| Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare A Boissy, G Manteuffel, MB Jensen, RO Moe, B Spruijt, LJ Keeling, ... Physiology & behavior 92 (3), 375-397, 2007 | 1712 | 2007 |
| Ethology and neurobiology of grooming behavior BM Spruijt, JA Van Hooff, WH Gispen Physiological reviews 72 (3), 825-852, 1992 | 771 | 1992 |
| Place learning and hippocampal synaptic plasticity in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats GJ Biessels, A Kamal, GM Ramakers, IJ Urban, BM Spruijt, DW Erkelens, ... Diabetes 45 (9), 1259-1266, 1996 | 508 | 1996 |
| A concept of welfare based on reward evaluating mechanisms in the brain: anticipatory behaviour as an indicator for the state of reward systems BM Spruijt, R Van den Bos, FTA Pijlman Applied Animal Behaviour Science 72 (2), 145-171, 2001 | 482 | 2001 |
| Water maze learning and hippocampal synaptic plasticity in streptozotocin-diabetic rats: effects of insulin treatment GJ Biessels, A Kamal, IJA Urban, BM Spruijt, DW Erkelens, WH Gispen Brain research 800 (1), 125-135, 1998 | 476 | 1998 |
| Play is indispensable for an adequate development of coping with social challenges in the rat CL Van den Berg, T Hol, JM Van Ree, BM Spruijt, H Everts, JM Koolhaas Developmental Psychobiology: The Journal of the International Society for …, 1999 | 392 | 1999 |
| Long‐lasting modulation of the induction of LTD and LTP in rat hippocampal CA1 by behavioural stress and environmental enrichment A Artola, JC Von Frijtag, PCJ Fermont, WH Gispen, LH Schrama, A Kamal, ... European Journal of Neuroscience 23 (1), 261-272, 2006 | 308 | 2006 |
| Effects of experience and context on 50-kHz vocalizations in rats M Wöhr, B Houx, RKW Schwarting, B Spruijt Physiology & behavior 93 (4-5), 766-776, 2008 | 286 | 2008 |
| Isolation during the play period in infancy decreases adult social interactions in rats T Hol, CL Van den Berg, JM Van Ree, BM Spruijt Behavioural brain research 100 (1-2), 91-97, 1999 | 263 | 1999 |
| Defeat followed by individual housing results in long-term impaired reward-and cognition-related behaviours in rats JC Von Frijtag, L Reijmers, JE Van der Harst, IE Leus, R Van den Bos, ... Behavioural brain research 117 (1-2), 137-146, 2000 | 245 | 2000 |
| Isolation changes the incentive value of sucrose and social behaviour in juvenile and adult rats CL Van den Berg, FTA Pijlman, HAM Koning, L Diergaarde, JM Van Ree, ... Behavioural brain research 106 (1-2), 133-142, 1999 | 185 | 1999 |
| Decision support system for overall welfare assessment in pregnant sows A: Model structure and weighting procedure MBM Bracke, BM Spruijt, JHM Metz, WGP Schouten Journal of Animal Science 80 (7), 1819-1834, 2002 | 169 | 2002 |
| Influence of environmental factors on social play behavior of juvenile rats LJM Vanderschuren, RJM Niesink, BM Spruijt, JM Van Ree Physiology & behavior 58 (1), 119-123, 1995 | 163 | 1995 |
| Effect of restraint and injection methods on heart rate and body temperature in mice MK Meijer, BM Spruijt, LFM Van Zutphen, V Baumans Laboratory animals 40 (4), 382-391, 2006 | 161 | 2006 |
| The effect of feeding enrichment toys on the behaviour of kennelled dogs (Canis familiaris) LL Schipper, CM Vinke, MBH Schilder, BM Spruijt Applied Animal Behaviour Science 114 (1-2), 182-195, 2008 | 155 | 2008 |
| Effect of population heterogenization on the reproducibility of mouse behavior: a multi-laboratory study SH Richter, JP Garner, B Zipser, L Lewejohann, N Sachser, C Touma, ... PLoS One 6 (1), e16461, 2011 | 148 | 2011 |
| Novel approach to the behavioural characterization of inbred mice: automated home cage observations L De Visser, R Van Den Bos, WW Kuurman, MJH Kas, BM Spruijt Genes, Brain and Behavior 5 (6), 458-466, 2006 | 148 | 2006 |
| Spatial localization in the Morris water maze in rats: acquisition is affected by intra-accumbens injections of the dopaminergic antagonist haloperidol. GE Ploeger, BM Spruijt, AR Cools Behavioral neuroscience 108 (5), 927, 1994 | 148 | 1994 |
| Announcing the arrival of enrichment increases play behaviour and reduces weaning-stress-induced behaviours of piglets directly after weaning S Dudink, H Simonse, I Marks, FH de Jonge, BM Spruijt Applied Animal Behaviour Science 101 (1-2), 86-101, 2006 | 144 | 2006 |
| μ-and κ-opioid receptor-meiated opioid effects on social play in juvenile rats LJMJ Vanderschuren, RJM Niesink, BM Spruijt, JM Van Ree European journal of pharmacology 276 (3), 257-266, 1995 | 142 | 1995 |
