Most cited papers in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
What are the most cited papers in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior?
The most cited paper in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior is "Parental Investment and Sexual Selection" (Robert L. Trivers, 2017), with 9,562 citations. Next come "Emotion Circuits in the Brain" (8,519) and "Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior" (6,205).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,733 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parental Investment and Sexual Selection Robert L. Trivers | 12 Jul 2017 | 9,562 |
| 2 | Emotion Circuits in the Brain Joseph E. LeDoux · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2000 | 8,519 |
| 3 | Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior Ian C.G. Weaver, Nadia Cervoni, Frances A. Champagne et al. · Nature Neuroscience | 27 Jun 2004 | 6,205 |
| 4 | Acute Stressors and Cortisol Responses: A Theoretical Integration and Synthesis of Laboratory Research. Sally S. Dickerson, Margaret E. Kemeny · Psychological Bulletin | 2004 | 5,904 |
| 5 | The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations LINDA PATIA SPEAR · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews | Jun 2000 | 5,518 |
| 6 | Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain Bruce S. McEwen · Physiological Reviews | Jul 2007 | 4,968 |
| 7 | Emotion regulation: Affective, cognitive, and social consequences James Jonathan Gross · Psychophysiology | May 2002 | 4,897 |
| 8 | Stress and the brain: from adaptation to disease E. R. de Kloet, Marian Joëls, Florian Holsboer · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 13 May 2005 | 4,657 |
| 9 | Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development: The Truth about False Belief Henry M. Wellman, David Cross, Julanne King Watson · Child Development | May 2001 | 4,505 |
| 10 | Parent-Offspring Conflict Robert L. Trivers · American Zoologist | Feb 1974 | 4,217 |
| 11 | Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases Stephanie Delphine Preston, Frans Β. Μ. de Waal · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Feb 2002 | 4,155 |
| 12 | The role of inflammation in depression: from evolutionary imperative to modern treatment target Andrew H. Miller, Charles L. Raison · Nature reviews. Immunology | 29 Dec 2015 | 3,963 |
| 13 | The hypocretins: Hypothalamus-specific peptides with neuroexcitatory activity Luı́s de Lecea, Thomas S. Kilduff, Christelle Peyron et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 Jan 1998 | 3,912 |
| 14 | Inflammation and Its Discontents: The Role of Cytokines in the Pathophysiology of Major Depression Andrew H. Miller, Vladimir Maletic, Charles L. Raison · Biological Psychiatry | 16 Jan 2009 | 3,889 |
| 15 | Oxytocin increases trust in humans Michael Kosfeld, Markus L Heinrichs, Paul J. Zak et al. · Nature | Jun 2005 | 3,705 |
| 16 | The Neuroendocrinology of Stress: A Never Ending Story Stafford Louis Lightman · Journal of Neuroendocrinology | Jun 2008 | 3,574 |
| 17 | The tail suspension test: A new method for screening antidepressants in mice Lucien Stéru, Raymond Chermat, Bernard Thierry et al. · Psychopharmacology | Mar 1985 | 3,563 |
| 18 | Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in human brain associates with childhood abuse Patrick O. McGowan, Aya Sasaki, Ana C. D’Alessio et al. · Nature Neuroscience | 22 Feb 2009 | 3,539 |
| 19 | The Functional Architecture of Human Empathy Jean Decety, Philip L. Jackson · Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews | Jun 2004 | 3,386 |
| 20 | Neural regulation of endocrine and autonomic stress responses Yvonne M. Ulrich‐Lai, James P. Herman · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 13 May 2009 | 3,354 |
| 21 | Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: Tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight. Shelley E. Taylor, Laura Cousino Klein, Brian P. Lewis et al. · Psychological Review | 2000 | 3,319 |
| 22 | The Adolescent Brain Betty Jo Casey, Rebecca Merrill Jones, Todd Anthony Hare · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Mar 2008 | 3,289 |
| 23 | Normal gut microbiota modulates brain development and behavior Rochellys Diaz Heijtz, Shugui Wang, Farhana Anuar et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 31 Jan 2011 | 3,280 |
| 24 | A new one-trial test for neurobiological studies of memory in rats. 1: Behavioral data A. Ennaceur, Jean Delacour · Behavioural Brain Research | Nov 1988 | 3,261 |
| 25 | The open field as a paradigm to measure the effects of drugs on anxiety-like behaviors: a review Laetitia Prut, Catherine Belzung · European Journal of Pharmacology | Feb 2003 | 3,236 |
| 26 | Stress and disorders of the stress system George Panagiotis Chrousos · Nature Reviews Endocrinology | 2 Jun 2009 | 3,226 |
| 27 | Maternal Care, Hippocampal Glucocorticoid Receptors, and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Responses to Stress Dong Liu, Josie C. Diorio, Beth M. Tannenbaum et al. · Science | 12 Sep 1997 | 3,185 |
| 28 | Fears, phobias, and preparedness: Toward an evolved module of fear and fear learning. Arne Öhman, Susan Mineka · Psychological Review | 2001 | 3,146 |
| 29 | The Oxytocin Receptor System: Structure, Function, and Regulation Gerald Gimpl, Falk Fahrenholz · Physiological Reviews | Apr 2001 | 3,115 |
| 30 | The Cloned Capsaicin Receptor Integrates Multiple Pain-Producing Stimuli Makoto Tominaga, Michael J. Caterina, Annika B. Malmberg et al. · Neuron | Sep 1998 | 3,109 |
| 31 | Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex Amit Etkin, Tobias Egner, Raffaël Kalisch · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 17 Dec 2010 | 3,108 |
| 32 | The use of the elevated plus maze as an assay of anxiety-related behavior in rodents Alicia A. Walf, Cheryl Anne Frye · Nature Protocols | Feb 2007 | 3,106 |
| 33 | Cytokines sing the blues: inflammation and the pathogenesis of depression Charles L. Raison, Lucile Capuron, Andrew H. Miller · Trends in Immunology | 29 Nov 2005 | 3,023 |
| 34 | Cognitive and affective development in adolescence Laurence D. Steinberg · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 29 Dec 2004 | 2,980 |
| 35 | Molecular Physiology of P2X Receptors Richard Alan North · Physiological Reviews | 10 Jan 2002 | 2,936 |
| 36 | Evolution at Two Levels in Humans and Chimpanzees Mary‐Claire King, Allan C. Wilson · Science | 11 Apr 1975 | 2,926 |
| 37 | Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, neuroendocrine factors and stress Constantine Tsigos, George Panagiotis Chrousos · Journal of Psychosomatic Research | Oct 2002 | 2,854 |
| 38 | Postnatal microbial colonization programs the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal system for stress response in mice Nobuyuki Sudo, Yoichi Chida, Yuji Aiba et al. · The Journal of Physiology | 10 May 2004 | 2,754 |
| 39 | Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval Karim Nader, Glenn E. Schafe, Joseph E. Le Doux · Nature | 17 Aug 2000 | 2,749 |
| 40 | Maternal Care, Gene Expression, and the Transmission of Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity Across Generations Michael Joseph Meaney · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2001 | 2,725 |
| 41 | The use of a plus-maze to measure anxiety in the mouse Richard G. Lister · Psychopharmacology | Jun 1987 | 2,623 |
| 42 | Prevention of Allogeneic Fetal Rejection by Tryptophan Catabolism David H. Munn, Min Zhou, John T. Attwood et al. · Science | 21 Aug 1998 | 2,602 |
| 43 | Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunction Ofer Yizhar, Lief E. Fenno, Matthias Prigge et al. · Nature | 26 Jul 2011 | 2,571 |
| 44 | Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates Robin Dunbar · Journal of Human Evolution | Jun 1992 | 2,554 |
| 45 | Understanding adolescence as a period of social–affective engagement and goal flexibility Eveline A. Crone, Ronald E. Dahl · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Aug 2012 | 2,552 |
| 46 | Gut–brain axis: how the microbiome influences anxiety and depression Jane Allyson Foster, Karen‐Anne McVey Neufeld · Trends in Neurosciences | 4 Feb 2013 | 2,520 |
| 47 | Brain Corticosteroid Receptor Balance in Health and Disease* E. R. de Kloet, Erno Vreugdenhil, Melly Silvana Oitzl et al. · Endocrine Reviews | Jun 1998 | 2,519 |
| 48 | Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy Frans Β. Μ. de Waal · Annual Review of Psychology | 21 Dec 2007 | 2,515 |
| 49 | Molecular Adaptations Underlying Susceptibility and Resistance to Social Defeat in Brain Reward Regions Vaishnav Krishnan et al. · Cell | Oct 2007 | 2,386 |
| 50 | Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs? Kristine H. Onishi, Renée Baillargeon · Science | 8 Apr 2005 | 2,375 |
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