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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women68
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight36
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten29
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers27
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task27
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence23
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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 mice21
An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well‐Being in Black American Families19
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water18
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women18
Estrous Cycle Impacts Fear Extinction and Relapse in Female Adolescent Rats18
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation17
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies17
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia15
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Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility14
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety14
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood14
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization13
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment13
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage13
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation13
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A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment13
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Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat12
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats12
New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA12
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
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Environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence restores the reduced expression of synaptophysin and GFAP in the hippocampus of chronically stressed rats in a sex‐specific manner12
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Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity11
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes11
Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy11
Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression11
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta11
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Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention10
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate10
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat10
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography10
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review10
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage9
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits9
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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
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens9
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae9
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior9
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence9
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?9
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Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life8
Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood8
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants8
Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?8
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture7
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers7
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Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats7
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos7
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats7
The development of interoceptive hunger signals7
Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors7
Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces7
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Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior6
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender6
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning6
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology6
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats6
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse6
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Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates6
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study6
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging6
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence6
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach6
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information6
Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors5
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The Effects of Distraction and Reappraisal on the Late Positive Potential Across Discrete Emotions: A Study With Latinx Children5
Cross‐Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated With Cumulative Family Stress5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration5
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border5
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Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches5
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 rats5
Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality5
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Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat4
Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns4
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study4
Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Resting Brain Activity: A Preregistered Investigation4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study4
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats4
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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 rats4
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age4
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice4
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats4
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review4
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
Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence4
The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Function4
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)4
Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?4
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Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression4
Telomere Length and Change Among Infants Growing up in Low‐ to Mid‐Income Households4
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A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period4
Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice4
Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress4
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Impact of maternal physical exercise on inflammatory and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis markers in the brain and lungs of prenatally stressed neonatal mice3
Development and pilot testing of an early childhood somatosensory assessment: Somatosensory test of reaching3
Negative caregiving and stress reactivity moderate the relation between early life stress and externalizing in adolescence3
Parent and Child Influences on Adrenocortical Synchrony During Middle Childhood3
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography3
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
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Enhanced maternal behaviors in a mouse model of congenital blindness3
Fingerprint patterns in relation to an altered neurodevelopment in patients with autism spectrum disorder3
Internal consistency reliability of the P300 to novelty in infants: The influence of trial number and data loss due to artifacts3
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices3
A mother's touch: Preschool‐aged children are regulated by positive maternal touch3
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Examining the impact of prenatal maternal internalizing symptoms and socioeconomic status on children's frontal alpha asymmetry and psychopathology3
Psychometric Properties of the Neural Response to Rewards and Errors Across Mid‐ to Late‐Adolescence3
Differences Between Preterm and Full‐Term Infants in Electroencephalogram Power Spectral Density Slope3
“Generalized unsafety” as fear inhibition to safety signals in adults with and without childhood trauma3
Effects of Emotional Violence Experienced by Fathers From Their Partners in the Postpartum Period on Depression Level and Father–Infant Attachment3
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator3
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The effects of abnormal visual experience on neurodevelopmental disorders3
Fathers, families, and physiology: Exploring the psychobiological context of fathering3
Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?3
Maternal Emotion Regulation and Parenting: A Physiological Perspective3
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Relationship Between Prone Skills and Motor‐Based Problem‐Solving Abilities in Full‐Term and Preterm Infants During the First 6 Months of Life3
Specificity of California mouse pup vocalizations in response to olfactory stimuli3
Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors3
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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
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
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Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners’ social hierarchies for emerging school engagement3
Embryonic opioid exposure impairs inhibitory transmission of striatum in day‐old chicks3
A review of the literature: How does prenatal opioid exposure impact placental health and fetal brain development?3
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children3
Gene Expression After Exercise Is Disrupted by Early‐Life Stress3
The impact of poor fetal growth and chronic hyperpalatable diet exposure in adulthood on hippocampal function and feeding patterns in male rats2
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children2
Can gut microbiota throughout the first 10 years of life predict executive functioning in childhood?2
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown2
Science Democratization for Rigor, Relevance, and Resilience2
Under my skin: Parenting behavior and children's cortisol in the Los Angeles family and neighborhood survey2
Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children2
Impact of Sex and Salivary Dehydroepiandrosterone on the Association Between Testosterone and Emotion Dysregulation2
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Caudate volume is prospectively associated with irritability in toddlerhood: A preliminary investigation2
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Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty2
Parental Incarceration, Attachment to Caregivers, and Young Children's Physiological Stress2
The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults2
Influence of early social isolation on general activity and spatial learning in adult WAG/Rij rats2
Adolescent nicotine administration impacts working memory and reversal learning but not cognitive flexibility2
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts Performance in a Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates Task Specifically in Adolescent Male Rats2
The Development of Facial Bristles in Tawny Frogmouths (Podargus strigoides)2
The effect of emotional uncertainty on attentional bias toward neutral infant faces in adults2
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
Pubertal maturation and timing effects on resting state electroencephalography in autistic and comparison youth2
Examining the biological impacts of parent–child relationship dynamics on preschool‐aged children who have experienced adversity2
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
Child Effortful Control Moderates the Link Between Parenting Stress and Child Parasympathetic Regulation: Interactions Across Contexts and Measures2
Grandmother–grandchild physiological synchrony in Chinese three‐generation families: Links with child emotion regulation2
Sex Differences in the Associations Among Parenting, Socioeconomic Status, and Error Monitoring Among Adolescents2
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Navigating Academic Brokering: Enhancing Belongingness in Scientific Training Programs2
The last stage of development: The restructuring and plasticity of the cortex during adolescence especially at puberty2
“Does your baby watch TV?”: The associations between at‐home TV watching and laboratory challenge cortisol are different for young infants and their mothers2
The impact of air pollution on neurocognitive development: Adverse effects and health disparities2
Maternal negative affect moderates behavioral and physiological synchrony in Latinx and Black mother–child dyads2
Early Attachment Disruption Increases Central Sensitivity of Depressive‐Like Behavior to Stimulation by PGE‐22
Autonomic nervous system reactivity and preschoolers’ social dominance2
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Analysis of Content About Infant Development From Formal Parent Education Sources in Different World Regions2
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion disrupts maternal behavior in rats: An animal model of schizophrenia2
Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence2
Prenatal substance exposure, early‐life adversity, and parenting: Associations with adolescent stress response2
Maternal Prenatal Psychological Stress and Iron Levels in the Fetal Brain2
Experience With Face Groups Impacts Face Processing, but Not Face Differentiation in 6‐ and 9‐Month‐Old Infants2
Reaching While Learning to Sit: Capturing the Kinematics of Co‐Developing Skills at Home2
Effects of social environments on male primate HPG and HPA axis developmental programming2
Greater Frontoparietal Connectivity During Task Engagement Among Toddlers With Parent‐Reported Inattention2
Locomotor Response to Novelty: What Does It Tell Us?2
Fine and gross motor skills in 7–10 years old Indian children exposed to a natural disaster during early development1
Neurobehavioral alterations induced by third‐trimester gestation‐equivalent ethanol exposure are inhibited by folate administration1
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees1
Context is key: Parasympathetic regulation in the classroom differentially predicts preschoolers’ socially competent behaviors1
Infrared Thermal Imaging (ITI), a Non‐invasive Window Into Early Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review1
Empathy for others versus for one's child: Associations with mothers’ brain activation during a social cognitive task and with their toddlers’ functioning1
The effects of exposure to physical and emotional violence from partners on psychological resilience, forgiveness, happiness, life satisfaction, and depression level in Turkish women1
Effects of an attachment‐based intervention on autonomic regulation among opioid‐exposed infants1
Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy1
Cues associated with a single ethanol exposure elicit conditioned corticosterone responses in adolescent male but not female Sprague–Dawley rats1
Neonatal procedural pain affects state, but not trait anxiety behavior in adult rats1
Habitual night waking associates with dynamics of waking cortical theta power in infancy1
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More than meets the eye: Examining physiological and behavioral regulation during delay of gratification task1
The relationship of social support perceived by mothers and fathers and dyadic adjustment with maternal and paternal attachment in the postpartum period1
Prior night sleep moderates the daily spillover between conflict with peers and family and diurnal cortisol1
Exploring the impact of parental technoference on toddlers: A commentary on physiological and developmental implications1
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Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli1
Developmental Trajectories of Delta–Beta EEG Coupling Across Infancy: The Influence of Infant Temperament and Maternal Anxiety Over Time1
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Associations of maternal emotion regulation with child white matter connectivity in Black American mother–child dyads1
Development of “personality” in the domestic cat: A longitudinal study1
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