Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Papers
(The median citation count of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board286
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?269
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach207
Visuomotor control in mice and primates186
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect185
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis166
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia149
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review148
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?148
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review137
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review134
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind132
Editorial Board131
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health129
A systems omics-based approach to decode substance use disorders and neuroadaptations127
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition122
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data120
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence118
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models111
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies108
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults107
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness104
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system104
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review103
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis99
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders98
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency98
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis97
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review96
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis95
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy94
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming92
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition92
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory91
Editorial Board90
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review90
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference90
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research90
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications87
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents85
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group83
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system82
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications80
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers79
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior79
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype79
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology79
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers78
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias77
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice77
Pre- and postnatal antibiotic exposure and risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder–A systematic review and meta-analysis combining evidence from human and animal studies75
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease74
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity74
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities74
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings72
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy72
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality71
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology71
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited70
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments69
Does stress make us more—or less—prosocial? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute stress on prosocial behaviours using economic games69
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research69
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds68
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis68
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review68
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders68
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities68
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut67
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations67
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play66
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue66
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis65
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception65
Modulation of the cognitive event-related potential P3 by transcranial direct current stimulation: Systematic review and meta-analysis65
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy65
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system65
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?65
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia65
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.64
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging64
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior63
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories62
Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning61
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer61
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?60
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex59
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis58
Effects of perceptual and working memory load on brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli: Review and implications for future research58
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock58
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice58
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review57
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review57
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review57
Residual implicit and explicit language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review57
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health56
Neural foundations of creativity: A voxel-based meta-analysis of the activations and deactivations underlying creativity across linguistic, musical, and visual domains56
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis55
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities55
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies55
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis55
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans55
Editorial Board54
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention54
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses54
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations54
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)54
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation54
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.53
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions53
Is there any consistent structural and functional brain abnormality in narcolepsy? A meta-analytic perspective53
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology53
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum53
The relationship between allergic diseases and tic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis53
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review52
Structure-function similarities in deep brain stimulation targets cross-species52
Comparative perspectives on mother-infant communication in primates: Are humans unique?52
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle52
Cannabis use before safety-sensitive work: What delay is prudent?52
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease51
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications51
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality51
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition51
Stress response in dissociation and conversion disorders: A systematic review50
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species50
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction50
A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks50
Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review50
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression49
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review49
Biochemical aspects and therapeutic mechanisms of cannabidiol in epilepsy49
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis49
Editorial Board49
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling49
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review48
The complementary role of egocentric and allocentric spatial navigation tasks for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: A diagnostic meta-analysis48
Mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster – A novel genetic model to study interval timing function of human brain48
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic48
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease48
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease48
Non-angry aggressive arousal and angriffsberietschaft: A narrative review of the phenomenology and physiology of proactive/offensive aggression motivation and escalation in people and other animals48
Fear extinction learning and retention during adolescence in rats and mice: A systematic review48
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis47
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum47
Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making47
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field47
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review47
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove47
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind46
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices46
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance46
Basal and reactive cortisol: A systematic literature review of offspring of parents with depressive and bipolar disorders46
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies46
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders45
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms and social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic narrative review45
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality45
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies45
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone45
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder44
Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity44
Alterations in large-scale functional networks in adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies44
Age-dependent effects of tobacco smoke and nicotine on cognition and the brain: A systematic review of the human and animal literature comparing adolescents and adults44
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review43
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models43
Mind wandering and depression: A status report43
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study43
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders43
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons43
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model43
Editorial Board42
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome42
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches42
Religious and spiritual experiences from a neuroscientific and complex systems perspective42
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Interoception abnormalities and skin-picking disorder: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of preliminary evidence42
Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning42
Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation41
Missing links: The functional unification of language and memory (L∪M)41
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science41
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1): Potential application in mood disorders: A systematic review41
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis41
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review41
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates41
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?41
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis41
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions41
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle41
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle41
Editorial Board41
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept41
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior40
Editorial Board40
The role of the vagus nerve in fibromyalgia syndrome40
Insights of neurophysiology on unconscious state using combined transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography: A systematic review40
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis40
Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence40
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach39
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis39
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives39
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses39
Neurosteroid modulators in psychiatric disorders: Emerging evidence and therapeutic implications39
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging39
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects39
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome38
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention38
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications38
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens38
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders38
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model38
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms38
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review38
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review38
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies38
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures37
Bridging Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Brain Aging: A Narrative Review of Mechanisms and Translational Interventions37
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction37
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment37
Insight and the selection of ideas37
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?37
The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications37
Socioeconomic status and the developing brain – A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth37
Heart rate and skin conductance associations with physical aggression, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder: An updated meta-analysis37
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges37
Sensitization-based risk for substance abuse in vulnerable individuals with ADHD: Review and re-examination of evidence36
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function36
The association between cannabis use and paranoia: Meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies36
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies36
Temporal hierarchies in the predictive processing of melody − From pure tones to songs36
Shedding light on the functional significance of opsins: Insights from fish36
Music and Genetics36
At the intersection of anger, chronic pain, and the brain: A mini-review36
Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness36
Ophthalmic outcomes in children exposed to opioid maintenance treatment in utero: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior36
Editors note36
The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies36
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance36
From brain-body function to conscious interactions36
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]36
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates35
Review of rodent models of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder35
Non-neuronal brain biology and its relevance to animal welfare35
Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory35
Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral and brain evidence35
Looking out for danger: Theoretical and empirical issues in translating human attention bias tasks to assess animal affective states35
Convergence of oxytocin and dopamine signalling in neuronal circuits: Insights into the neurobiology of social interactions across species35
Periodic leg movements during sleep associated with antidepressants: A meta-analysis35
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