Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Papers
(The median citation count of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board332
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?256
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory237
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition220
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia193
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind179
Editorial Board172
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health168
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness141
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis134
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review133
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy131
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system129
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence127
Pre- and postnatal antibiotic exposure and risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder–A systematic review and meta-analysis combining evidence from human and animal studies120
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease118
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy114
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities112
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology106
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect99
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers97
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review95
Editorial Board95
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings90
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency90
Antithrombotic agents in the treatment of severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials90
Oxytocin in chronic pain: From analgesic to biopsychosocial adjuvant - An opinion paper89
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis89
Contextual modulation of endogenous oxytocin signaling and its influence on exogenous oxytocin effects: A conceptual framework87
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications85
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers85
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research84
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications84
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review84
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents83
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review82
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?82
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research80
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition79
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review78
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review78
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality76
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach76
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology76
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior75
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity75
Does stress make us more—or less—prosocial? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute stress on prosocial behaviours using economic games75
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis73
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias73
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies73
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data72
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group72
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming72
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models72
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system69
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited69
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice68
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference67
Neural foundations of creativity: A voxel-based meta-analysis of the activations and deactivations underlying creativity across linguistic, musical, and visual domains66
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities66
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception66
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments66
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice66
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health65
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations65
Visual working memory’s pointer system: Past, present, and future64
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis64
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders63
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds63
Classification of neurological and mental health disorders based on multimodal approaches: A comprehensive review62
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy61
Structural asymmetries in the planum temporale in patients with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis61
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention61
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue61
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies60
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories60
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex59
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review59
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play59
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis58
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer58
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review58
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis58
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis57
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior56
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging56
Beyond the brain: a computational MRI-derived neurophysiological framework for robotic conscious capacity56
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system55
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?55
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis55
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans54
Human caregiving under safety and threat: The role of empathy and its endocrine regulation54
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation54
Immune-cognitive relationships across viral infections: A transnosological systematic review54
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations53
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.53
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses53
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock53
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review53
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review53
Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: A systematic review and network meta-analysis52
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities52
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease52
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia52
Editorial Board52
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut52
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic51
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders51
The neural basis of imagination: An evolutionary perspective51
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression50
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies50
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease50
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review50
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance50
Editorial Board49
Interoception abnormalities and skin-picking disorder: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of preliminary evidence49
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species48
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study48
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition48
Systematic review: Effects of cholinergic signaling on cognition in human pharmacological studies48
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling48
Non-angry aggressive arousal and angriffsberietschaft: A narrative review of the phenomenology and physiology of proactive/offensive aggression motivation and escalation in people and other animals47
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices47
The complementary role of egocentric and allocentric spatial navigation tasks for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: A diagnostic meta-analysis47
Same but not the same: An eco-ethological model of automatic mimicry and behavioural contagion in primates47
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons47
Craving in eating disorders: Mapping the concept through a systematic review47
Religious and spiritual experiences from a neuroscientific and complex systems perspective46
Linking misophonia and tinnitus: Common and divergent neurobiological mechanisms46
Comparative perspectives on mother-infant communication in primates: Are humans unique?46
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions46
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review46
Mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster – A novel genetic model to study interval timing function of human brain46
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review46
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)45
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.45
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum45
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality45
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications45
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis45
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind45
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies45
The effects of oxytocin on social behavior and eye gaze: Insights from dog-human partnership45
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field45
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model44
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders44
A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks44
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis44
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle44
Age-dependent effects of tobacco smoke and nicotine on cognition and the brain: A systematic review of the human and animal literature comparing adolescents and adults44
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models43
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology43
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum43
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone43
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease43
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review43
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder42
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction42
Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review42
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove42
Editorial Board42
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review42
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging42
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?41
Monkeys lack humanlike behavioral and neural inversion costs in face identity recognition41
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches41
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures40
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects40
Editorial Board40
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions40
MASSAG model: Towards an integrative neuroscience framework linking emotional trauma, pain, and mechanisms of force-based manipulations40
Neurosteroid modulators in psychiatric disorders: Emerging evidence and therapeutic implications40
Editorial Board40
Insight and the selection of ideas40
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome40
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review40
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science40
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior40
The association between cannabis use and paranoia: Meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies39
Systematic review and meta-analysis of isoflavone interventions on cognitive function39
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome39
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders39
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms39
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach39
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis39
Bridging social isolation, loneliness, and brain aging: A narrative review of mechanisms and translational interventions39
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses38
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment38
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?38
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis38
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates38
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept38
Neural alterations in substance use disorders: A meta-analysis using activation network mapping across and within task domains38
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives37
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review37
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention37
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle37
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction37
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies37
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens37
The supramammillary nucleus as a multifunctional integrative hub: Cell-type diversity, co-transmission, and systems-level control of behavior37
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle37
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model37
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior36
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review36
Oxytocin and the pace of life history strategies: From evolutionary trade-offs to translational pathways36
Effects of early life stress on brain cytokines: A systematic review and meta-analysis of rodent studies36
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]36
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications36
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges36
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis36
Critical biological systems linking early-life stress to later-life outcomes: A systematic review of animal models.36
The sense of agency for brain disorders: A comprehensive review and proposed framework36
Editors note36
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide36
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
Periodic leg movements during sleep associated with antidepressants: A meta-analysis36
Human-directed sociability in the domestic dog: A Tinbergian approach36
Aging, sex, metabolic and life experience factors: Contributions to neuro-inflammaging in Alzheimer’s disease research36
Cannabinoid treatments for anxiety: A systematic review and consideration of the impact of sleep disturbance35
Convergence of oxytocin and dopamine signalling in neuronal circuits: Insights into the neurobiology of social interactions across species35
Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory35
Temporal hierarchies in the predictive processing of melody − From pure tones to songs35
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents with ADHD: A systematic review of controlled longitudinal cohort studies35
Is predictive coding falsifiable?35
The principle of ‘brain energy on demand’ and its predictive power for stress, sleep, stroke, obesity and diabetes35
Ophthalmic outcomes in children exposed to opioid maintenance treatment in utero: A systematic review and meta-analysis35
From brain-body function to conscious interactions35
Beyond TORCH: A narrative review of the impact of antenatal and perinatal infections on the risk of disability35
The cliff edge model of the evolution of schizophrenia: Mathematical, epidemiological, and genetic evidence34
Early developmental outcome in Dravet syndrome: A scoping review of cognitive, language, behavioural and motor development in the first six years of life34
Animacy and the prediction of behaviour34
Interoception, network physiology and the emergence of bodily self-awareness34
Driving factors of auditory category learning success34
Non-neuronal brain biology and its relevance to animal welfare34
Not the same as it ever was: A review of memory modification, updating, and distortion in humans and rodents34
Music and Genetics34
The allostatic triage model of psychopathology (ATP Model): How reallocation of brain energetic resources under stress elicits psychiatric symptoms33
Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral and brain evidence33
On the stress of being a woman: The synergistic contribution of sex as a biological variable and gender as a psychosocial one to risk of stress-related disorders33
Attentional biases in human anxiety33
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies33
Looking out for danger: Theoretical and empirical issues in translating human attention bias tasks to assess animal affective states33
Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences33
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates33
The effects of stimulant and non-stimulant medications on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning in people with ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis33
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