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Overview

Ofer Golan is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel, focusing research primarily in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their scholarly work intersects several subfields including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, education, and genetics.

The scientist's research concentrates on topics related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), family and disability support, child development and digital technology, child nutrition and feeding issues, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and disability education and employment.

Ofer Golan has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed articles, among which the following recent papers are notable:

  • "Autism Spectrum Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An unexplored co-occurrence of conditions" (2020, Autism)
  • "Implications of Employment Changes Caused by COVID-19 on Mental Health and Work-Related Psychological Need Satisfaction of Autistic Employees: A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Study" (2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
  • "The National Autism Database of Israel: a Resource for Studying Autism Risk Factors, Biomarkers, Outcome Measures, and Treatment Efficacy" (2020, Journal of Molecular Neuroscience)
  • "Integrating the Early Start Denver Model into Israeli community autism spectrum disorder preschools: Effectiveness and treatment response predictors" (2020, Autism)
  • "The comorbidity between autism spectrum disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder is mediated by brooding rumination" (2021, Autism)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Eynat Gal
  • Tali Gev
  • Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Yael Goldfarb
  • Danny Horesh

Ofer Golan publishes frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Autism
  • Autism Research
  • Journal of Molecular Neuroscience
  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

The relevant subfields of study within these broader fields include:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Education
  • Genetics

The focal topics of Ofer Golan's research address:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Disability Education and Employment

Best Publications

  • Systemizing empathy: Teaching adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism to recognize complex emotions using interactive multimedia

    Ofer Golan;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Enhancing emotion recognition in children with autism spectrum conditions: an intervention using animated vehicles with real emotional faces

    Ofer Golan;Ofer Golan;Emma Ashwin;Yael Granader;Yael Granader;Suzy McClintock

  • The Cambridge Mindreading (CAM) Face-Voice Battery: Testing complex emotion recognition in adults with and without Asperger syndrome.

    Ofer Golan;Simon Baron-Cohen;Jacqueline Hill

  • The ‘Reading the Mind in the Voice’ Test-Revised: A Study of Complex Emotion Recognition in Adults with and Without Autism Spectrum Conditions

    Ofer Golan;Simon Baron-Cohen;Jacqueline J. Hill;M. D. Rutherford

  • The ‘Reading the Mind in Films’ Task [Child Version]: Complex Emotion and Mental State Recognition in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Conditions

    Ofer Golan;Simon Baron-Cohen;Yael Golan

  • The "reading the mind in films" task: complex emotion recognition in adults with and without autism spectrum conditions.

    Ofer Golan;Simon Baron-Cohen;Jacqueline J. Hill;Yael Golan

  • Using Assistive Technology to Teach Emotion Recognition to Students With Asperger Syndrome A Pilot Study

    Paul G. Lacava;Ofer Golan;Simon Baron-Cohen;Brenda Smith Myles

  • Can emotion recognition be taught to children with autism spectrum conditions

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Ofer Golan;Emma Ashwin

  • Basic and complex emotion recognition in children with autism: cross-cultural findings

    Shimrit Fridenson-Hayo;Steve Berggren;Amandine Lassalle;Shahar Tal

  • Emotion word comprehension from 4 to 16 years old: a developmental survey.

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Ofer Golan;Sally Wheelwright;Yael Granader

  • What can innovative technologies do for Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Sven Bölte;Ofer Golan;Matthew S. Goodwin;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

  • 'Emotiplay': a serious game for learning about emotions in children with autism: results of a cross-cultural evaluation

    S Fridenson-Hayo;S Berggren;S Berggren;A Lassalle;S Tal

  • PTSD and autism spectrum disorder: Co-morbidity, gaps in research, and potential shared mechanisms.

    Nirit Haruvi-Lamdan;Danny Horesh;Ofer Golan

  • The Cambridge Mindreading Face-Voice Battery for Children (CAM-C): complex emotion recognition in children with and without autism spectrum conditions

    Ofer Golan;Yana Sinai-Gavrilov;Simon Baron-Cohen;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • The EU-Emotion Stimulus Set: A validation study

    Helen O’Reilly;Helen O’Reilly;Delia Pigat;Shimrit Fridenson;Steve Berggren;Steve Berggren

  • Mothering, fathering, and the regulation of negative and positive emotions in high‐functioning preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder

    Yael Hirschler-Guttenberg;Ofer Golan;Sharon Ostfeld-Etzion;Ruth Feldman

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An unexplored co-occurrence of conditions.

    Nirit Haruvi-Lamdan;Danny Horesh;Danny Horesh;Shani Zohar;Meital Kraus

  • Parent-child interaction and oxytocin production in pre-schoolers with autism spectrum disorder

    Ruth Feldman;Ofer Golan;Yael Hirschler-Guttenberg;Sharon Ostfeld-Etzion

  • Prosody Recognition in Adults With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Psychoacoustics to Cognition

    Eitan Globerson;Noam Amir;Liat Kishon-Rabin;Ofer Golan

  • Reward and anxiety in genetic animal models of childhood depression.

    O. Malkesman;Y. Braw;O. Zagoory-Sharon;O. Golan

  • Transported to a World of Emotion

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Ofer Golan;Emma Chapman;Yael Granader

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Sven Bölte
Sven Bölte Karolinska Institute
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
Orna Zagoory-Sharon
Orna Zagoory-Sharon Reichman University
Doron Gothelf
Doron Gothelf Tel Aviv University
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading
Elizabeth A. Laugeson
Elizabeth A. Laugeson University of California, Los Angeles
Brenda Smith Myles
Brenda Smith Myles University of Kansas
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Giora Keinan
Giora Keinan Tel Aviv University

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