OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Brain Behavior and Immunity is 50. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of a murine coronavirus in a neuron-glial co-culture system: LRRK2 mutation and neurodegeneration	1190
Obesity and immune challenge modulate the willingness to expend effort for reward	347
Food allergy elicits behavioral and neurological pathologies via central histaminergic dysregulation	237
Queries regarding retrospective study design and the recruitment of people with psychiatric disorders	194
Associations of sleep duration, quality, and timing with infection risk in female and male adults	178
J147 is Effective in prevention of postoperative cognitive dysfunction in a rat model	166
Effects of anti-inflammatory drug treatment on psychological and bodily sickness symptoms during experimental endotoxemia: A randomized controlled study in healthy volunteers	154
Sleep fragmentation enhances inflammation and compromises stress-responsive neuronal activity following traumatic brain injury	148
Probiotics and Parkinson's disease: A long way to go!	147
PNIRS Society Announcements	146
Waiting for Godot: Progress in the measurement of human neuroinflammation with existing tools	133
DHA prevents diet-induced memory impairments in inflammatory gene expression in aged rats and cultured microglia	125
182 Spinal interleukin-10 maintains remission of neuropathic pain via delta opioid receptor upregulation in dorsal root ganglia	97
Neutropenic mice experience exaggerated hypothermia and brain/peripheral inflammatory responses during LPS-induced systemic inflammation	91
Cytokines in relation to perinatal anxiety: Shifts in immune balance	87
War, Ukraine, Russia, scientist, boycott and support	83
Response to comment on: Fibroblast-derived PI16 sustains inflammatory pain via regulation of CD206+ myeloid cells	81
Adaptive/innate immunity balance in a complex social world	80
The urgent need for more basic research on SARS-Cov2 infection and vaccines in assessing potential psychoneurological effects using maternal immune activation (MIA) and other preclinical modeling	78
Depressive symptoms predict antibody titers after a second dose of the SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine among hospital workers in Japan	77
Editorial board	76
Editorial Board	74
Epigenetic priming by stress and a sarin analog in response to LPS in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness	74
Regional brain structural alterations in reward and salience networks in asthma	73
Chronic stress decreases IgA secretion and its pIgR-mediated transport in lung of BALB/c mice	73

Mutation S139N on Zika virus prM protein shifts immune response from Asian to contemporary strain	72
Early neutrophil trajectory following clozapine may predict clozapine response – Results from an observational study using electronic health records	72
Opening KATP channels induces inflammatory tolerance and prevents chronic pain	70
Variation in infant rhesus monkeys’ (Macaca mulatta) neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio is associated with environmental conditions, emotionality, and cortisol concentrations, and predicts disease-related	66
Inflammatory markers, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and the symptomatic course of adolescent bipolar disorder: A prospective repeated-measures study	66
The association of maternal COVID-19-infection during pregnancy on the neonatal immune profile and associations with later diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders	66
Monkeypox outbreaks and global health emergency declaration: Can such declarations influence public interest in the disease?	65
Though shall not pass: Blocking lymphocytes from recirculating to the gut as a potential therapeutic approach for autism	61
Differences in Emotional Awareness Moderate Cytokine-Symptom Associations Among Breast Cancer Survivors	61
The link between post-traumatic stress disorder and systemic lupus erythematosus	61
Train your T cells: How skeletal muscles and T cells keep each other fit during aging	58
Prefrontal microglia deficiency during adolescence disrupts adult cognitive functions and synaptic structures: A follow-up study in female mice	58
Effect of modernized collaborative care for depression on depressive symptoms and cardiovascular disease risk biomarkers: eIMPACT randomized controlled trial	57
Resolving neuroinflammatory and social deficits in ASD model mice: Dexmedetomidine downregulates NF-κB/IL-6 pathway via α2AR	56
Electrical stimulation of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus in male mice can regulate inflammation without affecting the heart rate	56
A systematic approach to identify gaps in neuroimmunology: TNF-α and fear learning deficits, a worked example	56
Loss of sodium leak channel (NALCN) in the ventral dentate gyrus impairs neuronal activity of the glutamatergic neurons for inflammation-induced depression in male mice	55
Pathophysiology, blood biomarkers, and functional deficits after intimate partner violence-related brain injury: Insights from emergency department patients and a new rat model	55
Irisin reprograms microglia through activation of STAT6 and prevents cognitive dysfunction after surgery in mice	54
A rapidly progressive multiple system atrophy-cerebellar variant model presenting marked glial reactions with inflammation and spreading of α-synuclein oligomers and phosphorylated α-synuclein aggrega	53
Comment regarding: “COVID-19 vaccination may enhance hippocampal neurogenesis in adults”	51
Neuroinflammation in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) as assessed by [11C]PBR28 PET correlates with vascular disease measures	51
Beneficial and adverse effects of THC on cognition in the HIV-1 transgenic rat model: Importance of exploring task- and sex-dependent outcomes	51
Excess body weight and specific types of depressive symptoms: Is there a mediating role of systemic low-grade inflammation?	51
COVID-19 vaccination refusal among college students: Global trends and action priorities	50
Increased astrocyte activity in the mPFC induces cognitive deficits through kynurenic acid	50
Greater executive dysfunction in patients post-COVID-19 compared to those not infected	50