Developmental Psychobiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Psychobiology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten57
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task38
Children's planning of efficient tool use in a social context31
Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood30
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women28
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence25
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Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight22
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Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers19
One brick at a time: Building a developmental profile of spatial abilities17
The role of epigenetic mechanisms in the long‐term effects of early‐life adversity and mother–infant relationship on physiology and behavior of offspring in laboratory rats and mice17
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage16
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia16
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation16
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water16
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Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women15
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood15
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety15
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The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review14
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization14
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation14
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat13
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies13
Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review12
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Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy12
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New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA11
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill11
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Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning11
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta11
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Environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence restores the reduced expression of synaptophysin and GFAP in the hippocampus of chronically stressed rats in a sex‐specific manner11
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats11
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment11
Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally11
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Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity10
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Impact of stress and parenting on respiratory sinus arrythmia trajectories in early adolescence10
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children10
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography10
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes10
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Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention9
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage9
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior9
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat9
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood9
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence9
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Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits9
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review9
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents9
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure9
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?9
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate9
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials9
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens8
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae8
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture8
Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress8
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths8
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats8
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos8
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Neurophysiological patterns associated with blunted emotional face processing and withdrawal tendencies in young children exposed to intimate partner violence8
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Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation8
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers7
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants7
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Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates7
Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?7
Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood7
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Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces7
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Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats7
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life7
Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling6
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs6
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging6
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats6
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The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information6
The development of interoceptive hunger signals6
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study6
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Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests5
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Postweaning cafeteria diet induces a short‐term metabolic disfunction and a differential vulnerability to develop anxiety‐like and depressive‐like behaviors in male but not female rats5
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Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse5
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Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress5
Pubertal transition with current life stress and support alters longitudinal diurnal cortisol patterns in adolescents exposed to early life adversity5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches5
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Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)5
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning5
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors5
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Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?5
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border5
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence5
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender5
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review5
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach5
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children5
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study4
Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)4
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression4
Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress4
The effects of neonatal procedural pain and maternal isolation on hippocampal cell proliferation and reelin concentration in neonatal and adult male and female rats4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study4
Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study4
Using gastrointestinal distress reports to predict youth anxiety risk: Implications for mental health literacy and community care4
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Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence4
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice4
Increase in sexual motivation throughout adolescence in the cycling female rat4
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats4
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)4
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy4
Impact of maternal physical exercise on inflammatory and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis markers in the brain and lungs of prenatally stressed neonatal mice4
Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period4
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence4
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Longitudinal study of infants receiving extra motor stimulation, full‐term control infants, and infants born preterm: High‐density EEG analyses of cortical activity in response to visual motion4
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age4
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review4
Relationship Between Prone Skills and Motor‐Based Problem‐Solving Abilities in Full‐Term and Preterm Infants During the First 6 Months of Life4
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns3
Effects of Emotional Violence Experienced by Fathers From Their Partners in the Postpartum Period on Depression Level and Father–Infant Attachment3
The effects of abnormal visual experience on neurodevelopmental disorders3
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children3
Paternal biopsychosocial resilience in triadic interactions among African American/Black families exposed to trauma and socioeconomic adversity3
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Enhanced maternal behaviors in a mouse model of congenital blindness3
“Does your baby watch TV?”: The associations between at‐home TV watching and laboratory challenge cortisol are different for young infants and their mothers3
A review of the literature: How does prenatal opioid exposure impact placental health and fetal brain development?3
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Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors3
Fathers, families, and physiology: Exploring the psychobiological context of fathering3
The reliability of visual ERP components in children across the first year of school3
Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners’ social hierarchies for emerging school engagement3
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator3
Adolescent chronic unpredictable stress causes a bias in goal‐directed behavior and distinctively changes the expression of NMDA and dopamine receptors in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum in 3
Differences Between Preterm and Full‐Term Infants in Electroencephalogram Power Spectral Density Slope3
Embryonic opioid exposure impairs inhibitory transmission of striatum in day‐old chicks3
Maternal Emotion Regulation and Parenting: A Physiological Perspective3
Gene Expression After Exercise Is Disrupted by Early‐Life Stress3
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography3
Examining the impact of prenatal maternal internalizing symptoms and socioeconomic status on children's frontal alpha asymmetry and psychopathology3
Examining the interaction between prenatal stress and polygenic risk for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder on brain growth in childhood: Findings from the DREAM BIG consortium3
Development and pilot testing of an early childhood somatosensory assessment: Somatosensory test of reaching3
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Psychometric Properties of the Neural Response to Rewards and Errors Across Mid‐ to Late‐Adolescence3
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats3
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Internal consistency reliability of the P300 to novelty in infants: The influence of trial number and data loss due to artifacts3
A mother's touch: Preschool‐aged children are regulated by positive maternal touch3
Sociodemographics and chronic stress in mother–toddler dyads living in poverty3
Negative caregiving and stress reactivity moderate the relation between early life stress and externalizing in adolescence3
Specificity of California mouse pup vocalizations in response to olfactory stimuli3
Fingerprint patterns in relation to an altered neurodevelopment in patients with autism spectrum disorder3
Parent–child physiological synchrony: Concurrent and lagged effects during dyadic laboratory interaction3
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Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?3
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Examining the biological impacts of parent–child relationship dynamics on preschool‐aged children who have experienced adversity2
Greater Frontoparietal Connectivity During Task Engagement Among Toddlers With Parent‐Reported Inattention2
Quality of father–child relationships as a predictor of sleep developments during preschool years2
Pubertal maturation and timing effects on resting state electroencephalography in autistic and comparison youth2
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children2
The last stage of development: The restructuring and plasticity of the cortex during adolescence especially at puberty2
Adolescent nicotine administration impacts working memory and reversal learning but not cognitive flexibility2
Associations between infant–mother physiological synchrony and 4‐ and 6‐month‐old infants’ emotion regulation2
Links between socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function, and working memory in early childhood2
Locomotor Response to Novelty: What Does It Tell Us?2
Effects of social environments on male primate HPG and HPA axis developmental programming2
Maternal negative affect moderates behavioral and physiological synchrony in Latinx and Black mother–child dyads2
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty2
Early life stress alters emotional learning in a sex‐ and age‐dependent manner with no impact on emotional behaviors2
The effects of postnatal erythropoietin and nano‐erythropoietin on behavioral alterations by mediating K‐Cl co‐transporter 2 in the valproic acid‐induced rat model of autism2
Reaching While Learning to Sit: Capturing the Kinematics of Co‐Developing Skills at Home2
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion disrupts maternal behavior in rats: An animal model of schizophrenia2
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Elevated ghrelin alters the behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen exposure in rats2
Infant physiological activity and the early emergence of social communication2
Caudate volume is prospectively associated with irritability in toddlerhood: A preliminary investigation2
Assessment of the effects of sex, age, and rearing condition on ultrasonic vocalizations elicited by pups during the maternal potentiation paradigm in C57BL/6J mice2
The impact of poor fetal growth and chronic hyperpalatable diet exposure in adulthood on hippocampal function and feeding patterns in male rats2
Influence of early social isolation on general activity and spatial learning in adult WAG/Rij rats2
“Generalized unsafety” as fear inhibition to safety signals in adults with and without childhood trauma2
Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children2
Sex Differences in the Associations Among Parenting, Socioeconomic Status, and Error Monitoring Among Adolescents2
Under my skin: Parenting behavior and children's cortisol in the Los Angeles family and neighborhood survey2
Prenatal substance exposure, early‐life adversity, and parenting: Associations with adolescent stress response2
Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence2
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts Performance in a Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates Task Specifically in Adolescent Male Rats2
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Analysis of Content About Infant Development From Formal Parent Education Sources in Different World Regions2
Grandmother–grandchild physiological synchrony in Chinese three‐generation families: Links with child emotion regulation2
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The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults2
Parasympathetic response to challenge in infancy moderates the effects of sociodemographic risk on academic achievement at school entry2
The impact of air pollution on neurocognitive development: Adverse effects and health disparities2
Maternal care, infant fear memory retention, and the moderating role of variations in separation‐induced ultrasonic vocalizations1
Longitudinal investigation of shyness and physiological vulnerability: Moderating influences of attention biases to threat and safety1
Neuroendocrine and autonomic stress systems activity in young adults raised by mothers with mental health and substance abuse problems: A prospective cohort study1
Equifinality in infancy: The many paths to walking1
Associations between adversity in the family of origin and hair cortisol concentration in adulthood1
Habitual night waking associates with dynamics of waking cortical theta power in infancy1
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The effect of physical and emotional partner violence exerted during pregnancy on prenatal attachment and depression levels in pregnant women1
Maternal oxytocin treatment at birth increases epigenetic age in male offspring1
A person‐centered data analytic approach to dopaminergic polygenic moderation of child maltreatment exposure1
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Exploring the impact of parental technoference on toddlers: A commentary on physiological and developmental implications1
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees1
Cortisol in early childhood moderates the association between family routines and observed affective balance in children from low‐income backgrounds1
Commentary on the special issue: Building on progress and surmounting barriers in research on developmental psychobiology1
The effect of face orientation on audiovisual speech integration in infancy: An electrophysiological study1
Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention1
Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli1
Context is key: Parasympathetic regulation in the classroom differentially predicts preschoolers’ socially competent behaviors1
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