Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Article	Citations
Prenatal developmental origins of behavior and mental health: The influence of maternal stress in pregnancy	610
The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder	515
Anxiety, depression, trauma-related, and sleep disorders among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis	295
Systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiology of internet addiction	205
Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size	191
The association between loneliness, social isolation and inflammation: A systematic review and meta-analysis	162
How does the brain learn environmental structure? Ten core principles for understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of statistical learning	141
Prenatal stress and epigenetics	126
Neural signs and mechanisms of consciousness: Is there a potential convergence of theories of consciousness in sight?	125
Linking bodily, environmental and mental states in the self—A three-level model based on a meta-analysis	117
White matter hyperintensities and risks of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 36 prospective studies	116
Transfer of maternal psychosocial stress to the fetus	109
Maternal Immune Activation by Poly I:C as a preclinical Model for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A focus on Autism and Schizophrenia	107
Stress & sleep: A relationship lasting a lifetime	105
Multiple large-scale neural networks underlying emotion regulation	105
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the heartbeat-evoked potential and interoception	103
Neuroimaging the consciousness of self: Review, and conceptual-methodological framework	97
Long-term effects of psychedelic drugs: A systematic review	97
Comparison of bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced sickness behavior in rodents and humans: Relevance for symptoms of anxiety and depression	96
Childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation: A systematic review	96
The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing	96
The glutathione system in Parkinson’s disease and its progression	95
Association of body mass index with risk of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies	92
Earlier versus later cognitive event-related potentials (ERPs) in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A meta-analysis	90
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis	90

Associations between sex hormones, sleep problems and depression: A systematic review	89
Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease-related pathology	88
I tried a bunch of things: The dangers of unexpected overfitting in classification of brain data	88
Rethinking minority stress: A social safety perspective on the health effects of stigma in sexually-diverse and gender-diverse populations	87
The development and use of facial grimace scales for pain measurement in animals	85
The medial prefrontal cortex - hippocampus circuit that integrates information of object, place and time to construct episodic memory in rodents: Behavioral, anatomical and neurochemical properties	83
Anterior insula as a gatekeeper of executive control	83
Effect of immune activation on the kynurenine pathway and depression symptoms – A systematic review and meta-analysis	82
Mining microbes for mental health: Determining the role of microbial metabolic pathways in human brain health and disease	80
Determining the magnitude and duration of acute Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC)-induced driving and cognitive impairment: A systematic and meta-analytic review	80
The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications	78
Neuroplasticity in adult human visual cortex	78
The compassionate vagus: A meta-analysis on the connection between compassion and heart rate variability	76
Visual mental imagery engages the left fusiform gyrus, but not the early visual cortex: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging evidence	76
The nuts and bolts of animal emotion	75
The postnatal GABA shift: A developmental perspective	75
Comorbidity of ADHD and adult bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	74
Astroglia-specific contributions to the regulation of synapses, cognition and behaviour	73
Treatment of eating disorders: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses and network meta-analyses	73
Vagus nerve stimulation in brain diseases: Therapeutic applications and biological mechanisms	73
Socioeconomic status and the developing brain – A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth	72
Prenatal exposure to environmental insults and enhanced risk of developing Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorder: focus on biological pathways and epigenetic mechanisms	71
Gut microbiota differences between healthy older adults and individuals with Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review	70
Why is music therapeutic for neurological disorders? The Therapeutic Music Capacities Model	70
Intranasal oxytocin in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders: A multilevel meta-analysis	70
Half a century of research on antipsychotics and schizophrenia: A scientometric study of hotspots, nodes, bursts, and trends	70
Lithium and suicide prevention in mood disorders and in the general population: A systematic review	68
Convergent neural representations of experimentally-induced acute pain in healthy volunteers: A large-scale fMRI meta-analysis	67
Heart rate variability in individuals with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis	66
Effects of physical exercise on plasma brain-derived neurotrophic factor in neurodegenerative disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	65
A learning theory of attachment: Unraveling the black box of attachment development	64
Optimism, pessimism and judgement bias in animals: A systematic review and meta-analysis	64
Why do we move to the beat? A multi-scale approach, from physical principles to brain dynamics	63
ERP based measures of cognitive workload: A review	63
Accelerated aging in bipolar disorder: A comprehensive review of molecular findings and their clinical implications	63
Memories are not written in stone: Re-writing fear memories by means of non-invasive brain stimulation and optogenetic manipulations	62
From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind	61
Beyond the binary: Rethinking sex and the brain	60
Four Core Genotypes and XY* mouse models: Update on impact on SABV research	60
Measuring the evolution of facial ‘expression’ using multi-species FACS	60
Lateral septum as a nexus for mood, motivation, and movement	59
A review of decreased sound tolerance in autism: Definitions, phenomenology, and potential mechanisms	59
Neurodevelopmental pathways in bipolar disorder	59
Long term methylphenidate exposure and growth in children and adolescents with ADHD. A systematic review and meta-analysis	58
Animal affect and decision-making	58
Heart rate variability and slow-paced breathing:when coherence meets resonance	58
Generative models, linguistic communication and active inference	57
What you see is what you hear: Twenty years of research using the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion	57
Suicidal behaviour in older age: A systematic review of risk factors associated to suicide attempts and completed suicides	57
The effects of acute aerobic exercise on executive function: A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data	57

Seizing the moment: Zebrafish epilepsy models	57
Pathophysiology of negative symptom dimensions of schizophrenia – Current developments and implications for treatment	57
The Pause-then-Cancel model of human action-stopping: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence	57
Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review	57
The effect of antipsychotics on the cognitive performance of individuals with psychotic disorders: Network meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials	56
Brain-body interactions underlying the association of loneliness with mental and physical health	56
The forced swim test: Historical, conceptual and methodological considerations and its relationship with individual behavioral traits	56
Resting-state fMRI functional connectivity and mindfulness in clinical and non-clinical contexts: A review and synthesis	55
Measuring learning in human classical threat conditioning: Translational, cognitive and methodological considerations	54
The past, present, and future of selection history	54
An affective neuroscience model of boosting resilience in adults	54
Neural signatures of prosocial behaviors	53
The emerging tale of microglia in psychiatric disorders	53
Advancing a temporal framework for understanding the biology of nonsuicidal self- injury: An expert review	53
Circadian depression: A mood disorder phenotype	53
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), antisociality and delinquent behavior over the lifespan	53
Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes	53
ERK/MAPK signalling in the developing brain: Perturbations and consequences	53
The cafeteria diet: A standardized protocol and its effects on behavior	53
Artificial intelligence and neuropsychological measures: The case of Alzheimer’s disease	52
Structural brain correlates in major depression, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder: A voxel-based morphometry meta-analysis	52
The neuropathology of autism: A systematic review of post-mortem studies of autism and related disorders	52
The body comes first. Embodied reparation and the co-creation of infant bodily-self	52
Inflammation, anxiety, and stress in bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder: A narrative review	52
The anterior thalamic nuclei and cognition: A role beyond space?	52
Evolutionary conservation, translational relevance and cognitive function: The future of zebrafish in behavioral neuroscience	52
Autism spectrum disorder and pupillometry: A systematic review and meta-analysis	51
Biomarkers of Pathological Dissociation: A Systematic Review	51
Prebiotics, probiotics, fermented foods and cognitive outcomes: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	51
Social Semantics: The role of conceptual knowledge and cognitive control in a neurobiological model of the social brain	51
Creativity and ADHD: A review of behavioral studies, the effect of psychostimulants and neural underpinnings	50
The social nature of mitochondria: Implications for human health	50
Effects of acute cardiovascular exercise on motor memory encoding and consolidation: A systematic review with meta-analysis	50
The Effects of Ketamine on Cognition in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Systematic Review and Priority Avenues for Future Research	50
Psychedelic resting-state neuroimaging: A review and perspective on balancing replication and novel analyses	50
Noise exposure accelerates the risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: Adulthood, gestational, and prenatal mechanistic evidence from animal studies	49
The role of norepinephrine in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia	49
Neurophysiological biomarkers using transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Transgenerational effects of early environmental insults on aging and disease incidence	49
Pain sensitivity is reduced by exercise training: Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis	48
Potential benefits of music playing in stroke upper limb motor rehabilitation	48
A systematic review of the persistence of childhood mental health problems into adulthood	48
The brain under stress—A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of changes in BOLD signal associated with acute stress exposure	48
Neurotropism of SARS-CoV-2 and its neuropathological alterations: Similarities with other coronaviruses	48
Neurocognitive effects of melatonin treatment in healthy adults and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	48
Heart rate variability as a biobehavioral marker of diverse psychopathologies: A review and argument for an “ideal range”	47
Microgravity effects on the human brain and behavior: Dysfunction and adaptive plasticity	47
Bayesian causal inference: A unifying neuroscience theory	47
Rethinking post-traumatic stress disorder – A predictive processing perspective	47
DNA methylation and brain structure and function across the life course: A systematic review	47
Challenges in the comparative study of empathy and related phenomena in animals	47
Integration and differentiation of hippocampal memory traces	47
Effects of voluntary slow breathing on heart rate and heart rate variability: A systematic review and a meta-analysis	46
A multisensory perspective onto primate pulvinar functions	46
The neurobiology of prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in promoting brain plasticity: A systematic review and meta-analyses of human and rodent studies	46
Preventing dementia? Interventional approaches in mild cognitive impairment	46
Mapping social reward and punishment processing in the human brain: A voxel-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging findings using the social incentive delay task	46
The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning	46
Addictions NeuroImaging Assessment (ANIA): Towards an integrative framework for alcohol use disorder	45
Evidence for exercise-related plasticity in functional and structural neural network connectivity	45
The effects of acute stress and stress hormones on social cognition and behavior: Current state of research and future directions	45
Male sex bias in early and late onset neurodevelopmental disorders: Shared aspects and differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder, and Schizophrenia	45
A thalamic bridge from sensory perception to cognition	45
Neurobiological correlates of cue-reactivity in alcohol-use disorders: A voxel-wise meta-analysis of fMRI studies	45
Examination of peripheral basal and reactive cortisol levels in major depressive disorder and the burnout syndrome: A systematic review	45
Stress and coping in women with breast cancer:unravelling the mechanisms to improve resilience	44
Autism spectrum disorder: Trace elements imbalances and the pathogenesis and severity of autistic symptoms	44
Impact of early life adversities on human brain functioning: A coordinate-based meta-analysis	44
The genetic and environmental origins of emotional and cognitive empathy: Review and meta-analyses of twin studies	44
The pilocarpine model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: Over one decade later, with more rodent species and new investigative approaches	44
The multidimensionality of abstract concepts: A systematic review	44
Relationship between Central Obesity and the incidence of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia from Cohort Studies Involving 5,060,687 Participants	44
Astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles: A double-edged sword in central nervous system disorders	44
Brain stimulation and other biological non-pharmacological interventions in mental disorders: An umbrella review	43
Respiratory regulation & interactions with neuro-cognitive circuitry	43
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	43
Adverse childhood experiences and allostatic load: A systematic review	43
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function	43
Ultrasonic vocalizations as a fundamental tool for early and adult behavioral phenotyping of Autism Spectrum Disorder rodent models	43
The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies	43

A systematic review and meta-analysis of facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder: The specificity of deficits and the role of task characteristics	43
The kynurenine pathway in major depression: What we know and where to next	42
Prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	42
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review	42
Sleep disorders and non-sleep circadian disorders predict depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	42
Psychosocial issues in isolated and confined extreme environments	42
Identifying regions in prefrontal cortex related to working memory improvement: A novel meta-analytic method using electric field modeling	42
Anatomical and clinical implications of vagal modulation of the spleen	42
Heart rate variability in patients with somatic symptom disorders and functional somatic syndromes: A systematic review and meta-analysis	42
Impact of the mother's gut microbiota on infant microbiome and brain development	42
Sex differences in the glutamate system: Implications for addiction	42
ADHD and accidents over the life span – A systematic review	41
The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation on the Wandering Mind: a Systematic Review	41
The role of mirror mechanism in the recovery, maintenance, and acquisition of motor abilities	41
Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 1 (TAAR1): A new drug target for psychiatry?	41
Exogenous effects of oxytocin in five psychiatric disorders: a systematic review, meta-analyses and a personalized approach through the lens of the social salience hypothesis	41
Common brain networks underlying human social interactions: Evidence from large-scale neuroimaging meta-analysis	41
Aberrant structural connectivity in childhood maltreatment: A meta-analysis	40
Efficacy and acceptability of transcranial direct current stimulation for treating depression: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	40
Updating and characterizing neuroanatomical markers in high-risk subjects, recently diagnosed and chronic patients with schizophrenia: A revised coordinate-based meta-analysis	40
Social touch experience in different contexts: A review	40
Relationships between physical activity, sleep and cognitive function: A narrative review	40
Functional neuroimaging of human postural control: A systematic review with meta-analysis	40
The role of the anterior nuclei of the thalamus in human memory processing	40
The inter-relationships between cerebral visual impairment, autism and intellectual disability	40
The neuroligins and the synaptic pathway in Autism Spectrum Disorder	40
Auditory processing deficit in individuals with dyslexia: A meta-analysis of mismatch negativity	39
Bilingualism and domain-general cognitive functions from a neural perspective: A systematic review	39
Blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Blood-based biomarkers of inflammation in mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review	39
New and emerging treatments for schizophrenia: a narrative review of their pharmacology, efficacy and side effect profile relative to established antipsychotics	39
The anterior cingulate cortex as a key locus of ketamine’s antidepressant action	38
Neurofunctional abnormalities in antisocial spectrum: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies on Five distinct neurocognitive research domains	38
Heart rate variability in the prediction of mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of healthy and patient populations	38
Fear-induced bradycardia in mental disorders: Foundations, current advances, future perspectives	38
Bipolar disorder: An evolutionary psychoneuroimmunological approach	38
Countermeasures-based Improvements in Stress, Immune System Dysregulation and Latent Herpesvirus Reactivation onboard the International Space Station – Relevance for Deep Space Missions and Terrestria	38
Anticholinergic drugs and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	38
The dual hit hypothesis of schizophrenia: Evidence from animal models	38
What animal models can tell us about long-term cognitive dysfunction following sepsis: A systematic review	38
Impaired regulatory T cell control of astroglial overdrive and microglial pruning in schizophrenia	38
“Stopping for knowledge”: The sense of beauty in the perception-action cycle	38
Momentary emotions and salivary cortisol: A systematic review and meta-analysis of ecological momentary assessment studies	38
Prebiotic and probiotic supplementation and the tryptophan-kynurenine pathway: A systematic review and meta analysis	38
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality	38
What has social neuroscience learned from hyperscanning studies of spoken communication? A systematic review	38
Molecular genetics of substance use disorders: An umbrella review	37
Neurofeedback training in major depressive disorder: A systematic review of clinical efficacy, study quality and reporting practices	37
Neural substrates of appetitive and aversive prediction error	37
The search for translational pain outcomes to refine analgesic development: Where did we come from and where are we going?	37
The neurobiology of treatment-resistant depression: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies	37
Stress in groups: Lessons from non-traditional rodent species and housing models	37
Maternal separation effects on mother rodents’ behaviour: A systematic review	36
The effect of non-invasive brain stimulation on executive functioning in healthy controls: A systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Precision control for a flexible body representation	36
Molecular changes evoked by the beta-lactam antibiotic ceftriaxone across rodent models of substance use disorder and neurological disease	36
Prevalence and clinical aspects of depression in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review and meta‑analysis of 129 studies	36
Unisensory and multisensory temporal processing in autism and dyslexia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Functional relevance of resistance training-induced neuroplasticity in health and disease	35
Are unimanual movements bilateral?	35
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field	35
Systematic review and meta-analysis of metacognitive abilities in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders	35
On the pathophysiology and treatment of akinetic mutism	35
Dysregulation of kynurenine pathway and potential dynamic changes of kynurenine in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	35
Probiotics treatment improves cognitive impairment in patients and animals: A systematic review and meta-analysis	35
Infant social interactions and brain development: A systematic review	35
Insulin resistance in depression: A large meta-analysis of metabolic parameters and variation	35
Alterations in large-scale functional networks in adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies	35
Sleep-dependent motor memory consolidation in healthy adults: A meta-analysis	35
Estrogens and phytoestrogens in body functions	35
The biological significance and clinical utility of emerging blood biomarkers for traumatic brain injury	34
Review of rodent models of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	34
Gastrointestinal alterations in autism spectrum disorder: What do we know?	34
The functional role of cardiac activity in perception and action	34
Neuroinflammation in autism spectrum disorders: Exercise as a “pharmacological” tool	34
Crossmodal reorganisation in deafness: Mechanisms for functional preservation and functional change	34
Neuronal circuitry for recognition memory of object and place in rodent models	34
Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of N-acetyl Aspartate in Chronic Schizophrenia, First Episode of Psychosis and High-Risk of Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	34
The effects of recovery sleep on pain perception: A systematic review	34
Anxiety and Alzheimer’s disease: Behavioral analysis and neural basis in rodent models of Alzheimer’s-related neuropathology	34
The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in humans: State-of-the-art review and future directions	34
Modality-specific overlaps in brain structure and function in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Multimodal meta-analysis of case-control MRI studies	34
Prevalence and clinical correlates of self-injurious behavior in Tourette syndrome	34
Potential safety, benefits, and influence of the placebo effect in microdosing psychedelic drugs: A systematic review	33
Intracerebral seeding of amyloid-β and tau pathology in mice: Factors underlying prion-like spreading and comparisons with α-synuclein	33
Thalamocortical interactions in cognition and disease: The mediodorsal and anterior thalamic nuclei	33
Associations between mental and physical conditions in children and adolescents: An umbrella review	33
How stress physically re-shapes the brain: Impact on brain cell shapes, numbers and connections in psychiatric disorders	33
NIRS measures in pain and analgesia: Fundamentals, features, and function	33
Microglial memory of early life stress and inflammation: Susceptibility to neurodegeneration in adulthood	33
Effects of single-session transcranial direct current stimulation on reactive response inhibition	33
Trans-diagnostic measurement of impulsivity and compulsivity: A review of self-report tools	33
Altering the gut microbiome to potentially modulate behavioral manifestations in autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review	33
Abnormal resting-state functional connectivity in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	33
Mitochondrial dysfunctions, oxidative stress and neuroinflammation as therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases: An update on current advances and impediments	33