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PUBLICATIONS

Selected peer-reviewed publications

  1. Burstein, O., Sabag, M., Kurtzman, L., & Geva, R. (2024). The role of focused attention in learning from early childhood to late adolescence: Implications of neonatal brainstem compromise following preterm birth. Child Development.‏

  2. Ginat-Frolich, R., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Huppert, J. D., Aderka, I. M., Alden, L. E., Bar-Haim, Y., ... & Wieser, M. J. (2024). Vulnerabilities in social anxiety: Integrating intra-and interpersonal perspectives. Clinical Psychology Review, 102415.‏‏

  3. Lipschits, O., & Geva, R. (2024). An integrative model of parent-infant communication development. Child Development Perspectives, (00), 1– 8.

  4. Ferber, S. G., Geva, R., & Weller, A. (2023). When the mind comes to live inside the body: the ontogeny of the perceptual control clock. Current Neuropharmacology, 21(1), 13.‏

  5. Yarmolovsky, J., & Geva, R. (2023). Follow the Leader: Parent-and Child-led Synchrony in Competitive and Cooperative play. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 1-17.‏

  6. Yarmolovsky, J., Sabag, M., Lipschits, O., & Geva, R. (2023). Parents regulate arousal while sharing experiences with their child: a study of pupil diameter change responses. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1177687.

  7. Sabag, M., Yarmolovsky, J., & Geva, R. (2023). Low-Gamma Power Effects on Competitive Joint Action with Peers. INSAR 2023.‏‏

  8. Litmanovitch, E., Geva, R., Leshem, A., Lezinger, M., Heyman, E., Gidron, M., ... & Rachmiel, M. (2023). Missed meal boluses and poorer glycemic control impact on neurocognitive function may be associated with white matter integrity in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14, 1141085.‏

  9. Sabag, M., & Geva, R. (2022). Hyper and hypo attention networks activations affect social development in children with autism spectrum disorder [Perspective]. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16.

  10. Olinover, M., Gidron, M., Yarmolovsky, J., Lipschits, O., & Geva, R. (2022). Predicting Leadership Success in Extreme Organizations: A Prospective Study From Pre-Recruitment Through Leading in Real-Life. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies.  

  11. Ferber, S. G., Geva, R., & Weller, A. (2022). When the mind comes to live inside the body: The ontogeny of the perceptual control clock. Current Neuropharmacology.

  12. Litmanovitch, E., Geva, R., Leshem, A., Lezinger, M., Heyman, E., Gidron, M., ... & Rachmiel, M. (2022). Novel insights on the associations between specific brain tract segmental alterations, glucose levels, and cognitive performance among adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Hormone Research in Paediatrics 95(2), 189-190.‏

  13. Goldstein Ferber, S., Weller, A., Ben-Shachar, M., Klinger, G., & Geva, R. (2022). Development of the Ontogenetic Self-Regulation Clock. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(2), 993.‏

  14. Burstein, O., & Geva, R. (2021). The Brainstem-Informed Autism Framework: Early Life Neurobehavioral Markers. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.

  15. Burstein, O., Zevin, Z., & Geva, R. (2021). Preterm Birth and the Development of Visual Attention During the First 2 Years of Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA network open, 4(3), e213687-e213687.

  16. Galil, A., Gidron, M., Yarmolovsky, J., & Geva, R. (2021). Cognitive strategies for managing cheating: The roles of cognitive abilities in managing moral shortcuts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-13.

  17. Olinover, M., Gidron, M., Yarmolovsky, J., & Geva, R. (2021). Strategies for improving decision making of leaders with ADHD and without ADHD in combat military context. The Leadership Quarterly.

  18. Zivan, M., Morag, I., Yarmolovsky, J., & Geva, R. (2021). Hyper-Reactivity to Salience Limits Social Interaction Among Infants Born Pre-term and Infant Siblings of Children With ASD. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 650.

  19. Gidron, M., Sabag, M., Yarmolovsky, J., & Geva, R. (2020). Participant–experimenter rapport in experimental settings: A test case of executive functions among children with ADHD. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(9), 1615-1627.

  20. Silberg, T., Ahoniska-Assa, J., Bord, A., Levav, M., Polack, O., Tzadok, M., Heimer, G., Bar-Yosef, O., Geva, R., & Ben-Zeev, B. (2020). In the eye of the beholder: Using a multiple-informant approach to examine the mediating effect of cognitive functioning on emotional and behavioral problems in children with an active epilepsy. Seizure, 82, 31-38.

  21. Bord, A., Polak, O., Ben-Zeev, B., Levav, M., Geva, R., & Silberg, T. (2019). Examining the Mediating Effect of Cognition on the Relationship Between Epilepsy and Child's Behavioral Problems Using a Multiple-Informant Approach. Brain Injury 33, 237-238.

  22. Morag, I., Hendel, Y., Karol, D., Geva, R., & Tzipi, S. (2019). Transition from nasogastric tube to oral feeding: The role of parental guided responsive feeding. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 7.

  23. Galil, A, Yarmolovsky, J., Gidron, M., Geva, R. (2019)  Cheating behavior in Children. Integrating gaze allocation and social awareness. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

  24. Reznikovich, M., Morag, I., Hendel Y., and Geva R. (2017). Feeding imprinting: The extreme test case of premature infants born with very low birth weight. Child Development.  doi: 10.1111/cdev.12923.

  25. Geva, R., Dital, A., Ramon, D., Yarmolovsky, J., Gidron, M., and Kuint, J. (2017). Brainstem as a developmental gateway to social attention. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 1351-1359.

  26. Schaffer,Y., Ben-Zeev, B., Cohen, R., Shuper, A., and Geva, R., (2017) Memory, executive skills and psychosocial phenotype in children with pharmacoresponsive epilepsy: Reactivity to intervention. Frontiers in Neurology, doi: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00086.

  27. Yarmolovsky, J., Szwarc, T., Schwartz, M., Tirosh, E., and Geva, R. (2017). Hot executive control and response to a stimulant in a double-blind randomized trial in children with ADHD. European Archives of Psychiatry and Human Neuroscience.

  28. Gat-Lazer, S.; Geva, R., Gur, E., Stein, D. (2017). Reward Dependence and Harm Avoidance among Patients with Binge-Purge Type Eating Disorders. European Eating Disorders Review, 25, 205-2013.

  29. Weisman O, Feldman R, Burg-Malki M, Keren M, Geva R, Diesendruck G, Gothelf D. (2017). Comparing the broad socio-cognitive profile of youth with Williams syndrome and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 61, 1083-1093.

  30. Geva, R., and Orr, E. (2016), Talk the Walk: Does Socio-Cognitive Research Reallocation facilitate the development of walking? PlosOne, 11, 1-17.

  31. Weinstein, M., Ben-Sira, L., Artzi, M., Berger, I. Marom, R. Geva, R., Gross-Tsur, V., Leitner, Y. and Ben Bashat, D. (2016), The motor and visual networks in preterm infants: an fMRI and DTI study, Brain Research, 1642, 603-611.

  32. Geva, R. Contemplating the GANE model using an extreme case paradigm (2016). Invited comment on Norepinephrine ignites local hot spots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e209.

  33. Schaffer, Y and Geva, R. (2016). Memory Outcomes Following Cognitive Interventions in Children with Neurological Deficits: A Review with a Focus on Under-Studied Populations. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 26, 286-317.

  34. Miron, O., Ari-Even Roth, D., Gabis, L.V., Henkin, Y., Shefer, S., Dinstein, I, and Geva, R. (2016) Prolonged Auditory Brainstem Responses in Infants with Autism. Autism Research, 9,689-695.

  35. Gal-Lazar, S., Stein, D., Gur, E., and Geva., R. (2016). Harm avoidance and reward dependence in patients with eating disorders. Clinical Neuropsychologist, 30, 783.

  36. Gal-Lazar, S., Stein, D., Gur, E., Ramon, D., and Geva., R. (2016). Innovative Day-Night Task food related modification among patients with Binge-Purge Eating Disorder. Clinical Neuropsychologist, 30, 782.

  37. Geva, R., Yaron, H., and Kuint, J. (2016) Neonatal Sleep predicts attention orienting and distractibility. Journal of Attention disorders. 20, 138-150. DOI 10.1177/1087054713491493.

  38. Weinstein, M., Myers, V., Green, D., Schertz, M., Shiran, S.I., Geva, R., Artzi, M., Gordon, A. M., Fattal-Valevski, A., Ben Bashat, D. (2015) Brain Plasticity Following Intensive Bimanual Therapy in Children with Hemiparesis: Preliminary Evidence. Neural Plasticity ID 798481

  39. Schaffer, Y., Ben Zeev, B., Cohen, R; Shuper, A., Geva, R. (2015). Auditory Verbal memory and Psychosocial Symptoms are related in Children with Idiopathic Epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 48, 53-60.

  40. Weisman, O., Feldman, R., Burg-Malki, M., Keren, M., Geva, R., Diesendruck, G., Gothelf, D. (2015). Mother-Child Interaction as a Window to a Unique Social Phenotype in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and in Williams Syndrome.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 03/2015; DOI:10.1007/s10803-015-2425-6. 

  41. Orr, E and Geva, R. (2015). Symbolic Play and Language Development. Infant Behavior and Development, 38, 147-161.

  42. Litmanovitch, E, Geva, R, Rachmiel, M. (2015) Short and Long Term Neuro-Behavioral Alterations in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Pediatric Population. World Journal of Diabetes, 15, 259-270.

  43. Weinstein, M., Myers, V., Green, D., Schertz, M., Shiran, S.I., Geva, R., Artzi, M., Gordon, A. M., Fattal-Valevski, A., Ben Bashat, D. (2015). Brain Plasticity Following Intensive Bimanual Therapy in Children with Hemiparesis: Preliminary Evidence. Neural Plasticity

  44. Weinstein, M., Marom, R., Berger, I., Ben-Bashat, D., Gross-Tsur, V., Ben Sira, L., Artzi, M., Uliel, S., Leitner, Y., Geva, R. (2014). Neonatal Neuropsychology: Emerging Relations of Neonatal Sensory-Motor Responses to White Matter Integrity. Neuropsychologia, 62, 209-219.

  45. Leitner, Y., Weinstein, M. Myers, V. Uliel, S. Geva, K. Berger, I. Marom, R. Ben Bashat, D., Ben-Sira, L. Geva R. and Gross-Tsur, V. (2014). Diffuse excessive high signal intensity in low-risk preterm infants at term-equivalent age does not predict outcome at 1 year: a prospective study. Neuroradiology 56(8), 669-678.

  46. Yaakoby –Rotem, S., and Geva, R. (2014). Asymmetric attention networks: The case of children. Journal of International Neuropsychology Society. 20 (4), 434-443. [Recipient of the Korkman award]

  47. Weinstein, M., Gross-Tsur, V., Leitner, Y., Berger, I., Marom, R., Geva, R., Uliel, S., Myers, V., Artzi, M., Ben Bashat, D and Ben Sira, L. (2014). Isolated mild white matter signal changes in preterm infants: A regional approach for comparison of cranial ultrasound and MRI findings. Journal of Perinatology, 34(6), 476-82.

  48. Weinstein, M., Green, D., Geva, R., Schertz, M.,  Fattal-Valevski, A., Artzi, M., Myers, V., Shiran, S.,  Gordon, A., Gross-Tsur, V., Ben Bashat, D. (2014)  Interhemispheric and intrahemispheric connectivity and manual skills in children with unilateral cerebral palsy. Brain Structure and Function. 219, 1025-1040. DOI 10.1007/s00429-013-0551-5

  49. Gurevitz, M., Geva, R., Varon, M., Leitner, Y. (2014). Early markers in infants and toddlers for development of ADHD. Journal of Attention disorders. 18, 14–22.

  50. Geva, R., Schreiber, J., Segal-Caspi, L., Markus-Shiffman, M. (2014).  Neonatal brainstem dysfunction after preterm birth predicts behavioral inhibition. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 55, 802-810.

  51. Geva, R., Zivan M, Warsha, A, Olchin, D. (2013). Alerting, Orienting or Executive Attention: Differential Patterns of Pupil Dilations. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 14;7:145.

  52. Geva, R., Sopher, K., Kurtzman, L., Galili, G., Feldman, R., & Kuint, J. (2013). Neonatal brainstem dysfunction risks infant social engagement. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(2), 158-164.‏

  53. Gavrilov, Y., Rotem, S., Ofek, R., and Geva, R. (2012). Socio- cultural effects on children's initiation of joint attention. In Special research Topic on The Social Emotional Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience of Socioeconomic Gradients: Laboratory, Population, Cross-cultural and Community Developmental Approaches. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00286

  54. Leitner, Y., Harel, S., Geva, R., Eshel, R., Yaffo. A., Many, A. (2012). The neurocognitive outcome of IUGR children born to mother with and without preeclampsia. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 25(11):2206-2208

  55. Geva, R., Sopher K., Kurtzman L., Galili, G., Feldman, R., Kuint J. Neonatal brainstem dysfunction risks infant social engagement (2012). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(2), 158-164.

  56. Artzi, M, Ben Sira, L., Bassan, H., Gross-Tsur, V., Berger, I., Marom, R., Leitner Y., Geva, R., Weinstein, M., Ben Bashat, D. (2011). Brain Diffusivity study in Infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy following Whole Body Hypothermia:  Preliminary results. Journal of Child Neurology, 26, 1230-1236. IF= 1.717

  57. Bassan, H, Stolar O, Geva, R, Eshel, R, Fattal Valevski A, Leitner A, Varon M, Yafo A, and Harel, S.  (2011). Intrauterine Growth Restriction born at Term versus Preterm; are they equal or different?  Pediatric Neurology, 44, 122-130.

  58. Ramon, D., Geva, R., Goldstein, A. (2011). Trait and State Negative Affect Interactions Moderate Inhibitory Control Performance in Emotionally Loaded Conditions. Personality and Individual differences, 51, 95-101.

  59. Harel, H., Gordon, I., Geva, R. & Feldman, R. (2011). Gaze Behaviors of Preterm and Full Term Infants in Nonsocial and Social Contexts of Increasing Dynamics: From Visual Recognition to Gaze Synchrony. Infancy, 16(1), 69–90.

  60. Geva, R. (2010). Attention regulation deficits in infants born preterm: fetal and perinatal processes. Chinese Medical Journal, 123, S2, 250-251.

  61. Geva, R, Gardner, J. M., and. Karmel, B. Z. (2010). Load and Order in Rapid Automatized Naming: A Large-Scale Prospective Study of Toddlers with Brain Injury. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 9, 2, 166-182.

  62. Silberstein, D., Feldman, R., Geva, R., Gardner, J. M, Karmel, B. Z., Rozen, R., and Kuint, J. (2009). The relational basis of feeding problems in low-risk premature infants across the first year. Infancy, 14, 501-525.

  63. Fattal-Valevski, A., Toledano-Alhadef, H., Leitner, Y., Geva, R., Eshel, R., Harel, S. (2009). Growth Patterns in Children with Intrauterine Growth Retardation and their correlation to Neurocognitive development. Journal of Child Neurology, 24, 846-851

  64. Geva, R., Yosipof, R., Eshel, R., Leitner, Y, Fattal-Valevski, A, Harel, S. (2009) Readiness and adjustments to school of children with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) - An extreme test case paradigm. Exceptional Children, 75(2), 211-230.

  65. Silberstein, D, Geva, R, Feldman, R., Gardner, J. M., Karmel, B. Z., Rozen, R, and Kuint, J (2009). Early Human Development.  The transition to oral feeding in low-risk premature infants: Relation to infant neurobehavioral functioning and mother-infant feeding interaction. 85(3), 157-162.

  66. Geva, R., Eshel, R., Leitner, Y, Fattal-Valevski, A.,Harel, S. (2008). Verbal Short-Term Memory Span in Children: Long-term Modality Dependent Effects of Intrauterine Growth Restriction Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 1321-1330.

  67. Geva., R., and Feldman, R.  (2008). A neurobiological model for the effects of early brainstem functioning on the development of behavior and emotion regulation in infants: Implications for prenatal and perinatal risk.  In Special Issue on Pre- and Peri-natal Processes in Child Mental Health and Disorder.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 1031-1041.

  68. Leitner, Y, Fattal-Valevski, A, Geva, R, Eshel, R, Toledano-Alhadef, H, Rotstein, M, Bassan, H, Radianu, B, Bitchonsky, O , Jaffa, A. J, Harel, S. (2007)  Neurodevelopmental outcome of children with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR): A longitudinal, 10-year prospective study, Journal of Child Neurology 22, 580-587

  69. Geva, R., Eshel,R., Leitner, Y, Fattal Valevski, A & Harel, S. (2006) Memory functions in children born with intra uterine growth restriction (IUGR) Brain Research, 1117(1), 186-194.

  70. Geva, R., Eshel, R., Leitner, Y., Fattal-Valevski, A., & Harel, S. (2006). Neuropsychological outcome of children with intrauterine growth restriction: A 9 Year Prospective Study. Pediatrics, 118(1), 91-100

  71. Geva, R., Eshel, R., Leitner, Y., Fattal-Valevski, A., & Harel, S. (2005). Prenatal diagnosis and management of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR): A long-term prospective study on outcome and maternal coping. Infant Mental Health Journal, 26(5), 481-495

  72. Fattal-Valevski, A., Leitner, Y., Geva, R., Bassan, H., Goez, H., Jaffa, A. J., Harel, S. (2001). The effect of intra uterine growth restriction on the development and health of Children, Nutrition & Health, 15,169-175.

  73. Leitner, Y., Fattal-Valevski, A., Geva, R., Bassan, H., Posner, E., Kutai, M., Many, A., Yaffa, A. J., Harel S. (2000). A six year follow-up of children with intrauterine growth retardation- A long-term prospective study. Journal of Child Neurology, 15(12), 781-786.

  74. Geva, R., Gardner J. M., and Karmel B.Z. (1998). Inhibitory control at 34 months of cocaine-exposed neonates. Infant Behavior and Development, 21, 431.

  75. Geva, R., Gardner, J. M. and Karmel, B. Z.  (1999). Feeding-based arousal effects on visual recognition memory in early infancy. Developmental Psychology, 35 (3), 640-650.

 

 

Book Chapters

  1. Schaffer, Y., and Geva, R. (2016) Short and Long Term Memory in Pediatric Idiopathic Epilepsy: Functions and Effect of Interventions. Invited chapter in Long-and Short-Term Memory: Functions, Differences and Effects of Injury, Chapter in Short and Long Term Memory in Pediatric Idiopathic Epilepsy: Functions and Effect of Interventions. NOVA publishers (pp. 75-92).

  2. Geva, R., Leitner, Y., & Harel, S. (2012). In. Victor R. Preedy (Ed.), Children with Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Neurodevelopmental outcome. The Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease, 193-208, Springer Press.

  3. Geva, R. (2012). Short Term Memory. In S. Norbert (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 19, 3058-3061. Springer Science+ Business Media Press

  4. Geva, R. (2012). Children Born With Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Neuropsychological outcome In Victor R. Preedy (Ed.), The Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease, 177-192, Springer Press.

  5. Geva, R. (2010). Intrauterine growth restriction. In R. D. Nass, and Y. Frank (Eds.). Cognitive and Behavioral abnormalities of Pediatric Diseases.  Oxford University Press. pp. 426 - 435.

  6. Geva R., and Feldman, R. (2010). Circadian Sleep-Wake Rhythms in Preterm Infants. In A. L. Leglise (Ed.) Progress in Circadian Rhythm Research.  NOVA science publishers, pp. 67 - 82.

  7. Geva, R., Gardner, J. M., Karmel, B. Z., Feldman, I. J., & Freedland, R. L., (1999). Inhibitory control of cocaine-exposed infants at 3 years. In L. S. Harris (Ed.), Problems of drug dependence 1998: (NIDA Research Monograph, No. 179, p. 98). Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services.

  8. Gardner, J. M., Karmel, B. Z., Freedland, R. L. and Geva, R. (1998). Neonatal neurobehavioral assessment and its relation to developmental outcome in infants with CNS injury. In M. V. Perat (Ed.), New Developments in Child Neurology (83-87). Bologna, Italy: Monduzzi Editore S.P.A

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