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".

[1] It was established in 2005 with Terje Sagvolden as founding editor-in-chief,[2] 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).

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 5.1.