Developmental Psychobiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Psychobiology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood40
Sex and age differences in locomotor and anxiety‐like behaviors in rats: From adolescence to adulthood37
Electroencephalogram aperiodic power spectral slope can be reliably measured and predicts ADHD risk in early development33
Moderate early life stress improves adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) working memory but does not affect social and anxiety‐like responses24
Aperiodic electrophysiological activity in preterm infants is linked to subsequent autism risk22
Allostatic load: Developmental and conceptual considerations in a multi‐system physiological indicator of chronic stress exposure22
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 policy21
Early and current life adversity: Past and present influences on maternal diurnal cortisol rhythms during pregnancy20
Associations between infant–mother physiological synchrony and 4‐ and 6‐month‐old infants’ emotion regulation20
Sex differences in the acoustic features of social play‐induced 50‐kHz ultrasonic vocalizations: A detailed spectrographic analysis in wild‐type Sprague–Dawley and Cacna1c haploinsufficient rat18
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation17
Maltreatment exposure across childhood and low‐grade inflammation: Considerations of exposure type, timing, and sex differences16
Neural mechanisms of reward processing in adolescent irritability16
Getting under the skin: Physiological stress and witnessing paternal arrest in young children with incarcerated fathers15
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 Inten15
Assessment of prenatal stress‐related cortisol exposure: focus on cortisol accumulation in hair and nails15
Plasticity of the paternal brain: Effects of fatherhood on neural structure and function15
How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization15
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border14
Fathers’ oxytocin responses to first holding their newborns: Interactions with testosterone reactivity to predict later parenting behavior and father‐infant bonds14
Microbiota‐immune alterations in adolescents following early life adversity: A proof of concept study14
In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research14
Associations of prenatal maternal stress with measures of cognition in 7.5‐month‐old infants14
Differences in mother–child and father–child RSA synchrony: Moderation by child self‐regulation and dyadic affect13
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure13
A systematic review of human paternal oxytocin: Insights into the methodology and what we know so far13
Early maternal and paternal caregiving moderates the links between preschoolers' reactivity and regulation and maturation of the HPA‐immune axis13
Sensory processing and cortisol at age 4 years: Procedural pain‐related stress in children born very preterm13
Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in‐home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis13
Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement13
Comparison of neurotransmitter levels, physiological conditions, and emotional behavior between isolation‐housed rats with group‐housed rats12
The relationship between fraternal birth order and childhood sex‐atypical behavior among the Istmo Zapotec muxes11
Parent's anxiety links household stress and young children's behavioral dysregulation11
Infant posture and caregiver‐provided cognitive opportunities in typically developing infants and infants with motor delay11
Linking preschoolers’ parasympathetic activity to maternal early adversity and child behavior: An intergenerational perspective11
Moving the dial on prenatal stress mechanisms of neurodevelopmental vulnerability to mental health problems: A personalized prevention proof of concept11
Fetal heart rate during maternal sleep11
Social EEG: A novel neurodevelopmental approach to studying brain‐behavior links and brain‐to‐brain synchrony during naturalistic toddler–parent interactions11
The postnatal testosterone rebound in first‐time fathers and the quality and quantity of paternal care11
Social interaction in the emergence of toddler’s mealtime spoon use10
Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age10
Irritability‐related neural responses to frustrative nonreward in adolescents with trauma histories: A preliminary investigation10
Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults10
Firm parenting and youth adjustment: Stress reactivity and dyadic synchrony of respiratory sinus arrhythmia10
Adolescents at risk of anxiety in interaction with their fathers: Studying non‐verbal and physiological synchrony9
Earlier than previously thought: Yawn contagion in preschool children9
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation9
Getting to the heart of childhood empathy: Relations with shyness and respiratory sinus arrhythmia9
The association between prenatal alcohol consumption and preschool child stress system disturbance9
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats9
Preschoolers’ dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) change during a challenging parent‐child interactive task: Relations with preschoolers’ socioemotional health9
Towards an understanding of neurophysiological self‐regulation in early childhood: A heuristic and a new approach9
Biological sensitivity to context in Pakistani preschoolers: Hair cortisol and family wealth are interactively associated with girls’ cognitive skills9
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study9
Maternal experiences of childhood maltreatment moderate patterns of mother–infant cortisol regulation under stress8
Associations of adverse childhood experiences with stress physiology and insulin resistance in adolescents at risk for adult obesity8
Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?8
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill8
Maternal approach behaviors toward neonatal calls are impaired by mother's experiences of raising pups with a risk gene variant for autism8
OXTR DNA methylation moderates the developmental calibration of neural reward sensitivity8
Prenatal maternal distress and immune cell epigenetic profiles at 3‐months of age8
The developmental precursors of blunted cardiovascular responses to stress8
Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning8
Early external‐environmental and internal‐health predictors of risky sexual and aggressive behavior in adolescence: An integrative approach8
Children’s use of everyday artifacts: Learning the hidden affordance of zipping8
The role of maternal touch in the association between SLC6A4 methylation and stress response in very preterm infants8
Exploring the hormonal and neural correlates of paternal protective behavior to their infants8
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices8
Consistency of EEG asymmetry patterns in infants of depressed mothers8
Prenatal exposure to maternal psychological distress and telomere length in childhood8
Neonatal procedural pain affects state, but not trait anxiety behavior in adult rats8
Material hardship, prefrontal cortex–amygdala structure, and internalizing symptoms in children8
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae7
Parent–child physiological synchrony: Concurrent and lagged effects during dyadic laboratory interaction7
Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: The state of the science7
Integrating anthropometric and cardiometabolic health methods in stress, early experiences, and development (SEED) science7
High vagal tone and rapid extinction learning as potential transdiagnostic protective factors following childhood violence exposure7
Maternal trait anxiety symptoms, frontolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity, and cognitive development in infancy7
Effects of the physical and social environment on youth cognitive performance7
Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice7
Moderating effects of environmental stressors on the development of attention to threat in infancy7
Longitudinal effects of family psychopathology and stress on pubertal maturation and hormone coupling in adolescent twins7
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials7
Fathering behavior, attachment, and engagement in childcare predict testosterone and cortisol7
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 e7
Sociodemographics and chronic stress in mother–toddler dyads living in poverty7
Extinction and drug‐induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking following self‐administration or conditioned place preference in adolescent and adult rats7
Event‐related potentials data quality in young children: Standardized measurement error of ERN and Pe7
Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention7
Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?7
A Caretaker Acute Stress Paradigm: Effects on behavior and physiology of caretaker and infant7
New approaches to quantify social development in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Integrating eye tracking with traditional assessments of social behavior6
Testosterone regulates the emission of ultrasonic vocalizations and mounting behavior during different developmental periods in mice6
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence6
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats6
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children6
Maternal distress, DNA methylation, and fetal programing of stress physiology in Brazilian mother–infant pairs6
Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli6
Risky emotional family environment in childhood and depression‐related cytokines in adulthood: The protective role of compassion6
Development of anxiety‐like behaviors during adolescence: Persistent effects of adolescent morphine exposure in male rats6
Culture and stress biology in immigrant youth from the prenatal period to adolescence: A systematic review6
Autonomy‐restrictive socialization of anger: Associations with school‐aged children’s physiology, trait anxiety, state distress, and relationship closeness6
Early motor skills predict the developmental trajectory of problem solving in young children with motor delays6
Using different methods for calculating frontal alpha asymmetry to study its development from infancy to 3 years of age in a large longitudinal sample6
Adverse childhood experiences predict neurite density differences in young children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder6
Peripheral immune correlates of childhood and adolescent peer relationships: A systematic review6
Childhood socioeconomic status is prospectively associated with surface morphometry in adulthood6
Behavioral impact of experience based on environmental enrichment: Influence of age and duration of exposure in male NMRI mice6
Lifetime stressors, hair cortisol, and executive function: Age‐related associations in childhood6
Differential sensitivity to species‐ and race‐based information in the development of attention orienting and attention holding face biases in infancy6
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children6
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood6
Elevated ghrelin alters the behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen exposure in rats6
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review6
Exploring valence bias as a metric for frontoamygdalar connectivity and depressive symptoms in childhood6
Using mobile eye‐tracking technology to examine adolescent daughters’ attention to maternal affect during a conflict discussion6
Environmental enrichment modulates inflammation during development in long‐evans rats (Rattus norvegicus)5
Latent profiles of children’s autonomic nervous system reactivity early in life predict later externalizing problems5
Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children5
Gut brain regulation using psychobiotics for improved neuropsychological illness5
Added sugar intake during pregnancy: Fetal behavior, birth outcomes, and placental DNA methylation5
Infant ultrasonic vocalizations predict adolescent social behavior in rats: Effects of early life adversity5
Daily provision of instrumental and emotional support to friends is associated with diurnal cortisol during adolescence5
Sleep and stress in mother–toddler dyads living in low‐income homes5
Trajectories of internalizing symptoms in early childhood: Associations with maternal internalizing symptoms and child physiology5
The neural correlates of paternal consoling behavior and frustration in response to infant crying5
Reliability of reward‐ and error‐related brain activity in early childhood5
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
Integrated and diurnal indices of maternal pregnancy cortisol in relation to sex‐specific parasympathetic responsivity to stress in infants5
The development of the gut microbiome and temperament during infancy and early childhood: A systematic review5
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior5
Medial prefrontal brain activity correlates with emerging symptoms of anxiety and depression in late adolescence: A fNIRS study5
Child diurnal cortisol differs based on profiles of maternal emotion socialization in high risk, low income, and racially diverse families5
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
Maternal antibiotics disrupt microbiome, behavior, and temperature regulation in unexposed infant mice5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests5
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia5
Phenotyping stress exposures related to perinatal health disparities5
White matter integrity moderates the relation between experienced childhood maltreatment and fathers’ behavioral response to infant crying5
Quantifying the dynamic nature of vagal responsivity in infancy: Methodological innovations and theoretical implications5
Child emotion inhibition mediates the effect of parent's adaptive cognitive emotion regulation on child frontal EEG asymmetry during reappraisal5
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown5
Using gastrointestinal distress reports to predict youth anxiety risk: Implications for mental health literacy and community care5
Return of fear following extinction in youth: An event‐related potential study5
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents5
A meta‐analysis of mother–child synchrony in respiratory sinus arrhythmia and contextual risk5
Associations between peer stress in early adolescence and multiple event‐related potentials elicited during social feedback processing5
Can gut microbiota throughout the first 10 years of life predict executive functioning in childhood?4
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight4
Infant rats can acquire, but not retain contextual associations in object‐in‐context and contextual fear conditioning paradigms4
Altered hippocampal microstructure and function in children who experienced Hurricane Irma4
Maternal expressive suppression moderates the relations between maternal and child hair cortisol4
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence4
Expression of synaptophysin and BDNF in the medial prefrontal cortex following early life stress and neonatal hypoxia‐ischemia4
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse4
The COMT rs4680 polymorphism, family functioning and preschoolers’ attentional control indexed by intraindividual reaction time variability4
Maternal mindfulness during pregnancy predicts newborn neurobehavior4
Transmission of paternal retrieval behavior from fathers to sons in a biparental rodent4
A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats4
Influences of adversity across the lifespan on respiratory sinus arrhythmia during pregnancy4
Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling4
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography4
Prenatal maternal C‐reactive protein prospectively predicts child executive functioning at ages 4–6 years4
Do infants avoid a traversable slope leading into deep water?4
Increase in sexual motivation throughout adolescence in the cycling female rat4
Pubertal transition with current life stress and support alters longitudinal diurnal cortisol patterns in adolescents exposed to early life adversity4
Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors4
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning4
Applying computational modeling to assess age‐, sex‐, and strategy‐related differences in Spin the Pots, a working memory task for 2‐ to 4‐year‐olds4
Predicting child effortful control: An integrative analysis of child physiological, familial, and community factors4
Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats4
The role of maternal environment on calibrating “Mini Puberty” in early infant development4
Children's shyness and frontal electroencephalogram delta–beta correlation in the pediatric surgical setting4
Maternal care, infant fear memory retention, and the moderating role of variations in separation‐induced ultrasonic vocalizations4
Timing‐specific associations between income‐to‐needs ratio and hippocampal and amygdala volumes in middle childhood: A preliminary study4
Mouse model of panic disorder: Vulnerability to early environmental instability is strain‐dependent4
Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study4
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat4
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration4
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 genotype4
Effects of maternal and paternal postnatal depressive symptoms on infants’ parasympathetic regulation in low‐income, Mexican American families4
Internal consistency reliability of the P300 to novelty in infants: The influence of trial number and data loss due to artifacts4
Linking autonomic nervous system reactivity with sleep in adolescence: Sex as a moderator4
Adrenocortical attunement, reactivity, and potential genetic correlates among parent–daughter dyads from low‐income families4
Emergence of personality in weaning‐age kittens of the domestic cat?4
Human and monkey infant attention to dynamic social and nonsocial stimuli3
Sons benefit from paternal care in African striped mice3
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty3
A review of the literature: How does prenatal opioid exposure impact placental health and fetal brain development?3
Maternal stress and development of infant attention to threat‐related facial expressions3
Metabolic proteins at birth predict early childhood mental health symptoms3
Disentangling levels of mother–infant neuroendocrine attunement and longitudinal relations with maternal risk and protective factors3
Bringing up baby: Maternal responsiveness, secondary attachments, and the development of infant social competence in wild olive baboons (Papio anubis)3
Beyond the dyad: the role of mother and father in newborns’ global DNA methylation during the first month of life—a pilot study3
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)3
Longitudinal investigation of shyness and physiological vulnerability: Moderating influences of attention biases to threat and safety3
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice3
Adolescent stress during, but not after, pubertal onset impairs indices of prepulse inhibition in adult rats3
The persistent associations between early institutional care and diurnal cortisol outcomes among children adopted internationally3
The development of interoceptive hunger signals3
Autonomic nervous system activity moderates associations between temperament and externalizing behaviors in early childhood3
Effects of an attachment‐based intervention on autonomic regulation among opioid‐exposed infants3
Interpretation biases and depressive symptoms among anxiety‐disordered children: The role of individual differences in respiratory sinus arrhythmia3
Mother–child mutually responsive orientation and real‐time physiological coordination3
Are there sex differences in the development of prefrontal function during early childhood?3
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review3
Specificity of California mouse pup vocalizations in response to olfactory stimuli3
Father involvement in infancy predicts behavior and response to chronic stress in middle childhood in a low‐income Latinx sample3
Investigating convergence of cardiac and behavioral indicators of distress during routine vaccinations over the second year of life3
Context is key: Parasympathetic regulation in the classroom differentially predicts preschoolers’ socially competent behaviors3
Associations between the human immune system and gut microbiome with neurodevelopment in the first 5 years of life: A systematic scoping review3
Adapting event‐related potential research paradigms for children: Considerations from research on the development of recognition memory3
Early life stress alters emotional learning in a sex‐ and age‐dependent manner with no impact on emotional behaviors3
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
Psychometric properties of threat‐related attentional bias in young children using eye‐tracking3
The longitudinal negative impact of early stressful events on emotional and physical well‐being: The buffering role of cardiac vagal development3
Startle to neutral, not negative stimuli: A neurophysiological correlate of behavioral inhibition in young children3
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination3
Methods and metrics for EEG/ERP assessment of emotion and cognition in young children3
Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review3
Infants’ stress responses and protest behaviors at childcare entry and the role of care providers3
Examining the role of socioeconomic status and temperament in the hair cortisol levels of infants3
Conducting EEG research in clinically anxious preschoolers: A pilot study and preliminary recommendations3
Adipocytokine correlates of childhood and adolescent mental health: A systematic review3
Prenatal mother–father cortisol linkage predicts infant executive functions at 24 months3
Chronic nicotine exposure alters sperm small RNA content in C57BL/6J mouse model3
Deriving within‐person estimates of delta‐beta coupling: A novel measure for identifying individual differences in emotion and neural function in childhood3
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees3
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats3
Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention3
Children's diurnal cortisol output and temperament in two different childcare settings at 2 and 3.5 years of age3
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator3
Roles of culture and COMT Val58Met gene on neural basis of executive function: A comparison between Japanese and American children3
Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood3
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion disrupts maternal behavior in rats: An animal model of schizophrenia3
Child‐parent cardiac transference is decreased following disrupted/absent early care3
Observed shyness leads to more automatic imitation in early childhood3
Externalizing behavior and stress system functioning in infants exposed to early adversity: A multi‐system exploration2
The effects of early weaning on Pavlovian fear conditioning in young rats2
Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults2
Disrupted serotonin system development via early life antidepressant exposure impairs maternal care and increases serotonin receptor expression in adult female offspring2
Effects of skin‐to‐skin contact on full‐term infants’ stress reactivity and quality of mother–infant interactions2
Parasympathetic response to challenge in infancy moderates the effects of sociodemographic risk on academic achievement at school entry2
Infant biological sensitivity to father engagement in low‐income Mexican American families2
Sensorimotor development of male and female rats subjected to neonatal anoxia2
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization2
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse2
Neural sensitivity to natural image statistics changes during middle childhood2
0.034728050231934