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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?284
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality215
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia196
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind170
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Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health155
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence141
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness140
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory139
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Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review133
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice122
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data112
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?112
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review111
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications110
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents106
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system104
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis102
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications102
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach101
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect100
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition98
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments98
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies96
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype96
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited94
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 studies93
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior92
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis91
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias88
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis88
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research85
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review82
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers82
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency82
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease81
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review81
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming78
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology78
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition78
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers76
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 games76
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models76
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review75
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference74
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis73
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy73
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders73
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults73
Contextual modulation of endogenous oxytocin signaling and its influence on exogenous oxytocin effects: A conceptual framework72
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group72
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research71
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system71
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy70
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology69
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings69
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review68
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity68
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds68
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities68
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities67
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?67
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut67
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review67
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue66
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system66
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?66
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health66
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy66
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories65
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review64
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis64
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis62
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review62
Neural foundations of creativity: A voxel-based meta-analysis of the activations and deactivations underlying creativity across linguistic, musical, and visual domains61
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior60
Modulation of the cognitive event-related potential P3 by transcranial direct current stimulation: Systematic review and meta-analysis60
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans60
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception60
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice58
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities58
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis58
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies58
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention58
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex58
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis58
Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning57
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis57
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging56
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses56
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation56
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer56
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play56
Visual working memory’s pointer system: Past, present, and future55
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review55
Beyond the brain: a computational MRI-derived neurophysiological framework for robotic conscious capacity55
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia55
Classification of neurological and mental health disorders based on multimodal approaches: A comprehensive review55
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders55
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.54
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations54
Effects of perceptual and working memory load on brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli: Review and implications for future research54
Residual implicit and explicit language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review54
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock54
The relationship between allergic diseases and tic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis53
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The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations53
Structure-function similarities in deep brain stimulation targets cross-species52
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression52
Is there any consistent structural and functional brain abnormality in narcolepsy? A meta-analytic perspective52
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease52
Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity52
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review52
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition52
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality52
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease51
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review51
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Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review50
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review50
Comparative perspectives on mother-infant communication in primates: Are humans unique?50
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.50
Interoception abnormalities and skin-picking disorder: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of preliminary evidence50
The complementary role of egocentric and allocentric spatial navigation tasks for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: A diagnostic meta-analysis50
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders49
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications49
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality49
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model49
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies49
Mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster – A novel genetic model to study interval timing function of human brain49
Fear extinction learning and retention during adolescence in rats and mice: A systematic review49
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind48
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms and social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic narrative review48
A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks48
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone48
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease48
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder48
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field47
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis46
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum46
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review46
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study46
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies46
Mind wandering and depression: A status report45
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis45
Stress response in dissociation and conversion disorders: A systematic review45
Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making45
Systematic review: Effects of cholinergic signaling on cognition in human pharmacological studies45
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 adults45
Alterations in large-scale functional networks in adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies45
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic44
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons44
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review44
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling44
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle44
Cannabis use before safety-sensitive work: What delay is prudent?44
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance44
Basal and reactive cortisol: A systematic literature review of offspring of parents with depressive and bipolar disorders43
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders43
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Biochemical aspects and therapeutic mechanisms of cannabidiol in epilepsy43
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species43
Religious and spiritual experiences from a neuroscientific and complex systems perspective42
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 animals42
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models42
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)42
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove42
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices42
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions42
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction42
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum42
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology42
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach41
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches41
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Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science41
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging41
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome41
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?41
Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning40
Insights of neurophysiology on unconscious state using combined transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography: A systematic review40
The role of the vagus nerve in fibromyalgia syndrome40
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis40
Missing links: The functional unification of language and memory (L∪M)40
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction40
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects40
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions40
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review40
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle40
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review40
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates40
Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence40
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept40
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome40
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
Neurosteroid modulators in psychiatric disorders: Emerging evidence and therapeutic implications39
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis39
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications39
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior39
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures39
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses38
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens38
The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies38
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1): Potential application in mood disorders: A systematic review38
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review38
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders38
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies38
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis38
Heart rate and skin conductance associations with physical aggression, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder: An updated meta-analysis38
Monkeys lack humanlike behavioral and neural inversion costs in face identity recognition38
The association between cannabis use and paranoia: Meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies38
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives38
Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation38
Bridging social isolation, loneliness, and brain aging: A narrative review of mechanisms and translational interventions38
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention37
Insight and the selection of ideas37
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms37
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle37
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?37
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function37
Neural alterations in substance use disorders: A meta-analysis using activation network mapping across and within task domains37
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model37
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges37
At the intersection of anger, chronic pain, and the brain: A mini-review37
Editors note36
Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences36
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment36
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]36
Sensitization-based risk for substance abuse in vulnerable individuals with ADHD: Review and re-examination of evidence36
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior36
Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness36
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies36
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates36
From brain-body function to conscious interactions36
Temporal hierarchies in the predictive processing of melody − From pure tones to songs35
Shedding light on the functional significance of opsins: Insights from fish35
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance35
Human-directed sociability in the domestic dog: A Tinbergian approach35
Looking out for danger: Theoretical and empirical issues in translating human attention bias tasks to assess animal affective states35
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide35
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents with ADHD: A systematic review of controlled longitudinal cohort studies35
Obsessive-compulsive disorder – A state-of-the-art review35
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