OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Psychobiology is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood	31
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten	29
One brick at a time: Building a developmental profile of spatial abilities	25
Children's planning of efficient tool use in a social context	24
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight	24
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task	23
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers	20
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 mice	17
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence	17
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women	17
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Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women	16
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization	16
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation	16
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water	16
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood	15
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	15
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies	15
The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review	15
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage	14
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Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety	13

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Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	13
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Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment	12
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats	12
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning	12
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat	12
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes	12
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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 manner	12
Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review	12
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill	11
Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally	11
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children	11
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New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA	11
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta	11
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Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy	11
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Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood	10
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence	10
Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity	10
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review	10
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography	10
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents	10
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Impact of stress and parenting on respiratory sinus arrythmia trajectories in early adolescence	10
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials	10
Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention	9
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens	9
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?	9
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits	9
Neurophysiological patterns associated with blunted emotional face processing and withdrawal tendencies in young children exposed to intimate partner violence	9
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Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths	9
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate	9
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae	9
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Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat	9
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Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior	9
Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress	9
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation	9
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage	9
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats	8
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers	8
Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood	8
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants	8

Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?	8
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Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces	8
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life	7
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs	7
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Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats	7
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos	7
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The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information	7
Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors	7
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Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling	7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture	7
The development of interoceptive hunger signals	6
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates	6
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach	6
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Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	6
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence	6
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 rats	6
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats	6
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging	6
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	6
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	6
Developmental psychobiology reviewer recognition for 2021	5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests	5
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression	5
Increase in sexual motivation throughout adolescence in the cycling female rat	5
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Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)	5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
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Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder	5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors	5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination	5
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period	5
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence	5
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat	5
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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 rats	5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?	5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children	5
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning	5
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender	5
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse	5
Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)	5
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats	5
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice	5
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 motion	5
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis	5
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse	5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration	5
Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana	5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches	5
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review	5