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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Influences of early‐life stress on frontolimbic circuitry: Harnessing a dimensional approach to elucidate the effects of heterogeneity in stress exposure	53
Sex and age differences in locomotor and anxiety‐like behaviors in rats: From adolescence to adulthood	30
Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood	29
When you go low, I go high: Negative coordination of physiological synchrony among parents and children	28
Moderate early life stress improves adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) working memory but does not affect social and anxiety‐like responses	21
Neonatal pain and reduced maternal care alter adult behavior and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis reactivity in a sex‐specific manner	20
Spatiotemporal organization of myoclonic twitching in sleeping human infants	19
Early life stress sensitizes individuals to the psychological correlates of mild fluctuations in inflammation	19
Utilization of a rodent model to examine the neurological effects of early life adversity on adolescent pain sensitivity	19
Early and current life adversity: Past and present influences on maternal diurnal cortisol rhythms during pregnancy	19
Unpredictable maternal behavior is associated with a blunted infant cortisol response	18
Allostatic load: Developmental and conceptual considerations in a multi‐system physiological indicator of chronic stress exposure	16
Physiological measures of mother–infant interactional synchrony	16
Infant emotion regulation and cortisol response during the first 2 years of life: Association with maternal parenting profiles	15
Own or dam’s genotype? Classical colony breeding may bias spontaneous and stress‐challenged activity in DAT‐mutant rats	15
Neuroendocrine and immune markers of maternal stress during pregnancy and infant cognitive development	15
Early‐ and later‐developing shyness in children: An investigation of biological and behavioral correlates	15
Temperament moderates developmental changes in vigilance to emotional faces in infants: Evidence from an eye‐tracking study	15
Electroencephalogram aperiodic power spectral slope can be reliably measured and predicts ADHD risk in early development	15
Early life stress and development of the endocannabinoid system: A bidirectional process in programming future coping	14
Neural mechanisms of reward processing in adolescent irritability	14
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 rat	14
Frontal brain maturation and the stability of children’s shyness	13
Getting under the skin: Physiological stress and witnessing paternal arrest in young children with incarcerated fathers	13
Impact of anesthesia exposure in early development on learning and sensory functions	13

Plasticity of the paternal brain: Effects of fatherhood on neural structure and function	13
How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization	13
Considering context in the developmental psychobiology of self‐regulation	13
A systematic review of human paternal oxytocin: Insights into the methodology and what we know so far	13
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	13
Maltreatment exposure across childhood and low‐grade inflammation: Considerations of exposure type, timing, and sex differences	13
Assessment of prenatal stress‐related cortisol exposure: focus on cortisol accumulation in hair and nails	12
Associations between infant–mother physiological synchrony and 4‐ and 6‐month‐old infants’ emotion regulation	12
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	12
Prenatal antidepressant exposures and gastrointestinal complaints in childhood: A gut–brain axis connection?	12
Aperiodic electrophysiological activity in preterm infants is linked to subsequent autism risk	12
Hair cortisol in pregnancy interacts with maternal depressive symptoms to predict maternal disrupted interaction with her infant at 4 months	12
Early childhood cumulative risk is associated with decreased global brain measures, cortical thickness, and cognitive functioning in school‐age children	12
The relationship between fraternal birth order and childhood sex‐atypical behavior among the Istmo Zapotec muxes	11
Early maternal and paternal caregiving moderates the links between preschoolers' reactivity and regulation and maturation of the HPA‐immune axis	11
Sensory processing and cortisol at age 4 years: Procedural pain‐related stress in children born very preterm	11
Fathers’ oxytocin responses to first holding their newborns: Interactions with testosterone reactivity to predict later parenting behavior and father‐infant bonds	11
Epigenetic aging in children from a small‐scale farming society in The Congo Basin: Associations with child growth and family conflict	11
Multi‐method assessment of irritability and differential linkages to neurophysiological indicators of attention allocation to emotional faces in young children	11
Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement	11
Differences in mother–child and father–child RSA synchrony: Moderation by child self‐regulation and dyadic affect	11
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation	11
Revisiting paternal absence: Female alloparental replacement of fathers recovers partner preference formation in female, but not male prairie voles ( Micr	11
Prenatal maternal hair cortisol concentrations are related to maternal prenatal emotion dysregulation but not neurodevelopmental or birth outcomes	10
Concurrent maturation of visuomotor skills and motion perception in typically‐developing children and adolescents	10
Development of ultrasonic calls in rat pups follows similar patterns regardless of isolation distress	10
Moving the dial on prenatal stress mechanisms of neurodevelopmental vulnerability to mental health problems: A personalized prevention proof of concept	10
Fetal heart rate during maternal sleep	10
Autonomic nervous system functioning in early childhood: Responses to cognitive and negatively valenced emotional challenges	9
Social interaction in the emergence of toddler’s mealtime spoon use	9
Intergenerational effects of mother's early rearing experience on offspring treatment and socioemotional development	9
Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in‐home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis	9
Associations of prenatal maternal stress with measures of cognition in 7.5‐month‐old infants	9
Adolescents at risk of anxiety in interaction with their fathers: Studying non‐verbal and physiological synchrony	9
Linking preschoolers’ parasympathetic activity to maternal early adversity and child behavior: An intergenerational perspective	9
Microbiota‐immune alterations in adolescents following early life adversity: A proof of concept study	9
Sexually dimorphic behavioral effects of maternal separation in anorexic rats	9
Getting to the heart of childhood empathy: Relations with shyness and respiratory sinus arrhythmia	9
Early exposure to a methyl donor supplemented diet and the development of repetitive motor behavior in a mouse model	8
The postnatal testosterone rebound in first‐time fathers and the quality and quantity of paternal care	8
Associations between empathy, inhibitory control, and physical aggression in toddlerhood	8
Biological sensitivity to context in Pakistani preschoolers: Hair cortisol and family wealth are interactively associated with girls’ cognitive skills	8
Preschoolers’ dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) change during a challenging parent‐child interactive task: Relations with preschoolers’ socioemotional health	8
Towards an understanding of neurophysiological self‐regulation in early childhood: A heuristic and a new approach	8
Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning	8
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure	8
Maternal approach behaviors toward neonatal calls are impaired by mother's experiences of raising pups with a risk gene variant for autism	8
Irritability‐related neural responses to frustrative nonreward in adolescents with trauma histories: A preliminary investigation	8
In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research	8
Earlier than previously thought: Yawn contagion in preschool children	8

Infant posture and caregiver‐provided cognitive opportunities in typically developing infants and infants with motor delay	8
NMDA receptors and the ontogeny of post‐shock and retention freezing during contextual fear conditioning	8
Firm parenting and youth adjustment: Stress reactivity and dyadic synchrony of respiratory sinus arrhythmia	7
OXTR DNA methylation moderates the developmental calibration of neural reward sensitivity	7
Comparison of neurotransmitter levels, physiological conditions, and emotional behavior between isolation‐housed rats with group‐housed rats	7
Development of vertical and forward jumping skills in typically developing children in the context of referent control of motor actions	7
Exploring the hormonal and neural correlates of paternal protective behavior to their infants	7
Electrophysiological signatures of visual statistical learning in 3‐month‐old infants at familial and low risk for autism spectrum disorder	7
The association between prenatal alcohol consumption and preschool child stress system disturbance	7
Shyness, aggression, and empathy in children of shy mothers: Moderating influence of children's psychophysiological self‐regulation	7
Children’s use of everyday artifacts: Learning the hidden affordance of zipping	7
Maternal experiences of childhood maltreatment moderate patterns of mother–infant cortisol regulation under stress	7
Consistency of EEG asymmetry patterns in infants of depressed mothers	7
Social EEG: A novel neurodevelopmental approach to studying brain‐behavior links and brain‐to‐brain synchrony during naturalistic toddler–parent interactions	7
A Caretaker Acute Stress Paradigm: Effects on behavior and physiology of caretaker and infant	7
Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults	7
The role of maternal touch in the association between SLC6A4 methylation and stress response in very preterm infants	7
The developmental precursors of blunted cardiovascular responses to stress	7
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials	6
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill	6
Maternal trait anxiety symptoms, frontolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity, and cognitive development in infancy	6
Prenatal immobilization stress and postnatal maternal separation cause differential neuroendocrine responses to fasting stress in adult male rats	6
Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?	6
Prenatal maternal distress and immune cell epigenetic profiles at 3‐months of age	6
Longitudinal effects of family psychopathology and stress on pubertal maturation and hormone coupling in adolescent twins	6
Distinct and similar patterns of emotional development in adolescents and young adults	6
Perinatal high‐fat diet impairs pup retrieval and induces sex‐specific changes in ultrasonic vocalization characteristics of rat pups	6
Behavioral impact of experience based on environmental enrichment: Influence of age and duration of exposure in male NMRI mice	6
New approaches to quantify social development in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Integrating eye tracking with traditional assessments of social behavior	6
Autonomy‐restrictive socialization of anger: Associations with school‐aged children’s physiology, trait anxiety, state distress, and relationship closeness	6
Adolescent but not adult Sprague‐Dawley rats display goal‐directed responding after reward devaluation	6
Early external‐environmental and internal‐health predictors of risky sexual and aggressive behavior in adolescence: An integrative approach	6
Childhood socioeconomic status is prospectively associated with surface morphometry in adulthood	6
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	6
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	6
Extinction and drug‐induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking following self‐administration or conditioned place preference in adolescent and adult rats	6
Associations of adverse childhood experiences with stress physiology and insulin resistance in adolescents at risk for adult obesity	6
Testosterone regulates the emission of ultrasonic vocalizations and mounting behavior during different developmental periods in mice	5
Parent's anxiety links household stress and young children's behavioral dysregulation	5
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence	5
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children	5
Environmental enrichment modulates inflammation during development in long‐evans rats (Rattus norvegicus)	5
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	5
Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age	5
Latent profiles of children’s autonomic nervous system reactivity early in life predict later externalizing problems	5
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats	5
Culture and stress biology in immigrant youth from the prenatal period to adolescence: A systematic review	5
Kinematic characteristics of second‐order motor planning and performance in 6‐ and 10‐year‐old children and adults: Effects of age and task constraints	5
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices	5
Event‐related potentials data quality in young children: Standardized measurement error of ERN and Pe	5
Early motor skills predict the developmental trajectory of problem solving in young children with motor delays	5
High vagal tone and rapid extinction learning as potential transdiagnostic protective factors following childhood violence exposure	5
Profiles of autonomic stress responsivity in a sample of justice‐involved youth: Associations with childhood trauma exposure and emotional and behavioral functioning	5
Face–to–face interactions between mothers and female infants in wild bearded capuchin monkeys ( Sapajus libidinosus )	5
Exploring valence bias as a metric for frontoamygdalar connectivity and depressive symptoms in childhood	5
Risky emotional family environment in childhood and depression‐related cytokines in adulthood: The protective role of compassion	5
The quality of early infant‐caregiver relational attachment and longitudinal changes in infant inflammation across 6 months	5
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala responses to unpredictable threat in children	5
Moderating effects of environmental stressors on the development of attention to threat in infancy	5
Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention	5
Infants’ recognition of their mothers’ faces in facial drawings	5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?	5
Material hardship, prefrontal cortex–amygdala structure, and internalizing symptoms in children	5
Phenotyping stress exposures related to perinatal health disparities	5
Using mobile eye‐tracking technology to examine adolescent daughters’ attention to maternal affect during a conflict discussion	5
Developmental changes in elemental and configural perception of odor mixtures in young rabbits	5