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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Maternal care, infant fear memory retention, and the moderating role of variations in separation‐induced ultrasonic vocalizations57
Longitudinal investigation of shyness and physiological vulnerability: Moderating influences of attention biases to threat and safety33
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Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners’ social hierarchies for emerging school engagement29
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Deprivation of direct adult contact during development affects social representation in a songbird23
Cortisol in early childhood moderates the association between family routines and observed affective balance in children from low‐income backgrounds19
The effect of face orientation on audiovisual speech integration in infancy: An electrophysiological study16
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Fathers, families, and physiology: Exploring the psychobiological context of fathering16
Commentary on the special issue: Building on progress and surmounting barriers in research on developmental psychobiology15
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography15
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One brick at a time: Building a developmental profile of spatial abilities15
The effect of physical and emotional partner violence exerted during pregnancy on prenatal attachment and depression levels in pregnant women15
Fingerprint patterns in relation to an altered neurodevelopment in patients with autism spectrum disorder14
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study14
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Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task14
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten14
Neuroendocrine and autonomic stress systems activity in young adults raised by mothers with mental health and substance abuse problems: A prospective cohort study13
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates12
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 mice12
Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the within‐person relations of parental emotional expressivity and children's prosocial behaviors12
Introduction to the special issue on threat and safety learning11
Early temperamental and biological predictors of dimensions of social withdrawal in childhood11
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Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence11
Infant negative affectivity and patterns of affect‐biased attention11
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats11
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs11
The development of interoceptive hunger signals10
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats10
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women10
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Sensorimotor development of male and female rats subjected to neonatal anoxia10
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Neural Sensitivity to Ambiguous Social Exclusion Reflects Information Processing Bias in Midadolescents With Higher Levels of Aggression9
Children's planning of efficient tool use in a social context9
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers9
Maternal oxytocin treatment at birth increases epigenetic age in male offspring9
Examining the interaction between prenatal stress and polygenic risk for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder on brain growth in childhood: Findings from the DREAM BIG consortium9
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Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice9
Effects of skin‐to‐skin contact on full‐term infants’ stress reactivity and quality of mother–infant interactions9
A person‐centered data analytic approach to dopaminergic polygenic moderation of child maltreatment exposure9
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator9
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight9
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging9
The role of maternal touch in the association between SLC6A4 methylation and stress response in very preterm infants9
Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling8
Timing‐specific associations between income‐to‐needs ratio and hippocampal and amygdala volumes in middle childhood: A preliminary study8
Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood8
Effects of Emotional Violence Experienced by Fathers From Their Partners in the Postpartum Period on Depression Level and Father–Infant Attachment8
Disrupted serotonin system development via early life antidepressant exposure impairs maternal care and increases serotonin receptor expression in adult female offspring8
Neural Sensitivity to Peer Feedback and Depressive Symptoms: Moderation by Executive Function8
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 8
Resting Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Activity in Childhood Following Maltreatment: A Meta‐Analysis8
Equifinality in infancy: The many paths to walking8
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Emergence of personality in weaning‐age kittens of the domestic cat?8
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information8
Long‐term stability of frontal electroencephalogram alpha power and asymmetry at rest in adults born at extremely low or normal birth weight: A 10‐year longitudinal study8
Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention8
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and lactation: A scoping review of effects on the maternal and infant gut microbiome7
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Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization7
Obituary for Peter H. Wolff (July 8, 1926–August 17, 2021): An unnamed developmental psychobiologist7
Adapting event‐related potential research paradigms for children: Considerations from research on the development of recognition memory7
Associations between adversity in the family of origin and hair cortisol concentration in adulthood7
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Habitual night waking associates with dynamics of waking cortical theta power in infancy6
RSA instability in mothers of preschoolers and adolescents is related to observations of supportive parenting behaviors6
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women6
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia6
Assessment of the effects of sex, age, and rearing condition on ultrasonic vocalizations elicited by pups during the maternal potentiation paradigm in C57BL/6J mice6
Effects of social environments on male primate HPG and HPA axis developmental programming6
Women are expected to smile: Preliminary evidence for the role of gender in the neurophysiological processing of adult emotional faces in 3‐year‐old children6
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees6
Influence of early social isolation on general activity and spatial learning in adult WAG/Rij rats6
Adipocytokine correlates of childhood and adolescent mental health: A systematic review6
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Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage5
The impact of poor fetal growth and chronic hyperpalatable diet exposure in adulthood on hippocampal function and feeding patterns in male rats5
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water5
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Exploring the role of OXTR gene methylation in attachment development: A longitudinal study5
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An in‐depth analysis of the polyvagal theory in light of current findings in neuroscience and clinical research5
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach5
Maternal stress and development of infant attention to threat‐related facial expressions5
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Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning5
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Sex‐Specific Impacts of Early Life Sleep Disruption: Ethanol Seeking, Social Interaction, and Anxiety Are Differentially Altered in Adolescent Prairie Voles5
Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults5
Cognitive development from infancy to young adulthood in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): Effect of age, sex, and hormones on learning and affective state5
Parasympathetic response to challenge in infancy moderates the effects of sociodemographic risk on academic achievement at school entry5
Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults5
“Does your baby watch TV?”: The associations between at‐home TV watching and laboratory challenge cortisol are different for young infants and their mothers5
Mother–child mutually responsive orientation and real‐time physiological coordination5
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Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood5
Exploring the impact of parental technoference on toddlers: A commentary on physiological and developmental implications4
Fathering behavior, attachment, and engagement in childcare predict testosterone and cortisol4
Maternal trait anxiety symptoms, frontolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity, and cognitive development in infancy4
Context is key: Parasympathetic regulation in the classroom differentially predicts preschoolers’ socially competent behaviors4
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence4
Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age4
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse4
Maternal mindfulness during pregnancy predicts newborn neurobehavior4
Maternal distress, DNA methylation, and fetal programing of stress physiology in Brazilian mother–infant pairs4
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children4
The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults4
Neurobehavioral alterations induced by third‐trimester gestation‐equivalent ethanol exposure are inhibited by folate administration4
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 rats4
Early, concurrent, and consistent hand preferences predict stacking in toddlerhood4
Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli4
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety4
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Early‐ and Late‐Stage Auditory Processing of Speech Versus Non‐Speech Sounds in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: An ERP and Oscillatory Activity Study4
“Generalized unsafety” as fear inhibition to safety signals in adults with and without childhood trauma4
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender4
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty4
The effects of early weaning on Pavlovian fear conditioning in young rats4
Development and validation of the Dimensional Inventory of Stress and Trauma Across the Lifespan (DISTAL): A novel assessment tool to facilitate the dimensional study of psychobiological sequelae of e4
Abstracts from the 56th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology4
Neonatal procedural pain affects state, but not trait anxiety behavior in adult rats4
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation4
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology4
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border4
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation4
Emerging Adults Mirror Infants’ Emotions and Yawns4
Chronic nicotine exposure alters sperm small RNA content in C57BL/6J mouse model4
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Prenatal and postnatal cocaine exposure enhances the anxiety‐ and depression‐like behaviors in rats during cocaine withdrawal3
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies3
Locomotor Response to Novelty: What Does It Tell Us?3
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Fine and gross motor skills in 7–10 years old Indian children exposed to a natural disaster during early development3
Interactive effects of maternal physiological arousal and regulation on maternal sensitivity: Replication and extension in an independent sample3
Pubertal maturation and timing effects on resting state electroencephalography in autistic and comparison youth3
Infant posture and caregiver‐provided cognitive opportunities in typically developing infants and infants with motor delay3
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The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review3
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder3
The Serotonergic Control of Play Fighting in Male Juvenile Hamsters: Opposite Effects of 5‐HT1A and 5‐HT3 Receptor Manipulations3
Sex differences in acute early life stress‐enhanced fear learning in adult rats3
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Volumetric development of hippocampal subfields and hippocampal white matter connectivity: Relationship with episodic memory3
The neurobehavioral relationship between executive function and creativity during early childhood3
Environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence restores the reduced expression of synaptophysin and GFAP in the hippocampus of chronically stressed rats in a sex‐specific manner3
Cues associated with a single ethanol exposure elicit conditioned corticosterone responses in adolescent male but not female Sprague–Dawley rats3
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Adolescent nicotine administration impacts working memory and reversal learning but not cognitive flexibility3
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches3
Reliability of reward‐ and error‐related brain activity in early childhood3
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Electroencephalogram aperiodic power spectral slope can be reliably measured and predicts ADHD risk in early development3
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review3
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors3
Developmental psychobiology reviewer recognition for 20213
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When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?3
Methods and metrics for EEG/ERP assessment of emotion and cognition in young children3
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Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment3
Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)2
Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence2
Elevated ghrelin alters the behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen exposure in rats2
Effects of an attachment‐based intervention on autonomic regulation among opioid‐exposed infants2
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests2
Maternal psychological risk and the neural correlates of infant face processing: A latent profile analysis2
A meta‐analysis of mother–child synchrony in respiratory sinus arrhythmia and contextual risk2
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Maternal stress and mental health before pregnancy and offspring diurnal cortisol in early childhood2
Introduction to the SEED Science special issue2
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Associations of maternal emotion regulation with child white matter connectivity in Black American mother–child dyads2
Sex and Age Differences in Ontogeny of Alloparenting: A Relation to Forebrain DRD1, DRD2, and HTR2A mRNA Expression?2
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning2
Maternal negative affect moderates behavioral and physiological synchrony in Latinx and Black mother–child dyads2
More than meets the eye: Examining physiological and behavioral regulation during delay of gratification task2
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Infant physiological activity and the early emergence of social communication2
Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review2
Prior night sleep moderates the daily spillover between conflict with peers and family and diurnal cortisol2
Infants’ neural sensitivity to social interactions varies by income and infant‐directed speech2
Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy2
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse2
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta2
Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy2
Grandmother–grandchild physiological synchrony in Chinese three‐generation families: Links with child emotion regulation2
Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana2
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children2
The impact of air pollution on neurocognitive development: Adverse effects and health disparities2
Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally2
Associations between peer stress in early adolescence and multiple event‐related potentials elicited during social feedback processing2
A dog's life: Early life histories influence methylation of glucocorticoid (NR3C1) and oxytocin (OXTR) receptor genes, cortisol levels, and attachment styles2
Infant temperamental fear, pupil dilation, and gaze aversion from smiling strangers2
Examining the biological impacts of parent–child relationship dynamics on preschool‐aged children who have experienced adversity2
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Observed shyness leads to more automatic imitation in early childhood2
High vagal tone and rapid extinction learning as potential transdiagnostic protective factors following childhood violence exposure2
The importance of decomposing periodic and aperiodic EEG signals for assessment of brain function in a global context2
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat2
Contributions of dysfunctional plasticity mechanisms to the development of atypical perceptual processing2
Intrinsic Infant Hippocampal Function Supports Inhibitory Processing2
Parental Exposure to Morphine Before Conception Decreases Morphine and Cocaine‐Induced Locomotor Sensitization in Male Offspring2
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period1
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Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure1
Developmental Changes in Locomotion and Sensorimotor Reflexes Following Spinal Cord Transection1
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Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts Performance in a Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates Task Specifically in Adolescent Male Rats1
Substance Use and Its Relationship With Attachment and Early Maladaptive Schemes in Adolescents in Ecuador1
COVID‐19 and early puberty—An unintended consequence of COVID‐19 lockdown?1
Emotion dysregulation and reward responsiveness as predictors of autonomic reactivity to an infant cry task among substance‐using pregnant and postpartum women1
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence1
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Cognitive Control Moderates Associations Between Domains of Temperamental Reactivity and Preschoolers’ Social Behaviors1
Preliminary findings of emotion regulation in 12‐month‐old infants of mothers enrolled in a randomized controlled trial assessing a nutrition + exercise intervention1
Correction to Beyond the dyad: the role of mother and father in newborns’ global DNA methylation during the first month of life—a pilot study1
The effects of forced exercise and zinc supplementation during pregnancy on prenatally stress‐induced behavioral and neurobiological consequences in adolescent female rat offspring1
Associations between oxidative stress biomarkers during pregnancy and infant cognition at 7.5 months1
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography1
Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning1
Associations between parental involvement at bedtime and young children's evening cortisol and nighttime sleep1
The effects of neonatal procedural pain and maternal isolation on hippocampal cell proliferation and reelin concentration in neonatal and adult male and female rats1
Nine‐month old infants’ hand preference shows no link to concurrent or later vocabulary1
Greater Frontoparietal Connectivity During Task Engagement Among Toddlers With Parent‐Reported Inattention1
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Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress1
Increase in sexual motivation throughout adolescence in the cycling female rat1
Daily, limited access to methamphetamine self‐administration during pregnancy leads to increased methamphetamine sensitivity in adult offspring1
Quality of father–child relationships as a predictor of sleep developments during preschool years1
Autonomic nervous system activity moderates associations between temperament and externalizing behaviors in early childhood1
Rhinorrhea and watery eyes in infancy and risk of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder in school‐age children1
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