Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience is 9. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Case report: Fatal cerebral herniation caused by hypoglycemic due to mistaking glibenclamide in children107
Editorial: Exploring brain connectivity to understand behavior89
Effects of reinforcement during the intertrial interval on temporal discrimination: Location version with rats84
The effect of experiences of fairness on honest behavior: a behavioral and neural study78
Editorial: Plasticity and flexibility in the parental brain76
Acute aerobic exercise enhances associative learning in regular exercisers but not in non-regular exercisers71
Editorial: Endocrinology of loneliness and social isolation70
The novel peptide LCGM-10 attenuates metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 activity and demonstrates behavioral effects in animal models65
Challenging the contest vs. scramble dichotomy in social competition: mixed conditions allow disparately ranked monkeys to get equivalent food but experiencing more competition still leads to risk-ave61
The role of subclinical psychopathic traits on experimentally induced self- and other-compassion59
Dynamic duos: learning to care as a pair in the biparental prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)59
Seminatural environments for rodent behavioral testing: a representative design improving animal welfare and enhancing replicability59
Dopamine downregulation in novel rodent models useful for the study of postpartum depression54
Disentangling disorder-specific variation is key for precision psychiatry in autism54
Hierarchical-Circular Model of Biological Memory: an integrative framework for pathogenesis and allostasis in neurodevelopmental disorders51
Efficacy and underlying mechanisms of acupuncture therapy for PTSD: evidence from animal and clinical studies49
Overwhelmed by beauty and faith: review on artistic and religious travelers’ syndromes47
Phenotyping Young GluA1 Deficient Mice – A Behavioral Characterization in a Genetic Loss-of-Function Model46
Association of simultaneous sour taste stimulation with prefrontal cortex activation during stroop task performance in healthy adults: a fNIRS study46
Revisiting food addiction in the era of GLP-1–based obesity pharmacotherapy via neural reward pathways linking feeding and substance use43
Emotion regulation mediates the relationship between family caregivers’ pain-related beliefs and patients’ coping strategies42
Critical period plasticity is associated with resilience to short unpredictable stress40
Constitutive activity of the inhibitory G protein pathway mediated by non-visual opsin Opn7b reduces cFos activity in stress and fear circuits and modulates avoidance behavior40
Impact of specific serotonin receptor modulation on restricted repetitive behaviors38
Drosophila melanogaster as a neurobehavioral model for sex differences in stress response38
A comparative analysis of Danionella cerebrum and zebrafish (Danio rerio) larval locomotor activity in a light-dark test37
Assessing spatial learning and memory in mice: Classic radial maze versus a new animal-friendly automated radial maze allowing free access and not requiring food deprivation36
Shaping social behavior in an enriched environment34
Treatments for kinesiophobia in people with chronic pain: A scoping review33
Distinct sex differences in ethanol consumption and operant self-administration in C57BL/6J mice with uniform regulation by glutamate AMPAR activity33
How the arts heal: a review of the neural mechanisms behind the therapeutic effects of creative arts on mental and physical health33
The central role of microglia in major depressive disorder and its potential as a therapeutic target32
EEG-based study of design creativity: a review on research design, experiments, and analysis31
Effects of sex and retention interval on the retrieval and extinction of auditory fear conditioning31
Continuous locomotor activity monitoring to assess animal welfare following intracranial surgery in mice30
Rethinking stress in education: cortisol and DHEA-S biomarker outcomes of a mindset intervention30
Regional prefrontal and hippocampal differences in gray matter volume are linked to the propensity for renewal in extinction learning30
Task-Dependent Effective Connectivity of the Reward Network During Food Cue-Reactivity: A Dynamic Causal Modeling Investigation30
Exploring the impact of acute solvent exposure on larval zebrafish behaviour30
Maternal benzo[a]pyrene exposure during critical gestational periods impairs offspring neurological development in rats: a mechanistic study of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway29
Why people keep watching: neurophysiologic immersion during video consumption increases viewing time and influences behavior28
Novel EAAT2 activators improve motor and cognitive impairment in a transgenic model of Huntington’s disease28
Development of sex- and genotype-specific behavioral phenotypes in a Shank3 mouse model for neurodevelopmental disorders28
Sexually dimorphic development of the mesolimbic dopamine system is associated with nuanced sensitivity to adolescent alcohol use28
Gardenoside restores blood–brain barrier integrity following ischemic stroke via AMPK-dependent ZO-1 preservation27
Coadministration antagonist dopamine receptor D4 with CB2 receptor agonist decreases binge-like intake of palatable food in mice27
Effects of mindfulness and fatigue on emotional processing: an event-related potentials study26
Protocol to assess rewarding brain stimulation as a learning and memory modulating treatment: Comparison between self-administration and experimenter-administration26
Improvement of symptoms in children with autism by TOMATIS training: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study26
Wearables: An R Package With Accompanying Shiny Application for Signal Analysis of a Wearable Device Targeted at Clinicians and Researchers26
Editorial: Sex differences in the neurobiology of drug relapse vulnerability25
Influence of HIV infection on cognition and overall intelligence in HIV-infected individuals: advances and perspectives25
Effectiveness of a virtual reality-based cognitive training program on memory, executive functioning, and processing speed in individuals with substance use disorders: a quasi-experimental study25
Generalization of navigation memory in honeybees25
Positional biases in social behaviors: Humans vs. saiga antelopes24
Age-related positivity effect in emotional memory consolidation from middle age to late adulthood24
Oxidative stress in the brain is regulated by social status in a highly social cichlid fish24
Implication of explicit knowledge and subjective evaluation in procedural perceptual-motor learning24
Sex differences in cognitive flexibility are driven by the estrous cycle and stress-dependent24
Different ways to forget: Electrophysiological mechanisms underlying item-method directed forgetting of angry and neutral faces24
The effects of exploratory behavior on physical activity in a common animal model of human disease, zebrafish (Danio rerio)24
The time squares sequences: a new task for assessing visuospatial working memory23
Evolving Belief, Evolving Minds: Evolutionary Insights Into the Development and Functioning of Human Society23
Nitrogen waste metabolism as a locus of nitrergic co-transmission in the brain23
The persistence of stress-induced physical inactivity in rats: an investigation of central monoamine neurotransmitters and skeletal muscle oxidative stress23
Ethorobotic rats for rodent behavioral research: design considerations22
Neuroimaging of human and non-human animal emotion and affect in the context of social relationships22
Acute changes in postural stability during Instagram Reels viewing using virtual reality–based posturography22
Brief and long maternal separation in C57Bl6J mice: behavioral consequences for the dam and the offspring22
Sensation seeking and risk adjustment: the role of reward sensitivity in dynamic risky decisions22
Behavioral pattern separation and cognitive flexibility are enhanced in a mouse model of increased lateral entorhinal cortex-dentate gyrus circuit activity22
Aggressiveness that makes one grow: a destructive or vital force in adolescence? Reflections and working hypotheses22
Adaptability, supernaturalness, and the neurocognitive basis of the self-transcendence trait: Toward an integrated framework through disaster psychology and a self-agency model21
Palmitoylethanolamide attenuates neurodevelopmental delay and early hippocampal damage following perinatal asphyxia in rats20
Selective deletion of Tsc1 from mouse cerebellar Purkinje neurons drives sex-specific behavioral impairments linked to autism20
Ants engaged in cooperative food transport show anticipatory and nest-oriented clearing of the obstacles surrounding the food: goal-directed behavior emerging from collective cognition20
Prenatal and postnatal methamphetamine exposure alters prefrontal cortical gene expression and behavior in mice20
The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications20
What can ANS signals tell us about motor learning? An implication for better assessment of cognitive contribution to motor learning20
The influence of cognitive control on the processing of L2 garden path sentence among Chinese–English bilinguals20
The rhythm of memory. Does theta frequency audio/visual flicker improve recall?20
Editorial: Expert opinion in environmental and genetic factors impacting functional brain lateralization in development and evolution20
Cofilin overactivation improves hippocampus-dependent short-term memory20
Case report: Identification and clinical phenotypic analysis of novel mutation of the PPP1CB gene in NSLH2 syndrome20
Influence of conflicting prior information on action anticipation in soccer players: an ERP study20
Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotional interference in native and foreign languages: evidence from proficient bilinguals19
Light conditions during Atlantic salmon embryogenesis affect key neuropeptides in the melanocortin system during transition from endogenous to exogenous feeding19
In depth behavioral phenotyping unravels complex motor disturbances in Cstb−/− mouse, a model for progressive myoclonus epilepsy type 119
Longitudinal relations between parenting stress and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Testing within-person changes, bidirectionality and mediating mechanisms19
Editorial: The effects of physical activity and exercise on cognitive and affective wellbeing19
Impaired maturation of resting-state connectivity in anorexia nervosa from adolescence to adulthood: differential mechanisms of consummatory vs. anticipatory responses through a symptom provocation pa19
Impacts of social isolation stress in safety learning and the structure of defensive behavior during a spatial-based learning task involving thermal threat19
β2* nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes mediate nicotine-induced enhancement of Pavlovian conditioned responding to an alcohol cue19
Work hard, play hard: how sexually differentiated microglia work to shape social play and reproductive behavior19
Representation of prefrontal axonal efferents in the thalamic nucleus reuniens in a rodent model of fetal alcohol exposure during third trimester19
Early life stress exacerbates behavioural and neuronal alterations in adolescent male mice lacking methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (Mecp2)19
Teleosts as behaviour test models for social stress18
Triamcinolone-loaded nanocarriers: a novel strategy to mitigate cognitive and emotional sequelae induced by traumatic brain injury via modulation of oxidative stress18
Involvement and regulation of the left anterior cingulate cortex in the ultrasonic communication deficits of autistic mice18
Emotional intelligence, distancing, and learning a new skill as strategies to combat the deleterious effects of emotional labor on attorney wellbeing18
Understanding gender differences in reasoning and specific paradigm using meta-analysis of neuroimaging18
Incubation of social deficit during morphine abstinence in male mice using a novel unbiased and automatized method18
Editorial: Resilience to stress-related mood disorders: Involvement of oxidative stress18
Quantum-entangled feature selection and spiking graph transformer networks for early detection of childhood behavioral markers18
Designing animal-friendly behavioral tests for neuroscience research: The importance of an ethological approach18
Oscillations in the prefrontal-hippocampal circuit couple to respiration-related oscillations during all phases of a working memory task18
High mirror symmetry in mouse exploratory behavior17
Measuring anxiety-like behavior in a mouse model of mTBI: Assessment in standard and home cage assays17
Comparison of ziprasidone and olanzapine on cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia at different stages: a prospective study in Huai’an, China17
Enhanced functional connectivity between the default mode network and executive control network during flow states may facilitate creativity and emotional regulation, and may improve health outcomes17
Guilt is effectively induced by a written auto-biographical essay but not reduced by experimental pain17
Longitudinal changes in attention bias to infant crying in primiparous mothers17
Moderate ethanol exposure during early ontogeny of the rat alters respiratory plasticity, ultrasonic distress vocalizations, increases brain catalase activity, and acetaldehyde-mediated ethanol intake17
A virtual reality time reproduction task for rodents17
Editorial: Insights in emotion regulation and processing: 202217
Divergent effects of pitch feedback on online and offline motor sequence learning17
A narrative sequencing and mentalizing training for adults with autism: A pilot study17
The dendritic engram16
Parkinson’s LRRK2-G2019S risk gene mutation drives sex-specific behavioral and cellular adaptations to chronic variable stress16
The maturation of exploratory behavior in adolescent Mus spicilegus on two photoperiods16
Being friendly: paced mating for the study of physiological, behavioral, and neuroplastic changes induced by sexual behavior in females16
Comorbid depression and anxiety: Integration of insights from attachment theory and cognitive neuroscience, and their implications for research and treatment16
Systematic review of probiotics as an adjuvant treatment for psychiatric disorders16
Exercise leads to sex-specific recovery of behavior and pathological AD markers following adolescent ethanol exposure in the TgF344-AD model16
Effects of nonsocial and circumscribed interest images on neural mechanisms of emotion regulation in autistic adults16
Tannic acid attenuates glyphosate-based herbicide-induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity associated with motor dysfunction in mice16
Neural cue reactivity is not stronger in male than in female patients with alcohol use disorder16
Distinct role of the right temporoparietal junction in advantageous and disadvantageous inequity: A tDCS study16
Strain-dependent regulation of hippocampal long-term potentiation by dopamine D1/D5 receptors in mice16
Adolescent intermittent ethanol exposure induces sex-specific and time-dependent changes in affective behaviors and metabolomic profiles15
In search of behavioral and brain processes involved in honey bee dance communication15
Editorial: Odor information processing and stress response15
Prenatal valproic acid-induced autism marmoset model exhibits higher salivary cortisol levels15
Editorial: New insights on bringing social context into addiction neuroscience15
Event-Related Potential Evidence for Involuntary Consciousness During Implicit Memory Retrieval15
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction—current research progress15
The Poly I:C maternal immune stimulation model shows unique patterns of brain metabolism, morphometry, and plasticity in female rats15
The emerging role of ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction in the pathogenesis of perioperative neurocognitive disorders: a narrative review15
Age-related alterations in the behavioral response to a novel environment in the African turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri)15
C57BL/6N mice show a sub-strain specific resistance to the psychotomimetic effects of ketamine15
Where Actions Meet Outcomes: Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Central Thalamus, and the Basal Ganglia15
Anxiety-related behaviors without observation of generalized pain in a mouse model of endometriosis15
Assessing cognitive biases induced by acute formalin or hotplate treatment: an animal study using affective bias test15
Mating-induced prolactin surge is not required for subsequent neurogenesis in male mice15
Sex differences in G protein-coupled estrogen receptor-mediated mechanisms in preclinical models of anxiety and fear15
Improving adaptive response to negative stimuli through non-emotional working memory training15
The effect of CNQX on self-administration: present in nicotine, absent in methamphetamine model14
A closer look to neural pathways and psychopharmacology of obsessive compulsive disorder14
Sex differences in outcomes of first episode psychosis: results from an early intervention service14
Pre-treatment amygdala activation and habituation predict symptom change in post-traumatic stress disorder14
Characterization of pain-related behaviors and gene expression profiling of peripheral sensory ganglia in a mouse model of acute ankle sprain14
Using animal models for the studies of schizophrenia and depression: The value of translational models for treatment and prevention14
Editorial: Cortico-hippocampal interactions during learning and memory14
A bibliometric analysis of studies on environmental enrichment spanning 1967–2024: patterns and trends over the years14
Social context restructures behavioral syntax in mice14
Editorial: Dysfunctional motivation in eating behaviors: a complex gene x environment interplay13
Inbred Mice Again at Stake: How the Cognitive Profile of the Wild-Type Mouse Background Discloses Pathogenic Effects of APP Mutations13
Reward-seeking behaviors moderate the association between early life adversity and anhedonia 12 months later13
The role of non-coding RNAs in the formation of long-term associative memory after single-trial learning in Lymnaea13
CHL1 depletion affects dopamine receptor D2-dependent modulation of mouse behavior13
Allopregnanolone and mood in the peripartum: a longitudinal assessment in healthy women13
Editorial: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Reward: Theoretical and Technical Perspectives and Their Implications for Psychopathology13
Dorsal CA1 lesions of the hippocampus impact mating tactics in prairie voles by shifting non-monogamous males’ use of space to resemble monogamous males13
Characterization of alterations in spontaneous behaviors in a rat model of neuropathic pain - new outcome measures for pain evaluation?13
The effect of fish density and tank size on the behavior of adult zebrafish: A systematic analysis13
Goal-directed actions and habits in head-fixed mice13
Intact maternal buffering of stress response in infant rats despite altered responsivity towards maternal olfactory cues in the valproic acid model of autism-like behavior13
Editorial: Modulation of behavioral outcomes by conditioning competing states, valences, or responses13
Chemogenetic inhibition of the ventral hippocampus but not its direct projection to the prelimbic cortex attenuates context-specific operant responding13
Erratum: Infrared thermography for non-invasive measurement of social inequality aversion in rodents and potential usefulness for future animal-friendly studies13
Long-term memory, synaptic plasticity and dopamine in rodent medial prefrontal cortex: Role in executive functions13
Editorial: The impact of chronic stress on neuroplasticity and abnormal behavior13
Nest-associated scent marks help bumblebees localizing their nest in visually ambiguous situations12
Research progress on transcranial magnetic stimulation for post-stroke dysphagia12
Rats chirp with their mouth full: During an experimental meal, adult male Wistar rats emitted flat ultrasonic vocalisations upon feeding12
Cancer treatment induces neuroinflammation and behavioral deficits in mice12
Resveratrol ameliorates maternal separation-induced anxiety- and depression-like behaviors and reduces Sirt1-NF-kB signaling-mediated neuroinflammation12
The influence of mindfulness-based interventions on the academic performance of students measured by their GPA. A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Adaptation of the 5-choice serial reaction time task to measure engagement and motivation for alcohol in mice12
Improved jet lag recovery is associated with a weaker molecular biological clock response around the time of expected activity onset12
Fear conditioning in invertebrates12
Infrasound exposure is linked to aversive responding, negative appraisal, and elevated salivary cortisol in humans12
The role of gut microbiota in depression: an analysis of the gut-brain axis12
Editorial: Sex as a biological variable in the neurocircuitry of motivated behavior12
Developmental exposure to corn grown on Lake Erie dredged material: a preliminary analysis12
Mnemonic representations in human lateral geniculate nucleus12
AKT/mTOR/BDNF pathway mediates the antidepressant-like effects of NAc-DBS in a mouse model of depression12
Rates of ultrasonic vocalizations are more strongly related than acoustic features to non-vocal behaviors in mouse pups12
Human resilience depends on distinctively human brain circuitry and development11
The influence of trait anxiety on performance in the CatWalk test11
Screening Method for Assessment of Work Ability for Patients Suffering From Mental Fatigue11
Editorial: Multidimensional interplay of early-life events, neuroactive steroids and sex in the development of psychopathology and psychiatric disorders, volume II11
Trends of Tourette Syndrome in children from 2011 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis11
Editorial: New challenges and perspectives in emotion regulation and processing11
Dopamine activity on the perceptual salience for recognition memory11
Comparative Severity Assessment of Genetic, Stress-Based, and Pharmacological Mouse Models of Depression11
Prescribing or co-designing exercise in healthy adults? Effects on mental health and interoceptive awareness11
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the orbitofrontal cortex reduces delay discounting11
Early-life adversity increases anxiety-like behavior and modifies synaptic protein expression in a region-specific manner11
Alternative use of suvorexant (Belsomra®) for the prevention of alcohol drinking and seeking in rats with a history of alcohol dependence11
Contribution of CD4+ cells in the emotional alterations induced by endometriosis in mice11
Friend recollections, and a collection of collaborations with Nadia11
AlphaTracker: a multi-animal tracking and behavioral analysis tool11
The influence of teacher-student relationship on primary school students' moral consensus: a moderated mediation model11
Communal nesting differentially attenuates the impact of pre-weaning social isolation on behavior in male and female rats during adolescence and adulthood11
Lateral septal nucleus, dorsal part, and dentate gyrus are necessary for spatial and object recognition memory, respectively, in mice11
Differential features of early childhood motor skill development and working memory processing: evidence from fNIRS11
Does advancement in marker-less pose-estimation mean more quality research? A systematic review11
Promises and Pitfalls of NMDA Receptor Antagonists in Treating Violent Aggression11
Emotion regulation strategies and the two-dimensional model of adult attachment: a pilot study11
Association between dimensions of trauma-related psychopathology and asthma in trauma-exposed women11
Hypothalamic Neurochemical Changes in Long-Term Recovered Bilateral Subdiaphragmatic Vagotomized Rats11
A comparison of machine learning methods for quantifying self-grooming behavior in mice11
Prevalence and correlates of sleep quality in the Chinese college students with migraine: a cross-sectional study11
The rough-and-tumble play of rats as a natural behavior suitable for studying the social brain11
Sleep improves accuracy, but not speed, of generalized motor learning in young and older adults and in individuals with Parkinson’s disease11
Broadening the scope: Increasing phenotype diversity in laterality research10
Appetitively motivated tasks in the IntelliCage reveal a higher motivational cost of spatial learning in male than female mice10
Coffee consumption decreases the connectivity of the posterior Default Mode Network (DMN) at rest10
Enriched environment promotes post-stroke angiogenesis through astrocytic interleukin-17A10
Short-term memory retrieval enhances brain functional connectivity10
Is DNA methylation in the brain a mechanism of alcohol use disorder?10
Testing the extreme male hypothesis in the valproate mouse model; sex-specific effects on plasma testosterone levels and tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the anteroventral periventricular nucleus, b10
Interplay between sexual excitation and inhibition: impact on sexual function and neural correlates of erotic stimulus processing in women10
Neural and behavioral alterations of a real-time interpersonal distance (IPD) development process in differing social status interactions10
Interpreting insect behavior through the lens of executive functions10
Adaptation of the inferior temporal neurons and efficient visual processing10
Elevated fear states facilitate ventral hippocampal engagement of basolateral amygdala neuronal activity10
Editorial: Neural mechanisms of impulsivity and compulsivity and their clinical and therapeutic corollaries10
Associations between social networks, messaging apps, addictive behaviors, and sleep problems in adolescents: the EHDLA study10
Unbiased autoantibody screening using nucleic acid protein programmable array in pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections10
Cognitive training of mice attenuates age-related decline in associative learning and behavioral flexibility10
Novel automated method to assess group dynamics reveals deficits in behavioral contagion in rats with social deficits10
Assessing cognitive flexibility in mice using a custom-built touchscreen chamber10
Corrigendum: Longitudinal relations between parenting stress and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors: testing within-person changes, bidirectionality and mediating mechanisms10
Editorial: Zebrafish as a tool for neurosciences: evolutionary conservation and translational relevance10
Evidence for food-related and non-food-related maladaptive preference in a mouse model of binge eating disorder10
To chew or not to chew? Exploring the influence of scented chew toys on puppy chewing10
Alteration of hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons underlies memory impairment in rat model of Parkinson's disease10
The impact of out-of-home care on brain development: a brief review of the neuroscientific evidence informing our understanding of children’s attachment outcomes10
Editorial: The burden of stress and depression – new insight into faster and efficient treatment10
Excitability-margin narrowing as a candidate gating mechanism for maladaptive circuit reactivation: a ventral CA1-centered model10
The role of dorsal raphe nucleus neuropeptides in reward and aversion10
The effects of an acute Tai Chi on emotional memory and prefrontal cortex activation: a fNIRS study10
A simultaneous EEG-fMRI study of thalamic load-dependent working memory delay period activity10
Spatial memory and learning: investigating the role of dynamic visual acuity10
Increased Voluntary Alcohol Consumption in Mice Lacking GABAB(1) Is Associated With Functional Changes in Hippocampal GABAA Receptors10
Stable rat models in constipation with depression and anxiety: evaluation and validation10
NRBF2 plays a crucial role in the acquisition process of learning and memory, independent of the Vps34 complex10
Development under predation risk increases serotonin-signaling, variability of turning behavior and survival in adult fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster10
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