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Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Neuropsychiatrica is 1. 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
Mental well-being, health, and locus of control in Danish adults before and during COVID-19	71
Moderating effects of diagnosis and gender on the influence of age on electroconvulsive therapy outcome	47
Problems of living: perspectives from philosophy, psychiatry and cognitive–affective scienceAuthor: Dan Stein eBook ISBN: 9780323904391 Paperback ISBN: 9780323902397 Imprint	38
A comprehensive bibliographic study on mental illness	31
Exploring interleukin-6, lipopolysaccharide-binding protein and brain-derived neurotrophic factor following 12 weeks of adjunctive minocycline treatment for depression	28
Is it possible to find reliable biomarkers to diagnose suicide risk?	27
The combination of a glucagon-like peptide-1 and amylin receptor agonists reduces alcohol consumption in both male and female rats	23
Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on cortical thickness in depression: a systematic review	19
Factors connected with anxiety and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in advanced gastric cancer	16
Has maternal sensitivity been comprehensively investigated in sub-Saharan Africa? A narrative scoping review	16
Apathy associated with antidepressant drugs: a systematic review	14
Neuropsychiatric symptoms in post-COVID-19 long haulers	14
Paediatric bipolar disorder and its controversy	14
Reduction in hippocampal GABAergic transmission in a low birth weight rat model of depression	13
DNA methylation in stress and depression: from biomarker to therapeutics	13
Research and Diagnostic Algorithmic Rules (RADAR) for mood disorders, recurrence of illness, suicidal behaviours, and the patient’s lifetime trajectory	13
Plasma BDNF and insight in OCD: a promising path for future research	12
Comparison of serum BDNF, IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α, CRP and leucocyte levels in unipolar mania and bipolar disorder	10
Phelan-McDermid syndrome-associated psychosis: a systematic review	9
Blood–brain barrier permeability and electroconvulsive therapy: a systematic review	8
Relationship between pineal gland, sleep and melatonin in fibromyalgia women: a magnetic resonance imaging study	8
Akathisia and atypical antipsychotics: relation to suicidality, agitation and depression in a clinical trial	8
Investigation of serum galanin, alarin, meteorin-like protein, and ischemia modified albumin levels in patients with schizophrenia	8
Gut microbiota alterations in stable outpatients with schizophrenia: findings from a case–control study	8
Aggressive behaviours associated with MDMA and psychedelics: a narrative review	8

International trends in male youth suicide and suicidal behaviour	8
Impact of ACE2 genetic variant on antidepressant efficacy of SSRIs	8
Effect of mode of birth on development of mental disorders in the offspring	7
The less depressive state of Denmark following the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Changes in serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor with electroconvulsive therapy and pharmacotherapy and its clinical correlates in male schizophrenia patients	7
Peripheral inflammatory markers associated with brain volume reduction in patients with bipolar I disorder	7
Pain and suicide: what should we tell our trainees?	7
Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light predicts longitudinal diagnostic change in patients with psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders	7
Group independent components underpin responses to items from a depression scale	6
A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised withdrawal study of adjunctive brexpiprazole maintenance treatment for major depressive disorder	6
Psychometric properties of the ASEBA Child Behaviour Checklist and Youth Self-Report in sub-Saharan Africa - A systematic review	6
Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in psychiatry and mental health care: a systematic review	6
Comorbid cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative burden in mild behavioral impairment and their impact on clinical trajectory	5
Schizotypal personality disorder and suicide: problems and perspectives	5
Comparative study of the pencil-and-paper and digital formats of the Spanish DARS scale	5
Attention-related impairment and contributing neuroinflammatory signalling in the prefrontal cortex of perinatal nicotine-exposed mice	5
Cannabis-induced psychotic disorder with onset during withdrawal: a brief report of emerging evidence	4
Rumination in bipolar disorder associated with brain network and behavioural measures of inhibitory executive control	4
The influence of peer non-suicidal self-harm on young adults’ urges to self-harm: experimental study	4
Tips and traps for behavioural animal experimentation	4
A systematic review on the role of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists on alcohol-related behaviors: potential therapeutic strategy for alcohol use disorder	4
Dissecting the association between psychiatric disorders and neurological proteins: a genetic correlation and two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization study	4
Cocaine-use disorder and childhood maltreatment are associated with the activation of neutrophils and increased inflammation	4
Uncovering Key Predictive Channels and Clinical Variables in the Gamma Band Auditory Steady-State Response in Early Stage Psychosis – a Longitudinal Study	4
No decrease in perseverance and performance on cognitive tasks in Danish cohort of hormonal contraceptive users	3
Misconceptions about paediatric bipolar disorder	3
Pharmacogenetics of angiotensin modulators according to APOE-ϵ4 alleles and the ACE insertion/deletion polymorphism in Alzheimer’s disease	3
Ultrasonic vocalisations in the Flinders Sensitive Line rat, a genetic animal model of depression	3
Anxiolytic-like effects of acute serotonin-releasing agents in zebrafish models of anxiety: experimental study and systematic review	3
Time to transition from paediatric to adolescent bipolar disorder	3
Genetic association of cholesterol metabolism with the risk of depression and schizophrenia	3
On hallucinations and memory: the relationship between hallucinations and autobiographical overgenerality in Alzheimer’s Disease	3
“Unravelling the Shared Genetic Architecture between Suicidality and Subcortical Brain Volume: A Genome-Wide Association Study”	3
The burden of major depressive disorder in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2019	3
Polymorphisms in ERBB4 and TACR1 associated with dry mouth in clozapine-treated patients	3
The men’s mental health perspective on adolescent suicide in the COVID-19 era	3
Psychiatric sequelae after SARS-Cov-2 infection: trajectory, predictors and associations in a longitudinal Australian cohort	3
Non-pharmacological therapeutic paradigms in stress-induced depression: from novel therapeutic perspective with focus on cell-based strategies	3
Application of cognitive behavioral therapy combined with aripiprazole in the treatment of schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial	3
Regional spectral ratios as potential neural markers to identify mild cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer’s disease	2
Placebo and nocebo effects in gambling disorder pharmacological trials: a meta-analysis	2
Dietary supplementation with casein glycomacropeptide, leucine and tryptophan reduces plasma amino acid levels in men	2
Limited evidence of association between dysregulated immune marker levels and telomere length in severe mental disorders	2
Social cognition, emotion regulation and social competence in classical galactosemia patients without intellectual disability	2
Running from depression: the antidepressant-like potential of prenatal and pre-pubertal exercise in adolescent FSL rats exposed to an early-life stressor	2
Parsing reward sensitivity reveals distinct relationships with energy intake, metabolic markers, physical activity and fitness	2
Investigation of the relationship of sleep disorder occurring in fibromyalgia with central nervous system and pineal gland volume	2
A comparative study of retinal layer changes among patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls	2
Missed conceptions about paediatric bipolar disorder: a reply and discussion of DMDD	2
Variability in the antioxidant MSRA gene affects the psychopathology of patients with anorexia nervosa	2

The effect of azelaic acid on AlCl₃-induced neurocognitive impairments and molecular changes in the hippocampus of rats	2
Cholecystokinin B receptor gene polymorphism (rs2941026) is associated with anxious personality and suicidal thoughts in a longitudinal study	2
The therapeutic potential of cannabidiol in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders	2
Major depressive disorder: a possible typisation according to serotonin, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome	2
Circuits regulating pleasure and happiness – focus on potential biomarkers for circuitry including the habenuloid complex	2
Increased markers of inflammation after cannabis cessation and their association with psychotic symptoms	2
Psychological well-being and symptoms of depression and anxiety across age groups during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	2
Association of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) and neurogenesis: a systematic review	2
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms relating to psychosocial functioning for people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder	2
Unravelling the complex tapestry of addiction: insights from recent research	2
Midline brain structures in adult Niemann-Pick type C disease: a cross-sectional study	2
Evaluating the Safety Profile of Connectome-Based Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation	2
Occurrence of metabolic syndrome in untreated bipolar disorders: a cross-sectional study	2
Cannabidiol modulates contextual fear memory consolidation in animals with experimentally induced type-1 diabetes mellitus	2
Exploration of possible sex bias in acute social stress research: a semi-systematic review	2
Is there a place for psychedelics in sports practice?	1
Distributed genetic effects of the corpus callosum subregions suggest links to neuropsychiatric disorders and related traits	1
Lexical stability of psychiatric clinical notes from electronic health records over a decade	1
Salidroside exerts antidepressant-like action by promoting adult hippocampal neurogenesis through SIRT1/PGC-1α signalling	1
Decreased leucocyte telomere length in male patients with chronic bipolar disorder: lack of effect of long-term lithium treatment	1
Neuropeptide Y gene variants and Agreeableness: interaction effect with the birth cohort and the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism	1
Genetic risk scores associated with temperament clusters in Finnish depression patients	1
COVID-19 as a polymorphic inflammatory spectrum of diseases: a review with focus on the brain	1
Prevalence of fear of COVID-19, depression, and anxiety among undergraduate students during remote classes	1
Cytokines in hepatitis C-infected patients with or without opioid maintenance therapy	1
Exploring the potential link between ΔFosB and N-acetylcysteine in craving/relapse dynamics: can N-acetylcysteine stand out as a possible treatment candidate?	1
Predictors of within-individual variability in cognitive performance in schizophrenia in a South African case–control study	1
Modelling self-diagnosed burnout as a categorical syndrome	1
Acta Neuropsychiatrica embraces full open access: towards a new era of global knowledge sharing	1
Significant haematological alterations in clozapine-treated patients: prevalence and clinical correlation	1
Augmentation strategies for clozapine resistance: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
About the paper ‘Apathy associated with antidepressants: a systematic review’	1
Impact of genetic deletion of MrgD or Mas receptors in depressive-like behaviour in mice	1
In memoriam: Brian E. Leonard	1
Development and validation of the Male Post-coital Affect Scale for heterosexual men	1
Navigating the complexity of COVID-19: a multifaceted examination	1
Obstetric complications and clinical presentation in first episode of psychosis	1
Wearables measuring electrodermal activity to assess perceived stress in care: a scoping review	1
A retrospective analysis of iv ketamine outcome on hospitalisations in an unselected psychiatric sample	1
Modelling self-diagnosed burnout as a categorical syndrome – CORRIGENDUM	1
The association between common mental disorders and tuberculosis: a case–control study from Guinea-Bissau	1
Leptin and leptin receptor gene polymorphisms and depression treatment response	1
Response to Fagiolini et al. (2023)	1
Interactions between the nitrergic and the endocannabinoid system in rats exposed to the elevated T-maze	1
Decreased beta 1 (12–15 Hertz) power modulates the transfer of suicidal ideation to suicide in major depressive disorder	1
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and osteoporosis: a target trial emulation using real-world data	1
Preliminary evaluation of a smartphone application (DelApp) for identification of delirium in sub-Saharan Africa	1