| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods | Pain | 1975 | 5,648 |
| 2 | The short-form McGill pain questionnaire | Pain | 1987 | 3,518 |
| 3 | A critical role for the right fronto-insular cortex in switching between central-executive and default-mode networks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 2,367 |
| 4 | The formalin test: A quantitative study of the analgesic effects of morphine, meperidine, and brain stem stimulation in rats and cats | Pain | 1977 | 2,135 |
| 5 | Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs? | Science | 2005 | 1,633 |
| 6 | Different immune cells mediate mechanical pain hypersensitivity in male and female mice | Nature Neuroscience | 2015 | 1,041 |
| 7 | Coding of facial expressions of pain in the laboratory mouse | Nature Methods | 2010 | 1,024 |
| 8 | The Hippocampus, Memory, and Place Cells | Neuron | 1999 | 927 |
| 9 | Differential effects of fornix and caudate nucleus lesions on two radial maze tasks: evidence for multiple memory systems | Journal of Neuroscience | 1989 | 922 |
| 10 | Animal models of pain: progress and challenges | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2009 | 912 |
| 11 | Mental rotation of the neuronal population vector | Science | 1989 | 879 |
| 12 | On the Language of Pain | Anesthesiology | 1971 | 841 |
| 13 | Multiple Parallel Memory Systems in the Brain of the Rat | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | 2002 | 809 |
| 14 | From the gate to the neuromatrix | Pain | 1999 | 808 |
| 15 | The rewards of music listening: Response and physiological connectivity of the mesolimbic system | NeuroImage | 2005 | 801 |
| 16 | The mesolimbic dopaminergic system is implicated in the reinforcing effects of nicotine | Psychopharmacology | 1992 | 767 |
| 17 | How adaptive behavior is produced: a perceptual-motivational alternative to response reinforcements | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1978 | 757 |
| 18 | Sex differences in pain and pain inhibition: multiple explanations of a controversial phenomenon | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2012 | 750 |
| 19 | Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents | Nature Methods | 2014 | 699 |
| 20 | Effects of estrogen on memory function in surgically menopausal women | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 1992 | 691 |
| 21 | Specific Involvement of Human Parietal Systems and the Amygdala in the Perception of Biological Motion | Journal of Neuroscience | 1996 | 690 |
| 22 | Estrogen and/or androgen replacement therapy and cognitive functioning in surgically menopausal women | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 1988 | 689 |
| 23 | Parallel information processing in the water maze: Evidence for independent memory systems involving dorsal striatum and hippocampus | Behavioral and Neural Biology | 1994 | 681 |
| 24 | Tryptophan depletion causes a rapid lowering of mood in normal males | Psychopharmacology | 1985 | 678 |
| 25 | Socio-economic disparities in pregnancy outcome: why do the poor fare so poorly? | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2000 | 675 |
| 26 | Memory traces unbound | Trends in Neurosciences | 2003 | 665 |
| 27 | The neurochemistry of music | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2013 | 658 |
| 28 | Babbling in the manual mode: evidence for the ontogeny of language | Science | 1991 | 653 |
| 29 | Phantom limbs and the concept of a neuromatrix | Trends in Neurosciences | 1990 | 646 |
| 30 | Cellular and Systems Reconsolidation in the Hippocampus | Neuron | 2002 | 632 |
| 31 | Contributions of the basal ganglia and functionally related brain structures to motor learning | Behavioural Brain Research | 2009 | 606 |
| 32 | MEASUREMENT OF PAIN | Surgical Clinics of North America | 1999 | 586 |
| 33 | Association fiber pathways to the frontal cortex from the superior temporal region in the rhesus monkey | Journal of Comparative Neurology | 1988 | 577 |
| 34 | On the relationship between item response theory and factor analysis of discretized variables | Psychometrika | 1987 | 544 |
| 35 | Pre- and postlexical loci of contextual effects on word recognition | Memory and Cognition | 1984 | 541 |
| 36 | Pharmacological brake-release of mRNA translation enhances cognitive memory | ELife | 2013 | 541 |
| 37 | Development and initial validation of an expanded and revised version of the Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ-2) | Pain | 2009 | 539 |
| 38 | The Rat Grimace Scale: A Partially Automated Method for Quantifying Pain in the Laboratory Rat via Facial Expressions | Molecular Pain | 2011 | 521 |
| 39 | Effect of post-retrieval propranolol on psychophysiologic responding during subsequent script-driven traumatic imagery in post-traumatic stress disorder | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 2008 | 518 |
| 40 | The role of oxytocin in social bonding, stress regulation and mental health: An update on the moderating effects of context and interindividual differences | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 2013 | 510 |
| 41 | Trigger points and acupuncture points for pain: Correlations and implications | Pain | 1977 | 504 |
| 42 | Listening to language at birth: evidence for a bias for speech in neonates | Developmental Science | 2007 | 504 |
| 43 | Central nervous system plasticity in the tonic pain response to subcutaneous formalin injection | Brain Research | 1990 | 501 |
| 44 | Mean response times, variability, and skew in the responding of ADHD children: a response time distributional approach | Acta Psychologica | 2000 | 496 |
| 45 | The formalin test: scoring properties of the first and second phases of the pain response in rats | Pain | 1995 | 495 |
| 46 | Alcohol promotes dopamine release in the human nucleus accumbens | Synapse | 2003 | 482 |
| 47 | Estrogen and Cognitive Functioning in Women | Endocrine Reviews | 2003 | 471 |
| 48 | The melanocortin-1 receptor gene mediates female-specific mechanisms of analgesia in mice and humans | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 469 |
| 49 | Autism-related deficits via dysregulated eIF4E-dependent translational control | Nature | 2013 | 451 |
| 50 | Sex differences in pain and analgesia: the role of gonadal hormones | European Journal of Pain | 2004 | 447 |
