OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Psychobiology is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood	51
Electroencephalogram aperiodic power spectral slope can be reliably measured and predicts ADHD risk in early development	43
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 policy	26
Allostatic load: Developmental and conceptual considerations in a multi‐system physiological indicator of chronic stress exposure	25
Associations between infant–mother physiological synchrony and 4‐ and 6‐month‐old infants’ emotion regulation	25
Aperiodic electrophysiological activity in preterm infants is linked to subsequent autism risk	24
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation	21
Microbiota‐immune alterations in adolescents following early life adversity: A proof of concept study	19
In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research	19
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 Inten	18
Neural mechanisms of reward processing in adolescent irritability	18
Getting under the skin: Physiological stress and witnessing paternal arrest in young children with incarcerated fathers	17
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	17
Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in‐home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis	16
Plasticity of the paternal brain: Effects of fatherhood on neural structure and function	16
Sensory processing and cortisol at age 4 years: Procedural pain‐related stress in children born very preterm	16
Differences in mother–child and father–child RSA synchrony: Moderation by child self‐regulation and dyadic affect	16
Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement	16
Early maternal and paternal caregiving moderates the links between preschoolers' reactivity and regulation and maturation of the HPA‐immune axis	15
Associations of prenatal maternal stress with measures of cognition in 7.5‐month‐old infants	15
Fathers’ oxytocin responses to first holding their newborns: Interactions with testosterone reactivity to predict later parenting behavior and father‐infant bonds	14
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure	14
Infant posture and caregiver‐provided cognitive opportunities in typically developing infants and infants with motor delay	14
Preschoolers’ dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) change during a challenging parent‐child interactive task: Relations with preschoolers’ socioemotional health	13
Childhood socioeconomic status is prospectively associated with surface morphometry in adulthood	13

Irritability‐related neural responses to frustrative nonreward in adolescents with trauma histories: A preliminary investigation	13
A systematic review of human paternal oxytocin: Insights into the methodology and what we know so far	13
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices	12
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill	12
Social EEG: A novel neurodevelopmental approach to studying brain‐behavior links and brain‐to‐brain synchrony during naturalistic toddler–parent interactions	12
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	12
Earlier than previously thought: Yawn contagion in preschool children	12
Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age	11
Moving the dial on prenatal stress mechanisms of neurodevelopmental vulnerability to mental health problems: A personalized prevention proof of concept	11
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats	11
The postnatal testosterone rebound in first‐time fathers and the quality and quantity of paternal care	11
Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults	11
Fetal heart rate during maternal sleep	11
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials	11
Effects of the physical and social environment on youth cognitive performance	10
Parent–child physiological synchrony: Concurrent and lagged effects during dyadic laboratory interaction	10
Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning	10
The role of maternal touch in the association between SLC6A4 methylation and stress response in very preterm infants	10
Exploring the hormonal and neural correlates of paternal protective behavior to their infants	10
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 review	10
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae	10
Associations of adverse childhood experiences with stress physiology and insulin resistance in adolescents at risk for adult obesity	10
The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review	10
Gut brain regulation using psychobiotics for improved neuropsychological illness	9
Prenatal maternal distress and immune cell epigenetic profiles at 3‐months of age	9
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents	9
Prenatal exposure to maternal psychological distress and telomere length in childhood	9
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	9
Sociodemographics and chronic stress in mother–toddler dyads living in poverty	9
Towards an understanding of neurophysiological self‐regulation in early childhood: A heuristic and a new approach	9
Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: The state of the science	9
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence	9
Associations between peer stress in early adolescence and multiple event‐related potentials elicited during social feedback processing	9
Fathering behavior, attachment, and engagement in childcare predict testosterone and cortisol	9
Maternal experiences of childhood maltreatment moderate patterns of mother–infant cortisol regulation under stress	9
Infant ultrasonic vocalizations predict adolescent social behavior in rats: Effects of early life adversity	9
Return of fear following extinction in youth: An event‐related potential study	9
Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention	9
Using different methods for calculating frontal alpha asymmetry to study its development from infancy to 3 years of age in a large longitudinal sample	9
Neonatal procedural pain affects state, but not trait anxiety behavior in adult rats	9
Exploring valence bias as a metric for frontoamygdalar connectivity and depressive symptoms in childhood	8
Development of anxiety‐like behaviors during adolescence: Persistent effects of adolescent morphine exposure in male rats	8
Medial prefrontal brain activity correlates with emerging symptoms of anxiety and depression in late adolescence: A fNIRS study	8
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children	8
High vagal tone and rapid extinction learning as potential transdiagnostic protective factors following childhood violence exposure	8
Maternal trait anxiety symptoms, frontolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity, and cognitive development in infancy	8
Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors	8
Event‐related potentials data quality in young children: Standardized measurement error of ERN and Pe	8
A meta‐analysis of mother–child synchrony in respiratory sinus arrhythmia and contextual risk	8

Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli	8
Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice	8
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown	8
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood	8
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
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 e	8
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 genotype	7
The neural correlates of paternal consoling behavior and frustration in response to infant crying	7
Moderating effects of environmental stressors on the development of attention to threat in infancy	7
Maternal distress, DNA methylation, and fetal programing of stress physiology in Brazilian mother–infant pairs	7
Lifetime stressors, hair cortisol, and executive function: Age‐related associations in childhood	7
White matter integrity moderates the relation between experienced childhood maltreatment and fathers’ behavioral response to infant crying	7
Elevated ghrelin alters the behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen exposure in rats	7
Trajectories of internalizing symptoms in early childhood: Associations with maternal internalizing symptoms and child physiology	7
Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?	7
The development of the gut microbiome and temperament during infancy and early childhood: A systematic review	7
Early motor skills predict the developmental trajectory of problem solving in young children with motor delays	7
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children	7
Adverse childhood experiences predict neurite density differences in young children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	7
Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling	7
Father involvement in infancy predicts behavior and response to chronic stress in middle childhood in a low‐income Latinx sample	6
Maternal mindfulness during pregnancy predicts newborn neurobehavior	6
Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention	6
Maternal care, infant fear memory retention, and the moderating role of variations in separation‐induced ultrasonic vocalizations	6
Added sugar intake during pregnancy: Fetal behavior, birth outcomes, and placental DNA methylation	6
Sleep and stress in mother–toddler dyads living in low‐income homes	6
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats	6
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	6
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information	6
Risky emotional family environment in childhood and depression‐related cytokines in adulthood: The protective role of compassion	6
Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children	6
Influences of adversity across the lifespan on respiratory sinus arrhythmia during pregnancy	6
The effects of prenatal stress on neural responses to infant cries in expectant mothers and fathers	6
Peripheral immune correlates of childhood and adolescent peer relationships: A systematic review	6
Adipocytokine correlates of childhood and adolescent mental health: A systematic review	6
Latent profiles of children’s autonomic nervous system reactivity early in life predict later externalizing problems	6
Behavioral impact of experience based on environmental enrichment: Influence of age and duration of exposure in male NMRI mice	6
Altered hippocampal microstructure and function in children who experienced Hurricane Irma	6
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior	6
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning	6
Using gastrointestinal distress reports to predict youth anxiety risk: Implications for mental health literacy and community care	5
Psychometric properties of threat‐related attentional bias in young children using eye‐tracking	5
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 autism	5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests	5
Reliability of reward‐ and error‐related brain activity in early childhood	5
Adolescent stress during, but not after, pubertal onset impairs indices of prepulse inhibition in adult rats	5
The development of interoceptive hunger signals	5
Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood	5
Internal consistency reliability of the P300 to novelty in infants: The influence of trial number and data loss due to artifacts	5
Deriving within‐person estimates of delta‐beta coupling: A novel measure for identifying individual differences in emotion and neural function in childhood	5
Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study	5
Daily provision of instrumental and emotional support to friends is associated with diurnal cortisol during adolescence	5
Maternal antibiotics disrupt microbiome, behavior, and temperature regulation in unexposed infant mice	5
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat	5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination	5
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees	5
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 words	5
Parental emotional support and social buffering in previously institutionalized and typically developing children and adolescents	5
Associations between the human immune system and gut microbiome with neurodevelopment in the first 5 years of life: A systematic scoping review	5
Children's shyness and frontal electroencephalogram delta–beta correlation in the pediatric surgical setting	5
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence	5
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion disrupts maternal behavior in rats: An animal model of schizophrenia	5
Effects of maternal and paternal postnatal depressive symptoms on infants’ parasympathetic regulation in low‐income, Mexican American families	5
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse	5
Timing‐specific associations between income‐to‐needs ratio and hippocampal and amygdala volumes in middle childhood: A preliminary study	5
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight	5
Phenotyping stress exposures related to perinatal health disparities	5
Child emotion inhibition mediates the effect of parent's adaptive cognitive emotion regulation on child frontal EEG asymmetry during reappraisal	5
Exploring the effect of prenatal maternal stress on the microbiomes of mothers and infants: A systematic review	5