Developmental Psychobiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Psychobiology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers34
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence28
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women27
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Children's planning of efficient tool use in a social context20
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight19
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task18
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten18
The role of epigenetic mechanisms in the long‐term effects of early‐life adversity and mother–infant relationship on physiology and behavior of offspring in laboratory rats and mice18
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia17
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Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation17
The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review17
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage16
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water16
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation15
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization15
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies14
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women14
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety13
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill13
Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility13
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Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood13
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Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy12
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Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally12
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning12
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes12
Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review12
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats12
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment12
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta11
Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity11
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New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA11
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Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention11
Environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence restores the reduced expression of synaptophysin and GFAP in the hippocampus of chronically stressed rats in a sex‐specific manner11
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat11
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Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography11
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood10
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials10
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat10
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review10
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation10
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate10
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents10
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence10
Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress9
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Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths9
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior9
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?9
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage9
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Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae9
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits9
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens9
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Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?8
Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces8
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats8
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Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood8
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life8
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants8
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers8
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos8
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Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats7
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates7
Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors7
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs7
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging7
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study7
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats7
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Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling7
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The development of interoceptive hunger signals7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture7
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57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology6
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence6
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning6
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border6
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach6
Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior6
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse6
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review6
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder6
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information6
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Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender6
Postweaning cafeteria diet induces a short‐term metabolic disfunction and a differential vulnerability to develop anxiety‐like and depressive‐like behaviors in male but not female rats6
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When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?5
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study5
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence5
Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence5
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration5
The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Function5
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat5
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Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age5
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Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches5
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The effects of neonatal procedural pain and maternal isolation on hippocampal cell proliferation and reelin concentration in neonatal and adult male and female rats5
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Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests5
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse5
Longitudinal study of infants receiving extra motor stimulation, full‐term control infants, and infants born preterm: High‐density EEG analyses of cortical activity in response to visual motion4
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis4
Psychometric Properties of the Neural Response to Rewards and Errors Across Mid‐ to Late‐Adolescence4
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices4
Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study4
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Parent–child physiological synchrony: Concurrent and lagged effects during dyadic laboratory interaction4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy4
Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats4
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns4
Telomere Length and Change Among Infants Growing up in Low‐ to Mid‐Income Households4
Impact of maternal physical exercise on inflammatory and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis markers in the brain and lungs of prenatally stressed neonatal mice4
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats4
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period4
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression4
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review4
Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress4
Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?4
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children4
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Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice4
Relationship Between Prone Skills and Motor‐Based Problem‐Solving Abilities in Full‐Term and Preterm Infants During the First 6 Months of Life4
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice4
Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?4
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Development and pilot testing of an early childhood somatosensory assessment: Somatosensory test of reaching3
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator3
Specificity of California mouse pup vocalizations in response to olfactory stimuli3
Effects of Emotional Violence Experienced by Fathers From Their Partners in the Postpartum Period on Depression Level and Father–Infant Attachment3
Locomotor Response to Novelty: What Does It Tell Us?3
Gene Expression After Exercise Is Disrupted by Early‐Life Stress3
Internal consistency reliability of the P300 to novelty in infants: The influence of trial number and data loss due to artifacts3
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty3
Examining the interaction between prenatal stress and polygenic risk for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder on brain growth in childhood: Findings from the DREAM BIG consortium3
Influence of early social isolation on general activity and spatial learning in adult WAG/Rij rats3
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Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography3
Negative caregiving and stress reactivity moderate the relation between early life stress and externalizing in adolescence3
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A review of the literature: How does prenatal opioid exposure impact placental health and fetal brain development?3
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Maternal Prenatal Psychological Stress and Iron Levels in the Fetal Brain3
“Does your baby watch TV?”: The associations between at‐home TV watching and laboratory challenge cortisol are different for young infants and their mothers3
Maternal Emotion Regulation and Parenting: A Physiological Perspective3
Effects of social environments on male primate HPG and HPA axis developmental programming3
Examining the impact of prenatal maternal internalizing symptoms and socioeconomic status on children's frontal alpha asymmetry and psychopathology3
Fingerprint patterns in relation to an altered neurodevelopment in patients with autism spectrum disorder3
“Generalized unsafety” as fear inhibition to safety signals in adults with and without childhood trauma3
Fathers, families, and physiology: Exploring the psychobiological context of fathering3
The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults3
Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners’ social hierarchies for emerging school engagement3
Assessment of the effects of sex, age, and rearing condition on ultrasonic vocalizations elicited by pups during the maternal potentiation paradigm in C57BL/6J mice3
The effects of abnormal visual experience on neurodevelopmental disorders3
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Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors3
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Experience With Face Groups Impacts Face Processing, but Not Face Differentiation in 6‐ and 9‐Month‐Old Infants3
Differences Between Preterm and Full‐Term Infants in Electroencephalogram Power Spectral Density Slope3
The impact of poor fetal growth and chronic hyperpalatable diet exposure in adulthood on hippocampal function and feeding patterns in male rats3
A mother's touch: Preschool‐aged children are regulated by positive maternal touch3
Embryonic opioid exposure impairs inhibitory transmission of striatum in day‐old chicks3
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children3
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Adolescent chronic unpredictable stress causes a bias in goal‐directed behavior and distinctively changes the expression of NMDA and dopamine receptors in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum in 3
Sociodemographics and chronic stress in mother–toddler dyads living in poverty3
Enhanced maternal behaviors in a mouse model of congenital blindness3
Examining the biological impacts of parent–child relationship dynamics on preschool‐aged children who have experienced adversity2
Caudate volume is prospectively associated with irritability in toddlerhood: A preliminary investigation2
The effect of kangaroo care on cortisol levels and immune factors in breast milk2
A single‐session behavioral protocol for successful event‐related potential recording in children with neurodevelopmental disorders2
Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence2
Meconium as an Analyte for Androgen Exposure: Analysis Through Varying Maternal‐Fetal Biomarkers2
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts Performance in a Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates Task Specifically in Adolescent Male Rats2
Unique and interactive effects of threat and deprivation on latent trait cortisol among emerging adults2
Early life stress alters emotional learning in a sex‐ and age‐dependent manner with no impact on emotional behaviors2
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown2
The last stage of development: The restructuring and plasticity of the cortex during adolescence especially at puberty2
In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research2
Adolescent nicotine administration impacts working memory and reversal learning but not cognitive flexibility2
Agomelatine Is Unable to Attenuate Kainic Acid–Induced Deficits in Early Life Communicative Behavior2
Elevated ghrelin alters the behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen exposure in rats2
Analysis of Content About Infant Development From Formal Parent Education Sources in Different World Regions2
The effects of postnatal erythropoietin and nano‐erythropoietin on behavioral alterations by mediating K‐Cl co‐transporter 2 in the valproic acid‐induced rat model of autism2
Prenatal substance exposure, early‐life adversity, and parenting: Associations with adolescent stress response2
Effects of anesthesia exposure on postnatal maturation of white matter in rhesus monkeys2
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Impact of Sex and Salivary Dehydroepiandrosterone on the Association Between Testosterone and Emotion Dysregulation2
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Neuronal Gamma Oscillations During Occlusion Events in Infants2
Under my skin: Parenting behavior and children's cortisol in the Los Angeles family and neighborhood survey2
Interactions among stress, behavioral inhibition, and delta–beta coupling predict adolescent anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Grandmother–grandchild physiological synchrony in Chinese three‐generation families: Links with child emotion regulation2
The effect of emotional uncertainty on attentional bias toward neutral infant faces in adults2
Infant physiological activity and the early emergence of social communication2
Can gut microbiota throughout the first 10 years of life predict executive functioning in childhood?2
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Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children2
Links between socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function, and working memory in early childhood2
Reaching While Learning to Sit: Capturing the Kinematics of Co‐Developing Skills at Home2
Pubertal maturation and timing effects on resting state electroencephalography in autistic and comparison youth2
Epigenetic processes associated with neonatal spinal transection2
Signatures of emotional face processing measured by event‐related potentials in 7‐month‐old infants2
Greater Frontoparietal Connectivity During Task Engagement Among Toddlers With Parent‐Reported Inattention2
Measuring Socioeconomic and Stress Disparities in Infant Declarative Memory Using the Visual Paired Comparison Task2
Sex Differences in the Associations Among Parenting, Socioeconomic Status, and Error Monitoring Among Adolescents2
Early Attachment Disruption Increases Central Sensitivity of Depressive‐Like Behavior to Stimulation by PGE‐22
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion disrupts maternal behavior in rats: An animal model of schizophrenia2
Maternal childhood adversity and infant epigenetic aging: Moderation by restless sleep during pregnancy2
The impact of air pollution on neurocognitive development: Adverse effects and health disparities2
Autonomic nervous system reactivity and preschoolers’ social dominance2
Maternal negative affect moderates behavioral and physiological synchrony in Latinx and Black mother–child dyads2
The Development of Facial Bristles in Tawny Frogmouths (Podargus strigoides)2
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Child Effortful Control Moderates the Link Between Parenting Stress and Child Parasympathetic Regulation: Interactions Across Contexts and Measures2
Prior night sleep moderates the daily spillover between conflict with peers and family and diurnal cortisol1
Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy1
Fine and gross motor skills in 7–10 years old Indian children exposed to a natural disaster during early development1
The neurobehavioral relationship between executive function and creativity during early childhood1
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