Psychoneuroendocrinology

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychoneuroendocrinology is 6. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Psychological stress reactivity and future health and disease outcomes: A systematic review of prospective evidence199
How to study the menstrual cycle: Practical tools and recommendations111
Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children95
Interleukin-6 as potential mediator of long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms of COVID-1976
Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of the Trier Social Stress Test in eliciting physiological stress responses in children and adolescents55
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and psychological distress symptoms in patients with affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic52
Oxytocin and postpartum depression: A systematic review48
Volatility as a Concept to Understand the Impact of Stress on the Microbiome48
Differential regulation of Nrf2 is linked to elevated inflammation and nitrative stress in monocytes of children with autism47
Gut microbiome-derived lactate promotes to anxiety-like behaviors through GPR81 receptor-mediated lipid metabolism pathway46
Polyphenols selectively reverse early-life stress-induced behavioural, neurochemical and microbiota changes in the rat46
Becoming a mother entails anatomical changes in the ventral striatum of the human brain that facilitate its responsiveness to offspring cues46
Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in Depression46
Evaluation of stress, burnout and hair cortisol levels in health workers at a University Hospital during COVID-19 pandemic44
Immune-inflammatory markers and psychosis risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis41
Perceived stress, psychological resilience, hair cortisol concentration, and metabolic syndrome severity: A moderated mediation model40
Hair cortisol concentration as a biomarker of parental burnout40
Interaction between TNF-α and oxidative stress status in first-episode drug-naïve schizophrenia37
The effects of exercise intensity on the cortisol response to a subsequent acute psychosocial stressor36
The gut microbiota-brain axis, psychobiotics and its influence on brain and behaviour: A systematic review35
The gut microbiota metabolite indole increases emotional responses and adrenal medulla activity in chronically stressed male mice35
Maternal prenatal psychological distress and hair cortisol levels associate with infant fecal microbiota composition at 2.5 months of age35
Cortisol and development of depression in adolescence and young adulthood – a systematic review and meta-analysis34
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis33
Adverse childhood experiences and low socioeconomic status with respect to allostatic load in adulthood: A systematic review33
Measuring salivary markers of inflammation in health research: A review of methodological considerations and best practices33
Salivary oxytocin in pigs, cattle, and goats during positive human-animal interactions32
Childhood trauma and dysregulation of multiple biological stress systems in adulthood: Results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)32
Oxytocin during breastfeeding and maternal mood symptoms31
Adult neurogenesis augmentation attenuates anhedonia and HPA axis dysregulation in a mouse model of chronic stress and depression31
Associations between brain activity and endogenous and exogenous cortisol – A systematic review31
Validation of an online version of the Trier Social Stress Test in a study of adolescents30
Systemic inflammation as a driver of health disparities among sexually-diverse and gender-diverse individuals30
Is there a relation between major depression and hair cortisol? A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Investigating individual stress reactivity: High hair cortisol predicts lower acute stress responses27
Associations of waking cortisol with DHEA and testosterone across the pubertal transition: Effects of threat-related early life stress27
Mother and child hair cortisol during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations among physiological stress, pandemic-related behaviors, and child emotional-behavioral health26
Does the choice of Allostatic Load scoring algorithm matter for predicting age-related health outcomes?26
Effect of sugar administration on cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress25
Evaluating measures of allostatic load in adolescents: A systematic review25
Pubertal probiotic blocks LPS-induced anxiety and the associated neurochemical and microbial outcomes, in a sex dependent manner25
Adverse childhood experiences, posttraumatic stress, and FKBP5 methylation patterns in postpartum women and their newborn infants25
Stress and hair cortisol concentrations in nurses during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic25
Assessment of conditioned fear extinction in male and female adolescent rats25
The role of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor DNA methylation in antenatal depression and infant stress regulation25
A systematic review on the effects of social discrimination on telomere length25
Kynurenine metabolites and ratios differ between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and healthy controls24
Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis do not depend on endogenous opioids in humans24
Adipokines in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review and meta-analysis24
Sex difference or hormonal difference in mental rotation? The influence of ovarian milieu24
Estradiol promotes and progesterone reduces anxiety-like behavior produced by nicotine withdrawal in female rats24
PPARγ-mediated microglial activation phenotype is involved in depressive-like behaviors and neuroinflammation in stressed C57BL/6J and ob/ob mice24
Inhibition of JNK ameliorates depressive-like behaviors and reduces the activation of pro-inflammatory cytokines and the phosphorylation of glucocorticoid receptors at serine 246 induced by neuroinfla24
The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load24
The allopregnanolone to progesterone ratio across the menstrual cycle and in menopause23
Alterations in levels of 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-Oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 during a current episode and after remission in unipolar and bipolar depression23
Parental sensitivity mediates the sustained effect of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on cortisol in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial23
Biological stress response in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of life events and inflammation22
Biological correlates of early life stressful events in major depressive disorder22
Objective and subjective socioeconomic status associated with metabolic syndrome severity among African American adults in Jackson Heart Study22
Risk factors for postpartum relapse in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of psychosocial stress and the biological stress system22
The neuroendocrinology of stress: Glucocorticoid signaling mechanisms22
Race, socioeconomic status, and low-grade inflammatory biomarkers across the lifecourse: A pooled analysis of seven studies22
The effect of oral contraceptive use on cortisol reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test: A meta-analysis22
Exposure to police-related deaths and physiological stress among urban black youth22
The role of low-grade inflammation in ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) - associations with symptoms21
Daytime melatonin levels in saliva are associated with inflammatory markers and anxiety disorders21
Early life adversity and age acceleration at mid-life and older ages indexed using the next-generation GrimAge and Pace of Aging epigenetic clocks21
Natural variation in the oxytocin receptor gene and rearing interact to influence reproductive and nonreproductive social behavior and receptor binding21
Endocrine stress response in pregnancy and 12 weeks postpartum – Exploring risk factors for postpartum depression21
Prenatal pregnancy-related anxiety predicts boys’ ADHD symptoms via placental C-reactive protein21
Increased interleukin 18 activity in adolescents with early-onset psychosis is associated with cortisol and depressive symptoms21
Gender-affirming hormone treatment and cognitive function in transgender young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
A preliminary study of gut microbiome variation and HPA axis reactivity in healthy infants20
Human nail cortisol as a retrospective biomarker of chronic stress: A systematic review20
Reward-related brain activity and behavior are associated with peripheral ghrelin levels in obesity20
Adverse childhood experiences and early life inflammation in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children20
Association between hair cortisol and diurnal basal cortisol levels: A 30-day validation study20
Consequences of pandemic-associated social restrictions: Role of social support and the oxytocin system20
Ovariectomy-induced depressive-like behavior and brain glucose metabolism changes in female rats are not affected by chronic mild stress20
A systematic review of hair cortisol during pregnancy: Reference ranges and methodological considerations20
Psychological stress and cortisol during pregnancy: An ecological momentary assessment (EMA)-Based within- and between-person analysis20
Altered thyroid hormone profile in patients with Alzheimer’s disease20
The longitudinal association of changes in diurnal cortisol features with fasting glucose: MESA20
Ghrelin and PYY in low-weight females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder compared to anorexia nervosa and healthy controls20
Disinhibition of PVN-projecting GABAergic neurons in AV region in BNST participates in visceral hypersensitivity in rats19
Dopamine D2 receptor signaling modulates pancreatic beta cell circadian rhythms19
The association between allostatic load and cognitive function: A systematic and meta-analytic review19
Testosterone treatment, internalizing symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction in transgender boys19
Community violence and cellular and cytokine indicators of inflammation in adolescents19
Commonly-used rodent tests of anxiety-like behavior lack predictive validity for human sex differences19
Diabetes, antidiabetic medications and risk of depression – A population-based cohort and nested case-control study19
Chronic social stress in mice alters energy status including higher glucose need but lower brain utilization19
Relationship satisfaction predicts lower stress and inflammation in breast cancer survivors: A longitudinal study of within-person and between-person effects19
Prenatal maternal stress prospectively relates to shorter child buccal cell telomere length19
Exercise-induced increases in Anandamide and BDNF during extinction consolidation contribute to reduced threat following reinstatement: Preliminary evidence from a randomized controlled trial19
Long-term activation of hippocampal glial cells and altered emotional behavior in male and female adult rats after different neonatal stressors19
Gastrointestinal symptoms, gut microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics in anorexia nervosa: A review of mechanistic rationale and clinical evidence19
Hydrocortisone administration for reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis19
Impaired hormonal regulation of appetite in schizophrenia: A narrative review dissecting intrinsic mechanisms and the effects of antipsychotics19
Effects of chronic intranasal oxytocin on behavior and cerebral glucose uptake in juvenile titi monkeys18
Opposite effects of noradrenergic and glucocorticoid activation on accuracy of an episodic-like memory18
Neural responses to threat and reward and changes in inflammation following a mindfulness intervention18
Endocrine and immunomodulatory effects of social isolation and loneliness across adulthood18
The effects of acute work stress and appraisal on psychobiological stress responses in a group office environment18
Delayed effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation18
Prenatal sex hormones and behavioral outcomes in children18
Hair cortisol as a biomarker of stress and resilience in South African mixed ancestry females18
Diabetes mellitus risk for 102 drugs and drug combinations used in patients with bipolar disorder17
Acute and Chronic Stress in Daily Police Service: A Three-Week N-of-1 Study17
Intranasal oxytocin administration facilitates the induction of long-term potentiation and promotes cognitive performance of maternally separated rats17
Endocannabinoid concentrations in hair and mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors17
Autonomic nervous system activity predicts increasing serum cytokines in children17
Interactions of OXTR rs53576 and emotional trauma on hippocampal volumes and perceived social support in adolescent girls17
Stressor-Cortisol Concordance Among Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis: Novel Findings from the NAPLS Cohort17
LC-MS/MS-based reference intervals for hair cortisol in healthy children17
Associations between oxytocin and empathy in humans: A systematic literature review17
Lasting Impact of Chronic Adolescent Stress and Glucocorticoid Receptor Selective Modulation in Male and Female Rats17
Socioeconomic status trajectories across the life course, daily discrimination, and inflammation among Black and white adults17
The non-aromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone (DHT) facilitates sexual behavior in ovariectomized female rats primed with estradiol17
Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) and Childhood Adversity Influence Trust17
Sex differences in metabolic disorder patterns of first-episode drug-naive patients with schizophrenia17
Glucocorticoid ultradian rhythmicity differentially regulates mood and resting state networks in the human brain: A randomised controlled clinical trial16
Peripheral immune dysregulation in the ART era of HIV-associated neurocognitive impairments: A systematic review16
Timing of menarche and abnormal hippocampal connectivity in youth at clinical-high risk for psychosis16
Cortisol awakening response in PTSD treatment: Predictor or mechanism of change16
Changes in appetite-regulating hormones following food intake are associated with changes in reported appetite and a measure of hedonic eating in girls and young women with anorexia nervosa16
Imagining a positive future reduces cortisol response to awakening and reactivity to acute stress16
Higher cortisol levels may proceed a manic episode and are related to disease severity in patients with bipolar disorder16
7, 8-Dihydroxy-4-methylcoumarin reverses depression model-induced depression-like behaviors and alteration of dendritic spines in the mood circuits16
Divergent effects of oxytocin on eye contact in bonobos and chimpanzees16
BDNF serum levels and cognitive improvement in drug-naive first episode patients with schizophrenia: A prospective 12-week longitudinal study16
Maternal prenatal cortisol programs the infant hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis16
Intimate partner violence and hair cortisol concentration: A biomarker for HPA axis function16
The effects of testosterone on the physiological response to social and somatic stressors16
Sex difference in cognitive impairment in drug-free schizophrenia: Association with miR-195 levels15
Pituitary dysmaturation affects psychopathology and neurodevelopment in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome15
Early traumatic experiences impair the functioning of both components of the endogenous stress response system in adult people with eating disorders15
Hair glucocorticoid levels in Parkinson’s disease15
Factors contributing to stability and instability in alpha-amylase activity in diluted saliva samples over time15
Restraint stress affects circulating NUCB2/nesfatin-1 and phoenixin levels in male rats15
Molecular markers of neuroendocrine function and mitochondrial biogenesis associated with early life stress15
Endocrine and psychosocial moderators of mindfulness-based stress reduction for the prevention of perimenopausal depressive symptoms: A randomized controlled trial15
Remitted depression and cognition in HIV: The role of cortisol and inflammation15
Positive affect and peripheral inflammatory markers among adults: A narrative review15
High and low anxiety phenotypes in a rat model of complex post-traumatic stress disorder are associated with different alterations in regional brain monoamine neurotransmission15
Black-White racial health disparities in inflammation and physical health: Cumulative stress, social isolation, and health behaviors15
Going the distance: The diurnal range of cortisol and its association with cognitive and physiological functioning15
A history of childhood trauma and allostatic load in patients with psychotic disorders with respect to stress coping strategies15
Impact of loneliness on diurnal cortisol in youth15
Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress predicts HPA reactivity and psychopathology in adolescent offspring: Project Ice Storm15
Longitudinal proneuroactive and neuroactive steroid profiles in medication-free women with, without and at-risk for perinatal depression: A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis14
Intranasal oxytocin as a potential therapeutic strategy in post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review14
Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress, and childhood HPA-axis regulation and anxiety: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study14
Neuroactive steroids and depression in early pregnancy14
Delivery room skin-to-skin contact in preterm infants affects long-term expression of stress response genes14
Psychosocial well-being and quality of life in women with Turner syndrome14
Prenatal stress and later metabolic consequences: Systematic review and meta-analysis in rodents14
Specificity of plasma oxytocin immunoassays: A comparison of commercial assays and sample preparation techniques using oxytocin knockout and wildtype mice14
Experiences affect social behaviors via altering neuronal morphology and oxytocin system14
Serum soluble epoxide hydrolase related oxylipins and major depression in patients with type 2 diabetes14
How to assess and interpret everyday life salivary cortisol measures: A tutorial on practical and statistical considerations14
Psychiatric comorbidities and adverse childhood experiences in women with self-reported polycystic ovary syndrome: An Australian population-based study14
Orexin 2 receptor in the nucleus accumbens is critical for the modulation of acute stress-induced anxiety14
Cumulative cortisol exposure increases during the academic term: Links to performance-related and social-evaluative stressors14
Olanzapine increases AMPK-NPY orexigenic signaling by disrupting H1R-GHSR1a interaction in the hypothalamic neurons of mice14
Childhood trauma and glucose metabolism in patients with first-episode psychosis14
Early childhood adversity and HPA axis activity in adulthood:The importance of considering minimal age at exposure13
Fetal programming pathway from maternal mental health to infant cortisol functioning: The role of placental 11β-HSD2 mRNA expression13
Use of an estradiol-based combined oral contraceptives has no influence on attentional bias or depressive symptoms in healthy women13
Lived experience and allostatic load among transmasculine people living in the United States13
Childhood trauma affects autobiographical memory deficits through basal cortisol and prefrontal-extrastriate functional connectivity13
Antibiotics exposure attenuates chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced anxiety-like and depression-like behavior13
17β-estradiol activation of dorsal hippocampal TrkB is independent of increased mature BDNF expression and is required for enhanced memory consolidation in female mice13
Depression in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of blood inflammatory markers13
Low serum placental lactogen at term is associated with postnatal symptoms of depression and anxiety in women delivering female infants13
Perceived stress but not hair cortisol concentration is related to adult cognitive performance13
Plasma leptin, but not adiponectin, is associated with cognitive impairment in older adults13
The modulation of social behavior and empathy via oral contraceptives and female sex hormones13
Morning and evening type: The cortisol awakening response in a sleep laboratory13
The relationship between sleep problems and cortisol in people with type 2 diabetes13
Predictors of irritability symptoms in mildly depressed perimenopausal women13
Effects of prenatal stress on behavioural and neurodevelopmental outcomes are altered by maternal separation in the neonatal period13
Effects of hydrocortisone and yohimbine on decision-making under risk13
A soft baby carrier intervention enhances amygdala responses to infant crying in fathers: A randomized controlled trial12
The role of psychopathic traits, social anxiety and cortisol in social approach avoidance tendencies12
Altered social recognition memory and hypothalamic neuropeptide expression in adolescent male and female rats following prenatal alcohol exposure and/or early-life adversity12
Salivary cortisol reactivity to psychological stressors in infancy: A meta-analysis12
Structural brain alterations in older adults exposed to early-life adversity12
Maternal chronic stress correlates with serum levels of cortisol, glucose and C-peptide in the fetus, and maternal non chronic stress with fetal growth12
Antidepressant effect in diabetes-associated depression: A novel potential of RAAS inhibition12
Cardiometabolic risk in young adults with depression and evidence of inflammation: A birth cohort study12
Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment on offspring obesity risk: A fetal programming perspective12
Effects of early-life stress on peripheral and central mitochondria in male mice across ages12
Cortisol reactivity in social anxiety disorder: A highly standardized and controlled study12
Increased dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is associated with anxiety in adolescent girls12
Maternal psychosocial functioning, obstetric health history, and newborn telomere length12
Allostatic overload in patients with essential hypertension12
Developmental stage-dependent relationships between ghrelin levels and hippocampal white matter connections in low-weight anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa12
RETRACTED: Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin gene is associated with gray matter volume and trait empathy in mothers12
Associations of saliva cortisol and hair cortisol with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and major depressive disorder: An epidemiological cohort study in adolescents and young adults12
Integrative psycho-biophysiological markers in predicting psychological resilience12
The supramammillary nucleus controls anxiety-like behavior; key role of GLP-1R11
Is there an association between prenatal testosterone and autistic traits in adolescents?11
Association between prolonged separation from parents and allostatic load among children in China11
Associations between social adversity and young children’s hair cortisol: A systematic review11
Patterns of change in telomere length over the first three years of life in healthy children11
Kisspeptin modulates gamma-aminobutyric acid levels in the human brain11
Plasma luteinizing hormone level affects the brain activity of patients with polycystic ovary syndrome11
Implicit and explicit emotional memory recall in anxiety and depression: Role of basolateral amygdala and cortisol-norepinephrine interaction11
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Everyday Discrimination Scale and biomarker outcomes11
Cesarean delivery and infant cortisol regulation11
PTSD and the klotho longevity gene: Evaluation of longitudinal effects on inflammation via DNA methylation11
The gut reaction to couples’ relationship troubles: A route to gut dysbiosis through changes in depressive symptoms11
Socioeconomic position, immune function, and its physiological markers11
Peripheral inflammation marker relationships to cognition in healthy older adults – A systematic review11
Oxytocin receptors in the midbrain dorsal raphe are essential for postpartum maternal social and affective behaviors11
Gonadal steroid hormone receptors in the medial amygdala contribute to experience-dependent changes in stress vulnerability11
Effects of gender and personality on everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure11
The roles of comorbidity and trauma exposure and its timing in shaping HPA axis patterns in depression11
High-dose testosterone treatment reduces monoamine oxidase A levels in the human brain: A preliminary report11
Sepsis survivor mice exhibit a behavioral endocrine syndrome with ventral hippocampal dysfunction11
Comparison of hair cortisol concentrations between self- and professionally-collected hair samples and the role of five-factor personality traits as potential moderators11
Psychological well-being and gene expression in Korean adults: The role of age11
Examining the role of ovarian hormones in the association between worry and working memory across the menstrual cycle11
Developmental effects in physiological stress in early adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder11
Leptin mediates improvements in cognitive function following treatment with infliximab in adults with bipolar depression11
Effects of brief stress management interventions on distress and leukocyte nuclear factor kappa B expression during primary treatment for breast cancer: A randomized trial10
Effects of glucose intake on stress reactivity in young, healthy men10
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 effects10
Youths’ processing of emotion information: Responses to chronic and video-based laboratory stress10
Social regulation of inflammation related gene expression in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis10
Awakening cortisol indicators, advanced glycation end products, stress perception, depression and anxiety in parents of children with chronic conditions10
A short Mindfulness retreat can improve biological markers of stress and inflammation10
Competitive anxiety or Coronavirus anxiety? The psychophysiological responses of professional football players after returning to competition during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Leptin and ghrelin concentrations and eating behaviors during the early and late luteal phase in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder10
For better and worse? The roles of closeness, marital behavior, and age in spouses’ cardiometabolic similarity10
The influence of maternal anxiety and cortisol during pregnancy on childhood anxiety symptoms10
Human macrophages stimulate expression of inflammatory mediators in adipocytes; effects of second-generation antipsychotics and glucocorticoids on cellular cross-talk10
Transcriptomic analyses of black women in neighborhoods with high levels of violence10
Eating behavior modulates the sensitivity to the central effects of GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment: a secondary analysis of a randomized trial10
The association between the renin-angiotensin system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in anxiety disorders: A systematic review of animal studies10
The association between allostatic load and brain: A systematic review10
Estrous cycle contributes to state-dependent contextual fear in female rats10
Effects of high fat diet-induced obesity and pregnancy on prepartum and postpartum maternal mouse behavior10
Decreased putamen activation in balancing goal-directed and habitual behavior in binge eating disorder10
Intact circadian rhythm despite cortisol hypersecretion in Alzheimer’s disease: A meta-analysis10
Job insecurity and risk of coronary heart disease: Mediation analyses of health behaviors, sleep problems, physiological and psychological factors10
Within-person changes in cancer-related distress predict breast cancer survivors’ inflammation across treatment10
Effects of weariness of life, suicide ideations and suicide attempt on HPA axis regulation in depression10
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