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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board307
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?295
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia227
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind204
Editorial Board174
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health166
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence162
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness144
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory143
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice142
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data141
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?128
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review115
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect114
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications114
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system113
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications111
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach110
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition109
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited107
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments107
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis103
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review101
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers101
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 studies99
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity99
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 games98
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research96
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease92
Contextual modulation of endogenous oxytocin signaling and its influence on exogenous oxytocin effects: A conceptual framework91
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers90
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings87
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review85
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy84
Editorial Board84
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy84
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior79
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition78
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming77
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents77
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review76
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group75
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies75
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis75
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency74
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology74
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models73
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders73
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities73
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality72
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review71
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research71
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference70
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system70
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology69
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis69
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review69
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias69
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds68
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations67
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex67
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior67
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review66
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies66
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play66
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention66
Effects of perceptual and working memory load on brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli: Review and implications for future research66
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis63
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis62
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities62
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review61
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review61
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders61
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health60
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?60
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system60
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories60
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut59
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities59
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy59
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?58
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception58
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue58
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice58
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia57
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer57
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review57
Visual working memory’s pointer system: Past, present, and future56
Modulation of the cognitive event-related potential P3 by transcranial direct current stimulation: Systematic review and meta-analysis56
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis56
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging56
Classification of neurological and mental health disorders based on multimodal approaches: A comprehensive review56
Beyond the brain: a computational MRI-derived neurophysiological framework for robotic conscious capacity56
Neural foundations of creativity: A voxel-based meta-analysis of the activations and deactivations underlying creativity across linguistic, musical, and visual domains56
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.55
Residual implicit and explicit language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review55
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis55
Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning54
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation54
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans54
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses53
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations53
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis53
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition52
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock52
Is there any consistent structural and functional brain abnormality in narcolepsy? A meta-analytic perspective52
Editorial Board52
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality51
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression51
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease51
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease51
Cannabis use before safety-sensitive work: What delay is prudent?51
Editorial Board50
Interoception abnormalities and skin-picking disorder: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of preliminary evidence50
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.50
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications49
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis49
Mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster – A novel genetic model to study interval timing function of human brain49
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease49
Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review49
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle48
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 adults48
Mind wandering and depression: A status report48
Same but not the same: An eco-ethological model of automatic mimicry and behavioural contagion in primates48
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind47
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study47
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review47
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders47
Comparative perspectives on mother-infant communication in primates: Are humans unique?47
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies46
A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks46
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies46
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder46
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders45
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)45
The complementary role of egocentric and allocentric spatial navigation tasks for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: A diagnostic meta-analysis45
Basal and reactive cortisol: A systematic literature review of offspring of parents with depressive and bipolar disorders45
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions45
Biochemical aspects and therapeutic mechanisms of cannabidiol in epilepsy45
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species45
Religious and spiritual experiences from a neuroscientific and complex systems perspective45
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review44
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic44
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis44
Stress response in dissociation and conversion disorders: A systematic review44
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance44
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology44
The relationship between allergic diseases and tic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis44
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review43
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum43
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices43
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review43
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 animals43
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models43
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove43
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons43
Systematic review: Effects of cholinergic signaling on cognition in human pharmacological studies43
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model43
Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making42
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling42
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality42
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone42
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review42
Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity42
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field42
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum42
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction42
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms and social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic narrative review42
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens41
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science41
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches41
Insight and the selection of ideas41
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis41
Editorial Board41
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review41
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review41
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome41
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions40
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis40
Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence40
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis40
Editorial Board40
Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning40
Editorial Board40
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects40
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates40
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle40
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome40
At the intersection of anger, chronic pain, and the brain: A mini-review40
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging39
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications39
Neurosteroid modulators in psychiatric disorders: Emerging evidence and therapeutic implications39
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders39
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review39
Bridging social isolation, loneliness, and brain aging: A narrative review of mechanisms and translational interventions39
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
Monkeys lack humanlike behavioral and neural inversion costs in face identity recognition39
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment39
Neural alterations in substance use disorders: A meta-analysis using activation network mapping across and within task domains38
Missing links: The functional unification of language and memory (L∪M)38
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses38
Heart rate and skin conductance associations with physical aggression, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder: An updated meta-analysis38
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle38
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges38
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies38
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?38
The association between cannabis use and paranoia: Meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies38
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis38
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms38
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction37
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior37
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach37
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention37
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures37
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?37
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function37
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept37
Editors note36
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives36
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Isoflavone Interventions on Cognitive Function.36
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model36
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]36
Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation36
Obsessive-compulsive disorder – A state-of-the-art review35
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates35
Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences35
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior35
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies35
Sensitization-based risk for substance abuse in vulnerable individuals with ADHD: Review and re-examination of evidence35
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide34
The sense of agency for brain disorders: A comprehensive review and proposed framework34
Looking out for danger: Theoretical and empirical issues in translating human attention bias tasks to assess animal affective states34
Non-neuronal brain biology and its relevance to animal welfare34
The effects of stimulant and non-stimulant medications on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning in people with ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis34
Shedding light on the functional significance of opsins: Insights from fish34
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance34
On the stress of being a woman: The synergistic contribution of sex as a biological variable and gender as a psychosocial one to risk of stress-related disorders34
Music and Genetics34
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents with ADHD: A systematic review of controlled longitudinal cohort studies34
Periodic leg movements during sleep associated with antidepressants: A meta-analysis34
Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness34
The cliff edge model of the evolution of schizophrenia: Mathematical, epidemiological, and genetic evidence34
Critical biological systems linking early-life stress to later-life outcomes: A systematic review of animal models.33
A systematic review of epidemiological studies of life course socioeconomic status and adult structural brain changes33
Driving factors of auditory category learning success33
The allostatic triage model of psychopathology (ATP Model): How reallocation of brain energetic resources under stress elicits psychiatric symptoms33
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