Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 23. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board279
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition253
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia201
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind198
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review187
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system162
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers150
Editorial Board143
Antithrombotic agents in the treatment of severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials142
Oxytocin in chronic pain: From analgesic to biopsychosocial adjuvant - An opinion paper126
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications124
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review115
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review110
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality108
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence108
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?104
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory102
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming98
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach97
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness97
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias95
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review93
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications91
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis90
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data88
Contextual modulation of endogenous oxytocin signaling and its influence on exogenous oxytocin effects: A conceptual framework87
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition87
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research87
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review87
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents86
Different event-related potential responses during face processing between siblings of autistic individuals and neurotypical infants: A systematic review and meta-analysis85
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research85
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers84
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency84
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy83
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health83
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities82
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group82
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings82
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology81
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity80
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference79
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models77
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 games77
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior75
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis74
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 studies74
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect74
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited73
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review73
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?73
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology73
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments72
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies71
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy71
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system69
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy68
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease68
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations68
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis68
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception68
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue67
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review66
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis65
Immune-cognitive relationships across viral infections: A transnosological systematic review65
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies64
Reassessing the neurophysiological effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: A systematic review and comparative meta-analysis across protocols, outcome measures and cortical sites64
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review64
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?63
Classification of neurological and mental health disorders based on multimodal approaches: A comprehensive review62
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex62
Does intranasal oxytocin reduce symptoms of mental disorders? A meta-analysis of clinical trials62
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system62
Neural foundations of creativity: A voxel-based meta-analysis of the activations and deactivations underlying creativity across linguistic, musical, and visual domains61
Beyond the brain: a computational MRI-derived neurophysiological framework for robotic conscious capacity61
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis60
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play60
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities60
Decoding MeCP2 in pain: A systematic review of mechanisms, dosage, and clinical implications59
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock59
Desynchronise, disconnect, reorganise, collapse (DDRC): A theoretical framework linking white matter pathology and cognitive dysfunction in vascular disease59
Structural asymmetries in the planum temporale in patients with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis59
Human caregiving under safety and threat: The role of empathy and its endocrine regulation58
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations58
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories58
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds57
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review57
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging57
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans57
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis57
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior56
Visual working memory’s pointer system: Past, present, and future55
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice55
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut55
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders54
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention54
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia54
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities53
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses53
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer53
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation53
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review53
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health52
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis52
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis52
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.52
Editorial Board52
A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks51
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review51
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.51
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum51
A systematic review and meta-analysis of electroencephalographic evidence and applied methods to cue-reactivity and cue exposure. Part I: ERP51
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications51
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind51
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum50
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle50
Linking misophonia and tinnitus: Common and divergent neurobiological mechanisms50
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review50
Mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster – A novel genetic model to study interval timing function of human brain49
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease49
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions49
The neural basis of imagination: An evolutionary perspective49
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality49
Editorial Board49
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis48
Beyond oxytocin: A hypothalamic neuropeptide framework for socioaffective resonance and its dysregulation in psychiatry48
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone48
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic48
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species48
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies48
The exercise–irisin–prefrontal cortex axis in regulating social cognition: A new framework for understanding and treating substance use disorders48
Interoception abnormalities and skin-picking disorder: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of preliminary evidence47
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression47
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models47
The effects of oxytocin on social behavior and eye gaze: Insights from dog-human partnership47
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)46
Craving in eating disorders: Mapping the concept through a systematic review46
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
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition46
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review46
The role of GABAA receptors in hippocampus-dependent cognitive functions46
Same but not the same: An eco-ethological model of automatic mimicry and behavioural contagion in primates46
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study46
The complementary role of egocentric and allocentric spatial navigation tasks for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: A diagnostic meta-analysis45
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling45
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove45
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders45
Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review45
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons45
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis45
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance45
Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: A systematic review and network meta-analysis44
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology44
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders44
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review44
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease44
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 animals44
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction44
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices44
Religious and spiritual experiences from a neuroscientific and complex systems perspective44
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?43
Comparative perspectives on mother-infant communication in primates: Are humans unique?43
Editorial Board43
Editorial Board43
Systematic review: Effects of cholinergic signaling on cognition in human pharmacological studies43
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders43
Editorial Board43
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field43
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease43
Neurosteroid modulators in psychiatric disorders: Emerging evidence and therapeutic implications43
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science42
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives42
Systematic review and meta-analysis of isoflavone interventions on cognitive function42
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment42
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior42
Monkeys lack humanlike behavioral and neural inversion costs in face identity recognition42
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens42
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis42
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates42
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches42
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept42
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome41
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model41
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome41
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects41
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications41
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle40
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions40
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
A systematic review and meta-analysis of electroencephalographic evidence and applied methods to cue-reactivity and cue exposure. Part II: Frequency analysis40
Bridging social isolation, loneliness, and brain aging: A narrative review of mechanisms and translational interventions40
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle40
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures40
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review40
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging40
The supramammillary nucleus as a multifunctional integrative hub: Cell-type diversity, co-transmission, and systems-level control of behavior40
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction40
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach40
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
The association between cannabis use and paranoia: Meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies39
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms39
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?39
The stress-myopia pathway: A pivotal hub in myopia pathogenesis39
Neural alterations in substance use disorders: A meta-analysis using activation network mapping across and within task domains39
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges39
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review39
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis39
Insight and the selection of ideas38
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Editors note38
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior38
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses38
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review38
MASSAG model: Towards an integrative neuroscience framework linking emotional trauma, pain, and mechanisms of force-based manipulations38
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide37
Shedding light on the functional significance of opsins: Insights from fish37
The cliff edge model of the evolution of schizophrenia: Mathematical, epidemiological, and genetic evidence37
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]37
Looking out for danger: Theoretical and empirical issues in translating human attention bias tasks to assess animal affective states37
Non-neuronal brain biology and its relevance to animal welfare37
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates37
From brain-body function to conscious interactions37
Temporal hierarchies in the predictive processing of melody − From pure tones to songs37
The sense of agency for brain disorders: A comprehensive review and proposed framework36
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies36
Oxytocin and the pace of life history strategies: From evolutionary trade-offs to translational pathways36
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 review36
Toward objective characterizations of suicide risk: A narrative review of laboratory-based cognitive and behavioral tasks36
Critical biological systems linking early-life stress to later-life outcomes: A systematic review of animal models.36
The principle of ‘brain energy on demand’ and its predictive power for stress, sleep, stroke, obesity and diabetes36
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance36
Human-directed sociability in the domestic dog: A Tinbergian approach36
Not the same as it ever was: A review of memory modification, updating, and distortion in humans and rodents36
Cannabinoid treatments for anxiety: A systematic review and consideration of the impact of sleep disturbance35
The relationship between self-reported interoception and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis35
Obsessive-compulsive disorder – A state-of-the-art review35
How the body and brain process time35
Relationship between structural brain differences and social factors associated with neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review35
Aging, sex, metabolic and life experience factors: Contributions to neuro-inflammaging in Alzheimer’s disease research35
Early developmental outcome in Dravet syndrome: A scoping review of cognitive, language, behavioural and motor development in the first six years of life35
Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences35
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents with ADHD: A systematic review of controlled longitudinal cohort studies35
Driving factors of auditory category learning success35
Effects of environmental enrichment on the hippocampal microglial profile under neuroinflammatory conditions: A systematic review35
Is predictive coding falsifiable?35
A systematic review of epidemiological studies of life course socioeconomic status and adult structural brain changes35
Music and Genetics35
Beyond TORCH: A narrative review of the impact of antenatal and perinatal infections on the risk of disability35
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