OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Lessons from studies of medication reduction in psychosis: giving participants accurate information about risk in psychiatric research trials	39
Shorter and inflexible intrinsic neural timescales of the self in schizophrenia	30
Epigenetic profile of the immune system associated with symptom severity and treatment response in schizophrenia	29
The psychopharmacology of psychedelics: where the brain meets spirituality (CCNP Innovations in Neuropsychopharmacology Award)	28
Impulse control deficits among patients with nonsuicidal self-injury: a mediation analysis based on structural imaging	26
Response to: “Consistent terminology for medication-related problems in pharmacogenomic cases”	26
Chaos analysis of the cortical boundary for the recognition of psychosis	23
Striatal reactivity during emotion and reward relates to approach–avoidance conflict behaviour and is altered in adults with anxiety or depression	23
Association between retinal and cortical visual electrophysiological impairments in schizophrenia	21
Response to: “Updated and rectified meta-analysis shows no effect of propranolol versus placebo on traumatic memory reconsolidation disruption”	20
From research of mental disorders to clinical application — lessons from diabetes	20
Elevated body weight modulates subcortical volume change and associated clinical response following electroconvulsive therapy	20
Improving causality perception judgments in schizophrenia spectrum disorder via transcranial direct current stimulation	17
A translational exploration of the effects of WNT2 variants on altered cortical structures in autism spectrum disorder	17
Different levels of prepulse inhibition among patients with first-episode schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder	16
Beyond verbal fluency in the verbal fluency task: semantic clustering as a predictor of remission in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis	15
The Bayesian brain and cooperative communication in schizophrenia	15
Sex-specific transcriptional signatures in the medial prefrontal cortex underlying sexually dimorphic behavioural responses to stress in rats	14
Connectivity patterns of the core resting-state networks associated with apathy in late-life depression	14
Altered effective connectivity among face-processing systems in major depressive disorder	14
Neurobiological substrates of major psychiatry disorders: transdiagnostic associations between white matter abnormalities, neuregulin 1 and clinical manifestation	13
Polygenic risk for depression and resting-state functional connectivity of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in young adults	13
Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback training of amygdala upregulation increases affective flexibility in depression	13
Barrier–environment interactions along the gut–brain axis and their influence on cognition and behaviour throughout the lifespan	12
Acute tryptophan depletion balances altered resting-state functional connectivity of the salience network in female patients recovered from anorexia nervosa	12

Changes to hypothalamic volume and associated subunits during gender-affirming hormone therapy	12
Cardiometabolic risk factors and brain age: a meta-analysis to quantify brain structural differences related to diabetes, hypertension, and obesity	11
Elevated decision uncertainty and reduced avoidance drives in depression, anxiety and substance use disorders during approach–avoidance conflict: a replication study	11
Resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala subregions in unmedicated patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder before and after cognitive behavioural therapy	11
Neural correlates of attentional control in social anxiety disorder: the impact of early-life adversity and DNA methylation	11
Correction to “Navigated and individual α-peak-frequency–guided transcranial magnetic stimulation in male patients with treatment-refractory schizophrenia”	11
Neuroimaging alterations and relapse in early-stage psychosis	11
CCR5-Δ32 polymorphism: a possible protective factor for post-stroke depressive symptoms	11
Genomic variants and inferred biological processes in multiplex families with Tourette syndrome	10
Load-dependent inverted U–shaped connectivity of the default mode network in schizophrenia during a working-memory task: evidence from a replication functional MRI study	10
Functional connectivity gradients and neurotransmitter maps among patients with mild cognitive impairment and depression symptoms	10
Thalamocortical functional connectivity in patients with insomnia using resting-state fMRI	10
Navigated and individual α-peak-frequency–guided transcranial magnetic stimulation in male patients with treatment-refractory schizophrenia	10
Neuroscience education for people living with addiction	10
A systematic review of TMS and neurophysiological biometrics in patients with schizophrenia	10
Diminished error-related negativity and error positivity in children and adults with externalizing problems and disorders: a meta-analysis on error processing	9
Innate immunity receptors in depression and suicide: upregulated NOD-like receptors containing pyrin (NLRPs) and hyperactive inflammasomes in the postmortem brains of people who were depressed and die	9
Decreased GABA+ ratios referenced to creatine and phosphocreatine in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of females of reproductive age with major depression	9
Does serotonin matter in depression?	9
Lower fractional anisotropy of the corticothalamic tract and increased response time variability in adult patients with ADHD	8
Disrupted functional connectivity associated with cognitive impairment in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and comorbid GAD and depression: a follow-up fMRI study	8
Oculogyric crisis: a rare type of dystonia	8
Multidimensional predictors of negative symptoms in antipsychotic-naive first-episode psychosis	8
Effect of short-term, high-dose probiotic supplementation on cognition, related brain functions and BDNF in patients with depression: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	8
Childhood trauma and cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia: mediation by orbitofrontal cortex H-shaped sulci volume	7
Small animal imaging presents an opportunity for improving translational research in biological psychiatry	7
Collaborative discontinuation of antipsychotics after the first episode of psychosis	7
History of abuse is not predictive of eating disorders with binge-eating episodes (but posttraumatic stress disorder is)	7
Altered regional homogeneity and its association with cognitive function in adolescents with borderline personality disorder	7
Chronic lithium treatment alters the excitatory/inhibitory balance of synaptic networks and reduces mGluR5–PKC signalling in mouse cortical neurons	7
Perplexity of utterances in untreated first-episode psychosis: an ultra–high field MRI dynamic causal modelling study of the semantic network	6
Disentangling early versus late audiovisual integration in adult ADHD: a combined behavioural and resting-state connectivity study	6
Serotonin syndrome: SSRIs are not the only culprit	6
Correction to “Improving causality perception judgments in schizophrenia spectrum disorder via transcranial direct current stimulation”	6
TheCannabis Act: implications for human participant research with cannabis	6
Action selection in early stages of psychosis: an active inference approach	6
Neural mechanism underlying the beneficial effect of Theory of Mind psychotherapy on early-onset schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial	6
Influence of functional gene polymorphisms on human behaviour: the case of CCR5	5
Characterizing and detecting delirium with clinical and computational measures of speech and language disturbance	5
Moral wounds run deep: exaggerated midbrain functional network connectivity across the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder	5
Trait sensitivity to negative feedback determines the intensity of compulsive alcohol seeking and taking in male rats	5
Glutamate levels and symptom burden in high-risk and first-episode schizophrenia: a dual-voxel study of the anterior cingulate cortex	5
Hepatitis C–associated late-onset schizophrenia: a nationwide, population-based cohort study	5
Involvement of nucleus accumbens D2–medium spiny neurons projecting to the ventral pallidum in anxiety-like behaviour	5
Opening up mental health research	5
Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2024 award winners	5
RGS3andIL1RAPL1missense variants implicate defective neurotransmission in early-onset inherited schizophrenias	5
Complexities of psychedelics for therapeutic use in obesity and eating disorders	5
Atypical antipsychotics, dystonia, and psychotic depression: old solutions for new problems	5
A single dose of escitalopram blunts the neural response in the thalamus and caudate during monetary loss	5

Investigating disorder-specific and transdiagnostic alterations in model-based and model-free decision-making	5
Common and specific patterns of functional and structural brain alterations in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a multimodal voxel-based meta-analysis	5
Acute conceptual disorganization in untreated first-episode psychosis: a combined magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion imaging study of the cingulum	5
Clinical opportunity awaits at the intersection of genomics and brain imaging	5
Correction to: “Cigarette smoking is associated with thinner cingulate and insular cortices in patients with severe mental illness”	4
Common and disorder-specific cortical thickness alterations in internalizing, externalizing and thought disorders during early adolescence: an Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study	4
Does stimulant drug–induced sensitization occur in primates?	4
Clozapine-induced priapism in a man with schizoaffective disorder	4
Decreased temporal variabilities of functional connectivities in insula and lingual gyrus are associated with better early treatment response in patients with panic disorder	4
Disproportionate neuroanatomical effects ofDCChaploinsufficiency in adolescence compared with adulthood: links to dopamine, connectivity, covariance, and gene expression brain maps in mice	4
Oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular nucleus and fear empathy among male mice	4
Interaction of the gut microbiota and brain functional connectivity in late-life depression	4
Use of MAOIs in severe treatment-resistant depression: back to the old school	4
The functional and structural associations of aberrant microglial activity in major depressive disorder	4
Higher glutamatergic activity in the medial prefrontal cortex in chronic ketamine users	4
Mindfulness-based intervention for benzodiazepine deprescription in hemodialysis patients with anxiety and depressive symptoms	4
Medical assistance in living after failure of ECT and ketamine	4
Making use of N-of-1 trials to treat ADHD in people with psychosis: a hypothetical case	4
Use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of catatonia	4
Emotional dysregulation and stimulant medication in adult ADHD	4
Brain cortical and subcortical morphology in adolescents with depression and a history of suicide attempt	3
Hippocampal subfield alterations in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of anatomic MRI studies	3
Abnormal interhemispheric functional cooperation in schizophrenia follows the neurotransmitter profiles	3
Reviving: restoring depression-like behaviour through glial cell–derived neurotrophic factor treatment in the medial prefrontal cortex	3
The predictive value of neurobiological measures for recidivism in delinquent male young adults	3
Advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder through induced pluripotent stem cell models	3
BDNF levels in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa increase continuously to supranormal levels 2.5 years after first hospitalization	3
Perspective on adolescent psychiatric illness and emerging role of microRNAs as biomarkers of risk	3
Early-life experiences altered the maturation of the lateral habenula in mouse models, resulting in behavioural disorders in adulthood	3
Frontal asymmetry as a core feature of major depression: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	2
Differential neural processing of value during decision-making in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and healthy controls	2
Psychiatry is the flagship of personalized and precision medicine: proposing an epistemic horizon to biological psychiatry	2
Network pharmacology and molecular docking to explore mechanisms of clozapine-induced cardiac arrest	2
Involvement of specific striatal subregion contributes to executive deficits in Alzheimer disease	2
Genetic risk for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia predicts structure and function of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	2
Distinct and shared therapeutic neural mechanisms of mindfulness-based and social support stress reduction groups in adults with autism spectrum disorder	2
Correction to: Frontoparietal paired associative stimulation versus single-site stimulation for generalized anxiety disorder: a pilot rTMS study	2
Association of systemic inflammatory markers with white matter hyperintensities and microstructural injury: an analysis of UK Biobank data	2
Dr. Francis Wayne Quan Memorial Prize 2022	2
Clusters of psychosis: compensation as a contributor to the heterogeneity of schizophrenia	2
Subcortical volumetric alterations as potential predictors of methylphenidate treatment response in youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	2
Uncovering the link between synaptic density and mental illness through in vivo imaging	2
Correction to: “Differing functional mechanisms underlie cognitive control deficits in psychotic spectrum disorders”	2
Factors influencing therapeutic effectiveness of electroencephalogram-based neurofeedback against core symptoms of ADHD: a systematic review and meta-analysis	2