Selected Publications

Anna Grossman, and Avital, Avi. "Emotional and Sensory Dysregulation as a possible missing link in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Review." Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2023).‏  

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Punski‐Hoogervorst, Janne L., Batya Engel‐Yeger, and Avi Avital. "Attention deficits as a key player in the symptomatology of posttraumatic stress disorder: A review." Journal of Neuroscience Research (2023).‏

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Rania Awad, Avi Avital, Alejandro Sosnik. "Polymeric nanocarriers for nose-to-brain drug delivery in neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders." Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (2022).

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Dolev, Talya, et al. "Differential Impact of Work Overload on Physicians' Attention: A Comparison Between Residential Fields." Journal of Patient Safety (2022).

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Maoz, Inon, et al. "Dog training alleviates PTSD symptomatology by emotional and attentional regulation." European Journal of Psychotraumatology 12.1 (2021): 1995264.

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Brand, Zev, and Avi Avital. “High resolution behavioral and neural activity representation using a geometrical approach.” Scientific reports 10.1 (2020): 1-8.‏

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Avital, Avi, Iris Manor, and David Coghill. “Attention and Methylphenidate.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 14 (2020).

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Korkhin, Anna, et al. “Developmental effects of environmental enrichment on selective and auditory sustained attention.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 111 (2020): 104479.‏

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Zubedat, Salman, et al. “A probabilistic model of startle response reveals opposite effects of acute versus chronic Methylphenidate treatment.” Journal of neuroscience methods 327 (2019): 108389.‏‏

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Kaplan, E., Zubedat, S., Radzishevsky, I., Valenta, A., Rechnitz, O., Sason, H., Sajrawi, C., Bodner, O., Konno, K., Esaki, K., Derdikman, D., Yoshikawa, T., Watanabe, M., Kennedy, R., Billard, J.M.*, Avital, A.* and Wolosker, H*. The ASCT1 (Slc1a4) Transporter is a Physiologic Regulator of Brain D-Serine and Neurodevelopment. PNAS. 2018; 115(38):9628-9633.

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Abu Rahal, Z., Vadas, L., Manor, I., Bloch, B. and Avital A. Use of information and communication technologies among individuals with and without serious mental illness. Psychiatry Res. 2018; 266, 160-167.

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Finberg, J.P.M., Aluf, Y., Loboda, Y., Nakhleh, M.K., Jeries, R., Aboud, M., Zubedat, S., Avital, A., Khatib, S., Vaya, J. and Haick, H. Altered Volatile Organic Compounds Profile in Transgenic Rats Bearing A53T Mutation of Human Alpha-Synuclein: Comparison with Dopaminergic and Serotonergic Denervation. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2018; 9 (2), 291–297.

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Sason, S., Billard, J.M., Paul Smith, G., Safory, H., Zubedat, S., Neame, S., Rosenberg, D., Kaplan, E., Foltyn, V.N., Christoffersen, C.T., Bundgaard, C., Thomsen, C., Avital, A., Christensen, K.V. and Wolosker, H. Asc-1 transporter regulation of synaptic activity via the tonic release of d-serine in the forebrain. Cerebral cortex. 2017; 27(2), 1573-1587.

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Avital, A., Aga-Mizrachi, S. and Zubedat, S. Evidence for social cooperation in rodents by automated maze. Scientific Reports. 2016; 6, 29517.

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Abu Ahmad, N., Armaly, Z., Berman, S., Jabour, A., Aga-Mizrachi, S., Mosenego-Ornan, E. and Avital, A. L-Carnitine Improves Cognitive and Renal Functions in a Rat Model of Chronic Kidney Disease. Physiology and Behavior. 2016; 164, 182-8.

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Cymerblit-Sabba, A., Aga-Mizrachi, S., Zubedat, S., Grinstein D. and Avital, A. Letter to the editor. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015; 58: 152-153.

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Safory, H., Neame, S., Shulman, Y., Zubedat, S., Radzishevsky, I., Rosenberg, D., Sason, H., Engelender, S., Avital, A., Hülsmann, S., Schiller, J. and Wolosker, H. The alanine-serine-cysteine-1 (Asc-1) transporter controls glycine levels in the brain and is required for glycinergic inhibitory transmission. EMBO Reports. 2015; e201439561.

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Zubedat, S., Aga-Mizrachi, S., Cymerblit-Sabba, A., Ritter, A., Nachmani, M. and Avital, A. Methylphenidate and environmental enrichment ameliorate the deleterious effects of prenatal stress on attention functioning. Stress. 2015; 18: 1-9.

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Cymerblit-Sabba, A., Zubedat, S., Aga-Mizrachi, S., Biady, G., Nakhash, B., Rubin Ganel, S., Shapira, B., Grinstein D. and Avital, A. Mapping the Developmental Trajectory of Stress Effects: Pubescence as the Risk Window. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015; 52: 168-175.

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Aga-Mizrachi, S., Cymerblit-Sabba, A., Gurman, O., Balan, A., Shwam, G., Deshe, R., Miller, L., Gorodetsky, N., Heinrich, N., Tzezana, O., Zubedat, S., Grinstein, D. and Avital, A. Methylphenidate and Desipramine combined treatment improves PTSD symptomatology in a rat model. Translational Psychiatry. 2014; 4: e447.

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Zubedat S., Aga-Mizrachi S., Cymerblit-Sabba A., Shwartz J.,  Leon F., Rozen S., Varkovitzky I., Eshed Y., Grinstein D. and Avital, A. Human-animal interface: the effects of handler’s stress on the performance of canines in an explosive detection task. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 2014; 158:69-75.

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Zubedat, S., Freed, Y., Eshed, Y., Cymerblit-Sabbaa, A., Ritter, A., Nachmani, M., Harush, R., Aga-Mizrachi, S. and Avital, A. Plant-derived nanoparticle treatment with cocc 30c ameliorates attention and motor abilities in sleep deprived rats. Neuroscience. 2013; 253:1-8.

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Ram, E., Raphaeli, S. and Avital, A. Prepubertal chronic stress and ketamine administration to rats as a neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia symptomatology. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2013; 16(10):2307-14.

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Asor, E., Belhanes, H., Kavushansky, A., Zubedat, S., Klein, E., Avital, A.*, Ben-Shachar, D*. Early postnatal interference with the expression of multiple Sp1 regulated genes leads to disparate behavioral response to sub-chronic and chronic stress in rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology.2013; 38(10):2173-83.

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Cymerblit-Sabba, A., Lasri, T., Gruper, M., Aga- Mizrachi, S., Zubedat, S. and Avital, A. Prenatal enriched environment improves emotional and attentional reactivity to adulthood stress. Behavioural Brain Research. 2012; 241:185-90.

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Avital, A. Dolev, T.,Aga-Mizrachi, S. and Zubedat, S. Environmental enrichment preceding early adulthood methylphenidate treatment leads to long term increase of corticosterone and testosterone in the rat. PLoS ONE. 2011; 6(7): e22059.