| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and insomnia among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 2,517 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic and mental health consequences: Systematic review of the current evidence | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 2,252 |
| 3 | A longitudinal study on the mental health of general population during the COVID-19 epidemic in China | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 1,880 |
| 4 | Altered fecal microbiota composition in patients with major depressive disorder | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2015 | 1,594 |
| 5 | Nervous system involvement after infection with COVID-19 and other coronaviruses | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 1,495 |
| 6 | Immune modulation of learning, memory, neural plasticity and neurogenesis | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2011 | 1,221 |
| 7 | A multinational, multicentre study on the psychological outcomes and associated physical symptoms amongst healthcare workers during COVID-19 outbreak | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 1,165 |
| 8 | Twenty years of research on cytokine-induced sickness behavior | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 1,125 |
| 9 | Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 1,118 |
| 10 | The effects of acute psychological stress on circulating inflammatory factors in humans: A review and meta-analysis | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 1,081 |
| 11 | Impact on mental health and perceptions of psychological care among medical and nursing staff in Wuhan during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease outbreak: A cross-sectional study | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 1,068 |
| 12 | Mental health consequences during the initial stage of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Spain | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 1,028 |
| 13 | Exposure to a social stressor alters the structure of the intestinal microbiota: Implications for stressor-induced immunomodulation | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2011 | 929 |
| 14 | Acute Stress Enhances while Chronic Stress Suppresses Cell-Mediated Immunityin Vivo:A Potential Role for Leukocyte Trafficking | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 1997 | 867 |
| 15 | The Relationship of Depression and Stressors to Immunological Assays: A Meta-Analytic Review | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2001 | 843 |
| 16 | Cumulative meta-analysis of interleukins 6 and 1β, tumour necrosis factor α and C-reactive protein in patients with major depressive disorder | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2015 | 830 |
| 17 | Stress and the inflammatory response: A review of neurogenic inflammation | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2002 | 824 |
| 18 | Do psychiatric patients experience more psychiatric symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown? A case-control study with service and research implications for immunopsychiatry | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 773 |
| 19 | Vicarious traumatization in the general public, members, and non-members of medical teams aiding in COVID-19 control | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 766 |
| 20 | Are we facing a crashing wave of neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19? Neuropsychiatric symptoms and potential immunologic mechanisms | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 737 |
| 21 | Cytokine-Induced Sickness Behavior: Where Do We Stand? | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2001 | 726 |
| 22 | The blood-brain barrier in systemic inflammation | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2017 | 714 |
| 23 | Elevated plasma cytokines in autism spectrum disorders provide evidence of immune dysfunction and are associated with impaired behavioral outcome | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2011 | 704 |
| 24 | Autonomic innervation and regulation of the immune system (1987–2007) | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 689 |
| 25 | Fatigue and cognitive impairment in Post-COVID-19 Syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2022 | 670 |
| 26 | Analysis of cortisol in hair – State of the art and future directions | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2012 | 632 |
| 27 | The role of microbiome in central nervous system disorders | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2014 | 629 |
| 28 | Cytokine-induced sickness behavior | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2003 | 597 |
| 29 | The potential influence of maternal stress hormones on development and mental health of the offspring | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2005 | 585 |
| 30 | Depressive disorders and immunity: 20 years of progress and discovery | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 579 |
| 31 | Gut microbiota depletion from early adolescence in mice: Implications for brain and behaviour | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2015 | 572 |
| 32 | Obesity and neuroinflammation: A pathway to cognitive impairment | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2014 | 561 |
| 33 | Maternal immune activation yields offspring displaying mouse versions of the three core symptoms of autism | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2012 | 550 |
| 34 | Neuroinflammation after traumatic brain injury: Opportunities for therapeutic intervention | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2012 | 550 |
| 35 | One year pre–post intervention follow-up of psychological, immune, endocrine and blood pressure outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in breast and prostate cancer outpatients | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 533 |
| 36 | The role of immune dysfunction in the pathophysiology of autism | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2012 | 530 |
| 37 | Characterization of phenotype markers and neuronotoxic potential of polarised primary microglia in vitro | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2013 | 529 |
| 38 | Cytokine-effects on glucocorticoid receptor function: Relevance to glucocorticoid resistance and the pathophysiology and treatment of major depression | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 526 |
| 39 | A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of multispecies probiotics on cognitive reactivity to sad mood | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2015 | 525 |
| 40 | Effects of prenatal infection on brain development and behavior: A review of findings from animal models | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2010 | 521 |
| 41 | Chronic stress and comfort foods: self-medication and abdominal obesity☆ | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2005 | 516 |
| 42 | Microglia serve as a neuroimmune substrate for stress-induced potentiation of CNS pro-inflammatory cytokine responses | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 502 |
| 43 | Cognitive impairment by antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis: Analysis of gut microbiota-brain communication | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2016 | 500 |
| 44 | The differential psychological distress of populations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2020 | 500 |
| 45 | Peripheral lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge promotes microglial hyperactivity in aged mice that is associated with exaggerated induction of both pro-inflammatory IL-1β and anti-inflammatory IL-10 cytokines | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2009 | 495 |
| 46 | The influence of systemic inflammation on inflammation in the brain: implications for chronic neurodegenerative disease | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2004 | 490 |
| 47 | Brain-immune communication pathways | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 487 |
| 48 | The role of cytokines in the pathophysiology of epilepsy | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2008 | 474 |
| 49 | Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK household longitudinal study | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2021 | 473 |
| 50 | The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2005 | 472 |
