OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Psychobiology is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women	68
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight	36
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten	29
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers	27
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task	27
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence	23
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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 mice	21
An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well‐Being in Black American Families	19
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water	18
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women	18
Estrous Cycle Impacts Fear Extinction and Relapse in Female Adolescent Rats	18
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation	17
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies	17
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	15
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Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility	14
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety	14
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood	14
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Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization	13
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment	13
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage	13

Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	13
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A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment	13
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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 manner	12
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat	12
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats	12
New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA	12
Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally	12
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning	12
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Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity	11
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes	11
Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy	11
Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression	11
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta	11
Correction to “Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression”	11
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Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention	10
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate	10
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat	10
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography	10
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review	10
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence	9
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?	9
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage	9
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits	9
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Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress	9
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Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths	9
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens	9
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae	9
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior	9
Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?	8
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Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life	8
Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood	8
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants	8
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Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs	7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture	7
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers	7
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Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats	7
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos	7
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats	7
The development of interoceptive hunger signals	7

Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors	7
Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces	7
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats	6
Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior	6
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender	6
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning	6
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	6
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates	6
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse	6
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The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information	6
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	6
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging	6
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence	6
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach	6
Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)	5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination	5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors	5
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The Effects of Distraction and Reappraisal on the Late Positive Potential Across Discrete Emotions: A Study With Latinx Children	5
Cross‐Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated With Cumulative Family Stress	5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana	5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children	5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?	5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)	5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder	5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests	5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration	5
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	5
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Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review	5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches	5
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 rats	5
Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality	5
Developmental psychobiology reviewer recognition for 2021	5
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat	4
Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress	4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)	4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns	4
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study	4
Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Resting Brain Activity: A Preregistered Investigation	4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study	4
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis	4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats	4
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The effects of neonatal procedural pain and maternal isolation on hippocampal cell proliferation and reelin concentration in neonatal and adult male and female rats	4
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age	4
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice	4
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats	4
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review	4
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 motion	4
Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence	4
The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Function	4
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	4
Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?	4
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Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression	4
Telomere Length and Change Among Infants Growing up in Low‐ to Mid‐Income Households	4
Developmental Psychobiology Reviewer Recognition for 2022	4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy	4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period	4
Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice	4
Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress	4
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