Psychoneuroendocrinology

Article	Citations
How to study the menstrual cycle: Practical tools and recommendations	148
Interleukin-6 as potential mediator of long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms of COVID-19	92
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis	68
Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in Depression	63
Volatility as a Concept to Understand the Impact of Stress on the Microbiome	59
Evaluation of stress, burnout and hair cortisol levels in health workers at a University Hospital during COVID-19 pandemic	56
Immune-inflammatory markers and psychosis risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis	55
Cortisol and development of depression in adolescence and young adulthood – a systematic review and meta-analysis	55
The effects of exercise intensity on the cortisol response to a subsequent acute psychosocial stressor	53
The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load	52
The gut microbiota-brain axis, psychobiotics and its influence on brain and behaviour: A systematic review	52
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and psychological distress symptoms in patients with affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic	52
Validation of an online version of the Trier Social Stress Test in a study of adolescents	44
Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)	40
Measuring salivary markers of inflammation in health research: A review of methodological considerations and best practices	40
Adverse childhood experiences and low socioeconomic status with respect to allostatic load in adulthood: A systematic review	40
Systemic inflammation as a driver of health disparities among sexually-diverse and gender-diverse individuals	40
Early life adversity and age acceleration at mid-life and older ages indexed using the next-generation GrimAge and Pace of Aging epigenetic clocks	40
Adult neurogenesis augmentation attenuates anhedonia and HPA axis dysregulation in a mouse model of chronic stress and depression	38
Is there a relation between major depression and hair cortisol? A systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Mother and child hair cortisol during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations among physiological stress, pandemic-related behaviors, and child emotional-behavioral health	36
Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis do not depend on endogenous opioids in humans	35
The association between allostatic load and cognitive function: A systematic and meta-analytic review	35
Childhood trauma and dysregulation of multiple biological stress systems in adulthood: Results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)	35
Evaluating measures of allostatic load in adolescents: A systematic review	34

Kynurenine metabolites and ratios differ between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and healthy controls	34
The neuroendocrinology of stress: Glucocorticoid signaling mechanisms	34
Ghrelin and PYY in low-weight females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder compared to anorexia nervosa and healthy controls	33
Diabetes, antidiabetic medications and risk of depression – A population-based cohort and nested case-control study	33
Stress and hair cortisol concentrations in nurses during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	31
A randomized, double-blind study on efficacy and safety of sepranolone in premenstrual dysphoric disorder	31
Human nail cortisol as a retrospective biomarker of chronic stress: A systematic review	31
Endocrine stress response in pregnancy and 12 weeks postpartum – Exploring risk factors for postpartum depression	30
The effect of oral contraceptive use on cortisol reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test: A meta-analysis	30
Race, socioeconomic status, and low-grade inflammatory biomarkers across the lifecourse: A pooled analysis of seven studies	29
Gastrointestinal symptoms, gut microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics in anorexia nervosa: A review of mechanistic rationale and clinical evidence	29
Adverse childhood experiences and early life inflammation in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children	28
A systematic review of hair cortisol during pregnancy: Reference ranges and methodological considerations	28
Testosterone treatment, internalizing symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction in transgender boys	28
Exercise-induced increases in Anandamide and BDNF during extinction consolidation contribute to reduced threat following reinstatement: Preliminary evidence from a randomized controlled trial	27
A preliminary study of gut microbiome variation and HPA axis reactivity in healthy infants	27
Colonization with the commensal fungus Candida albicans perturbs the gut-brain axis through dysregulation of endocannabinoid signaling	27
Hydrocortisone administration for reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Commonly-used rodent tests of anxiety-like behavior lack predictive validity for human sex differences	26
Associations between oxytocin and empathy in humans: A systematic literature review	26
Risk factors for postpartum relapse in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of psychosocial stress and the biological stress system	26
Exposure to police-related deaths and physiological stress among urban black youth	26
Parental sensitivity mediates the sustained effect of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on cortisol in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial	25
Glucocorticoid ultradian rhythmicity differentially regulates mood and resting state networks in the human brain: A randomised controlled clinical trial	25
Consequences of pandemic-associated social restrictions: Role of social support and the oxytocin system	25
Intimate partner violence and hair cortisol concentration: A biomarker for HPA axis function	24
Prenatal maternal stress prospectively relates to shorter child buccal cell telomere length	24
Natural variation in the oxytocin receptor gene and rearing interact to influence reproductive and nonreproductive social behavior and receptor binding	24
Endocrine and psychosocial moderators of mindfulness-based stress reduction for the prevention of perimenopausal depressive symptoms: A randomized controlled trial	24
Biological correlates of early life stressful events in major depressive disorder	24
Long-term activation of hippocampal glial cells and altered emotional behavior in male and female adult rats after different neonatal stressors	23
Maternal prenatal cortisol programs the infant hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis	23
Not within spitting distance: Salivary immunoassays of estradiol have subpar validity for predicting cycle phase	23
Divergent effects of oxytocin on eye contact in bonobos and chimpanzees	23
Psychological stress and cortisol during pregnancy: An ecological momentary assessment (EMA)-Based within- and between-person analysis	23
Altered thyroid hormone profile in patients with Alzheimer’s disease	23
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Everyday Discrimination Scale and biomarker outcomes	23
Effects of prenatal stress on behavioural and neurodevelopmental outcomes are altered by maternal separation in the neonatal period	23
Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) and Childhood Adversity Influence Trust	23
Neural responses to threat and reward and changes in inflammation following a mindfulness intervention	22
Endocrine and immunomodulatory effects of social isolation and loneliness across adulthood	22
Delayed effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation	22
Positive affect and peripheral inflammatory markers among adults: A narrative review	21
The association between allostatic load and brain: A systematic review	21
Acute and Chronic Stress in Daily Police Service: A Three-Week N-of-1 Study	21
Intranasal vasopressin like oxytocin increases social attention by influencing top-down control, but additionally enhances bottom-up control	21
Sex influences the effects of APOE genotype and Alzheimer’s diagnosis on neuropathology and memory	21
Specificity of plasma oxytocin immunoassays: A comparison of commercial assays and sample preparation techniques using oxytocin knockout and wildtype mice	21
Black-White racial health disparities in inflammation and physical health: Cumulative stress, social isolation, and health behaviors	20
Socioeconomic status trajectories across the life course, daily discrimination, and inflammation among Black and white adults	20

Sex differences in metabolic disorder patterns of first-episode drug-naive patients with schizophrenia	20
Lived experience and allostatic load among transmasculine people living in the United States	20
Antibiotics exposure attenuates chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced anxiety-like and depression-like behavior	20
Perceived stress but not hair cortisol concentration is related to adult cognitive performance	19
Associations of saliva cortisol and hair cortisol with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and major depressive disorder: An epidemiological cohort study in adolescents and young adults	19
The role of the cannabinoid system in fear memory and extinction in male and female mice	19
The modulation of social behavior and empathy via oral contraceptives and female sex hormones	19
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis	19
The effects of acute work stress and appraisal on psychobiological stress responses in a group office environment	19
Oxytocin and social anxiety: Interactions with sex hormones	19
Impact of loneliness on diurnal cortisol in youth	19
Intranasal oxytocin administration facilitates the induction of long-term potentiation and promotes cognitive performance of maternally separated rats	18
Orexin 2 receptor in the nucleus accumbens is critical for the modulation of acute stress-induced anxiety	18
Peripheral inflammation marker relationships to cognition in healthy older adults – A systematic review	18
Social recognition in laboratory mice requires integration of behaviorally-induced somatosensory, auditory and olfactory cues	18
Longitudinal proneuroactive and neuroactive steroid profiles in medication-free women with, without and at-risk for perinatal depression: A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis	18
The gut reaction to couples’ relationship troubles: A route to gut dysbiosis through changes in depressive symptoms	18
Cellular allostatic load is linked to increased energy expenditure and accelerated biological aging	18
Depression in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of blood inflammatory markers	18
Implicit and explicit emotional memory recall in anxiety and depression: Role of basolateral amygdala and cortisol-norepinephrine interaction	18
BDNF serum levels and cognitive improvement in drug-naive first episode patients with schizophrenia: A prospective 12-week longitudinal study	18
Neuroactive steroids and depression in early pregnancy	18
Predictors of irritability symptoms in mildly depressed perimenopausal women	18
Restraint stress affects circulating NUCB2/nesfatin-1 and phoenixin levels in male rats	17
Effects of early-life stress on peripheral and central mitochondria in male mice across ages	17
Estrous cycle contributes to state-dependent contextual fear in female rats	17
Sexually divergent cortical control of affective-autonomic integration	17
Early childhood adversity and HPA axis activity in adulthood:The importance of considering minimal age at exposure	17
Fetal programming pathway from maternal mental health to infant cortisol functioning: The role of placental 11β-HSD2 mRNA expression	17
How to assess and interpret everyday life salivary cortisol measures: A tutorial on practical and statistical considerations	17
Structural brain alterations in older adults exposed to early-life adversity	17
A short Mindfulness retreat can improve biological markers of stress and inflammation	17
Comparison of hair cortisol concentrations between self- and professionally-collected hair samples and the role of five-factor personality traits as potential moderators	16
Serum soluble epoxide hydrolase related oxylipins and major depression in patients with type 2 diabetes	16
Childhood trauma affects autobiographical memory deficits through basal cortisol and prefrontal-extrastriate functional connectivity	16
Delivery room skin-to-skin contact in preterm infants affects long-term expression of stress response genes	16
Factors contributing to stability and instability in alpha-amylase activity in diluted saliva samples over time	16
Associations between social adversity and young children’s hair cortisol: A systematic review	16
Effects of gender and personality on everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure	16
Event-related transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulates behaviour and pupillary responses during an auditory oddball task	15
Distress Trajectories in Black and White Breast Cancer Survivors: From Diagnosis to Survivorship	15
Cesarean delivery and infant cortisol regulation	15
Acculturation and biological stress markers: A systematic review	15
Integrative psycho-biophysiological markers in predicting psychological resilience	15
Towards a consensus definition of allostatic load: a multi-cohort, multi-system, multi-biomarker individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis	15
Transcriptomic analyses of black women in neighborhoods with high levels of violence	15
Developmental effects in physiological stress in early adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder	15
Maternal psychosocial functioning, obstetric health history, and newborn telomere length	15
The influence of maternal anxiety and cortisol during pregnancy on childhood anxiety symptoms	15
Experiences affect social behaviors via altering neuronal morphology and oxytocin system	15
Hair cortisol change at COVID-19 pandemic onset predicts burnout among health personnel	14
Altered social recognition memory and hypothalamic neuropeptide expression in adolescent male and female rats following prenatal alcohol exposure and/or early-life adversity	14
17β-estradiol activation of dorsal hippocampal TrkB is independent of increased mature BDNF expression and is required for enhanced memory consolidation in female mice	14
Oxytocin receptors in the midbrain dorsal raphe are essential for postpartum maternal social and affective behaviors	14
Associations between exposure to adverse childhood experiences and biological aging: Evidence from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	14
Stress before conception and during pregnancy and maternal cortisol during pregnancy: A scoping review	14
Are the thyroid and adrenal system alterations linked in depression?	14
Microbiota and stress: a loop that impacts memory	14
Gonadal steroid hormone receptors in the medial amygdala contribute to experience-dependent changes in stress vulnerability	14
Effects of high fat diet-induced obesity and pregnancy on prepartum and postpartum maternal mouse behavior	14
High-dose testosterone treatment reduces monoamine oxidase A levels in the human brain: A preliminary report	14
The role of psychopathic traits, social anxiety and cortisol in social approach avoidance tendencies	14
Differences in patterns of metabolic abnormality and metabolic syndrome between early-onset and adult-onset first-episode drug-naive schizophrenia patients	14
Cost of resilience: Childhood poverty, mental health, and chronic physiological stress	14
A soft baby carrier intervention enhances amygdala responses to infant crying in fathers: A randomized controlled trial	14
BDNF affects the mediating effect of negative symptoms on the relationship between age of onset and cognition in patients with chronic schizophrenia	13
Socioeconomic position, immune function, and its physiological markers	13
Effects of weariness of life, suicide ideations and suicide attempt on HPA axis regulation in depression	13
Fronto-striatal changes along the menstrual cycle during working memory: Effect of sex hormones on activation and connectivity patterns	13
Allostatic load and systemic comorbidities in psychiatric disorders	13
Within-person changes in cancer-related distress predict breast cancer survivors’ inflammation across treatment	13
Competitive anxiety or Coronavirus anxiety? The psychophysiological responses of professional football players after returning to competition during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Social isolation in adolescence and long-term changes in the gut microbiota composition and in the hippocampal inflammation: Implications for psychiatric disorders – Dirk Hellhammer Award Paper 2021	13
Reduced NLRP3 inflammasome expression in the brain is associated with stress resilience	13
Examining the role of ovarian hormones in the association between worry and working memory across the menstrual cycle	13
Is there an association between prenatal testosterone and autistic traits in adolescents?	12
The role of oxytocin signaling in depression and suicidality in returning war veterans	12
Dissociating cognitive, behavioral and physiological stress-related responses through dorsolateral prefrontal cortex inhibition	12
Perceived stress, depressive symptoms, and cortisol-to-cortisone ratio in spot urine in 6878 older adults	12
Kisspeptin modulates gamma-aminobutyric acid levels in the human brain	12

Effects of sex hormones on brain GABA and glutamate levels in a cis- and transgender cohort	12
Cortisol reactivity in social anxiety disorder: A highly standardized and controlled study	12
Cortisol slopes and conflict: A spouse’s perceived stress matters	12
Towards better hypothesis tests in oxytocin research: Evaluating the validity of auxiliary assumptions	12
Perinatal determinants of neonatal hair glucocorticoid concentrations	12
Sleep disturbance, neuro-immune markers, and depressive symptoms in older age: Conditional process analysis from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA)	12
Association of subjective social status with epigenetic aging among Black and White women	12
Intra-individual stability of hair endocannabinoid and N-acylethanolamine concentrations	12
Telomere dynamics across the early life course: Findings from a longitudinal study in children	12
Estradiol administration modulates neural emotion regulation	12
The mediating role of allostatic load in the relationship between early life adversity and cognitive function across the adult lifespan	12
The role of estradiol fluctuation in the pathophysiology of perimenopausal depression: A hypothesis paper	12
Cortisol trajectories measured prospectively across thirty years of female development following exposure to childhood sexual abuse: Moderation by epigenetic age acceleration at midlife	12
Cellular and serotonergic correlates of habituated neuroendocrine responses in male and female rats.	12
Effect of adverse childhood experiences on hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis function and antidepressant efficacy in untreated first episode patients with major depressive disorder	12
Comparing different operationalizations of allostatic load measured in mid-life and their patterning by race and cumulative life course socioeconomic status	12
RETRACTED: Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin gene is associated with gray matter volume and trait empathy in mothers	12
Associations of maternal prenatal emotional symptoms with neurodevelopment of children and the neonatal meconium microbiota: A prospective cohort study	12
The association between the renin-angiotensin system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in anxiety disorders: A systematic review of animal studies	12
Animal models of postpartum depression revisited	12
Sedentary behaviour is associated with heightened cardiovascular, inflammatory and cortisol reactivity to acute psychological stress	12
A neurobiological link between transportation noise exposure and metabolic disease in humans	12
Stressful life events and accelerated biological aging over time in youths	12
Coordination between frontolimbic resting state connectivity and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis functioning in adolescents with and without depression	12
Thyroid axis activity and dopamine function in depression	11
Changes in adrenal functioning induced by chronic psychosocial stress in male mice: A time course study	11
How childhood trauma and recent adverse events are related to hair cortisol levels in a large adult cohort	11
Human defensive freezing: Associations with hair cortisol and trait anxiety	11
Time-dependent effects of acute stress on working memory performance: A systematic review and hypothesis	11
Patterns of poverty across adolescence predict salivary cortisol stress responses in Mexican-origin youths	11
Intact circadian rhythm despite cortisol hypersecretion in Alzheimer’s disease: A meta-analysis	11
Eating behavior modulates the sensitivity to the central effects of GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment: a secondary analysis of a randomized trial	11
Associations between maternal prenatal depression and neonatal behavior and brain function – Evidence from the functional near-infrared spectroscopy	11
Effects of brief stress management interventions on distress and leukocyte nuclear factor kappa B expression during primary treatment for breast cancer: A randomized trial	11
PTSD symptoms and cortisol stress reactivity in adolescence: Findings from a high adversity cohort in South Africa	11
Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva	11
What are oxytocin assays measuring? Epitope mapping, metabolites, and comparisons of wildtype & knockout mouse urine	11
The potential role of cortisol as a biomarker of physiological interdependence in romantic couples: A systematic review	11
Familial associations in hair cortisol concentration: A cross-sectional analysis based on the Healthy Start study	11
The role of inflammation in the association between poverty and working memory in childhood	11
Human macrophages stimulate expression of inflammatory mediators in adipocytes; effects of second-generation antipsychotics and glucocorticoids on cellular cross-talk	11
Impact of hair type, hair sample weight, external hair exposures, and race on cumulative hair cortisol	11
Loss of association between plasma irisin levels and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease	11
Sex-hormone status and emotional processing in healthy women	11
IL-6, sTNF-R2, and CRP in the context of sleep, circadian preference, and health in adolescents with eveningness chronotype: Cross-sectional and longitudinal treatment effects	11
Youths’ processing of emotion information: Responses to chronic and video-based laboratory stress	11
Stability and test-retest reliability of different hormonal stress markers upon exposure to psychosocial stress at a 4-month interval	11
Stress-Related Trajectories of Diurnal Cortisol in Older Adulthood Over 12 Years	11
Association between the improvement in depressive symptoms and serum BDNF levels in drug-naive first episode patients with schizophrenia: A longitudinal follow-up	11
Association between racial/ethnic discrimination and pubertal development in early adolescence	11
Social anxiety is associated with greater peripheral oxytocin reactivity to psychosocial stress	11
Associations between early life stress and anterior pituitary gland volume development during late childhood	10
Sense of purpose in life and inflammation in healthy older adults: A longitudinal study	10
Oxytocin receptor expression and epigenetic regulation in the anterior cingulate cortex of individuals with a history of severe childhood abuse	10
The within-person coordination of HPA and ANS activity in stress response: Relation with behavior problems	10
Metabolic dysregulation in older adults with depression and loneliness: The ATHLOS study	10
An experimental examination of worry and relaxation on cardiovascular, endocrine, and inflammatory processes	10
Baseline anxiety-sensitivity to estradiol fluctuations predicts anxiety symptom response to transdermal estradiol treatment in perimenopausal women – A randomized clinical trial	10
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels	10
Cortisol-dehydroepiandrosterone ratios are inversely associated with hippocampal and prefrontal brain volume in schizophrenia	10
Exogeneous testosterone increases sexual impulsivity in heterosexual men	10
Protein synthesis and actin polymerization in the rapid effects of 17β-estradiol on short-term social memory and dendritic spine dynamics in female mice	10
Oxytocin has sex-specific effects on trust and underlying neurophysiological processes	10
The effects of momentary loneliness and COVID-19 stressors on hypothalamic–pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis functioning: A lockdown stage changes the association between loneliness and salivary cortisol	10
Adult age differences in the psychophysiological response to acute stress	10
Longitudinal assessment of amygdala activity in mice susceptible to trauma	10
Hair cortisol, obesity and the immune system: Results from a 3 year longitudinal study	10
Decreased putamen activation in balancing goal-directed and habitual behavior in binge eating disorder	10
The association between hair cortisol levels, inflammation and cognitive functioning in females	10
Genetic and environmental influences on cortisol reactivity to a psychosocial stressor in adolescents and young adults	10
Brain derived neurotrophic factor deficiency exacerbates inflammation-induced anhedonia in mice	10
Exploring sex differences in fetal programming for childhood emotional disorders	10
Sex-specific differences in the association between body mass index and brain aging in young adults: Findings from the human connectome project	10
Depressive symptoms, childhood maltreatment, and allostatic load: The importance of sex differences	10
Adolescent cortisol and DHEA responses to stress as prospective predictors of emotional and behavioral difficulties: A person-centered approach	10
Dysregulated by stigma: Cortisol responses to repeated psychosocial stress in gay and heterosexual men	10
Disparities in allostatic load, telomere length and chronic stress burden among African American adults: A systematic review	10
Methods for characterizing ovarian and adrenal hormone variability and mood relationships in peripubertal females	10
Maternal separation in childhood and hair cortisol concentrations in late adulthood	9
The association of cortisol curve features with incident diabetes among whites and African Americans: The CARDIA study	9
Why we need an online version of the Trier Social Stress Test	9
Paroxetine effects in adult male rat colon: Focus on gut steroidogenesis and microbiota	9
The co-chaperone FKBP51 modulates HPA axis activity and age-related maladaptation of the stress system in pituitary proopiomelanocortin cells	9
Reduced salivary oxytocin after an empathic induction task in Intimate Partner Violence perpetrators: Importance of socio-affective functions and its impact on prosocial behavior	9
Effects of circulating estradiol on physiological, behavioural, and subjective correlates of anxiety: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial	9
Increase in serum prolactin levels in females improves the performance of spatial learning by promoting changes in the circuital dynamics of the hippocampus	9
Cortisol and estriol responses to awakening in the first pregnancy trimester: Associations with maternal stress and resilience factors	9
Effects of glucose intake on stress reactivity in young, healthy men	9
Plasma circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA in social anxiety disorder	9
A subpopulation of oxytocin neurons initiate expression of CRF receptor 1 (CRFR1) in females post parturition	9
Cumulative exposure to socioeconomic and psychosocial adversity and hair cortisol concentration: A longitudinal study from 5 months to 17 years of age	9
Longitudinal associations between hair cortisol, PTSD symptoms, and sleep disturbances in a sample of firefighters with duty-related trauma exposure	9
Prenatal hair cortisol concentrations during the COVID-19 outbreak: Associations with maternal psychological stress and infant temperament	9
The developmental consequences of early adverse care on infant macaques: A cross-fostering study	9
Aging biological markers in a cohort of antipsychotic-naïve first-episode psychosis patients	9