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Daphna Joel is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences and psychology. Their work primarily investigates topics related to gender roles and identity studies, sex and gender in healthcare, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior. They have a notable presence in subfields including gender studies, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and clinical psychology.

Joel's recent scholarly output encompasses publications in a variety of scientific journals and books. Significant recent papers include: "Beyond the binary: Rethinking sex and the brain" (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews), "The gender-binary cycle: the perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting" (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences), "How hype and hyperbole distort the neuroscience of sex differences" (2021, PLoS Biology), "Beyond sex differences and a male-female continuum: Mosaic brains in a multidimensional space" (2020, Handbook of clinical neurology), and "Structural and functional MRI of altered brain development in a novel adolescent rat model of quinpirole-induced compulsive checking behavior" (2020, European Neuropsychopharmacology).

The venues where they frequently publish include:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PLoS Biology
  • Handbook of clinical neurology
  • Journal of Controversial Ideas

Joel collaborates regularly with researchers across various disciplines. Frequent co-authors include Milou Straathof, Erwin L. A. Blezer, Caroline van Heijningen, Annette van der Toorn, and Jan K. Buitelaar.

The main research topics addressed in Joel's work are:

  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

This body of work situates Daphna Joel at the intersection of social and psychological sciences, focusing on the complexity of gender beyond binary frameworks and exploring related neurobiological and social dimensions.

Best Publications

  • Tonic dopamine: opportunity costs and the control of response vigor.

    Yael Niv;Yael Niv;Nathaniel D. Daw;Daphna Joel;Peter Dayan

  • The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary.

    Janet Shibley Hyde;Rebecca S. Bigler;Daphna Joel;Charlotte Chucky Tate

  • The connections of the dopaminergic system with the striatum in rats and primates: An analysis with respect to the functional and compartmental organization of the striatum

    D Joel;I Weiner

  • Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic

    Daphna Joel;Zohar Berman;Ido Tavor;Nadav Wexler

  • Actor-critic models of the basal ganglia: new anatomical and computational perspectives

    Daphna Joel;Yael Niv;Eytan Ruppin

  • The organization of the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits-open interconnected rather than closed segregated

    D. Joel;I. Weiner

  • Reinforcement Learning Signals in the Human Striatum Distinguish Learners from Nonlearners during Reward-Based Decision Making

    Tom Schönberg;Nathaniel D. Daw;Daphna Joel;John P. O'Doherty

  • A normative perspective on motivation

    Yael Niv;Daphna Joel;Peter Dayan

  • The connections of the primate subthalamic nucleus: indirect pathways and the open-interconnected scheme of basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuitry

    D Joel;I Weiner

  • Evolution of reinforcement learning in uncertain environments: a simple explanation for complex foraging behaviors

    Yael Niv;Daphna Joel;Isaac Meilijson;Eytan Ruppin

  • Behavioral, pharmacological, and immunological abnormalities after streptococcal exposure: a novel rat model of Sydenham chorea and related neuropsychiatric disorders.

    Lior Brimberg;Itai Benhar;Adita Mascaro-Blanco;Kathy Alvarez

  • The orbital cortex in rats topographically projects to central parts of the caudate–putamen complex

    Eduardo A. Schilman;Harry B.M. Uylings;Harry B.M. Uylings;Yvonne Galis-de Graaf;Daphna Joel

  • Electrolytic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex in rats disrupt performance on an analog of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, but do not disrupt latent inhibition: implications for animal models of schizophrenia.

    Daphna Joel;Ina Weiner;Joram Feldon

  • Current animal models of obsessive compulsive disorder: a critical review.

    Daphna Joel

  • Male or Female? Brains are Intersex

    Daphna Joel

  • The role of mesolimbic dopaminergic and retrohippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens in latent inhibition : implications for schizophrenia

    J A Gray;M H Joseph;D R Hemsley;A M Young

  • Open interconnected model of basal ganglia‐thalamocortical circuitry and its relevance to the clinical syndrome of Huntington's disease

    D. Joel

  • Incorporating Sex As a Biological Variable in Neuropsychiatric Research: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Be?

    Daphna Joel;Margaret M McCarthy

  • Beyond sex differences: new approaches for thinking about variation in brain structure and function.

    Daphna Joel;Anne Fausto-Sterling

  • Animal models of obsessive-compulsive disorder: exploring pharmacology and neural substrates.

    Noa Albelda;Daphna Joel

Frequent Co-Authors

Ina Weiner
Ina Weiner Tel Aviv University
Christine Winter
Christine Winter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Joram Feldon
Joram Feldon ETH Zurich
Yael Niv
Yael Niv Princeton University
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Andreas Kupsch
Andreas Kupsch Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
Jürgen Hänggi
Jürgen Hänggi University of Zurich
Daniela Schiller
Daniela Schiller Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John P. O'Doherty
John P. O'Doherty California Institute of Technology

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