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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?906
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis256
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy237
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers173
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach165
Editorial Board164
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A systems omics-based approach to decode substance use disorders and neuroadaptations147
Translational relevance of fear conditioning in rodent models of mild traumatic brain injury137
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind135
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy133
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group126
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review123
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system119
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition117
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition116
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data114
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming112
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications110
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology110
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications109
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia109
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 games108
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality107
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype103
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited102
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research100
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health99
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity98
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology96
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference96
Non-communicable diseases among women survivors of intimate partner violence: Critical review from a chronic stress framework96
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 studies95
Using e-diaries to investigate ADHD – State-of-the-art and the promising feature of just-in-time-adaptive interventions94
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review92
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings92
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents89
Visuomotor control in mice and primates89
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness88
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory85
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies84
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis84
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency82
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice82
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities81
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias81
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect80
The Pause-then-Cancel model of human action-stopping: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence80
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis80
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence79
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults79
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers78
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis77
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system75
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models74
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders74
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior74
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease73
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis72
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 neurodegenerati72
Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis71
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities71
Memory biases in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. A systematic review and metanalysis.71
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review71
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of human father-child rough-and-tumble play71
Neural cell-types and circuits linking thermoregulation and social behavior70
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy70
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention70
Residual implicit and explicit language abilities in patients with disorders of consciousness: A systematic review70
Brain to brain musical interaction: A systematic review of neural synchrony in musical activities69
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception69
Is the concept of affective agnosia a useful addition to the alexithymia literature?67
Myokines may target accelerated cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: A systematic and topical review66
Incorporating sex and gender considerations in research on psychosocial work exposures and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review of 55 prospective studies66
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?66
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut66
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations65
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue64
Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for aphantasia64
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock63
Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex63
Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories62
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds62
Management of neurological symptoms in Lesch-Nyhan disease: A systematic review62
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?62
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders61
Treating Alzheimer’s disease with brain stimulation: From preclinical models to non-invasive stimulation in humans61
Behind mouse eyes: The function and control of eye movements in mice61
Posttranslational modifications & lithium’s therapeutic effect—Potential biomarkers for clinical responses in psychiatric & neurodegenerative disorders61
Efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares: A systematic review and network meta-analysis61
The role of BDNF in major depressive disorder, related clinical features, and antidepressant treatment: Insight from meta-analyses60
Effects of perceptual and working memory load on brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli: Review and implications for future research60
Re-wilding model organisms: Opportunities to test causal mechanisms in social determinants of health and aging60
Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: Current practices and future recommendations60
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health59
Unraveling the influence of Pavlovian cues on decision-making: A pre-registered meta-analysis on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer59
Evolutionary conservations, changes of circadian rhythms and their effect on circadian disturbances and therapeutic approaches59
Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis58
Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning58
Defining clinical characteristics of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis57
Modulation of the cognitive event-related potential P3 by transcranial direct current stimulation: Systematic review and meta-analysis57
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) epigenomic modifications and brain-related phenotypes in humans: A systematic review56
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease56
Mapping the mentalizing brain: An ALE meta-analysis to differentiate the representation of social scenes and ages on theory of mind56
Editorial Board56
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation56
Prototype-based category learning in autism: A review55
Proteopathic seed amplification assays in easily accessible specimens for human synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and prionopathies: A scoping review55
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress using natural products in neurological disorders55
Functional implications of age-related atrophy of the corpus callosum55
Trans-generational effects of parental exposure to drugs of abuse on offspring memory functions54
Semaphorin 3A influences neuronal processes that are altered in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Potential diagnostic and therapeutic implications54
Unconscious processing of subliminal stimuli in panic disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis53
Caveolin-1, a novel player in cognitive decline53
Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance53
A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks53
Cannabis use before safety-sensitive work: What delay is prudent?53
Structure-function similarities in deep brain stimulation targets cross-species53
Editorial Board53
Autism and gambling: A systematic review, focusing on neurocognition52
The effect of mitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) modulation: New insights into therapeutic targets for depression52
Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies51
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ovarian steroid hormones II: Regulation of sexual behavior in female rodents.51
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 animals51
The future of preventive psychiatry is precise and transdiagnostic51
Conceptual foundations of physiological regulation incorporating the free energy principle and self-organized criticality51
Mind wandering and depression: A status report50
The role of cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b at the inhibitory synapse and psychiatric disease50
The relationship between allergic diseases and tic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis50
Endocannabinoid system and aggression across animal species50
Fear extinction learning and retention during adolescence in rats and mice: A systematic review49
Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models49
EEG brain waves and alpha rhythms: Past, current and future direction49
Basal and reactive cortisol: A systematic literature review of offspring of parents with depressive and bipolar disorders49
Complement 3a induces the synapse loss via C3aR in mitochondria-dependent NLRP3 activating mechanisms during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease49
Prenatal psychological or metabolic stress increases the risk for psychiatric disorders: the “funnel effect” model48
Stress response in dissociation and conversion disorders: A systematic review48
Deciphering the mechanisms of reciprocal regulation or interdependence at the cannabinoid CB1 receptors and cyclooxygenase-2 level: Effects on mood, cognitive implications, and synaptic signaling48
Error observation as a window on performance monitoring in social contexts? A systematic review48
Plexins: Navigating through the neural regulation and brain pathology48
Biochemical aspects and therapeutic mechanisms of cannabidiol in epilepsy48
Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis48
Beyond appetite: Acylated ghrelin as a learning, memory and fear behavior-modulating hormone47
Neuropharmacological interventions of quercetin and its derivatives in neurological and psychological disorders47
Neurocognitive predictors of addiction-related outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies47
Memory and eating: A bidirectional relationship implicated in obesity47
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum47
Ideomotor learning: Time to generalize a longstanding principle47
Strategies for measuring non-evoked pain in preclinical models of neuropathic pain: Systematic review47
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality46
Alcohol and oxytocin: Scrutinizing the relationship46
Resting-state functional connectivity correlates of anxiety co-morbidity in major depressive disorder46
Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices46
Evolution and the critical role of the microbiota in the reduced mental and physical health associated with low socioeconomic status (SES)46
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
Half a century of research on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A scientometric study45
Morbidity and mortality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative review45
A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove45
Is there any consistent structural and functional brain abnormality in narcolepsy? A meta-analytic perspective45
Effects of physical exercise on plasma brain-derived neurotrophic factor in neurodegenerative disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials45
The intensity of the psychedelic experience is reliably associated with clinical improvements: A systematic review and meta-analysis45
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms and social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic narrative review45
Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review44
Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making44
Placing behaviour at the forefront of brain science44
Alterations in large-scale functional networks in adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies44
Neuropathways of theory of mind in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis44
The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955–2021) and recommendations for the field44
Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons44
The interconnection between obesity and executive function in adolescence: The role of the gut microbiome43
Opioid trail: Tracking contributions to opioid use disorder from host genetics to the gut microbiome43
Editorial Board43
Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction43
Progression of socio-cognitive impairment from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Editorial Board43
Editorial Board43
Insight and the selection of ideas43
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?43
Theta and gamma oscillatory dynamics in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease: A path to prospective therapeutic intervention43
Insights of neurophysiology on unconscious state using combined transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography: A systematic review43
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1): Potential application in mood disorders: A systematic review42
Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging42
Molecular biomarkers and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: State of the field, limitations, and future direction – A systematic review and meta-analysis42
The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies42
From transdiagnostic risk prediction to personalized prevention in psychiatry: Designing studies to determine heterogeneity of treatment effects42
Obstetric complications and psychopathology in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Attentional bias variability and its association with psychological and health symptoms: A meta-analysis42
Mechanistic insights and therapeutic approaches in tic disorders: The distinctive role of ethnomedicine and modern medical interventions42
Psychological disorders, adverse childhood experiences and parental psychiatric disorders in children affected by headache: A systematic review42
Dietary interventions targeting the neurolipidome in epilepsy: From preclinical models to clinical applications and future therapeutic approaches41
Super-natural fears41
Meta-analytic evidence of differential prefrontal and early sensory cortex activity during non-social sensory perception in autism41
Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model41
Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives40
Unpacking the relationship between Big Five personality traits and experimental pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
Brain imaging studies of multisensory integration in emotion perception: A scoping review40
To speak may draw on epigenetic writing and reading: Unravelling the complexity of speech and language outcomes across chromatin-related neurodevelopmental disorders40
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?40
The role of dopamine in action control: Insights from medication effects in Parkinson’s disease40
Licking microstructure in response to novel rewards, reward devaluation and dopamine antagonists: Possible role of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens40
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle39
A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept39
The cycle of stress: A systematic review of the impact of chronic psychological stress models on the rodent estrous cycle39
Play behavior in ectothermic vertebrates39
Common and separable neural alterations in adult and adolescent depression – Evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses39
The impact of maternal immune activation on GABAergic interneuron development: A systematic review of rodent studies and their translational implications39
Task-related neural activation abnormalities in patients with remitted major depressive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis39
Glucocorticoid resistance and β2-adrenergic receptor signaling pathways promote peripheral pro-inflammatory conditions associated with chronic psychological stress: A systematic review across species39
Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation39
Missing links: The functional unification of language and memory (L∪M)38
Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning38
Heart rate and skin conductance associations with physical aggression, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder: An updated meta-analysis38
Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in audiovisual speech integration: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
A systematic review on the potential use of machine learning to classify major depressive disorder from healthy controls using resting state fMRI measures38
Reappraising the role of dopamine in adolescent risk-taking behavior38
Socioeconomic status and the developing brain – A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth38
At the intersection of anger, chronic pain, and the brain: A mini-review38
The science of justice: The neuropsychology of social punishment38
The role of the vagus nerve in fibromyalgia syndrome38
The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications38
Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive dysfunction: Advances in potential mechanisms and therapies38
A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis: Prevalence, clinical types, sex dimorphism, and increased depression and anxiety symptoms37
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) among the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Behavior matters for neuroscience and neuroscience matters for behavior37
Neural correlates of emotional processing in psychosis risk and onset – A systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI studies37
Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence37
Brain-derived estrogen and neural function37
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance37
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
The link between cognition and somatic conditions related to insulin resistance in the UK Biobank study cohort: a systematic review37
Anticholinergic drugs and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 133 (2022) 104511]37
The role of impairments in self–other distinction in borderline personality disorder: A narrative review of recent evidence36
The specificity of thalamic alterations in Korsakoff’s syndrome: Implications for the study of amnesia36
Editors note36
Toward objective characterizations of suicide risk: A narrative review of laboratory-based cognitive and behavioral tasks36
Don’t forget the little brain: A framework for incorporating the cerebellum into the understanding of cognitive aging36
Autism spectrum disorder: Trace elements imbalances and the pathogenesis and severity of autistic symptoms36
Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory36
Social cognition in autism and ADHD36
The effects of stimulant and non-stimulant medications on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning in people with ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis36
Is predictive coding falsifiable?36
The cliff edge model of the evolution of schizophrenia: Mathematical, epidemiological, and genetic evidence36
Sensitization-based risk for substance abuse in vulnerable individuals with ADHD: Review and re-examination of evidence36
A systematic review of epidemiological studies of life course socioeconomic status and adult structural brain changes36
Interoception, network physiology and the emergence of bodily self-awareness36
The interactive effects of psychosocial stress and diet composition on health in primates35
Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences35
Effects of chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia on cognitive function in animal models of contemporary protocols: A systematic literature review35
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