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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood	40
Sex and age differences in locomotor and anxiety‐like behaviors in rats: From adolescence to adulthood	38
Electroencephalogram aperiodic power spectral slope can be reliably measured and predicts ADHD risk in early development	34
Moderate early life stress improves adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) working memory but does not affect social and anxiety‐like responses	24
Allostatic load: Developmental and conceptual considerations in a multi‐system physiological indicator of chronic stress exposure	23
Aperiodic electrophysiological activity in preterm infants is linked to subsequent autism risk	22
Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy	21
Early and current life adversity: Past and present influences on maternal diurnal cortisol rhythms during pregnancy	20
Associations between infant–mother physiological synchrony and 4‐ and 6‐month‐old infants’ emotion regulation	20
Sex differences in the acoustic features of social play‐induced 50‐kHz ultrasonic vocalizations: A detailed spectrographic analysis in wild‐type Sprague–Dawley and Cacna1c haploinsufficient rat	18
Maltreatment exposure across childhood and low‐grade inflammation: Considerations of exposure type, timing, and sex differences	18
Kangaroo father care: A pilot feasibility study of physiologic, biologic, and psychosocial measures to capture the effects of father–infant and mother–infant skin‐to‐skin contact in the Neonatal Inten	17
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation	17
Neural mechanisms of reward processing in adolescent irritability	16
Plasticity of the paternal brain: Effects of fatherhood on neural structure and function	16
Assessment of prenatal stress‐related cortisol exposure: focus on cortisol accumulation in hair and nails	16
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	15
Getting under the skin: Physiological stress and witnessing paternal arrest in young children with incarcerated fathers	15
Microbiota‐immune alterations in adolescents following early life adversity: A proof of concept study	15
How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization	15
Fathers’ oxytocin responses to first holding their newborns: Interactions with testosterone reactivity to predict later parenting behavior and father‐infant bonds	14
Associations of prenatal maternal stress with measures of cognition in 7.5‐month‐old infants	14
In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research	14
Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in‐home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis	14
Differences in mother–child and father–child RSA synchrony: Moderation by child self‐regulation and dyadic affect	13

Sensory processing and cortisol at age 4 years: Procedural pain‐related stress in children born very preterm	13
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure	13
Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement	13
Early maternal and paternal caregiving moderates the links between preschoolers' reactivity and regulation and maturation of the HPA‐immune axis	13
A systematic review of human paternal oxytocin: Insights into the methodology and what we know so far	13
Comparison of neurotransmitter levels, physiological conditions, and emotional behavior between isolation‐housed rats with group‐housed rats	12
Infant posture and caregiver‐provided cognitive opportunities in typically developing infants and infants with motor delay	11
Linking preschoolers’ parasympathetic activity to maternal early adversity and child behavior: An intergenerational perspective	11
Parent's anxiety links household stress and young children's behavioral dysregulation	11
Fetal heart rate during maternal sleep	11
Social EEG: A novel neurodevelopmental approach to studying brain‐behavior links and brain‐to‐brain synchrony during naturalistic toddler–parent interactions	11
Moving the dial on prenatal stress mechanisms of neurodevelopmental vulnerability to mental health problems: A personalized prevention proof of concept	11
The relationship between fraternal birth order and childhood sex‐atypical behavior among the Istmo Zapotec muxes	11
The postnatal testosterone rebound in first‐time fathers and the quality and quantity of paternal care	11
Earlier than previously thought: Yawn contagion in preschool children	10
Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults	10
Irritability‐related neural responses to frustrative nonreward in adolescents with trauma histories: A preliminary investigation	10
Firm parenting and youth adjustment: Stress reactivity and dyadic synchrony of respiratory sinus arrhythmia	10
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats	10
Social interaction in the emergence of toddler’s mealtime spoon use	10
Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age	10
Adolescents at risk of anxiety in interaction with their fathers: Studying non‐verbal and physiological synchrony	9
Towards an understanding of neurophysiological self‐regulation in early childhood: A heuristic and a new approach	9
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill	9
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	9
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae	9
Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning	9
Biological sensitivity to context in Pakistani preschoolers: Hair cortisol and family wealth are interactively associated with girls’ cognitive skills	9
Preschoolers’ dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) change during a challenging parent‐child interactive task: Relations with preschoolers’ socioemotional health	9
Getting to the heart of childhood empathy: Relations with shyness and respiratory sinus arrhythmia	9
The association between prenatal alcohol consumption and preschool child stress system disturbance	9
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	9
Maternal approach behaviors toward neonatal calls are impaired by mother's experiences of raising pups with a risk gene variant for autism	8
Children’s use of everyday artifacts: Learning the hidden affordance of zipping	8
Childhood socioeconomic status is prospectively associated with surface morphometry in adulthood	8
Effects of the physical and social environment on youth cognitive performance	8
Exploring the hormonal and neural correlates of paternal protective behavior to their infants	8
The developmental precursors of blunted cardiovascular responses to stress	8
Extinction and drug‐induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking following self‐administration or conditioned place preference in adolescent and adult rats	8
Prenatal exposure to maternal psychological distress and telomere length in childhood	8
Maternal trait anxiety symptoms, frontolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity, and cognitive development in infancy	8
Material hardship, prefrontal cortex–amygdala structure, and internalizing symptoms in children	8
The role of maternal touch in the association between SLC6A4 methylation and stress response in very preterm infants	8
Sociodemographics and chronic stress in mother–toddler dyads living in poverty	8
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices	8
Consistency of EEG asymmetry patterns in infants of depressed mothers	8
Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?	8
Early external‐environmental and internal‐health predictors of risky sexual and aggressive behavior in adolescence: An integrative approach	8
Neonatal procedural pain affects state, but not trait anxiety behavior in adult rats	8
OXTR DNA methylation moderates the developmental calibration of neural reward sensitivity	8

Maternal experiences of childhood maltreatment moderate patterns of mother–infant cortisol regulation under stress	8
Associations of adverse childhood experiences with stress physiology and insulin resistance in adolescents at risk for adult obesity	8
Prenatal maternal distress and immune cell epigenetic profiles at 3‐months of age	8
Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention	8
Gut brain regulation using psychobiotics for improved neuropsychological illness	7
Return of fear following extinction in youth: An event‐related potential study	7
Using different methods for calculating frontal alpha asymmetry to study its development from infancy to 3 years of age in a large longitudinal sample	7
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials	7
Maternal distress, DNA methylation, and fetal programing of stress physiology in Brazilian mother–infant pairs	7
Integrating anthropometric and cardiometabolic health methods in stress, early experiences, and development (SEED) science	7
Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?	7
Parent–child physiological synchrony: Concurrent and lagged effects during dyadic laboratory interaction	7
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence	7
High vagal tone and rapid extinction learning as potential transdiagnostic protective factors following childhood violence exposure	7
Longitudinal effects of family psychopathology and stress on pubertal maturation and hormone coupling in adolescent twins	7
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children	7
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 e	7
Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice	7
Moderating effects of environmental stressors on the development of attention to threat in infancy	7
Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: The state of the science	7
The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review	7
Event‐related potentials data quality in young children: Standardized measurement error of ERN and Pe	7
Adverse childhood experiences predict neurite density differences in young children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	7
Fathering behavior, attachment, and engagement in childcare predict testosterone and cortisol	7
Exploring valence bias as a metric for frontoamygdalar connectivity and depressive symptoms in childhood	7
Risky emotional family environment in childhood and depression‐related cytokines in adulthood: The protective role of compassion	6
White matter integrity moderates the relation between experienced childhood maltreatment and fathers’ behavioral response to infant crying	6
Lifetime stressors, hair cortisol, and executive function: Age‐related associations in childhood	6
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown	6
Testosterone regulates the emission of ultrasonic vocalizations and mounting behavior during different developmental periods in mice	6
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood	6
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats	6
Peripheral immune correlates of childhood and adolescent peer relationships: A systematic review	6
Behavioral impact of experience based on environmental enrichment: Influence of age and duration of exposure in male NMRI mice	6
Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children	6
Development of anxiety‐like behaviors during adolescence: Persistent effects of adolescent morphine exposure in male rats	6
Infant ultrasonic vocalizations predict adolescent social behavior in rats: Effects of early life adversity	6
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior	6
Early motor skills predict the developmental trajectory of problem solving in young children with motor delays	6
Elevated ghrelin alters the behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen exposure in rats	6
Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli	6
Using mobile eye‐tracking technology to examine adolescent daughters’ attention to maternal affect during a conflict discussion	6
New approaches to quantify social development in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Integrating eye tracking with traditional assessments of social behavior	6
Culture and stress biology in immigrant youth from the prenatal period to adolescence: A systematic review	6
Differential sensitivity to species‐ and race‐based information in the development of attention orienting and attention holding face biases in infancy	6
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children	6
Expression of synaptophysin and BDNF in the medial prefrontal cortex following early life stress and neonatal hypoxia‐ischemia	6
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Sleep and stress in mother–toddler dyads living in low‐income homes	5
The neural correlates of paternal consoling behavior and frustration in response to infant crying	5
Reliability of reward‐ and error‐related brain activity in early childhood	5
Early life stress sensitizes youth to the influence of stress‐induced cortisol on memory for affective words	5
The development of the gut microbiome and temperament during infancy and early childhood: A systematic review	5
Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors	5
Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study	5
Medial prefrontal brain activity correlates with emerging symptoms of anxiety and depression in late adolescence: A fNIRS study	5
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents	5
Trajectories of internalizing symptoms in early childhood: Associations with maternal internalizing symptoms and child physiology	5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination	5
Associations between peer stress in early adolescence and multiple event‐related potentials elicited during social feedback processing	5
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	5
Phenotyping stress exposures related to perinatal health disparities	5
Integrated and diurnal indices of maternal pregnancy cortisol in relation to sex‐specific parasympathetic responsivity to stress in infants	5
Quantifying the dynamic nature of vagal responsivity in infancy: Methodological innovations and theoretical implications	5
Child emotion inhibition mediates the effect of parent's adaptive cognitive emotion regulation on child frontal EEG asymmetry during reappraisal	5
Using gastrointestinal distress reports to predict youth anxiety risk: Implications for mental health literacy and community care	5
Maternal antibiotics disrupt microbiome, behavior, and temperature regulation in unexposed infant mice	5
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 autism	5
A meta‐analysis of mother–child synchrony in respiratory sinus arrhythmia and contextual risk	5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests	5
Environmental enrichment modulates inflammation during development in long‐evans rats (Rattus norvegicus)	5
Latent profiles of children’s autonomic nervous system reactivity early in life predict later externalizing problems	5
The COMT rs4680 polymorphism, family functioning and preschoolers’ attentional control indexed by intraindividual reaction time variability	5
Parental emotional support and social buffering in previously institutionalized and typically developing children and adolescents	5
Bringing up baby: Maternal responsiveness, secondary attachments, and the development of infant social competence in wild olive baboons (Papio anubis)	5
Added sugar intake during pregnancy: Fetal behavior, birth outcomes, and placental DNA methylation	5
Daily provision of instrumental and emotional support to friends is associated with diurnal cortisol during adolescence	5
Child diurnal cortisol differs based on profiles of maternal emotion socialization in high risk, low income, and racially diverse families	5