Dr. Reut Naim

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

ביה"ס למדעי הפסיכולוגיה סגל אקדמי בכיר

Email: reutnaim@tauex.tau.ac.il

Short Biography

Dr. Reut Naim is a certified clinical psychologist and a faculty member in The School of Psychological Sciences at Tel-Aviv University. She completed her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology in 2017, in the lab of anxiety and trauma, under the supervision of Prof Yair Bar-Haim. She completed her clinical psychology internship at Psychiatric Clinic in Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in 2018. Reut received an intramural research fellowship award at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) where she completed her post-doctoral research at the Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit. Her lab uses clinical neuroscience and naturalistic research methods to study deep phenotyping of dysregulation and externalizing problems in youth, particularly anger and aggression, and advancing mechanism-informed, just in time treatments.

Fields of Interest

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
Pediatric Irritability
Digital Mental Health
Emotion Dysregulation
Cognitive Proccessing and Control
Transdiagnostic Psychopathology
Conduct Disorder

Selected publications

Naim, R., German, R. E., White, J., Pandya, U., Dombek, K., Clayton, M., Perlstein, S., Henry, L. M., Kircanski, K., Lorenzo-Luaces, L., & Brotman, M. A. (2025). Treatment adherence, therapeutic alliance, and clinical outcomes during an exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric irritability. BMC Psychiatry, 25, 181.

Naim, R., Pandya, U., Shaughnessy, S., German, R. E., Henry, L. M., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. A. (2025). Advancing the measurement of psychotherapy outcomes for youth with irritability using in vivo ecological momentary assessment: An exploratory observational study. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 30(4), 482–490.

Naim, R., Dombek, K., Ramaris, R., Haller, S. P., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. A. (2023). An exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth with severe irritability: Feasibility and preliminary efficacy. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 18, 1–17.

Naim, R., Shaughnessy, S., Smith, A., Karalunas, S. L., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. A. (2022). Real-time assessment of positive and negative affective fluctuations and mood lability in a transdiagnostic sample of youth. Depression and Anxiety, 39(12), 870–880.

Naim, R., Haller, S. P., Linke, J. O., Jaffe, A., Stoddard, J., Jones, M., Harrewijn, A., Kircanski, K., Bar-Haim, Y., & Brotman, M. A. (2022). Irritability moderates amygdala–prefrontal connectivity during attention to angry faces: A computational modeling approach. Neuropsychopharmacology, 47(13), 2283– 2291.

Naim, R., Kircanski, K., German, R. E., Davis, M., Perlstein, S., Clayton, M., & Brotman, M. A. (2021). Across-subjects multiple baseline trial of exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for severe irritability: A study protocol. BMJ Open, 11(3), e039169.

Naim, R., Goodwin, M. S., Dombek, K., Revzina, O., Agorsor, C., Lee, K., Zapp, C., Freitag, G. F., Haller, S. P., Cardinale, E., Jangraw, D., & Brotman, M. A. (2021). Ambulatory cardiovascular reactivity as a measure of irritability in a transdiagnostic sample of youth: Preliminary associations. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 30(4), e1890.

Naim, R., Smith, A., Chue, A., Grassie, H., Linke, J. O., Dombek, K., Shaughnessy, S., McNeil, C., Cardinale, E., Agorsor, C., Cardenas, S., Brooks, J., Subar, A. N., Jones, E. L., Do, Q. B., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., & Kircanski, K. (2021). Using ecological momentary assessment to enhance irritability phenotyping in a transdiagnostic sample of youth. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 1734–1746.