peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2024

Fares-Otero N, Sharp T, Balle SR, Quaatz SM, Vieta E, Åhs F, Allgaier AK, … Levy-Gigi E., … & Halligan SL.(2024). Social support and (complex) posttraumatic stress symptom severity: does sex matter? European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Haim-Nachum, S., Kube, T., Rozenkrantz, L., Lazarov, A., Levy-Gigi, E., Michael, T., Neria, Y., & Sopp, M. R. (2024). Does disconfirmatory evidence shape safety-and danger-related beliefs of trauma-exposed individuals? European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2335788.

Haim-Nachum S, Sopp MR, Lüönd AM, Afzal N, Åhs F, Allgaier AK,… Levy-Gigi E,…Pflatz M. (2024). Childhood Maltreatment is Linked to Larger Preferred Interpersonal Distances Towards Friends and Strangers Across the Globe. Translational Psychiatry, 14(1), 339.

Levy-Gigi E, Rachmani M, & Defrin R. (2024). The relationship between traumatic exposure and pain perception in children: the moderating role of posttraumatic symptoms. Pain, 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003266. Advance online publication.

Nizri, H., Hemi, A., & Levy-Gigi, E. (2024). Regulatory flexibility and school climate moderate the relationship between stress exposure and depression severity in school educators. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 11543.

Zabag, R., Kivity, Y., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Levy-Gigi, E. (2024). Better social reversal learning is associated with a more social approach across time. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8443.

2023

Zabag R, Rinck M, Becker E, Gilboa-Schechtman E, & Levy-Gigi E. (2023). Although I Know it: Social Anxiety is Associated with a Deficit in Positive Updating Even When the Cost of Avoidance is Obvious. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 169, 279–283.

Treitel C, & Levy-Gigi E. (2023). The Dual Role of Time Perception in Trauma-Exposed Individuals: A Conceptual Review. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 10.1037/tra0001631. Advance online publication.

Levy-Gigi E, Sudai E, & Bar M. (2023). Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 100, 102765.

Naor R, Shamay-Tsoory S. & Levy-Gigi E. (2023). The effectiveness of interpersonal emotion regulation and the role of anxiety in parent-adolescent relationships. Cognitive Therapy & Research.

Harel O, Hemi A, Levy-Gigi E. (2023). The role of cognitive flexibility in moderating the effect of school-related stress exposure. Scientific Reports, 13(1):5241.

Hemi A, Sopp MR, Perel A, Holmes EA, Levy-Gigi E. (2023). Cognitive flexibility moderates the efficacy of a visuospatial intervention following exposure to analog trauma. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 81, 101858.

Zabag R, Azoulay R, Rinck M, Becker E, Levy-Gigi E*. & Gilboa-Schechtman E* (2022). You never get a chance to undo a negative first impression: Social anxiety is associated with impaired positive updating of social information. Personality and Individual Differences, 203, 111993. *Equal contribution

2022

Hemi A, Sopp MR, Schaefer S, Michael T, & Levy-Gigi E. (2022). Adaptive responding to prolonged stress exposure: A binational study on the impact of flexibility on latent profiles of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6): e6163–e6174.

Haim-Nachum, S, Sopp MR, Bonanno GA, & Levy-Gigi E. (2022). The lasting effects of early adversity, updating ability, and the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms following trauma in adulthood. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 46,1101–1112.

Zabag R, Gilboa-Schechtman E*, & Levy-Gigi E. (2022). Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 157:104159.

Pfaltz M, Halligan S, Haim-Nachum S, Sopp MR, Åhs F, Bachem R, Bartoli E, Belete H, Belete T, Berzengi A, Dukes D, Essadek A, Iqbal N, Jobson L, Langevin R, Levy-Gigi E ,… & Seedat S. (2022). Social functioning in individuals affected by childhood maltreatment: Establishing a research agenda to inform interventions. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 91(4):238-251.

Sopp MR, Haim-Nachum, S, Wirth BE, Bonanno GA, & Levy-Gigi E. (2022). Leaving the door open: Trauma, updating, and the development of PTSD symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 154:104098.

2021

Vered R, Haim-Nachum S, & Levy-Gigi E. (2021). Acting against your own interests: The tension between emotion regulation preference and efficacy and its implications for individuals with depressive symptoms. PLoS One, 16(7):e0254213.

Sopp MR, Haim-Nachum S, Michael T, Shamay-Tsoory S, & Levy-Gigi E. (2021). No distance is too far between friends: Associations of comfortable interpersonal distance with PTSD and anxiety symptoms in traumatized individuals. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1):1899480.

Haim-Nachum S, & Levy-Gigi E. (2021). To be or not to be flexible: Enhanced and reduced updating as a means to differentiate between the tendency to develop depression and PTSD symptoms. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 136, 366-373.

Haim-Nachum S, & Levy-Gigi E. (2021). The tension between cognitive and regulatory flexibility and their associations with current and lifetime PTSD symptoms. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:615289.

Shamay-Tsoory S*, & Levy-Gigi E.*(2021). You name it: interpersonal affect labeling diminishes distress in romantic couples. Behavior Therapy, 52, 455-464.
* Equal contribution

2020

Levy-Gigi E, Doner R, & Bonanno GA. (2020). Free your mind: Emotional expressive flexibility moderates the effect of stress on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(15), 5355.

Zabag R, Deri O, Gilboa-Schechtman E, Richter-Levin G, Levy-Gigi E. (2020). Cognitive flexibility in PTSD individuals following nature adventure intervention: Is it really that good? Stress, 23, 97-104.

2019

Haim-Nachum S, & Levy-Gigi E. (2019). A Chink in the Armor: The Influence of Training on Generalization Learning Impairments After Viewing Traumatic Stimuli. Cognition, 193, 104021.

Weiss O, Levy-Gigi E, Adelson M, & Peles E. (2019). Methadone Maintenance Treatment Patients with a History of Childhood Trauma Succeed More in a Cognitive Paradigm That Is Associated with a Negative Reward. Psychiatry Research 271, 381-388.

Levy-Gigi E, Haim-Nachum S, Hall JM, Crouse JJ, Winwood-Smith R, Lewis SJG, Moustafa AA. (2019). The interactive effect of valence and context on reversal learning in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience Letters 692, 216-224.

2018

Moustafa AA, Parkes D, Fitzgerald L, Underhill D, Garami J, Levy-Gigi E, Stramecki F, Valikhani A, Frydecka D, Misiak B. (2018). The Relationship between Childhood Trauma, Early-life Stress, and Alcohol and Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction: An Integrative Review. Current Psychology 18, 1-16.

2017

Levy-Gigi E, Shamay-Tsoory SG. (2017). Help me if you can: Evaluating the effectiveness of interpersonal compared to self-emotion-regulation in reducing distress. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 55, 33-40.

2016

Peled-Avron L, Levy-Gigi E, Richter-Levin G, Korem N & Shamay-Tsoory S G. (2016). The role of empathy in the neural responses to observed human social touch. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 802-813.‏

Levy-Gigi E, Richter-Levin G, Okon-Singer H, Keri S, Bonanno GA. (2016). The hidden price and possible value of repeated traumatic exposure. Stress, 19, 1-7.

Levy-Gigi E, Bonanno G A, Shapiro A R, Richter-Levin G, Kéri S & Sheppes G. (2016). Emotion regulatory flexibility sheds light on the elusive relationship between repeated traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Clinical psychological science, 4(1), 28-39.‏

2015

Shapiro AR, Levy-Gigi E. (2015). Susceptibility to retroactive interference: The effect of context as a function of age and cognition. Memory, 16, 1-10.

Levy-Gigi E., Kéri S. (2015). The interactive effect of negative reversal learning and age on depression: Possible cognitive mechanisms underlying the elevated depressive symptoms in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 30, 341-347.

Levy-Gigi E, Szabo C, Richter-Levin G, Kéri S. (2015). Reduced hippocampal volume is associated with overgeneralization of negative context in individuals with PTSD. Neuropsychology 29, 151-161.

Perry A, Levy-Gigi E, Richter-Levin G, Shamay-Tsoory SG. (2015). Interpersonal distance and social anxiety in Autistic Spectrum Disorders: A behavioral and ERP study. Social Neuroscience, 10, 354-365.

Szabo C, Kelemen O, Levy-Gigi E, Keri, S. (2015) Acute response to psychological trauma and subsequent recovery: No changes in brain structure. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 231, 269-272.

2014

Levy-Gigi E, Kéri S, Shapiro AR, Sason A, Adelson M, Peles E. (2014). Methadone maintenance patients show a selective deficit to reverse positive outcomes in drug related conditions compared to medication free prolonged opiate abstinence. Drug & Alcohol Depend, 144, 111-118.

Levy-Gigi E, Richter-Levin G. (2014). The hidden price of repeated traumatic exposure. Stress 12, 1-9.

Levy- Gigi, E., Vakil, E. (2014). The counterintuitive relationship between conceptual and perceptual similarities and eyewitness suggestibility. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 799-804.

2013

Levy-Gigi E, Szabo C, Kelemen O, Kéri S. (2013). Association among clinical response, hippocampal volume, and FKBP5 gene expression in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) receiving cognitive behavioral therapy. Biological Psychiatry 74, 793-800.

Halász I, Levy-Gigi E, Kelemen O, Benedek G, Kéri S. (2013). Neuropsychological functions and visual contrast sensitivity in schizophrenia: the potential impact of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 136.

Kéri S, Nagy H, Levy-Gigi E, Kelemen O. (2013). How attentional boost interacts with reward: the effect of dopaminergic medications in Parkinson’s disease. European Journal of Neuroscience 38, 3650-3658.

Nagy H, Levy-Gigi E, Somlai Z, & Keri S. (2013). L-DOPA and attentional boost in Parkinson's disease: a clue to subthreshold impulsivity and psychosis. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 333, e103-e104.

Szamosi A, Levy-Gigi E, Kelemen O, Kéri S. (2013). The hippocampus plays a role in encoding of visual scenes at behaviorally relevant points in time: Evidence from amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and healthy controls. Cortex, 49, 1892-1900.

2012

Levy-Gigi E, Kéri S. (2012). Falling out of time: Enhanced memory for scenes presented at behaviorally irrelevant points in time in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PLoS ONE, 7, e42502.

Levy-Gigi E, Kéri S, Myers CE, Lencovsky Z, Sharvit-Benbaji H, Orr SP, Gilbertson MW, Servatius RJ, Tsao JW, Gluck MA. (2012). Individuals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder show a selective deficit in generalization of associative learning. Neuropsychology, 26, 758-767.

Levy- Gigi E, Vakil E. (2012). The dual effect of context on memory of related and unrelated themes: Discrimination at encoding and cue at retrieval. Memory, 20, 728-741.

Máttyássy A, Kéri S, Myers CE, Levy-Gigi E, Gluck MA, Kelemen O. (2012). Impaired generalization of associative learning in patients with alcohol dependence after intermediate-term abstinence. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47, 533-537.

Nagy H, Levy-Gigi E, Somlai Z, Takáts A, Bereczki D, Kéri S. (2012). The effect of Dopamine Agonists on adaptive and aberrant salience in Parkinson's Disease. Neuropsychopharmacology, 37, 950-958.

2011

Kiss I, Levy-Gigi E, Kéri S. (2011). CD 38 expression, attachment style and habituation of arousal in relation to trust-related oxytocin release. Biological Psychology, 88, 223-226.

Levy-Gigi E, Kelemen O, Gluck MA, Kéri S. (2011). Impaired context reversal learning, but not cue reversal learning, in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3320-3326.

2010

Levy- Gigi E, Vakil E. (2010) Developmental differences in the impact of contextual factors on susceptibility to retroactive interference. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105, 51-62.

conference

Selected Conference Presentations

Gilboa-Schechtman E, Zabag R, Levy-Gigi E. (March 2023). Changes in Beliefs about the Self in Social Anxiety, ICPS, Brussels.
Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Zabag, R., Levy-Gigi, E. (February 2023). Difficulties in positive social updating are associated with social anxiety and interpersonal difficulties in cross-sectional and multi-wave longitudinal designs. Talk presented at Israeli Conference on Cognition Research (ISCOP), Acre, Israel.
Zabag, R., Levy-Gigi, E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (September 2022). Social Anxiety is associated with an impairment in positive updating even while neutralizing the impact of avoidance. Poster presented at EABCT, Barcelona, Spain.
Zabag R, Levy-Gigi E, & Gilboa-Schechtman E. (February 2022). Positive Updating in Social Anxiety is Associated with Social Engagement and Positive Affect: Findings from a Longitudinal Multi-Wave Study. Will be presented at ACBM Virtual, online.
Sopp MR, Haim-Nachum S, & Levy-Gigi E. (July 2021). Leaving the door open to change: Strengthening updating processes as a goal for promoting resilience after trauma. Oral Presentation delivered at the 42nd Stress, Trauma, Anxiety and Resilience International Conference, online.
Haim-Nachum S, Sopp MR, & Levy-Gigi E. (July 2021). A blast from the past: Early life adversity and impaired updating as risk factors for PTSD following adult trauma. Oral Presentation delivered at the 42nd Stress, Trauma, Anxiety and Resilience International Conference, online.
Haim-Nachum S, & Levy-Gigi E. (June 2021). Different impaired updating patterns predict depression and PTSD. Flash Talk, the 5th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Budapest, online.
Haim-Nachum S, Sopp MR, Michael T, Shamay-Tsoory S, & Levy-Gigi E. (April 2021). Associations of interpersonal distance with PTSD and anxiety in trauma-exposed individuals: An EEG study. Poster Presentation, 29th European Congress of Psychiatry; EPA Virtual 2021.
Zabag R, Gilboa-Schechtman E, & Levy-Gigi E. (February 2021). Success in Reversal Learning Predicts Social Approach and Positive Affect in a One-Year Longitudinal Study. Presented at ISCOP, Akko, Israel, online.
Haim-Nachum, S, & Levy-Gigi E. (November 2020). Selective impairments in cognitive flexibility as a means to differentiate between depression and PTSD following trauma exposure. Poster Presentation conducted at the meeting of the ISTSS, Chicago, The 36th annual meeting, online.
Haim Nachum, S. & Levy-Gigi E. (2019). Difficulties in emotional regulation in affective disorders. ISAD, London Rachmani, M & Levy-Gigi E. (2019). Treating individuals with repeated exposure to trauma. 9th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognition Therapies (WCBCT), Berlin, Germany.
Levy-Gigi (2019) Cognitive Flexibility in Emotional Disorders. International conference of psychological science (ICPS), Paris.
Levy-Gigi E. (2018). Pros and cons of categorical versus dimensional approaches in PTSD research. PTSD expert meeting. Wilton Park, UK.