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I-MAR 2026 Scientific Conference

Greetings Prof. Ilan Dinstein

Head of Azrieli National Centre for Autism & Neurodevelopment Research

Prof. Ilan Dinstein

Session A: Cognitive Functions

The slow-update hypothesis of Autism

Merav Ahissar

Inter-brain synchrony in autism

Simone Shamay-Tsoory

Motor variability as a unifying feature of visuomotor control in Autism

Erez Freud

Against the confusion myth: bilingual speech in autistic children

Natalia Meir

Seeing but not always pointing: a behavioral and eye-tracking study of visual perception in minimally verbal autistic children

Hannah Sykes-Haas

Alterea crossmodal correspondences in autism

Inbar Leon

Session B: Biological Mechanisms

Transcription regulators in ASD: explaining phenotypic
variability and sex bias

Sagiv Shifman

AutIsm ana myelination. Insignis into celular and molecular dysfunction

Boaz Barak

Multiomic analysis in ASD shows microbiome and metabolome changes that alter brain excitation-inhibition pathways and reveal biological subgroups

Evan Elliott

Sex-dependent modeling of ADNP syndrome: microtubule function, mitochondrial activity, hippocampal gene expression, and neurogenesis regulating cognition

Illana Gozes

In search of a treatment for 7q11.23 Duplication
Syndrome

David Peles

Maternal white blood cell (WBC) count during pregnancy and ASD in the offspring

Alon Tzoref

Session C: Intervention

Parents as partners: the effects and mechanisms of parental involvement in autism interventions

Ofer Golan

From bench to bedside, rethinking cannabinoid treatment in autism spectrum disorder

Adi Aran

Comparing developmental outcomes of autistic children placed in special and mainstream preschool settings,

Moran Naama Bachrach

One journey, two perspectives: adaptive behavior and autism characteristics from soldiers and their commanders' perspectives over one year of military service

Yael Lousky

Parent-child dyadic psychotherapy for young children with autism: parental experience and relational change

Sharon Ostfeld-Etzion

Evaluating the effectiveness of theoretical and practical learning modes on knowledge acquisition and functional skills in autistic adults with high support needs

Mika Melamed

Session D: Diagnosis & Development

Beyond the Child: Contextual Mechanisms in the
Development of Autistic Children

Judah Koller

Direct and indirect motor-embodied pathways to
peer interaction in autistic and neurotypical
children: individual motor skills and joint action

Nirit Bauminger-Zviely

Sex bias in the agreement across standardized
measures of autism symptoms

Einat Waizbard

Longitudinal associations between family
accommodation, developmental quotient, and
adaptive functioning among young autistic children

Tamar Matz Vaisman

Parental reports on their autistic children's social-communication as a function of siblings' presence and status

Ofri Reichmann

Workplace need satisfaction and distress in autistic adults: the moderating role of self-acceptance

Yael Goldfarb

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