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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood51
Electroencephalogram aperiodic power spectral slope can be reliably measured and predicts ADHD risk in early development43
Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy26
Associations between infant–mother physiological synchrony and 4‐ and 6‐month‐old infants’ emotion regulation25
Allostatic load: Developmental and conceptual considerations in a multi‐system physiological indicator of chronic stress exposure25
Aperiodic electrophysiological activity in preterm infants is linked to subsequent autism risk24
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation21
In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research19
Microbiota‐immune alterations in adolescents following early life adversity: A proof of concept study19
Neural mechanisms of reward processing in adolescent irritability18
Kangaroo father care: A pilot feasibility study of physiologic, biologic, and psychosocial measures to capture the effects of father–infant and mother–infant skin‐to‐skin contact in the Neonatal Inten18
Getting under the skin: Physiological stress and witnessing paternal arrest in young children with incarcerated fathers17
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border17
Sensory processing and cortisol at age 4 years: Procedural pain‐related stress in children born very preterm16
Differences in mother–child and father–child RSA synchrony: Moderation by child self‐regulation and dyadic affect16
Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement16
Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in‐home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis16
Plasticity of the paternal brain: Effects of fatherhood on neural structure and function16
Associations of prenatal maternal stress with measures of cognition in 7.5‐month‐old infants15
Early maternal and paternal caregiving moderates the links between preschoolers' reactivity and regulation and maturation of the HPA‐immune axis15
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure14
Infant posture and caregiver‐provided cognitive opportunities in typically developing infants and infants with motor delay14
Fathers’ oxytocin responses to first holding their newborns: Interactions with testosterone reactivity to predict later parenting behavior and father‐infant bonds14
Childhood socioeconomic status is prospectively associated with surface morphometry in adulthood13
Irritability‐related neural responses to frustrative nonreward in adolescents with trauma histories: A preliminary investigation13
A systematic review of human paternal oxytocin: Insights into the methodology and what we know so far13
Preschoolers’ dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) change during a challenging parent‐child interactive task: Relations with preschoolers’ socioemotional health13
Social EEG: A novel neurodevelopmental approach to studying brain‐behavior links and brain‐to‐brain synchrony during naturalistic toddler–parent interactions12
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study12
Earlier than previously thought: Yawn contagion in preschool children12
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices12
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill12
The postnatal testosterone rebound in first‐time fathers and the quality and quantity of paternal care11
Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults11
Fetal heart rate during maternal sleep11
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials11
Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age11
Moving the dial on prenatal stress mechanisms of neurodevelopmental vulnerability to mental health problems: A personalized prevention proof of concept11
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats11
Exploring the hormonal and neural correlates of paternal protective behavior to their infants10
Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?10
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review10
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae10
Associations of adverse childhood experiences with stress physiology and insulin resistance in adolescents at risk for adult obesity10
The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review10
Effects of the physical and social environment on youth cognitive performance10
Parent–child physiological synchrony: Concurrent and lagged effects during dyadic laboratory interaction10
Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning10
The role of maternal touch in the association between SLC6A4 methylation and stress response in very preterm infants10
Towards an understanding of neurophysiological self‐regulation in early childhood: A heuristic and a new approach9
Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: The state of the science9
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence9
Associations between peer stress in early adolescence and multiple event‐related potentials elicited during social feedback processing9
Fathering behavior, attachment, and engagement in childcare predict testosterone and cortisol9
Maternal experiences of childhood maltreatment moderate patterns of mother–infant cortisol regulation under stress9
Infant ultrasonic vocalizations predict adolescent social behavior in rats: Effects of early life adversity9
Return of fear following extinction in youth: An event‐related potential study9
Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention9
Using different methods for calculating frontal alpha asymmetry to study its development from infancy to 3 years of age in a large longitudinal sample9
Neonatal procedural pain affects state, but not trait anxiety behavior in adult rats9
Gut brain regulation using psychobiotics for improved neuropsychological illness9
Prenatal maternal distress and immune cell epigenetic profiles at 3‐months of age9
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents9
Prenatal exposure to maternal psychological distress and telomere length in childhood9
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation9
Sociodemographics and chronic stress in mother–toddler dyads living in poverty9
Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors8
Event‐related potentials data quality in young children: Standardized measurement error of ERN and Pe8
A meta‐analysis of mother–child synchrony in respiratory sinus arrhythmia and contextual risk8
Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli8
Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice8
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown8
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood8
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Development and validation of the Dimensional Inventory of Stress and Trauma Across the Lifespan (DISTAL): A novel assessment tool to facilitate the dimensional study of psychobiological sequelae of e8
Exploring valence bias as a metric for frontoamygdalar connectivity and depressive symptoms in childhood8
Development of anxiety‐like behaviors during adolescence: Persistent effects of adolescent morphine exposure in male rats8
Medial prefrontal brain activity correlates with emerging symptoms of anxiety and depression in late adolescence: A fNIRS study8
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children8
High vagal tone and rapid extinction learning as potential transdiagnostic protective factors following childhood violence exposure8
Maternal trait anxiety symptoms, frontolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity, and cognitive development in infancy8
Chronic running‐wheel exercise from adolescence leads to increased anxiety and depression‐like phenotypes in adulthood in rats: Effects on stress markers and interaction with BDNF Val66Met genotype7
Moderating effects of environmental stressors on the development of attention to threat in infancy7
Elevated ghrelin alters the behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen exposure in rats7
Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?7
Lifetime stressors, hair cortisol, and executive function: Age‐related associations in childhood7
White matter integrity moderates the relation between experienced childhood maltreatment and fathers’ behavioral response to infant crying7
Trajectories of internalizing symptoms in early childhood: Associations with maternal internalizing symptoms and child physiology7
Early motor skills predict the developmental trajectory of problem solving in young children with motor delays7
Adverse childhood experiences predict neurite density differences in young children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder7
Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling7
The development of the gut microbiome and temperament during infancy and early childhood: A systematic review7
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children7
The neural correlates of paternal consoling behavior and frustration in response to infant crying7
Maternal distress, DNA methylation, and fetal programing of stress physiology in Brazilian mother–infant pairs7
Added sugar intake during pregnancy: Fetal behavior, birth outcomes, and placental DNA methylation6
Sleep and stress in mother–toddler dyads living in low‐income homes6
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats6
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia6
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information6
Risky emotional family environment in childhood and depression‐related cytokines in adulthood: The protective role of compassion6
Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children6
Influences of adversity across the lifespan on respiratory sinus arrhythmia during pregnancy6
The effects of prenatal stress on neural responses to infant cries in expectant mothers and fathers6
Peripheral immune correlates of childhood and adolescent peer relationships: A systematic review6
Adipocytokine correlates of childhood and adolescent mental health: A systematic review6
Latent profiles of children’s autonomic nervous system reactivity early in life predict later externalizing problems6
Behavioral impact of experience based on environmental enrichment: Influence of age and duration of exposure in male NMRI mice6
Altered hippocampal microstructure and function in children who experienced Hurricane Irma6
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior6
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning6
Father involvement in infancy predicts behavior and response to chronic stress in middle childhood in a low‐income Latinx sample6
Maternal mindfulness during pregnancy predicts newborn neurobehavior6
Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention6
Maternal care, infant fear memory retention, and the moderating role of variations in separation‐induced ultrasonic vocalizations6
Reliability of reward‐ and error‐related brain activity in early childhood5
Adolescent stress during, but not after, pubertal onset impairs indices of prepulse inhibition in adult rats5
The development of interoceptive hunger signals5
Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood5
Internal consistency reliability of the P300 to novelty in infants: The influence of trial number and data loss due to artifacts5
Deriving within‐person estimates of delta‐beta coupling: A novel measure for identifying individual differences in emotion and neural function in childhood5
Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study5
Daily provision of instrumental and emotional support to friends is associated with diurnal cortisol during adolescence5
Maternal antibiotics disrupt microbiome, behavior, and temperature regulation in unexposed infant mice5
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination5
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees5
Emergence of personality in weaning‐age kittens of the domestic cat?5
Early life stress sensitizes youth to the influence of stress‐induced cortisol on memory for affective words5
Parental emotional support and social buffering in previously institutionalized and typically developing children and adolescents5
Associations between the human immune system and gut microbiome with neurodevelopment in the first 5 years of life: A systematic scoping review5
Children's shyness and frontal electroencephalogram delta–beta correlation in the pediatric surgical setting5
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence5
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion disrupts maternal behavior in rats: An animal model of schizophrenia5
Effects of maternal and paternal postnatal depressive symptoms on infants’ parasympathetic regulation in low‐income, Mexican American families5
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse5
Timing‐specific associations between income‐to‐needs ratio and hippocampal and amygdala volumes in middle childhood: A preliminary study5
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight5
Phenotyping stress exposures related to perinatal health disparities5
Child emotion inhibition mediates the effect of parent's adaptive cognitive emotion regulation on child frontal EEG asymmetry during reappraisal5
Exploring the effect of prenatal maternal stress on the microbiomes of mothers and infants: A systematic review5
Using gastrointestinal distress reports to predict youth anxiety risk: Implications for mental health literacy and community care5
Psychometric properties of threat‐related attentional bias in young children using eye‐tracking5
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 autism5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration4
Effects of an attachment‐based intervention on autonomic regulation among opioid‐exposed infants4
“Generalized unsafety” as fear inhibition to safety signals in adults with and without childhood trauma4
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator4
The reliability of visual ERP components in children across the first year of school4
Can gut microbiota throughout the first 10 years of life predict executive functioning in childhood?4
Do infants avoid a traversable slope leading into deep water?4
Startle to neutral, not negative stimuli: A neurophysiological correlate of behavioral inhibition in young children4
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 hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy4
A review of the literature: How does prenatal opioid exposure impact placental health and fetal brain development?4
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?4
Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review4
Context is key: Parasympathetic regulation in the classroom differentially predicts preschoolers’ socially competent behaviors4
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography4
Transmission of paternal retrieval behavior from fathers to sons in a biparental rodent4
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Mouse model of panic disorder: Vulnerability to early environmental instability is strain‐dependent4
The role of fathers in child development from preconception to postnatal influences: Opportunities for the National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) progra4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period4
Specificity of California mouse pup vocalizations in response to olfactory stimuli4
Increase in sexual motivation throughout adolescence in the cycling female rat4
Observed shyness leads to more automatic imitation in early childhood4
Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children4
Pubertal transition with current life stress and support alters longitudinal diurnal cortisol patterns in adolescents exposed to early life adversity4
Effects of skin‐to‐skin contact on full‐term infants’ stress reactivity and quality of mother–infant interactions4
Longitudinal investigation of shyness and physiological vulnerability: Moderating influences of attention biases to threat and safety4
Prenatal mother–father cortisol linkage predicts infant executive functions at 24 months4
Metabolic proteins at birth predict early childhood mental health symptoms4
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits4
Early life stress alters emotional learning in a sex‐ and age‐dependent manner with no impact on emotional behaviors4
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice4
Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study4
Roles of culture and COMT Val58Met gene on neural basis of executive function: A comparison between Japanese and American children3
Oxytocin but not naturally occurring variation in caregiver touch associates with infant social orienting3
Quality of father–child relationships as a predictor of sleep developments during preschool years3
Infant physiological activity and the early emergence of social communication3
Child‐parent cardiac transference is decreased following disrupted/absent early care3
Beyond the dyad: the role of mother and father in newborns’ global DNA methylation during the first month of life—a pilot study3
Chronic nicotine exposure alters sperm small RNA content in C57BL/6J mouse model3
Developmental changes of the neural mechanisms underlying level 2 visual perspective‐taking: A functional near‐infrared spectroscopy study3
Mother–child mutually responsive orientation and real‐time physiological coordination3
Infants’ stress responses and protest behaviors at childcare entry and the role of care providers3
Sensorimotor development of male and female rats subjected to neonatal anoxia3
Learning to like triangles: A longitudinal investigation of evaluative conditioning in infancy3
The longitudinal negative impact of early stressful events on emotional and physical well‐being: The buffering role of cardiac vagal development3
Toddlers’ physiological response to parent's mobile device distraction and technoference3
Limited bedding nesting paradigm alters maternal behavior and pup's early developmental milestones but did not induce anxiety‐ or depressive‐like behavior in two different inbred mice3
The persistent associations between early institutional care and diurnal cortisol outcomes among children adopted internationally3
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)3
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat3
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Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization3
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation3
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty3
Mother–infant convergence of event‐related potentials elicited by face and object processing3
Adapting event‐related potential research paradigms for children: Considerations from research on the development of recognition memory3
Conducting EEG research in clinically anxious preschoolers: A pilot study and preliminary recommendations3
Disrupted serotonin system development via early life antidepressant exposure impairs maternal care and increases serotonin receptor expression in adult female offspring3
Understanding emerging regulation: The role of frontal electroencephalography asymmetry and negative affectivity3
Unveiling stress markers: A systematic review investigating psychological stress biomarkers3
Children's diurnal cortisol output and temperament in two different childcare settings at 2 and 3.5 years of age3
“Katerina gets mad”: Infants’ physiological and behavioral responses to co‐viewing educational, self‐regulatory media3
Autonomic nervous system activity moderates associations between temperament and externalizing behaviors in early childhood3
The relationship of social support perceived by mothers and fathers and dyadic adjustment with maternal and paternal attachment in the postpartum period3
Methods and metrics for EEG/ERP assessment of emotion and cognition in young children3
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children3
The effects of early weaning on Pavlovian fear conditioning in young rats3
Maternal stress and development of infant attention to threat‐related facial expressions3
A mother's touch: Preschool‐aged children are regulated by positive maternal touch3
Equifinality in infancy: The many paths to walking3
Maternal expressions of positive emotion for children predicts children’s respiratory sinus arrhythmia surrounding stress3
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats3
Depressive symptoms among stress‐exposed youth: Relations with tonic and phasic indices of autonomic functioning3
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats3
Infant temperamental fear, pupil dilation, and gaze aversion from smiling strangers2
More than meets the eye: Examining physiological and behavioral regulation during delay of gratification task2
The influence of social motivation on neural correlates of cognitive control in girls2
Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults2
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 2
The effect of physical and emotional partner violence exerted during pregnancy on prenatal attachment and depression levels in pregnant women2
Birthweight moderates the association between chronological age and infants’ abilities to respond to cues for joint attention2
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Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence2
The neurobehavioral relationship between executive function and creativity during early childhood2
Prior night sleep moderates the daily spillover between conflict with peers and family and diurnal cortisol2
Infants’ neural sensitivity to social interactions varies by income and infant‐directed speech2
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse2
Parasympathetic response to challenge in infancy moderates the effects of sociodemographic risk on academic achievement at school entry2
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One brick at a time: Building a developmental profile of spatial abilities2
Paternal antisociality and growth in child delinquent behaviors: Moderating effects of child sex and respiratory sinus arrhythmia2
Nine‐month old infants’ hand preference shows no link to concurrent or later vocabulary2
Associations between parental involvement at bedtime and young children's evening cortisol and nighttime sleep2
Development of “personality” in the domestic cat: A longitudinal study2
Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally2
The importance of decomposing periodic and aperiodic EEG signals for assessment of brain function in a global context2
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence2
Infant biological sensitivity to father engagement in low‐income Mexican American families2
Neural sensitivity to natural image statistics changes during middle childhood2
Externalizing behavior and stress system functioning in infants exposed to early adversity: A multi‐system exploration2
Prenatal substance exposure, early‐life adversity, and parenting: Associations with adolescent stress response2
The effects of neonatal procedural pain and maternal isolation on hippocampal cell proliferation and reelin concentration in neonatal and adult male and female rats2
COVID‐19 and early puberty—An unintended consequence of COVID‐19 lockdown?2
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