Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 22. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board341
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?265
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition243
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia229
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind184
Editorial Board182
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health174
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis143
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review138
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy138
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system134
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease134
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect129
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers122
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings117
Editorial Board117
Antithrombotic agents in the treatment of severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials106
Oxytocin in chronic pain: From analgesic to biopsychosocial adjuvant - An opinion paper101
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis100
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers99
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications95
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?93
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications93
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency92
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review92
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology90
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments89
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities89
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models86
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory85
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness84
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming84
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents84
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach83
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review80
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference80
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review79
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior79
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group79
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias78
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited78
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 games78
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis78
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research77
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review75
Contextual modulation of endogenous oxytocin signaling and its influence on exogenous oxytocin effects: A conceptual framework75
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy75
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality74
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence73
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology73
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research72
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity70
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition70
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review69
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data68
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 studies67
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies67
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations66
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system66
Neural foundations of creativity: A voxel-based meta-analysis of the activations and deactivations underlying creativity across linguistic, musical, and visual domains66
Visual working memory’s pointer system: Past, present, and future66
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception66
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders65
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds65
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy64
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention64
Classification of neurological and mental health disorders based on multimodal approaches: A comprehensive review64
Human caregiving under safety and threat: The role of empathy and its endocrine regulation62
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories62
Structural asymmetries in the planum temporale in patients with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis62
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.62
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue62
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock61
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities61
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis60
Reassessing the neurophysiological effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: A systematic review and comparative meta-analysis across protocols, outcome measures and cortical sites60
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice59
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut58
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia58
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies57
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review57
Immune-cognitive relationships across viral infections: A transnosological systematic review57
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review57
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis57
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer56
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans56
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review55
Beyond the brain: a computational MRI-derived neurophysiological framework for robotic conscious capacity55
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis55
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis55
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis55
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?55
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review54
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system54
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex54
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging53
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation53
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play53
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations53
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health53
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities52
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses52
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior52
Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: A systematic review and network meta-analysis51
Editorial Board51
Same but not the same: An eco-ethological model of automatic mimicry and behavioural contagion in primates50
Systematic review: Effects of cholinergic signaling on cognition in human pharmacological studies50
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling50
Editorial Board50
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study50
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders50
Comparative perspectives on mother-infant communication in primates: Are humans unique?49
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 animals49
Mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster – A novel genetic model to study interval timing function of human brain49
Craving in eating disorders: Mapping the concept through a systematic review49
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions48
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)48
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review48
Linking misophonia and tinnitus: Common and divergent neurobiological mechanisms48
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review48
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review47
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis47
Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review47
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.47
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum47
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease47
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications47
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality46
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 adults46
The complementary role of egocentric and allocentric spatial navigation tasks for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: A diagnostic meta-analysis46
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices46
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders46
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field46
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition46
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind46
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum46
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons45
The effects of oxytocin on social behavior and eye gaze: Insights from dog-human partnership45
The exercise–irisin–prefrontal cortex axis in regulating social cognition: A new framework for understanding and treating substance use disorders45
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease45
The neural basis of imagination: An evolutionary perspective45
Beyond oxytocin: A hypothalamic neuropeptide framework for socioaffective resonance and its dysregulation in psychiatry45
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies45
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology45
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction45
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis44
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle44
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression44
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
Interoception abnormalities and skin-picking disorder: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of preliminary evidence44
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease44
Religious and spiritual experiences from a neuroscientific and complex systems perspective44
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove43
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species43
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models43
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic43
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder43
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance42
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches42
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging42
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review42
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures42
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?42
Editorial Board42
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone42
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome42
Monkeys lack humanlike behavioral and neural inversion costs in face identity recognition42
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science41
Editorial Board41
MASSAG model: Towards an integrative neuroscience framework linking emotional trauma, pain, and mechanisms of force-based manipulations41
Neurosteroid modulators in psychiatric disorders: Emerging evidence and therapeutic implications41
Neural alterations in substance use disorders: A meta-analysis using activation network mapping across and within task domains40
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis40
Bridging social isolation, loneliness, and brain aging: A narrative review of mechanisms and translational interventions40
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders40
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates40
Systematic review and meta-analysis of isoflavone interventions on cognitive function40
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome40
Editorial Board40
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle39
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept39
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
The supramammillary nucleus as a multifunctional integrative hub: Cell-type diversity, co-transmission, and systems-level control of behavior39
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review39
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment39
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction39
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis39
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review38
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions38
Insight and the selection of ideas38
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior38
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications38
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects38
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?38
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model38
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle38
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms38
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review38
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
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives37
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide37
The association between cannabis use and paranoia: Meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies37
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies37
Editors note37
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses37
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis37
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach37
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges37
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior37
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]36
Effects of early life stress on brain cytokines: A systematic review and meta-analysis of rodent studies36
From brain-body function to conscious interactions36
Music and Genetics36
Human-directed sociability in the domestic dog: A Tinbergian approach36
Cannabinoid treatments for anxiety: A systematic review and consideration of the impact of sleep disturbance36
Is predictive coding falsifiable?36
Non-neuronal brain biology and its relevance to animal welfare36
Oxytocin and the pace of life history strategies: From evolutionary trade-offs to translational pathways36
Critical biological systems linking early-life stress to later-life outcomes: A systematic review of animal models.36
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents with ADHD: A systematic review of controlled longitudinal cohort studies36
The cliff edge model of the evolution of schizophrenia: Mathematical, epidemiological, and genetic evidence36
Temporal hierarchies in the predictive processing of melody − From pure tones to songs36
Early developmental outcome in Dravet syndrome: A scoping review of cognitive, language, behavioural and motor development in the first six years of life35
A systematic review of epidemiological studies of life course socioeconomic status and adult structural brain changes35
Periodic leg movements during sleep associated with antidepressants: A meta-analysis35
Effects of environmental enrichment on the hippocampal microglial profile under neuroinflammatory conditions: A systematic review35
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies35
Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences35
Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral and brain evidence35
Obsessive-compulsive disorder – A state-of-the-art review35
Driving factors of auditory category learning success35
Relationship between structural brain differences and social factors associated with neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review35
The principle of ‘brain energy on demand’ and its predictive power for stress, sleep, stroke, obesity and diabetes35
Associations between infant brain structure and function assessed using magnetic resonance imaging and parent-reported negative affectivity in the first two years of life: A narrative review35
Beyond TORCH: A narrative review of the impact of antenatal and perinatal infections on the risk of disability34
Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory34
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance34
Shedding light on the functional significance of opsins: Insights from fish34
Attentional biases in human anxiety34
Toward objective characterizations of suicide risk: A narrative review of laboratory-based cognitive and behavioral tasks34
Interoception, network physiology and the emergence of bodily self-awareness34
The effects of stimulant and non-stimulant medications on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning in people with ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis34
Animacy and the prediction of behaviour34
Not the same as it ever was: A review of memory modification, updating, and distortion in humans and rodents34
The relationship between self-reported interoception and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis34
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates34
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