| The neurobiology of parental behavior M Numan, TR Insel Springer Science & Business Media, 2003 | 972 | 2003 |
| Maternal Behavior M Numan The Physiology of Reproduction, 2nd Edition 2, 221-302, 1994 | 813* | 1994 |
| Medial preoptic area and onset of maternal behavior in the rat. M Numan, JS Rosenblatt, BR Komisaruk Journal of comparative and physiological psychology 91 (1), 146, 1977 | 501 | 1977 |
| Central prolactin infusions stimulate maternal behavior in steroid-treated, nulliparous female rats. RS Bridges, M Numan, PM Ronsheim, PE Mann, CE Lupini Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87 (20), 8003-8007, 1990 | 466 | 1990 |
| Medial preoptic area and maternal behavior in the female rat. M Numan Journal of comparative and physiological psychology 87 (4), 746, 1974 | 446 | 1974 |
| Motivational systems and the neural circuitry of maternal behavior in the rat M Numan Developmental Psychobiology: The Journal of the International Society for …, 2007 | 442 | 2007 |
| Neural mechanisms of mother–infant bonding and pair bonding: Similarities, differences, and broader implications M Numan, LJ Young Hormones and behavior 77, 98-112, 2016 | 434 | 2016 |
| Medial preoptic area interactions with dopamine neural systems in the control of the onset and maintenance of maternal behavior in rats M Numan, DS Stolzenberg Frontiers in neuroendocrinology 30 (1), 46-64, 2009 | 422 | 2009 |
| Neuroanatomical circuitry for mammalian maternal behavior M Numan, TP Sheehan Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 807 (1), 101-125, 1997 | 340 | 1997 |
| Hormonal induction of maternal behavior in the ovariectomized nulliparous rat H Moltz, M Lubin, M Leon, M Numan Physiology & behavior 5 (12), 1373-1377, 1970 | 329 | 1970 |
| Hypothalamic neural circuits regulating maternal responsiveness toward infants M Numan Behavioral and cognitive neuroscience reviews 5 (4), 163-190, 2006 | 285 | 2006 |
| Functional magnetic resonance imaging shows oxytocin activates brain regions associated with mother–pup bonding during suckling M Febo, M Numan, CF Ferris Journal of Neuroscience 25 (50), 11637-11644, 2005 | 271 | 2005 |
| Maternal behavior in rats: evidence for the involvement of preoptic projections to the ventral tegmental area. M Numan, HG Smith Behavioral neuroscience 98 (4), 712, 1984 | 244 | 1984 |
| Axon-sparing lesions of the preoptic region and substantia innominata disrupt maternal behavior in rats. M Numan, KP Corodimas, MJ Numan, EM Factor, WD Piers Behavioral neuroscience 102 (3), 381, 1988 | 220 | 1988 |
| The effects of D1 or D2 dopamine receptor antagonism in the medial preoptic area, ventral pallidum, or nucleus accumbens on the maternal retrieval response and other aspects of … M Numan, MJ Numan, N Pliakou, DS Stolzenberg, OJ Mullins, JM Murphy, ... Behavioral neuroscience 119 (6), 1588, 2005 | 209 | 2005 |
| Functional, anatomical, and neurochemical differentiation of medial preoptic area subregions in relation to maternal behavior in the mouse Y Tsuneoka, T Maruyama, S Yoshida, K Nishimori, T Kato, M Numan, ... Journal of Comparative Neurology 521 (7), 1633-1663, 2013 | 199 | 2013 |
| A lesion and neuroanatomical tract‐tracing analysis of the role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in retrieval behavior and other aspects of maternal responsiveness in … M Numan, M Numan Developmental psychobiology 29 (1), 23-51, 1996 | 198 | 1996 |
| Projection sites of medial preoptic area and ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis neurons that express Fos during maternal behavior in female rats M Numan, MJ Numan Journal of neuroendocrinology 9 (5), 369-384, 1997 | 193 | 1997 |
| Evidence that the medial amygdala projects to the anterior/ventromedial hypothalamic nuclei to inhibit maternal behavior in rats T Sheehan, M Paul, E Amaral, MJ Numan, M Numan Neuroscience 106 (2), 341-356, 2001 | 190 | 2001 |
| Expression of Fos-like immunoreactivity in the preoptic area of maternally behaving virgin and postpartum rats. M Numan, MJ Numan Behavioral neuroscience 108 (2), 379, 1994 | 184 | 1994 |
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