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  1. Structural differences among individuals, genders and generations as the key for ritual transmission, stereotypy and flexibility

    Article • Behaviour, January 2017, Brill

    Professor David Eilam

  2. Breaking with Tradition: common acts as memes in cultural transference

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  3. Of mice and men: Building blocks in cognitive mapping

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  4. Who are the bosses? Group influence on the behavior of voles following owl attack

    Article • Behavioural Processes, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  5. “Shall two walk together except they be agreed?” Spatial behavior in rat dyads

    Article • Animal Cognition, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  6. Spatial behavior reflects the mental disorder in OCD patients with and without comorbid schizophrenia

    Article • CNS Spectrums, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Eilam

  7. The Impact of Precaution and Practice on the Performance of a Risky Motor Task

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, June 2013, MDPI AG

    Professor David Eilam

  8. Adding mist to the fog surrounding collective rituals: what are they, why, when and how often do they occur?

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Eilam

  9. Irrelevant idiosyncratic acts as preparatory, confirmatory, or transitional phases in motor behaviour

    Article • Behaviour, January 2013, Brill

    Professor David Eilam

  10. Are Motor Collective Rituals as Rigid as They Seem? A Test Case of a Zulu Wedding Dance

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2013, Brill

    Professor David Eilam

  11. Network Analysis of Rat Spatial Cognition: Behaviorally-Established Symmetry in a Physically Asymmetrical Environment

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2012, PLOS

    Professor David Eilam

  12. Animal behavior as a conceptual framework for the study of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD)

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  13. Traveling in the dark: The legibility of a regular and predictable structure of the environment extends beyond its borders

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  14. The anxious vole: the impact of group and gender on collective behavior under life-threat

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  15. Arena geometry and path shape: When rats travel in straight or in circuitous paths?

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  16. Video telemetry and behavioral analysis discriminate between compulsive cleaning and compulsive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Article • European Neuropsychopharmacology, November 2011, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  17. Manifestation of Incompleteness in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) as Reduced Functionality and Extended Activity beyond Task Completion

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2011, PLOS

    Professor David Eilam

  18. City rats: insight from rat spatial behavior into human cognition in urban environments

    Article • Animal Cognition, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  19. Threat detection: Behavioral practices in animals and humans

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  20. Spatial behavior: the impact of global and local geometry

    Article • Animal Cognition, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  21. Pragmatic and idiosyncratic acts in human everyday routines: The counterpart of compulsive rituals

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  22. Decision making at a crossroad: why to go straight ahead, retrace a path, or turn sideways?

    Article • Animal Cognition, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  23. Together they stand: A life-threatening event reduces individual behavioral variability in groups of voles

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  24. Is it safe? Voles in an unfamiliar dark open-field divert from optimal security by abandoning a familiar shelter and not visiting a central start point

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  25. How barn owls (Tyto alba) visually follow moving voles (Microtus socialis) before attacking them

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  26. Mice with vestibular deficiency display hyperactivity, disorientation, and signs of anxiety

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  27. The trigger for barn owl (Tyto alba) attack is the onset of stopping or progressing of the prey

    Article • Behavioural Processes, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  28. Turning order into chaos through repetition and addition of elementary acts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

    Article • The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Eilam

  29. Wait before running for your life: defensive tactics of spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in evading barn owl (Tyto alba) attack

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Amiyaal Ilany, Professor David Eilam

  30. On the border: perimeter patrolling as a transitional exploratory phase in a diurnal rodent, the fat sand rat (Psammomys obesus)

    Article • Animal Cognition, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  31. Modulation of quinpirole-induced compulsive-like behavior in rats by environmental changes: Implications for OCD rituals and for exploration and navigation

    Article • BMC Neuroscience, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  32. The impact of landmark properties in shaping exploration and navigation

    Article • Animal Cognition, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  33. Ritualized behavior in animals and humans: Time, space, and attention

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Eilam

  34. CAN AGGRESSION BE THE FORCE DRIVING TEMPORAL SEPARATION BETWEEN COMPETING COMMON AND GOLDEN SPINY MICE?

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, February 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Eilam

  35. S.15.02 Dopamine model of OCD in rats

    Article • European Neuropsychopharmacology, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  36. Rituals, stereotypy and compulsive behavior in animals and humans

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  37. ‘Looping’—an exploration mechanism in a dark open field

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, April 2005, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  38. Die hard: A blend of freezing and fleeing as a dynamic defense—implications for the control of defensive behavior

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  39. Protean behavior under barn-owl attack: voles alternate between freezing and fleeing and spiny mice flee in alternating patterns

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  40. Psychiatric Models

    Article • September 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Eilam

  41. PARENTAL INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL VOLES VARIES AND IS RELATIVELY INDEPENDENT OF LITTER SIZE

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, August 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Eilam

  42. Movement and direction of movement of a simulated prey affect the success rate in barn owl Tyto alba attack

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  43. Open-field behavior withstands drastic changes in arena size

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, June 2003, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  44. Voles scale locomotion to the size of the open-field by adjusting the distance between stops: a possible link to path integration

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  45. Social vole parents force their mates to baby‐sit

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  46. The morphogenesis of motor rituals in rats treated chronically with the dopamine agonist quinpirole.

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor David Eilam

  47. Differential behavioural and hormonal responses of voles and spiny mice to owl calls

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 1999, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  48. How the neonatal rat gets to the nipple. II. Changes during development

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, April 1999, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  49. Behavioural response of wild rodents to the calls of an owl: a comparative study

    Article • Journal of Zoology, August 1998, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  50. Behavioural response of wild rodents to the calls of an owl: a comparative study

    Article • Journal of Zoology, August 1998, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  51. Histology and Enzymatic Activity in the Postnatal Development of Limb Muscles in Rodents

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, February 1998, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  52. Quinpirole induces compulsive checking behavior in rats: A potential animal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 1998, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor David Eilam

  53. How the neonatal rat gets to the nipple: Common motor modules and their involvement in the expression of early motor behavior

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, January 1998, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  54. The developmental order of bipedal locomotion in the jerboa (Jaculus orientalis): Pivoting, creeping, quadrupedalism, and bipedalism

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, September 1997, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  55. Uphill locomotion in mole rats: A possible advantage of backward locomotion

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, September 1995, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  56. Comparative Morphology of Locomotion in Vertebrates

    Article • Journal of Motor Behavior, March 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Eilam

  57. Dynamics of behavioral sensitization induced by the dopamine agonist quinpirole and a proposed central energy control mechanism

    Article • Psychopharmacology, September 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  58. Dynamics of behavioral sensitization induced by the dopamine agonist quinpirole and a proposed central energy control mechanism

    Article • Psychopharmacology, June 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  59. Influence of Body Morphology on Turning Behavior in Carnivores

    Article • Journal of Motor Behavior, March 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Eilam

  60. Decreased Density of Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons and Disintegration of the Spatial Organization of Behavior in Experimental Autoimmune Dementia (EAD)a

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, September 1993, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam

  61. Stopping behavior: constraints on exploration in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, February 1993, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  62. Quinpirole alters quadruped activity in rats from the second postnatal week

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, May 1992, Wiley

    Dr Linda Spear, Professor David Eilam

  63. Dopaminergic control of locomotion, mouthing, snout contact, and grooming: opposing roles of D1 and D2 receptors

    Article • Psychopharmacology, April 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Eilam

  64. Differential effects of D1 and D2 dopamine agonists on stereotyped locomotion in rats

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, November 1991, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  65. Dosing regimen differentiates sensitization of locomotion and mouthing to D2 agonist quinpirole

    Article • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, August 1990, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  66. D2-agonist quinpirole induces perseveration of routes and hyperactivity but no perseveration of movements

    Article • Brain Research, June 1989, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  67. Biphasic effect of D-2 agonist quinpirole on locomotion and movements

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, February 1989, Elsevier

    Professor David Eilam

  68. The ontogeny of exploratory behavior in the house rat (Rattus rattus): The mobility gradient

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, November 1988, Wiley

    Professor David Eilam