Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 23. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications844
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?374
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis251
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited231
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior218
Editorial Board154
Editorial Board151
A systems omics-based approach to decode substance use disorders and neuroadaptations145
Translational relevance of fear conditioning in rodent models of mild traumatic brain injury139
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind132
Non-communicable diseases among women survivors of intimate partner violence: Critical review from a chronic stress framework127
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data124
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming122
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications118
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence114
Using e-diaries to investigate ADHD – State-of-the-art and the promising feature of just-in-time-adaptive interventions111
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology109
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy108
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia108
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults105
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy104
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group103
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system101
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias100
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders99
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents98
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach98
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers97
Visuomotor control in mice and primates96
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis95
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review94
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers93
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research92
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity91
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice90
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness90
The Pause-then-Cancel model of human action-stopping: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence89
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 studies88
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality87
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype87
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference87
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology86
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency85
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health84
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis82
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities79
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition79
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings79
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis78
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review76
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models76
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 games75
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies75
How well do people living with neurodegenerative diseases manage their finances? A meta-analysis and systematic review on the capacity to make financial decisions in people living with neurodegenerati75
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system75
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease75
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect75
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis75
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior74
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer74
Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning74
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play71
Evolutionary conservations, changes of circadian rhythms and their effect on circadian disturbances and therapeutic approaches71
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice70
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis69
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.68
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies68
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut68
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis68
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?68
Is the concept of affective agnosia a useful addition to the alexithymia literature?67
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?67
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review67
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis66
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue66
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review66
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations66
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review65
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders65
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception65
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging65
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities64
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock63
Modulation of the cognitive event-related potential P3 by transcranial direct current stimulation: Systematic review and meta-analysis63
Effects of perceptual and working memory load on brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli: Review and implications for future research62
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories62
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review62
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities62
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health62
Common brain networks underlying human social interactions: Evidence from large-scale neuroimaging meta-analysis61
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans61
Motivational competition and the paraventricular thalamus61
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation60
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia60
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention60
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds60
Posttranslational modifications & lithium’s therapeutic effect—Potential biomarkers for clinical responses in psychiatric & neurodegenerative disorders60
Residual implicit and explicit language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review59
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations59
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex58
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis58
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy58
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses57
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review57
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum57
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology56
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression56
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders55
Prototype-based category learning in autism: A review55
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms and social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic narrative review55
The relationship between allergic diseases and tic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis55
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review55
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis54
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease54
Is there any consistent structural and functional brain abnormality in narcolepsy? A meta-analytic perspective54
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease54
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder54
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality54
Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making53
Caveolin-1, a novel player in cognitive decline53
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species53
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications53
Structure-function similarities in deep brain stimulation targets cross-species52
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic52
Unconscious processing of subliminal stimuli in panic disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis52
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions52
Cannabis use before safety-sensitive work: What delay is prudent?52
Stress response in dissociation and conversion disorders: A systematic review52
Editorial Board51
Editorial Board51
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review51
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease51
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle51
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance51
Biochemical aspects and therapeutic mechanisms of cannabidiol in epilepsy51
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices50
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies50
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 adults50
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model50
Alcohol and oxytocin: Scrutinizing the relationship49
Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity49
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove49
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.48
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review48
Impaired regulatory T cell control of astroglial overdrive and microglial pruning in schizophrenia48
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
Basal and reactive cortisol: A systematic literature review of offspring of parents with depressive and bipolar disorders48
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition48
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind48
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons48
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study48
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders48
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis48
Effects of physical exercise on plasma brain-derived neurotrophic factor in neurodegenerative disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials47
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum47
Mind wandering and depression: A status report47
Fear extinction learning and retention during adolescence in rats and mice: A systematic review47
Alterations in large-scale functional networks in adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies46
Problematic usage of the internet and eating disorder and related psychopathology: A multifaceted, systematic review and meta-analysis46
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone46
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal 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
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)46
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling45
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field45
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models45
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis45
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality45
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review45
Editorial Board44
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?44
Super-natural fears44
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders44
Editorial Board44
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome44
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science44
Editorial Board44
Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence44
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle43
The role of dopamine in action control: Insights from medication effects in Parkinson’s disease43
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis43
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept43
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects43
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome43
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review43
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions43
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis42
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms42
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior42
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates42
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens42
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review42
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis42
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1): Potential application in mood disorders: A systematic review41
Insight and the selection of ideas41
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?41
Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning41
Meta-analytic evidence of differential prefrontal and early sensory cortex activity during non-social sensory perception in autism41
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model41
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis41
Missing links: The functional unification of language and memory (L∪M)41
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives40
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges40
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle40
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function40
The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies40
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures40
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
The role of the vagus nerve in fibromyalgia syndrome40
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications40
Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation40
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies40
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention40
At the intersection of anger, chronic pain, and the brain: A mini-review40
Glucocorticoid resistance and β2-adrenergic receptor signaling pathways promote peripheral pro-inflammatory conditions associated with chronic psychological stress: A systematic review across species40
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review39
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses39
Insights of neurophysiology on unconscious state using combined transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography: A systematic review39
The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications39
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction38
Heart rate and skin conductance associations with physical aggression, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder: An updated meta-analysis38
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior38
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach38
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment38
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging38
Socioeconomic status and the developing brain – A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth38
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance38
Editors note37
Looking out for danger: Theoretical and empirical issues in translating human attention bias tasks to assess animal affective states37
Swearing and coprophenomena – A multidimensional approach37
A systematic review of epidemiological studies of life course socioeconomic status and adult structural brain changes37
Social cognition in autism and ADHD37
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]37
Ophthalmic outcomes in children exposed to opioid maintenance treatment in utero: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Effects of chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia on cognitive function in animal models of contemporary protocols: A systematic literature review36
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates36
Interoception, network physiology and the emergence of bodily self-awareness36
Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness36
The specificity of thalamic alterations in Korsakoff’s syndrome: Implications for the study of amnesia36
Human-directed sociability in the domestic dog: A Tinbergian approach36
Non-neuronal brain biology and its relevance to animal welfare36
Autism spectrum disorder: Trace elements imbalances and the pathogenesis and severity of autistic symptoms36
The relationship between self-reported interoception and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
Effects of early life stress on brain cytokines: A systematic review and meta-analysis of rodent studies36
The sense of agency for brain disorders: A comprehensive review and proposed framework36
Multidimensional nature of dominant behavior: Insights from behavioral neuroscience36
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide36
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