| Obesity and neuroinflammation: a pathway to cognitive impairment AA Miller, SJ Spencer Brain, behavior, and immunity 42, 10-21, 2014 | 842 | 2014 |
| Eating behavior and stress: a pathway to obesity L Sominsky, SJ Spencer Frontiers in psychology 5, 434, 2014 | 519 | 2014 |
| Postnatal inflammation increases seizure susceptibility in adult rats MA Galic, K Riazi, JG Heida, A Mouihate, NM Fournier, SJ Spencer, ... Journal of Neuroscience 28 (27), 6904-6913, 2008 | 353 | 2008 |
| A Chat (GPT) about the future of scientific publishing EL Hill-Yardin, MR Hutchinson, R Laycock, SJ Spencer Brain, behavior, and immunity 110, 152-154, 2023 | 296 | 2023 |
| Ghrelin regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and restricts anxiety after acute stress SJ Spencer, L Xu, MA Clarke, M Lemus, A Reichenbach, B Geenen, ... Biological psychiatry 72 (6), 457-465, 2012 | 289 | 2012 |
| Food for thought: how nutrition impacts cognition and emotion SJ Spencer, A Korosi, S Layé, B Shukitt-Hale, RM Barrientos npj Science of Food 1 (1), 7, 2017 | 287 | 2017 |
| High-fat diet and aging interact to produce neuroinflammation and impair hippocampal-and amygdalar-dependent memory SJ Spencer, H D'Angelo, A Soch, LR Watkins, SF Maier, RM Barrientos Neurobiology of aging 58, 88-101, 2017 | 220 | 2017 |
| Medial prefrontal cortex control of the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus response to psychological stress: possible role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis SJ Spencer, KM Buller, TA Day Journal of comparative neurology 481 (4), 363-376, 2005 | 213 | 2005 |
| The glucocorticoid contribution to obesity SJ Spencer, A Tilbrook Stress 14 (3), 233-246, 2011 | 201 | 2011 |
| Microglia: Key players in neurodevelopment and neuronal plasticity L Sominsky, S De Luca, SJ Spencer The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 94, 56-60, 2018 | 162 | 2018 |
| Ghrelin’s role in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis stress response: implications for mood disorders SJ Spencer, TL Emmerzaal, T Kozicz, ZB Andrews Biological psychiatry 78 (1), 19-27, 2015 | 142 | 2015 |
| Early-life immune challenge: defining a critical window for effects on adult responses to immune challenge SJ Spencer, S Martin, A Mouihate, QJ Pittman Neuropsychopharmacology 31 (9), 1910-1918, 2006 | 133 | 2006 |
| Early life immune challenge—effects on behavioural indices of adult rat fear and anxiety SJ Spencer, JG Heida, QJ Pittman Behavioural brain research 164 (2), 231-238, 2005 | 121 | 2005 |
| Neonatal programming of innate immune function SJ Spencer, MA Galic, QJ Pittman American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism 300 (1), E11-E18, 2011 | 107 | 2011 |
| Gender inequality in publishing during the COVID-19 pandemic AK Ribarovska, MR Hutchinson, QJ Pittman, C Pariante, SJ Spencer Brain, behavior, and immunity 91, 1, 2020 | 106 | 2020 |
| The impact of obesity and hypercaloric diet consumption on anxiety and emotional behavior across the lifespan KD Baker, A Loughman, SJ Spencer, AC Reichelt Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 83, 173-182, 2017 | 105 | 2017 |
| Early life activation of toll-like receptor 4 reprograms neural anti-inflammatory pathways A Mouihate, MA Galic, SL Ellis, SJ Spencer, S Tsutsui, QJ Pittman Journal of Neuroscience 30 (23), 7975-7983, 2010 | 102 | 2010 |
| Early life programming of obesity: the impact of the perinatal environment on the development of obesity and metabolic dysfunction in the offspring. S J. Spencer Current diabetes reviews 8 (1), 55-68, 2012 | 98 | 2012 |
| Thalamic paraventricular nucleus lesions facilitate central amygdala neuronal responses to acute psychological stress SJ Spencer, JC Fox, TA Day Brain research 997 (2), 234-237, 2004 | 95 | 2004 |
| Neonatal overfeeding alters adult anxiety and stress responsiveness SJ Spencer, A Tilbrook Psychoneuroendocrinology 34 (8), 1133-1143, 2009 | 92 | 2009 |