Behavioral and Brain Functions is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by BioMed Central. It publishes articles on "all aspects of neurobiology where the unifying theme is behavior or behavioral dysfunction". It was established in 2005 with Terje Sagvolden as founding editor-in-chief, who was succeeded by Vivienne A. Russell (University of Cape Town). The current editor-in-chief is Wim Crusio (University of Bordeaux and Centre national de la recherche scientifique).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts • Chemical Abstracts Service • EBSCO databases • Embase • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed • ProQuest databases • PsycINFO • Science Citation Index Expanded • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 5.1.