List of Publications
Genotype-Environment Interactions in Mouse Behavior: A Way Out of the Problem.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (in press)
* The first two authors contributed equally to the paper.
Psychomotor Effects Induced by Opioid Receptor Blockade in the Ventral Tegmental Area.
(submitted)
Texture of locomotor path: A replicable characterization of a complex behavioral phenotype.
Genes, Brain and Behavior (in press).
Activity density in the open-field: A measure for differentiating the effect of psychostimulants
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 2005; 80(2): 239-249.
New replicable anxiety-related measures of wall vs center behavior of mice in the open field.
Journal of Applied Physiology. 2004 Jul;97(1):347-59.
The dynamics of spatial behavior: how can robust smoothing techniques help?
Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2004 Feb 15;133(1-2):161-72.
SEE locomotor behavior test discriminates C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mouse inbred strains across laboratories and protocol conditions.
Behavioral Neuroscience 2003 Jun;117(3):464-77.
Darting behavior: a quantitative movement pattern designed for discrimination and replicability in mouse locomotor behavior.
Behavioural Brain Research 2003 Jun 16;142(1-2):193-205.
Extending SEE for large-scale phenotyping of mouse open-field behavior.
Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers 2003 May;35(2):294-301.
Repeated maternal separation does not alter sucrose-reinforced and open-field behaviors.
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 2002 Aug;73(1):115-22.
Controlling the false discovery rate in behavior genetics research.
Behavioural Brain Research 2001 Nov 1;125(1-2):279-84.
Rats and mice share common ethologically relevant parameters of exploratory behavior.
Behavioural Brain Research 2001 Nov 1;125(1-2):133-40.
Natural segmentation of the locomotor behavior of drug-induced rats in a photobeam cage.
Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2001 Aug 30;109(2):111-21.
A traveling wave of lateral movement coordinates both turning and forward walking in the ferret.
Biological Cybernetics 1998 Jun;78(6):441-53.
Coordination of side-to-side head movements and walking in amphetamine-treated rats: a stereotyped motor pattern as a stable equilibrium in a dynamical system.
Biological Cybernetics 1996 Jun;74(6):487-95.
Locomotor and exploratory behavior: parameters and patterns
In: The Behavior of the Laboratory Rat: A Handbook With Tests. Eds: Ian Q. Whishaw and Bryan Kolb. Oxford University Press.
Exploratory behavior surveyed in three laboratories.
Mouse Phenome Database 2003, Jackson Labortories
Analysis of mouse open-field behavior with SEE
The Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium (TMGC),
2nd Annual Experimental Neurogenetics Mouse Workshop,
Memphis, TN. May 15 - 24, 2005.
Kafkafi N (2003) Chair & Organizer:
symposium: Genotype-environment interactions in behavioral phenotyping: So what are we supposed to do about them?
6th annual meeting of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, New Orleans, November 5-7, 2003.
Kafkafi N (2003)
Designing better measures of behavior using a multi-lab database of raw data.
Lecture in the 6th annual meeting of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. New Orleans, November 5-7, 2003.
Kafkafi N, Lipkind D, Horev G, Benjamini Y, Golani I, Elmer, GI (2002)
Behavioral phenotyping using SEE: discrimination of 10 mouse inbred strains is replicable across 3 laboratories.
Presentation in the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Golani I, Lipkind D, Kafkafi N, Elmer GI (2002)
Phenotyping mouse locomotor behavior in ten strains and across three laboratories using SEE (Strategy for the Exploration of Exploration).
Presentation in “Measuring Behavior 2002”, 4rd International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, 27-30 August 2002, AmsterdamThe Netherlands.
Benjamini Y, Elmer GI, Kafkafi N, Sakov A. (2002)
Replicability issues in the analysis of open field behavior of inbred mouse strains over three laboratories.
Presentation in “Measuring Behavior 2002”, 4rd International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, 27-30 August 2002, AmsterdamThe Netherlands.
Kafkafi N, Lipkind D, Mayo CL, Hen I, Benjamini Y, Elmer G, Golani I (2001)
Phenotyping mouse locomotor behavior with SEE: strain discrimination and replicability across laboratories.
Presentation in the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Kafkafi N, Mayo CL, Drai D, Golani I, Elmer GI. (2000)
SEE analysis of photobeam raw data.
Presentation in “Measuring Behavior 2000”, 3rd International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Drai D, Elmer G, Benjamini Y, Kafkafi, N, Golani I. (2000)
Phenotyping of mouse exploratory behavior.
Presentation in “Measuring Behavior 2000”, 3rd International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Kafkafi N (2000)
Realtive phase and traveling waves as building blocks of coordination patterns in free locomotor behavior.
Lecture in “Measuring Behavior 2000”, 3rd International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Kafkafi N (1999)
Measuring the phase of non-cyclic movement.
Lecture in the 2nd meeting of the Israeli Society for Theoretical and Mathematical Biology, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Drai D, Golani I, Kafkafi N, Stern T, Veierov Y. (1998)
The segmentation of free animal movement into natural units.
Presentation in "Measuring Behavior 1998" - the Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research. Ed. L. P. J. J. Noldus. Noldus Information Technology b.v., Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Kafkafi N (1998).
Coordination patterns in quadruped free locomotion.
Presentation in the 1st meeting of the Israeli Society for Theoretical and Mathematical Biology, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Kafkafi N (1996).
Fish swim, ferrets walk: Is there a difference?
Lecture in the 33rd annual meeting, Zoological Society of Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel.