| Early life programming and neurodevelopmental disorders TL Bale, TZ Baram, AS Brown, JM Goldstein, TR Insel, MM McCarthy, ... Biological psychiatry 68 (4), 314-319, 2010 | 1143 | 2010 |
| Estradiol and the developing brain MM McCarthy Physiological reviews 88 (1), 91-134, 2008 | 1052 | 2008 |
| Reframing sexual differentiation of the brain MM McCarthy, AP Arnold Nature neuroscience 14 (6), 677-683, 2011 | 813 | 2011 |
| Sex differences in the brain: the not so inconvenient truth MM McCarthy, AP Arnold, GF Ball, JD Blaustein, GJ De Vries Journal of Neuroscience 32 (7), 2241-2247, 2012 | 774 | 2012 |
| Microglia are essential to masculinization of brain and behavior KM Lenz, BM Nugent, R Haliyur, MM McCarthy Journal of Neuroscience 33 (7), 2761-2772, 2013 | 557 | 2013 |
| CNS region-specific oxytocin receptor expression: importance in regulation of anxiety and sex behavior TL Bale, AM Davis, AP Auger, DM Dorsa, MM McCarthy Journal of Neuroscience 21 (7), 2546-2552, 2001 | 539 | 2001 |
| The epigenetics of sex differences in the brain MM McCarthy, AP Auger, TL Bale, GJ De Vries, GA Dunn, NG Forger, ... Journal of Neuroscience 29 (41), 12815-12823, 2009 | 506 | 2009 |
| Behavioral endocrinology JB Becker Mit Press, 2002 | 490 | 2002 |
| An anxiolytic action of oxytocin is enhanced by estrogen in the mouse MM McCarthy, CH McDonald, PJ Brooks, D Goldman Physiology & behavior 60 (5), 1209-1215, 1996 | 464 | 1996 |
| Brain feminization requires active repression of masculinization via DNA methylation BM Nugent, CL Wright, AC Shetty, GE Hodes, KM Lenz, A Mahurkar, ... Nature neuroscience 18 (5), 690-697, 2015 | 435 | 2015 |
| Considering sex as a biological variable in preclinical research LR Miller, C Marks, JB Becker, PD Hurn, WJ Chen, T Woodruff, ... The FASEB Journal 31 (1), 29, 2016 | 375 | 2016 |
| Induction of PGE2 by estradiol mediates developmental masculinization of sex behavior SK Amateau, MM McCarthy Nature neuroscience 7 (6), 643-650, 2004 | 371 | 2004 |
| Developmental time course of estradiol, testosterone, and dihydrotestosterone levels in discrete regions of male and female rat brain ATM Konkle, MM McCarthy Endocrinology 152 (1), 223-235, 2011 | 353 | 2011 |
| A starring role for microglia in brain sex differences KM Lenz, MM McCarthy The Neuroscientist 21 (3), 306-321, 2015 | 342 | 2015 |
| When is a sex difference not a sex difference? MM McCarthy, ATM Konkle Frontiers in neuroendocrinology 26 (2), 85-102, 2005 | 303 | 2005 |
| Neuroimmunology and neuroepigenetics in the establishment of sex differences in the brain MM McCarthy, BM Nugent, KM Lenz Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18 (8), 471-484, 2017 | 298 | 2017 |
| Differential effects of chronic unpredictable stress on hippocampal CB1 receptors in male and female rats CG Reich, ME Taylor, MM McCarthy Behavioural brain research 203 (2), 264-269, 2009 | 289 | 2009 |
| Brain Estradiol Content in Newborn Rats: Sex Differences, Regional Heterogeneity, and Possible de Novo Synthesis by the Female Telencephalon SK Amateau, JJ Alt, CL Stamps, MM McCarthy Endocrinology 145 (6), 2906-2917, 2004 | 282 | 2004 |
| Estrogen modulation of oxytocin and its relation to behavior. MM McCarthy Advances in experimental medicine and biology 395, 235-245, 1995 | 280 | 1995 |
| Gonadal steroids promote glial differentiation and alter neuronal morphology in the developing hypothalamus in a regionally specific manner JA Mong, E Glaser, MM McCarthy Journal of Neuroscience 19 (4), 1464-1472, 1999 | 267 | 1999 |
