| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality | Science | 2008 | 1,518 |
| 2 | The neurobiology of pair bonding | Nature Neuroscience | 2004 | 1,347 |
| 3 | Phasic vs Sustained Fear in Rats and Humans: Role of the Extended Amygdala in Fear vs Anxiety | Neuropsychopharmacology | 2010 | 1,202 |
| 4 | Mechanisms of fear extinction | Molecular Psychiatry | 2007 | 1,084 |
| 5 | The neurobiology of attachment | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2001 | 1,030 |
| 6 | Cognitive Enhancers as Adjuncts to Psychotherapy | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2004 | 1,023 |
| 7 | Oxytocin in the Medial Amygdala is Essential for Social Recognition in the Mouse | Journal of Neuroscience | 2001 | 938 |
| 8 | The evolution of the arcuate fasciculus revealed with comparative DTI | Nature Neuroscience | 2008 | 773 |
| 9 | DTI Tractography of the Human Brain's Language Pathways | Cerebral Cortex | 2008 | 542 |
| 10 | Microsatellite Instability Generates Diversity in Brain and Sociobehavioral Traits | Science | 2005 | 511 |
| 11 | Profound Impairment in Social Recognition and Reduction in Anxiety-Like Behavior in Vasopressin V1a Receptor Knockout Mice | Neuropsychopharmacology | 2004 | 471 |
| 12 | Cellular Mechanisms of Social Attachment | Hormones and Behavior | 2001 | 457 |
| 13 | The Neuroendocrine Basis of Social Recognition | Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology | 2002 | 451 |
| 14 | Oxytocin, vasopressin, and social recognition in mammals | Peptides | 2004 | 412 |
| 15 | Is social attachment an addictive disorder? | Physiology and Behavior | 2003 | 390 |
| 16 | Naturally Occurring Differences in Maternal Care are Associated with the Expression of Oxytocin and Vasopressin (V1a) Receptors: Gender Differences | Journal of Neuroendocrinology | 2002 | 347 |
| 17 | Epigenetic sources of behavioral differences in mice | Nature Neuroscience | 2003 | 322 |
| 18 | The social deficits of the oxytocin knockout mouse | Neuropeptides | 2002 | 277 |
| 19 | Variation in Oxytocin Receptor Density in the Nucleus Accumbens Has Differential Effects on Affiliative Behaviors in Monogamous and Polygamous Voles | Journal of Neuroscience | 2009 | 269 |
| 20 | Characterization of the oxytocin system regulating affiliative behavior in female prairie voles | Neuroscience | 2009 | 266 |
| 21 | Neuropeptides and the evolution of social behavior | Current Opinion in Neurobiology | 2000 | 259 |
| 22 | Transmission disequilibrium testing of arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) polymorphisms in autism | Molecular Psychiatry | 2002 | 242 |
| 23 | Oxytocin receptors in the nucleus accumbens facilitate “spontaneous” maternal behavior in adult female prairie voles | Neuroscience | 2006 | 233 |
| 24 | The prairie vole: an emerging model organism for understanding the social brain | Trends in Neurosciences | 2010 | 215 |
| 25 | Behavioral effects of chronic adolescent stress are sustained and sexually dimorphic | Hormones and Behavior | 2011 | 190 |
| 26 | Compassion meditation enhances empathic accuracy and related neural activity | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | 2013 | 188 |
| 27 | The CRF System Mediates Increased Passive Stress-Coping Behavior Following the Loss of a Bonded Partner in a Monogamous Rodent | Neuropsychopharmacology | 2009 | 186 |
| 28 | Species and individual differences in juvenile female alloparental care are associated with oxytocin receptor density in the striatum and the lateral septum | Hormones and Behavior | 2006 | 179 |
| 29 | A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 177 |
| 30 | The neurobiology of social recognition, approach, and avoidance | Biological Psychiatry | 2002 | 176 |
| 31 | The impact of early life family structure on adult social attachment, alloparental behavior, and the neuropeptide systems regulating affiliative behaviors in the monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience | 2009 | 176 |
| 32 | Anterior hypothalamic vasopressin regulates pair-bonding and drug-induced aggression in a monogamous rodent | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 157 |
| 33 | Neonatal oxytocin manipulations have long-lasting, sexually dimorphic effects on vasopressin receptors | Neuroscience | 2007 | 135 |
| 34 | Neuropeptide regulation of fear and anxiety: Implications of cholecystokinin, endogenous opioids, and neuropeptide Y | Physiology and Behavior | 2012 | 134 |
| 35 | Evidence for expansion of the precuneus in human evolution | Brain Structure and Function | 2017 | 131 |
| 36 | Stress-induced sex differences: Adaptations mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor | Hormones and Behavior | 2012 | 118 |
| 37 | Training‐induced changes in the expression of GABAA‐associated genes in the amygdala after the acquisition and extinction of Pavlovian fear | European Journal of Neuroscience | 2007 | 115 |
| 38 | Differential Expression of Intrinsic Membrane Currents in Defined Cell Types of the Anterolateral Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis | Journal of Neurophysiology | 2007 | 114 |
| 39 | Association of vasopressin 1a receptor levels with a regulatory microsatellite and behavior | Genes, Brain and Behavior | 2005 | 113 |
| 40 | Dopamine β-Hydroxylase Knockout Mice have Alterations in Dopamine Signaling and are Hypersensitive to Cocaine | Neuropsychopharmacology | 2006 | 111 |
| 41 | Increasing oxytocin receptor expression in the nucleus accumbens of pre-pubertal female prairie voles enhances alloparental responsiveness and partner preference formation as adults | Hormones and Behavior | 2011 | 111 |
| 42 | Extraordinary diversity in vasopressin (V1a) receptor distributions among wild prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Patterns of variation and covariation | Journal of Comparative Neurology | 2003 | 110 |
| 43 | Plasma Corticosterone Activates SGK1 and Induces Morphological Changes in Oligodendrocytes in Corpus Callosum | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 102 |
| 44 | Genistein Affects ERβ- But Not ERα-Dependent Gene Expression in the Hypothalamus | Endocrinology | 2002 | 99 |
| 45 | Soy Isoflavone Supplements Antagonize Reproductive Behavior and Estrogen Receptor α- and β-Dependent Gene Expression in the Brain* | Endocrinology | 2001 | 96 |
| 46 | Social cognitive neural networks during in-group and out-group interactions | NeuroImage | 2008 | 96 |
| 47 | BDNF function as a potential mediator of bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder comorbidity | Molecular Psychiatry | 2012 | 91 |
| 48 | Parental division of labor, coordination, and the effects of family structure on parenting in monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) | Developmental Psychobiology | 2011 | 84 |
| 49 | Toward a Neurobiology of Attachment | Review of General Psychology | 2000 | 82 |
| 50 | Glucocorticoid sensitizers Bag1 and Ppid are regulated by adolescent stress in a sex-dependent manner | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 2013 | 80 |
