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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias821
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications368
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?249
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers222
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis206
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality147
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited143
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior143
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research132
Editorial Board123
Editorial Board120
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice119
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings117
A systems omics-based approach to decode substance use disorders and neuroadaptations113
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents112
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health111
Translational relevance of fear conditioning in rodent models of mild traumatic brain injury107
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind106
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness106
How well do people living with neurodegenerative diseases manage their finances? A meta-analysis and systematic review on the capacity to make financial decisions in people living with neurodegenerati104
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders103
Non-communicable diseases among women survivors of intimate partner violence: Critical review from a chronic stress framework103
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data100
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming99
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications97
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach96
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference94
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence93
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies93
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system92
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers91
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis91
Using e-diaries to investigate ADHD – State-of-the-art and the promising feature of just-in-time-adaptive interventions90
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 studies89
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology88
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review87
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy86
Visuomotor control in mice and primates86
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency84
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia84
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review84
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults84
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect83
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis83
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities81
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition80
The Pause-then-Cancel model of human action-stopping: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence78
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity76
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models76
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease75
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype74
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 games74
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis74
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories73
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies73
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?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
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut73
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review72
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health72
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis72
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis71
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis69
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior68
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations68
Posttranslational modifications & lithium’s therapeutic effect—Potential biomarkers for clinical responses in psychiatric & neurodegenerative disorders68
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging67
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans66
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia66
Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning66
Evolutionary conservations, changes of circadian rhythms and their effect on circadian disturbances and therapeutic approaches65
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play65
Modulation of the cognitive event-related potential P3 by transcranial direct current stimulation: Systematic review and meta-analysis65
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer65
Behavioral determinants in the expression of the Kamin blocking effect: Implications for associative learning theory64
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review64
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice64
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.62
Motivational competition and the paraventricular thalamus62
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?62
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities62
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock62
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy61
Is the concept of affective agnosia a useful addition to the alexithymia literature?61
Residual implicit and explicit language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review61
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review61
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders61
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception60
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations60
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue60
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention59
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis59
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex59
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities59
Common brain networks underlying human social interactions: Evidence from large-scale neuroimaging meta-analysis59
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis59
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation59
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone58
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses58
Effects of perceptual and working memory load on brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli: Review and implications for future research58
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds58
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum57
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis57
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review57
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology56
Cannabis use before safety-sensitive work: What delay is prudent?55
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression54
Prototype-based category learning in autism: A review54
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.54
The relationship between allergic diseases and tic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis54
Fear extinction learning and retention during adolescence in rats and mice: A systematic review54
Basal and reactive cortisol: A systematic literature review of offspring of parents with depressive and bipolar disorders54
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality53
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis53
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model53
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review53
Alcohol and oxytocin: Scrutinizing the relationship53
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices52
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic52
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models52
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review52
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms and social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic narrative review52
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis51
Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity51
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders51
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders51
Stress response in dissociation and conversion disorders: A systematic review51
Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making50
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species50
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove50
Caveolin-1, a novel player in cognitive decline50
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 adults50
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies50
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder50
Is there any consistent structural and functional brain abnormality in narcolepsy? A meta-analytic perspective50
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 animals50
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
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality50
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance49
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons49
Structure-function similarities in deep brain stimulation targets cross-species49
Mind wandering and depression: A status report49
A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks49
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind49
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review49
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum48
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions48
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition48
Unconscious processing of subliminal stimuli in panic disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis48
Editorial Board47
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications47
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease47
Editorial Board47
Problematic usage of the internet and eating disorder and related psychopathology: A multifaceted, systematic review and meta-analysis46
Biochemical aspects and therapeutic mechanisms of cannabidiol in epilepsy46
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle46
Alterations in large-scale functional networks in adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies45
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study45
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies45
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field45
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)45
Effects of physical exercise on plasma brain-derived neurotrophic factor in neurodegenerative disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials44
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science44
Impaired regulatory T cell control of astroglial overdrive and microglial pruning in schizophrenia44
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease44
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review44
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease44
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?43
Heart rate and skin conductance associations with physical aggression, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder: An updated meta-analysis43
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Editorial Board43
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A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept43
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens43
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives43
Editorial Board43
Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation42
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome42
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle42
Super-natural fears42
Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence42
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders42
Meta-analytic evidence of differential prefrontal and early sensory cortex activity during non-social sensory perception in autism42
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome42
Topographic-dynamic reorganisation model of dreams (TRoD) – A spatiotemporal approach41
Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning41
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review41
Cardinal role of the environment in stress induced changes across life stages and generations41
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior41
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions41
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects41
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis41
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model41
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle41
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates41
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging40
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms40
Insights of neurophysiology on unconscious state using combined transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography: A systematic review40
Insight and the selection of ideas40
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications40
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment40
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies40
At the intersection of anger, chronic pain, and the brain: A mini-review40
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?40
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1): Potential application in mood disorders: A systematic review40
The microbiota-gut-brain axis in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory: current state and future challenges40
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction40
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses40
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function39
Missing links: The functional unification of language and memory (L∪M)39
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review39
Socioeconomic status and the developing brain – A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth39
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis39
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures39
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis39
The role of the vagus nerve in fibromyalgia syndrome39
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies39
Glucocorticoid resistance and β2-adrenergic receptor signaling pathways promote peripheral pro-inflammatory conditions associated with chronic psychological stress: A systematic review across species39
The role of dopamine in action control: Insights from medication effects in Parkinson’s disease38
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review38
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications38
Cannabinoid treatments for anxiety: A systematic review and consideration of the impact of sleep disturbance38
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention38
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis38
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior37
Toward objective characterizations of suicide risk: A narrative review of laboratory-based cognitive and behavioral tasks37
Beyond TORCH: A narrative review of the impact of antenatal and perinatal infections on the risk of disability37
From brain-body function to conscious interactions37
Editors note36
Periodic leg movements during sleep associated with antidepressants: A meta-analysis36
Anticholinergic drugs and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance36
Methamphetamine, amphetamine, and aggression in humans: A systematic review of drug administration studies36
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]36
The relationship between self-reported interoception and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
To be or not to be: The active inference of suicide36
The specificity of thalamic alterations in Korsakoff’s syndrome: Implications for the study of amnesia36
The cliff edge model of the evolution of schizophrenia: Mathematical, epidemiological, and genetic evidence36
A systematic review of epidemiological studies of life course socioeconomic status and adult structural brain changes36
The role of impairments in self–other distinction in borderline personality disorder: A narrative review of recent evidence36
Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness36
Swearing and coprophenomena – A multidimensional approach36
Multidimensional nature of dominant behavior: Insights from behavioral neuroscience35
Strengths and weaknesses of affective touch studies over the lifetime: A systematic review35
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents with ADHD: A systematic review of controlled longitudinal cohort studies35
Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral and brain evidence35
Ophthalmic outcomes in children exposed to opioid maintenance treatment in utero: A systematic review and meta-analysis35
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