomere biology

Idan Shalev, Sonja Entringer, Pathik D. Wadhwa, Owen M. Wolkowitz, Eli Puterman, Jue Lin, Elissa S. Epel, 2013, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 1835-1842

Childhood exposure to violence and lifelong health

Terrie E. Moffitt, Louise Arseneault, Andrea Danese, Helen Fisher, Jonathan Mill, Carmine Pariante, Don Baucom, Avshalom Caspi, Edith Chen, Gregory Miller, Kurt Halweg, Ann Katrin Job, Nina Heinrichs, Barbara Heiniger Haldimann, Mariann Grawe-Gerber, Misa Kuper-Yamanaka, Matt Sanders, Idan Shalev, Susanne Walitza, 2013, Development and Psychopathology on p. 1619-1634

Internalizing disorders and leukocyte telomere erosion

I. Shalev, T. E. Moffitt, A. W. Braithwaite, A. Danese, N. I. Fleming, S. Goldman-Mellor, H. L. Harrington, R. M. Houts, S. Israel, R. Poulton, S. P. Robertson, K. Sugden, B. Williams, A. Caspi, 2014, Molecular Psychiatry on p. 1163-1170

Early life stress and telomere length

Idan Shalev, 2012, BioEssays on p. 943-952

Oxytocin receptor and vasopressin receptor 1a genes are respectively associated with emotional and cognitive empathy

F. Uzefovsky, I. Shalev, S. Israel, S. Edelman, Y. Raz, D. Mankuta, A. Knafo-Noam, R. P. Ebstein, 2015, Hormones and Behavior on p. 60-65

Change in the rate of biological aging in response to caloric restriction: Calerie Biobank analysis

Daniel W. Belsky, Kim M. Huffman, Carl F. Pieper, Idan Shalev, William E. Kraus, Rozalyn Anderson, 2018, Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences on p. 4-10

Microvascular abnormality in schizophrenia as shown by retinal imaging

Madeline H. Meier, Idan Shalev, Terrie E. Moffitt, Shitij Kapur, Richard S.E. Keefe, Tien Y. Wong, Daniel W. Belsky, Hona Lee Harrington, Sean Hogan, Renate Houts, Avshalom Caspi, Richie Poulton, 2013, American Journal of Psychiatry on p. 1451-1459