Psychoneuroendocrinology

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychoneuroendocrinology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis143
Activation of Type I Interferon and Complement component 3a receptor signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits118
Resting-state functional connectivity in Autoimmune Addison's Disease114
Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health98
- Impairment of social behavior is associated with different transcriptomic profiles of the Habenula in vulnerable and resilient rats exposed to prenatal stress83
Trauma-informed immunopsychiatry: the moderating role of early life adversity on inflammatory responses83
Effects of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and subjective birth experience on the risk of postpartum depression and maternal bonding67
Editorial Board61
- Maternal reflective functioning and attachment outcomes of an online s inging intervention for postnatal depression: SHAPER-PNDO, a s ingle-arm clinical trial52
- Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Associations Between Adolescent Hormones and Stress Coping52
Exploring sampling bias by assessing sex ratios in stress research: a comparative metascience study51
Association between parent work-family conflict and offspring inflammation50
Impact of Loneliness on Diurnal Cortisol in Youth during COVID-1946
Disentangling the effects of depression and perceived stress on cortisol levels in individuals with obesity46
When asking ‘how are you?’ may not be enough: The relationship between stress and alcohol use43
Stress impairs response to antidepressants by activating HPA axis and immune system43
Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding42
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)42
Neural and cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project42
Women's domain-specific affiliation across the menstrual cycle41
The Moderating Effects of Regular Caffeine Use on Cortisol Reactivity under Explicit Negative-Evaluative Stress41
Presentation 1: The moderating effects of religious service attendance and exposure to neighborhoods high in violent crime on conditions associated with glucocorticoid resistance amongst Black adolesc38
Presentation 1: Maternal behavioral health during pregnancy and newborn telomere length35
Presentation 4: Age, stress, and markers of inflammation among african american adults: Findings from the heart of detroit study35
Investigation of the impact of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on anhedonia, reward processing and sustained attention35
The role of combined modifiable lifestyle behaviors in the association between exposure to stressors and allostatic load: A systematic review of observational studies.34
Effects of sex hormones on brain GABA and glutamate levels in a cis- and transgender cohort32
Low anti-Müllerian hormone mediates the association between childhood trauma and PTSD in women but not in men32
Chronic stress derails brain serotonin and its role in postpartum behavior31
Salivary uric acid dynamics are associated with stress response hormones among African Americans in an urban sample28
Placenta DNA methylation levels of the promoter region of the leptin receptor gene are associated with infant cortisol28
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)28
Chronic stress induces depression-like behavior in rats through affecting brain mitochondrial function and inflammation27
Insulin-like growth factor-1 and cognition in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus27
Differential associations between fatigue and psychobiological stress measures in women with depression and women with somatic symptom disorder27
Oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways in female eating disorders and borderline personality disorders with emotional dysregulation as linking factors with impulsivity and trauma27
Enhanced endogenous oxytocin signaling in the brain modulates neural responses to social misalignment and promotes conformity in humans: A multi-locus genetic profile approach27
Sedentary behaviour is associated with heightened cardiovascular, inflammatory and cortisol reactivity to acute psychological stress26
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: Nativity as an Effect Modifier26
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis26
Cortisol effects on the neural correlates of cognitive emotion regulation – does timing matter?26
Allostatic load and depressive symptoms in older adults: An analysis of 12-year panel data26
Executive functioning mediates the association between inflammation and 12-month depression-onset during adolescence25
- CARWatch – An Open-Source Framework for Objective Cortisol Awakening Response Assessment25
Testing Pathways from Stress Exposure to Physiology in Marginalized Populations25
Everyday Salivary Cortisol in Older Adulthood: Capturing Time-Varying Socio-Emotional Contours in the Wild24
What matters when? A multiversal investigation of pubertal timing measurement and mental health24
Early Experience and Inflammation24
Sex-specific associations between loneliness and hair cortisol among older african american adults23
Prediction of adolescent depression from demographic, clinical, and survey data from ALSPAC using machine learning23
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the relationship between subjective socioeconomic status and prenatal mental health: results from babip birth cohort in turkey23
Immune mechanisms in stress response: from vulnerability to pharmacological intervention23
Spontaneous emotion regulation in social stress: Impact on state anxiety, cortisol and blood glucose22
- Beyond Birth Control: Emotion Regulation in Pill and IUD Users22
Intranasal oxytocin to treat substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials22
Presentation 2: Analyzing temperature effects on mitochondrial bioenergetics in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from individuals with and without major depressive disorder: an empirical contributio22
- Personality and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity: A moderating role of meaning in life21
Psychoneuroendocrine Research in the Era of the Replication Crisis21
Does plasma oxytocin mediate stress reduction after compassion-based mental training?21
11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 deficiency prevents PTSD-like memory in young adult mice20
- Relationship resilience buffers the association between pregnancy stress and postpartum depressive symptoms during COVID-1920
- Facing baby cuteness: how nurturing care and oxytocin system gene methylation are associated with responses to baby schema20
The association between depression and the cortisol awakening response is moderated by loneliness in men from a non-clinical sample19
Hair steroid before and after COVID-19 in preschoolers: the moderation of family characteristics19
Relationship between immunometabolic status and cognitive performance among major depression disorder patients19
Your suffering is my stressor: Proinflammatory gene expression rises with spousal distress in middle-aged and older couples19
Open science needs a standardized data format: Suggestions for the field of psychoneuroendocrinology18
Infants’ cortisol reactivity and infant–mother cortisol synchrony in urban Chinese families: The role of maternal control strategy18
Genetic variants in COMT and ESR1 genes shape treatment response to raloxifene in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders18
A 4-session written emotional disclosure intervention lowers 6-month sympathoadrenal urinary output in persons living with HIV18
Trajectory of ghrelin and PYY around a test meal in males and females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder versus healthy controls18
Announcement: 2025 Call for Dirk Hellhammer Award Nominations18
Maternal high BMI: Sex-dimorphic alterations in maternal and offspring stress indices18
Effects of psychological, sensory, and metabolic energy prime manipulation on the acute endocrine stress response in fasted women17
Does stress influence executive functions through mechanisms other than control itself? Examining the effects of stress on cognitive inhibition within the theory of emotional foundations of cognitive 17
(A Lack of) Sex Differences in the Effects of Acute Stress on Attentional Bias to Threat17
Mid-pregnancy allopregnanolone levels and trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms17
Elevated serum angiotensin ii levels in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders17
Mating-induced release of oxytocin in the mouse lateral septum: Implications for social fear extinction17
Longitudinal effects of maternal depressive and anxious symptomatology on child hair cortisol and cortisone from pregnancy to 5-years: The EDEN mother-child cohort17
The STRESS-NL database: A resource for human acute stress studies across the Netherlands16
Associations between sickness behavior, but not inflammatory cytokines, and psychiatric comorbidity in chronic pain16
Association between cognitive function and IL-18 levels in schizophrenia: Dependent on IL18 − 607 A/C polymorphism16
An observational study on the association of anti-thyroid autoantibodies with clinical, EEG, MRI, FDG-PET, cerebrospinal fluid and anti-neuronal antibody findings in 530 patients with schizophreniform16
A short Mindfulness retreat can improve biological markers of stress and inflammation16
Prediction of cord blood leptin on infant’s neurodevelopment: A birth cohort in rural Yunnan, China16
Association between the improvement in depressive symptoms and serum BDNF levels in drug-naive first episode patients with schizophrenia: A longitudinal follow-up16
Testosterone administration affects H-MRS metabolite spectra in transgender men16
Sense of purpose in life and inflammation in healthy older adults: A longitudinal study16
Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)16
Consequences of pandemic-associated social restrictions: Role of social support and the oxytocin system16
A subpopulation of oxytocin neurons initiate expression of CRF receptor 1 (CRFR1) in females post parturition16
Lack of association between severity of ADHD symptoms and salivary oxytocin levels16
Plasma circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA in social anxiety disorder16
Self-selection bias in human stress research: a systematic review16
Depression in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of blood inflammatory markers16
Oxytocin modulation in the medial prefrontal cortex of pair-exposed rats during fear conditioning16
Neural and glial damage markers in women after long-term weight-recovery from anorexia nervosa16
Chronic olanzapine treatment leads to increased opioid receptor expression and changes in feeding regulating neurons in the female rat hypothalamus16
Explaining the conundrum: Discrimination is associated with lower CVD risk15
- Does ovulation affect the cortisol awakening response?15
- Cortisol as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Psychosocial Job Quality and Allostatic Load: A Structural Equation Model from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing15
- Network meta-analysis on psychological interventions efficacy on immune biomarkers15
Trait reappraisal is positively associated with more effective habituation of the cortisol stress response15
Interaction between isolated maternal hypothyroxinemia and pregnancy-related anxiety on preschooler’s internalizing and externalizing problems: A birth cohort study15
- Stratification strategies for immune-targeted pharmacological treatments in Major Depressive Disorder15
- Infant Stress Reactivity in Postpartum Psychosis15
- Olanzapine and fecal microbiota transplantation from antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia patients alter metabolic profiles differentially in male and female mice.15
Blood epigenetic clock and childhood maltreatment predict premature brain aging in cocaine users15
Adverse mood effects of oral contraceptives relate to brain connectivity changes within a triple-network model15
Early life adversity: programming inflammation and immunosenescence through immunometabolic pathways?14
Corrigendum to “Prepubertal ovariectomy confers resilience to stress-induced anxiety in adult female mice” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 148 (2023) 105997]14
Presentation 3: Metabolite fingerprinting of blood serum reveals glyceraldehyde as a biomarker candidate of lymphocyte telomere length in depression14
Aging biological markers in a cohort of antipsychotic-naïve first-episode psychosis patients14
Patterns of stress-related change in salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol among young children: Associations with maternal psychosocial risk factors14
Anti-inflammatory Effect of Ketamine: A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomised Study14
Association between early life adversity and allostatic load in girls with precocious puberty14
Associations between Early Life Stress, Prenatal Stress, Hair Cortisol and Birth Outcomes14
Sex-specific differences in the relationship between thyroid hormones and neurocognition in schizophrenia: A large-scale cross-sectional study14
History of sexual abuse predicts distinct diurnal cortisol slopes in incarcerated girls and boys14
Hormone ratios suffer from striking lack of robustness to measurement error14
Orexin 2 receptor in the nucleus accumbens is critical for the modulation of acute stress-induced anxiety14
- How do Mindfulness-based Trainings Reduce Physiological Stress? Assessing Changes in Attention and Acceptance Traits and Their Role in Cortisol Reduction14
Announcement: 2025 Call for Dirk Hellhammer Award nominations14
Effects of menstrual cycle phase and ovulation on the salivary cortisol awakening response14
Exploring effect of chamber - restricted environmental stimulation therapy on salivary cortisol and information overload in young adults14
Metabolites of progesterone in pregnancy: Associations with perinatal anxiety14
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) partially modulates ketamine's sustained anxiolytic effects without altering its antidepressant properties in female rats14
Age-dependent effects of estradiol on temporal memory: A role for the type 1 cannabinoid receptor?14
Letter to the Editor: An erroneous reading of our systematic review on the gut-microbiota-brain axis. A Letter to the Editor in response to “The gut microbiota-brain axis, psychobiotics and its influe13
Editorial Board13
Time-dependent effects of acute stress on working memory performance: A systematic review and hypothesis13
Corrigendum to “Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 143 (2022) 105852]13
Dimensions of early-life adversity and SLC6A4 methylation in emerging adults13
- Cyclical Changes in Reward: Relationship with Affective State and Sex Hormones (CRASH)13
Association between trauma exposure and glucocorticosteroid concentration in hair during pregnancy13
Reward Circuitry and Symptoms of Anhedonia as Modifiable Targets for Therapeutic Interventions in Depressed Patients with High Inflammation13
Longitudinal Patterns of Neuroendocrine Coupling from Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence13
The impact of motherhood on anxiety symptoms over the menstrual cycle: A translational approach in female rats and women13
Prolonged ketamine therapy differentially rescues psychobehavioural deficits via modulation of nitro-oxidative stress and oxytocin receptors in the gut-brain-axis of chronically-stressed mice13
Corrigendum to “Short-term environmental enrichment is sufficient to counter stress-induced anxiety and associated structural and molecular plasticity in basolateral amygdala” [Psychoneuroendocrinolog13
The future of psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology: The future in humans12
Corrigendum to “Gender-affirming hormonal treatment changes neural processing of emotions in trans men: An fMRI study” Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022, 146, 10592812
Associations between prenatal distress, mitochondrial health, and gestational age: findings from birth cohorts in us and turkey12
Gastrointestinal symptoms, gut microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics in anorexia nervosa: A review of mechanistic rationale and clinical evidence12
Cortisol interdependence during psychotherapy in major depressive disorder12
Salivary cortisol measures across the clinical stages of psychosis: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis12
Association between peripheral plasma cytokine levels and suicidal ideation in first-episode, drug-naïve major depressive disorder12
Editorial Board12
Removal notice to "Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin gene is associated with gray matter volume and trait empathy in mothers", Psychoneuroendocrinology, Volume 123 (2021), 10502612
The association between fear regulation and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in women victims of interpersonal trauma.12
Effect of adverse childhood experiences on hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis function and antidepressant efficacy in untreated first episode patients with major depressive disorder12
The influence of maternal anxiety and cortisol during pregnancy on childhood anxiety symptoms12
Gender-affirming hormonal treatment changes neural processing of emotions in trans men: An fMRI study12
Does high perceived stress over the past month alter cortisol reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test?12
Mental health is related to metabolic syndrome: The Hispanic community health study/ study of Latinos12
Editorial Board12
Child Cortisol Output During Cold Pressor Task is Associated with Trait Anxiety, but Not Maternal Antenatal Depression12
Adverse childhood experiences and late-life diurnal HPA axis activity: Associations of different childhood adversity types and interaction with timing in a sample of older East Prussian World War II r12
Associations between hair cortisol and subjective stress measures in a large occupational sample12
Evidence that perinatal ovarian hormones promote women’s sexual attraction to men12
Trends in hair cortisol from preconception to the postpartum period12
Immune biomarkers in the CSF and immunomodulating treatments for severe mental disorders11
How do early and recent life stress shape cortisol reactivity and decision making in middle-to-older adulthood?11
The Unique and Interactive Roles of Neural Reward Sensitivity and Family Conflict in Predicting Youth’s Internalizing Problems: A Biopsychosocial Approach11
Allostatic load and systemic comorbidities in psychiatric disorders11
Fatty acid desaturase 1/2 (FADS1 and FADS2), fatty acid desaturase indices, and their relationships with metabolic syndrome in female adults with first-episode schizophrenia after antipsychotic medica11
Cellular and serotonergic correlates of habituated neuroendocrine responses in male and female rats.11
Using ecological momentary assessment to track how contemplative mental training is implemented into everyday life11
Black-White racial health disparities in inflammation and physical health: Cumulative stress, social isolation, and health behaviors11
Editorial Board11
Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error11
- Beyond the limited evidence for an association between childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation: the moderating role of genetic sensitivity to the environment11
Early Life Adversity alters Maternal-Fetal-Placental Biology and may Propagate Population Health Disparities11
The relationship between personality and brain anatomy in premenstrual dysphoric disorder11
Higher allostatic load in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project11
Sleep disturbance, neuro-immune markers, and depressive symptoms in older age: Conditional process analysis from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA)11
Compassion buffers the association between trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity: Findings of a cross-sectional study11
Everyday perceptions of safety and racial disparities in hair cortisol concentration11
Impact of Perinatal Depression on Offspring HPA Axis Functioning11
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)11
- The effects of pre-extinction stress vs. physical exercise on contextualised extinction memories11
HPA axis, Social Support, Mindfulness training, Compassion (Self/others) training and Resilience11
Editorial Board11
Social network position and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity in older Koreans11
Metabolic features of adolescent major depressive disorder: A comparative study between treatment-resistant depression and first-episode drug-naive depression11
Autonomic nervous system function before and after trauma-focused psychotherapy in youth with (partial) posttraumatic stress disorder11
Socioeconomic Status and Cortisol Concentrations during a Social-Evaluative Stressor: Associations with Emotional Reactivity11
Associations of depression and anxiety and adolescent telomere length11
Hair cortisol and depression among homeless youth11
Social connection and gene regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Divergent patterns for online and in-person interaction11
Stress-responsive Psychobiological Markers During Pregnancy and Fetal and Infant Outcomes Across Countries11
Low serum allopregnanolone levels in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder10
Positive and negative affect are associated with salivary cortisol in the everyday life of older adults: A quantitative synthesis of four aging studies10
Childhood trauma and cortical thickness in healthy women, women with post-traumatic stress disorder, and women with borderline personality disorder10
Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva10
Longitudinal association between saliva and hair cortisol concentration: A systematic comparison10
Associations of gestational anxiety and depression with neonatal hair steroid levels10
A pilot investigation examining systemic inflammation in pediatric chronic pain patients10
Sex, menstrual cycle, and hormonal contraceptives influences on global–local processing10
Bruce McEwen: Mentees’ tribute10
Examining maternal social perceptions and stress responses during pregnancy10
Trauma film viewing and intrusive memories: Relationship between salivary alpha amylase, endocannabinoids, and cortisol10
Diurnal dynamic range as index of dysregulation of system dynamics. A cortisol examplar using data from the Study of Midlife in the United States10
Echoes of conflict and displacement in maternal health: Life-course violence, timing, and maternal stress after childbirth at the northern Thailand-Myanmar border10
Higher morning cortisol is associated with lower intuitive eating in midlife women10
CRF-CRFR1 system within the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex are involved in consolation deficits under acute restraint stress in mandarin voles10
Sex-specific associations between placental corticotropin releasing hormone and problem behaviors in childhood10
Effects of sociocultural stressors on maternal responsivity and the infant behavioral and neuroendocrine response to stress in families of Mexican descent10
Evaluating changes in GABAergic and glutamatergic pathways in early life following prenatal stress and postnatal neurosteroid supplementation10
Depression: What neuroinflammation has to do with it and how nutrition can play a beneficial role10
Cinnamaldehyde (TRPA1 agonist) protected against olanzapine-induced metabolic alterations in mice: involvement of hypothalamic energy sensing, appetite regulation and inflammatory aberrations10
A novel biomarker of interleukin 6 activity and clinical and cognitive outcomes in depression10
Mitochondrial DNA as a marker for treatment-response in post-traumatic stress disorder10
Effects of chronic intranasal oxytocin on visual attention to faces vs. natural scenes in older adults10
Preschool-aged children’s hair cortisol and parents’ behavior, psychopathology, and stress10
Low doses of fluoxetine for the treatment of emotional premenstrual syndrome: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot study10
Gut microbiota alterations in schizophrenia might be related to stress exposure: Findings from the machine learning analysis10
Announcement: 2025 call for Bruce McEwen lifetime achievement nominations10
Investigating the association between hair progesterone, anxiety, sleep quality, and other determinants in South African females10
Perinatal hair cortisol concentrations linked to psychological distress and unpredicted birth complications10
Cortisol and changes in depressive symptoms: The moderating role of DHEA10
Salivary oxytocin after play with parents predicts behavioural problems in preschool children10
Hatha yoga reduces momentary stress but does not impact diurnal profiles of salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase: a randomized controlled trial9
The impacts of hate violence on the adrenocortical functioning, psychosocial adjustment, and mental health of ethnically/racially diverse LGBQ young adults9
Effects of inflammatory markers and biographical stress on treatment response in depression9
Prenatal stress and hair cortisol in a sample of Latina women9
- Effect of a stress education video intervention on stress mindsets and co- rumination in Quebec youth9
- Long-term effect of prenatal stress on offspring gut microbiome composition and functionality: possible implications on behavioural outcomes9
The role of rumination in shaping emotional symptom trajectories across the menstrual cycle9
Effect of lipid-based nutrient supplementation on children's hair cortisol in late childhood9
Presentation 3: Prospective association between insomnia and C-reactive protein: sex differences9
Longitudinal Associations of Adolescent Stress and Cortisol, Testosterone, and DHEA during the COVID-19 Pandemic9
Depression and Telomere Length in Adolescence9
- multi-cohort study of prospective associations between prenatal stress, epigenetically-assessed glucocorticoid exposure, and child psychiatric symptoms.9
- The Impact of a Deceptive Virtual Agent on Stress Markers in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room9
Socioeconomic status and morbidity: Are stress exposure, stress reactivity, or both the key mediators?9
Hair androgen concentrations and depressive disorders in adolescents from the general population9
Memory under pressure: The impact of acute stress across different memory tasks9
The interplay between inflammation, stress and mitochondria in Bipolar Disorder9
Teasing apart the role of glucocorticoids as mediator or indicator of stress: Recent insights from animal studies9
TSST-OL: Comparison between online and laboratory application and effects on empathy9
Hormonal contraception & face processing: Examining face gender, androgenicity & treatment duration9
Blunted Cortisol Response Across Early Psychosis: Implications for Stress-Vulnerability Models and Clinical Staging9
Does a laboratory-based CO2 challenge induce a hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis stress response in healthy adults?9
Association of fasting Orexin-A levels with energy intake at breakfast and subsequent snack in Chilean adolescents9
Young Adults Disparate Experiences of Elections and Civic Engagement: How does Sociopolitical Stress get under the Skin?8
A pilot study examining financial stress during COVID-19 and executive function in mental health in parents and children8
Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Context8
Discrimination and Cortisol Dynamics among Older African Americans Adults8
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