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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?273
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach257
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data195
Editorial Board181
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind177
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings163
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality146
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice145
The Pause-then-Cancel model of human action-stopping: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence143
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency134
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis131
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers128
Editorial Board128
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health122
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers120
A systems omics-based approach to decode substance use disorders and neuroadaptations118
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research117
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders113
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology113
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype112
Visuomotor control in mice and primates108
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis105
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited102
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities101
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults99
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness98
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy96
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect95
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis95
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 studies94
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity92
Negative Symptoms and Resting-State Functional Connectivity Across Psychotic and Mood Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review91
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia91
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review90
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group88
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy88
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications87
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 rodents87
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system87
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology84
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models84
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies84
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review82
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments80
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory79
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence79
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition79
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference78
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease77
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming76
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition75
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system75
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis75
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias73
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior73
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review72
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?72
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review70
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 games70
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review69
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis69
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior68
Residual implicit and explicit language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review68
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis67
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds67
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system66
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans66
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities65
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut65
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities65
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue64
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review64
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations64
Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning64
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies64
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders63
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer63
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex63
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?63
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy62
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention62
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories62
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis61
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health61
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review61
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock61
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception60
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia60
Effects of perceptual and working memory load on brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli: Review and implications for future research59
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis57
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging57
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review57
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.57
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play56
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?56
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses56
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations56
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis55
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation55
Editorial Board54
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology54
Modulation of the cognitive event-related potential P3 by transcranial direct current stimulation: Systematic review and meta-analysis54
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)54
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice54
Religious and spiritual experiences from a neuroscientific and complex systems perspective53
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression53
Comparative perspectives on mother-infant communication in primates: Are humans unique?53
Interoception abnormalities and skin-picking disorder: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of preliminary evidence53
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance53
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease52
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease52
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions52
Editorial Board52
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.52
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis52
Biochemical aspects and therapeutic mechanisms of cannabidiol in epilepsy52
Fear extinction learning and retention during adolescence in rats and mice: A systematic review51
Stress response in dissociation and conversion disorders: A systematic review51
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind51
Caveolin-1, a novel player in cognitive decline51
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model50
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review50
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
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review50
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies49
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove49
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field49
The relationship between allergic diseases and tic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis49
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis49
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review49
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
Is there any consistent structural and functional brain abnormality in narcolepsy? A meta-analytic perspective48
Alterations in large-scale functional networks in adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies48
Basal and reactive cortisol: A systematic literature review of offspring of parents with depressive and bipolar disorders48
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone48
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis47
Mind wandering and depression: A status report47
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition47
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders47
Structure-function similarities in deep brain stimulation targets cross-species47
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications47
Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making47
Cannabis use before safety-sensitive work: What delay is prudent?47
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle47
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic46
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review46
Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity46
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling46
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease46
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies46
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum46
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons46
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality46
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species46
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 adults45
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices45
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction44
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms and social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic narrative review44
Mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster – A novel genetic model to study interval timing function of human brain44
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models44
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum44
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders44
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder44
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review43
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment43
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study43
Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review43
Editorial Board43
Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning43
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality43
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome43
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches42
The association between cannabis use and paranoia: Meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies42
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions41
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications41
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle41
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
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives41
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review41
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1): Potential application in mood disorders: A systematic review41
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses41
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and 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 approach40
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept40
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis40
Heart rate and skin conductance associations with physical aggression, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder: An updated meta-analysis40
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis40
Editorial Board40
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review40
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates40
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle39
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders39
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science39
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging39
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome39
The role of the vagus nerve in fibromyalgia syndrome39
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms39
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model38
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects38
Insights of neurophysiology on unconscious state using combined transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography: A systematic review38
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?38
The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies38
At the intersection of anger, chronic pain, and the brain: A mini-review38
Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation38
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?38
Missing links: The functional unification of language and memory (L∪M)38
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review38
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction38
Editorial Board38
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Socioeconomic status and the developing brain – A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth37
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures37
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function37
The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications37
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies37
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior37
Neurosteroid Modulators in Psychiatric Disorders: Emerging Evidence and Therapeutic Implications37
Obsessive-compulsive disorder – A state-of-the-art review36
Ophthalmic outcomes in children exposed to opioid maintenance treatment in utero: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges36
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide36
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]36
Convergence of oxytocin and dopamine signalling in neuronal circuits: Insights into the neurobiology of social interactions across species36
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention36
The effects of stimulant and non-stimulant medications on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning in people with ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
The relationship between self-reported interoception and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
Insight and the selection of ideas36
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance36
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies35
Temporal hierarchies in the predictive processing of melody − From pure tones to songs35
Multidimensional nature of dominant behavior: Insights from behavioral neuroscience35
Non-neuronal brain biology and its relevance to animal welfare35
A systematic review of epidemiological studies of life course socioeconomic status and adult structural brain changes35
From brain-body function to conscious interactions35
Animacy and the prediction of behaviour35
Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences35
Attentional biases in human anxiety35
Not the same as it ever was: A review of memory modification, updating, and distortion in humans and rodents35
Aging, sex, metabolic and life experience factors: Contributions to neuro-inflammaging in Alzheimer’s disease research35
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 disorders35
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior35
Looking out for danger: Theoretical and empirical issues in translating human attention bias tasks to assess animal affective states35
Human-directed sociability in the domestic dog: A Tinbergian approach35
Interoception, network physiology and the emergence of bodily self-awareness35
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