Idan Shalev
Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health

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223 Biobehavioral Health Building
University Park, PA 16802 - ius14@psu.edu
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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 Genes Vasopressin Receptors Alleles Health Arginine Vasopressin Vasopressins Oxytocin Hydrocortisone Depression Recognition (Psychology) Oxytocin Receptors Schizophrenia Exposure To Violence Emotions Psychiatry Research Economics Mental Disorders Psychopathology Longitudinal Studies Biomarkers Prospective Studies Mothers TherapeuticsMost Recent Papers
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
Testing three hypotheses about effects of sensitive-insensitive parenting on telomeres
Roseriet Beijers, Sarah Hartman, Idan Shalev, Waylon Hastings, Brooke C. Mattern, Carolina de Weerth, Jay Belsky, 2020, Developmental psychology on p. 237-250
Biological embedding of maternal postpartum depressive symptoms
Roseriet Beijers, Daria Daehn, Idan Shalev, Jay Belsky, Carolina de Weerth, 2020, Biological Psychology
Investigating the impact of early-life adversity on physiological, immune, and gene expression responses to acute stress: A pilot feasibility study
Idan Shalev, Waylon J. Hastings, Laura Etzel, Salomon Israel, Michael A. Russell, Kelsie A. Hendrick, Megan Zinobile, Sue Rutherford Siegel, 2020, PloS one
Comparability of biological aging measures in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, 1999–2002
Waylon J. Hastings, Idan Shalev, Daniel W. Belsky, 2019, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 171-178
Sex-specific effect of intranasal vasopressin, but not oxytocin, on emotional recognition and perception in schizophrenia patients
Boaz Bloch, Raz Levin, Limor Vadas, Idan Shalev, Salomon Israel, Florina Uzefovsky, Roni Granot, Rachel Bachner-Melman, Alon Reshef, Richard P. Ebstein, Ilana Kremer, 2019, Israel Journal of Psychiatry on p. 21-25
Early-life adversity is associated with differential gene expression in response to acute psychological stress: preliminary findings
Idan Shalev, Waylon Hastings, Laura Etzel, Salomon Israel, Michael Russell, Kelsie Hendrick, Megan Zinobile, Sue Siegel, 2019, bioRxiv on p. 727180
Neuroendocrine stress response is moderated by sex and sex hormone receptor polymorphisms
W. J. Hastings, Anne-Marie Chang, R. P. Ebstein, Idan Shalev, 2018, Hormones and Behavior on p. 74-80
COMPETITIVENESS AND STRESS
Songfa Zhong, Idan Shalev, David Koh, Richard P. Ebstein, Soo Hong Chew, 2018, International Economic Review on p. 1263-1281
Change in the rate of biological aging in response to caloric restriction
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vasopressin selectively impairs emotion recognition in men
Florina Uzefovsky, Idan Shalev, Salomon Israel, Ariel Knafo, Richard P. Ebstein, 2012, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 576-580
Avpr1a variant associated with preschoolers' lower altruistic behavior
Reut Avinun, Salomon Israel, Idan Shalev, Inga Gritsenko, Gary Bornstein, Richard P. Ebstein, Ariel Knafo, 2011, PloS one