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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Presentation 1: Maternal behavioral health during pregnancy and newborn telomere length173
Investigation of the impact of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on anhedonia, reward processing and sustained attention140
Women's domain-specific affiliation across the menstrual cycle114
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 adolesc108
Presentation 4: Age, stress, and markers of inflammation among african american adults: Findings from the heart of detroit study78
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)72
Reframing glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist research for psychiatric care: Gaps in evidence and translation66
Low anti-Müllerian hormone mediates the association between childhood trauma and PTSD in women but not in men61
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)59
Editorial Board55
Activation of Type I Interferon and Complement component 3a receptor signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits55
When asking ‘how are you?’ may not be enough: The relationship between stress and alcohol use54
- Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Associations Between Adolescent Hormones and Stress Coping48
- Impairment of social behavior is associated with different transcriptomic profiles of the Habenula in vulnerable and resilient rats exposed to prenatal stress45
- Maternal reflective functioning and attachment outcomes of an online s inging intervention for postnatal depression: SHAPER-PNDO, a s ingle-arm clinical trial44
Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health43
Insulin-like growth factor-1 and cognition in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus39
Resting-state functional connectivity in Autoimmune Addison's Disease38
The Moderating Effects of Regular Caffeine Use on Cortisol Reactivity under Explicit Negative-Evaluative Stress37
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis37
Trauma-informed immunopsychiatry: the moderating role of early life adversity on inflammatory responses36
Placenta DNA methylation levels of the promoter region of the leptin receptor gene are associated with infant cortisol36
Effects of sex hormones on brain GABA and glutamate levels in a cis- and transgender cohort35
Effects of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and subjective birth experience on the risk of postpartum depression and maternal bonding35
Neural and cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project33
Volunteering, chronic stress, and systemic inflammation among middle-aged and older adults32
Body movements as biomarkers: Machine Learning-based prediction of HPA axis reactivity to stress31
Enhanced endogenous oxytocin signaling in the brain modulates neural responses to social misalignment and promotes conformity in humans: A multi-locus genetic profile approach31
Sedentary behaviour is associated with heightened cardiovascular, inflammatory and cortisol reactivity to acute psychological stress31
Salivary uric acid dynamics are associated with stress response hormones among African Americans in an urban sample30
The role of combined modifiable lifestyle behaviors in the association between exposure to stressors and allostatic load: A systematic review of observational studies.29
Allostatic load and depressive symptoms in older adults: An analysis of 12-year panel data29
Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding28
Chronic stress derails brain serotonin and its role in postpartum behavior28
Chronic stress induces depression-like behavior in rats through affecting brain mitochondrial function and inflammation27
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis27
Oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways in female eating disorders and borderline personality disorders with emotional dysregulation as linking factors with impulsivity and trauma26
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the relationship between subjective socioeconomic status and prenatal mental health: results from babip birth cohort in turkey25
Sex-specific associations between loneliness and hair cortisol among older african american adults25
Prediction of adolescent depression from demographic, clinical, and survey data from ALSPAC using machine learning25
Presentation 2: Analyzing temperature effects on mitochondrial bioenergetics in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from individuals with and without major depressive disorder: an empirical contributio24
Intranasal oxytocin to treat substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials23
Associations between sickness behavior, but not inflammatory cytokines, and psychiatric comorbidity in chronic pain23
Spontaneous emotion regulation in social stress: Impact on state anxiety, cortisol and blood glucose23
Corrigendum to “Insulin resistance links dysbiosis of gut microbiota with cognitive impairment in first-episode drug-naïve schizophrenia” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 172 (2025) 107255]23
Hair steroid before and after COVID-19 in preschoolers: the moderation of family characteristics23
Association between cognitive function and IL-18 levels in schizophrenia: Dependent on IL18 − 607 A/C polymorphism22
Maternal high BMI: Sex-dimorphic alterations in maternal and offspring stress indices22
Oxytocin modulation in the medial prefrontal cortex of pair-exposed rats during fear conditioning22
Genetic variants in COMT and ESR1 genes shape treatment response to raloxifene in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders22
Open science needs a standardized data format: Suggestions for the field of psychoneuroendocrinology22
Announcement: 2025 Call for Dirk Hellhammer Award Nominations22
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: Nativity as an Effect Modifier21
What matters when? A multiversal investigation of pubertal timing measurement and mental health21
Elevated serum angiotensin ii levels in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders21
Immune mechanisms in stress response: from vulnerability to pharmacological intervention21
Executive functioning mediates the association between inflammation and 12-month depression-onset during adolescence21
- Facing baby cuteness: how nurturing care and oxytocin system gene methylation are associated with responses to baby schema21
- CARWatch – An Open-Source Framework for Objective Cortisol Awakening Response Assessment20
Neural and glial damage markers in women after long-term weight-recovery from anorexia nervosa20
11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 deficiency prevents PTSD-like memory in young adult mice20
Testosterone administration affects H-MRS metabolite spectra in transgender men20
(A Lack of) Sex Differences in the Effects of Acute Stress on Attentional Bias to Threat20
Relationship between immunometabolic status and cognitive performance among major depression disorder patients20
- Beyond Birth Control: Emotion Regulation in Pill and IUD Users20
Everyday Salivary Cortisol in Older Adulthood: Capturing Time-Varying Socio-Emotional Contours in the Wild19
Testing Pathways from Stress Exposure to Physiology in Marginalized Populations19
A 4-session written emotional disclosure intervention lowers 6-month sympathoadrenal urinary output in persons living with HIV19
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 19
Early Experience and Inflammation19
- Relationship resilience buffers the association between pregnancy stress and postpartum depressive symptoms during COVID-1919
Trajectory of ghrelin and PYY around a test meal in males and females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder versus healthy controls18
Cortisol effects on the neural correlates of cognitive emotion regulation – does timing matter?18
Your suffering is my stressor: Proinflammatory gene expression rises with spousal distress in middle-aged and older couples18
- Personality and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity: A moderating role of meaning in life18
The association between depression and the cortisol awakening response is moderated by loneliness in men from a non-clinical sample17
PACAP mitigates traumatic brain injury progression via ELF3/ZO-1 axis-mediated blood–brain barrier repair17
Effects of psychological, sensory, and metabolic energy prime manipulation on the acute endocrine stress response in fasted women17
Dihydrotestosterone regulation of stress-related behaviors in mice exposed to subchronic variable stress17
A subpopulation of oxytocin neurons initiate expression of CRF receptor 1 (CRFR1) in females post parturition17
Sense of purpose in life and inflammation in healthy older adults: A longitudinal study17
Understanding temper loss in young children: Interactions among family violence, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and frontal asymmetry17
Laboratory stress research in psychiatric and neurological populations: toward a consensus guideline16
A short Mindfulness retreat can improve biological markers of stress and inflammation16
Chronic olanzapine treatment leads to increased opioid receptor expression and changes in feeding regulating neurons in the female rat hypothalamus16
Early life adversity: programming inflammation and immunosenescence through immunometabolic pathways?16
Depression in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of blood inflammatory markers16
Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)16
Announcement: 2025 Call for Dirk Hellhammer Award nominations16
Mating-induced release of oxytocin in the mouse lateral septum: Implications for social fear extinction16
Mid-pregnancy allopregnanolone levels and trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms16
Longitudinal effects of maternal depressive and anxious symptomatology on child hair cortisol and cortisone from pregnancy to 5-years: The EDEN mother-child cohort16
Consequences of pandemic-associated social restrictions: Role of social support and the oxytocin system16
Infants’ cortisol reactivity and infant–mother cortisol synchrony in urban Chinese families: The role of maternal control strategy16
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)16
Adverse mood effects of oral contraceptives relate to brain connectivity changes within a triple-network model15
- Does ovulation affect the cortisol awakening response?15
- Network meta-analysis on psychological interventions efficacy on immune biomarkers15
Corrigendum to “Prepubertal ovariectomy confers resilience to stress-induced anxiety in adult female mice” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 148 (2023) 105997]15
- Stratification strategies for immune-targeted pharmacological treatments in Major Depressive Disorder15
- How do Mindfulness-based Trainings Reduce Physiological Stress? Assessing Changes in Attention and Acceptance Traits and Their Role in Cortisol Reduction15
- Infant Stress Reactivity in Postpartum Psychosis15
Trait reappraisal is positively associated with more effective habituation of the cortisol stress response14
Associations between Early Life Stress, Prenatal Stress, Hair Cortisol and Birth Outcomes14
Presentation 3: Metabolite fingerprinting of blood serum reveals glyceraldehyde as a biomarker candidate of lymphocyte telomere length in depression14
Interaction between isolated maternal hypothyroxinemia and pregnancy-related anxiety on preschooler’s internalizing and externalizing problems: A birth cohort study14
Prolonged ketamine therapy differentially rescues psychobehavioural deficits via modulation of nitro-oxidative stress and oxytocin receptors in the gut-brain-axis of chronically-stressed mice14
- Cortisol as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Psychosocial Job Quality and Allostatic Load: A Structural Equation Model from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing14
- Olanzapine and fecal microbiota transplantation from antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia patients alter metabolic profiles differentially in male and female mice.14
Association between early life adversity and allostatic load in girls with precocious puberty14
Plasma circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA in social anxiety disorder14
Hormone ratios suffer from striking lack of robustness to measurement error14
Explaining the conundrum: Discrimination is associated with lower CVD risk14
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
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
Metabolites of progesterone in pregnancy: Associations with perinatal anxiety13
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)13
Corrigendum to “Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 143 (2022) 105852]13
Autonomic nervous system function before and after trauma-focused psychotherapy in youth with (partial) posttraumatic stress disorder13
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) partially modulates ketamine's sustained anxiolytic effects without altering its antidepressant properties in female rats13
Time-dependent effects of acute stress on working memory performance: A systematic review and hypothesis13
Association between trauma exposure and glucocorticosteroid concentration in hair during pregnancy13
Associations between prenatal distress, mitochondrial health, and gestational age: findings from birth cohorts in us and turkey13
Sleep disturbance, neuro-immune markers, and depressive symptoms in older age: Conditional process analysis from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA)13
Longitudinal Patterns of Neuroendocrine Coupling from Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence13
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
Patterns of stress-related change in salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol among young children: Associations with maternal psychosocial risk factors13
Sexual orientation and steroid hormones in relation to sexually polymorphic cognition13
The STRESS-NL database: A resource for human acute stress studies across the Netherlands13
Editorial Board13
Corrigendum to “Gender-affirming hormonal treatment changes neural processing of emotions in trans men: An fMRI study” Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022, 146, 10592813
Cortisol interdependence during psychotherapy in major depressive disorder13
The association between fear regulation and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in women victims of interpersonal trauma.13
Prediction of cord blood leptin on infant’s neurodevelopment: A birth cohort in rural Yunnan, China13
Age-dependent effects of estradiol on temporal memory: A role for the type 1 cannabinoid receptor?13
Mental health is related to metabolic syndrome: The Hispanic community health study/ study of Latinos12
Dimensions of early-life adversity and SLC6A4 methylation in emerging adults12
The impact of motherhood on anxiety symptoms over the menstrual cycle: A translational approach in female rats and women12
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
Metabolic features of adolescent major depressive disorder: A comparative study between treatment-resistant depression and first-episode drug-naive depression12
The influence of maternal anxiety and cortisol during pregnancy on childhood anxiety symptoms12
Effect of adverse childhood experiences on hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis function and antidepressant efficacy in untreated first episode patients with major depressive disorder12
Editorial Board12
- Cyclical Changes in Reward: Relationship with Affective State and Sex Hormones (CRASH)12
Associations of depression and anxiety and adolescent telomere length12
Association between peripheral plasma cytokine levels and suicidal ideation in first-episode, drug-naïve major depressive disorder12
Gender-affirming hormonal treatment changes neural processing of emotions in trans men: An fMRI study12
Allostatic load and systemic comorbidities in psychiatric disorders12
Gastrointestinal symptoms, gut microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics in anorexia nervosa: A review of mechanistic rationale and clinical evidence12
Reward Circuitry and Symptoms of Anhedonia as Modifiable Targets for Therapeutic Interventions in Depressed Patients with High Inflammation12
Evidence that perinatal ovarian hormones promote women’s sexual attraction to men12
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
Salivary cortisol measures across the clinical stages of psychosis: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis12
Cellular and serotonergic correlates of habituated neuroendocrine responses in male and female rats.12
Associations between hair cortisol and subjective stress measures in a large occupational sample12
Compassion buffers the association between trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity: Findings of a cross-sectional study12
Higher allostatic load in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project11
Effects of sociocultural stressors on maternal responsivity and the infant behavioral and neuroendocrine response to stress in families of Mexican descent11
Effects of suvorexant on diurnal cortisol and patient-reported stress during opioid withdrawal in a randomized trial11
Gut microbiota alterations in schizophrenia might be related to stress exposure: Findings from the machine learning analysis11
Early Life Adversity alters Maternal-Fetal-Placental Biology and may Propagate Population Health Disparities11
Longitudinal association between saliva and hair cortisol concentration: A systematic comparison11
The relationship between personality and brain anatomy in premenstrual dysphoric disorder11
Effects of chronic intranasal oxytocin on visual attention to faces vs. natural scenes in older adults11
Immune biomarkers in the CSF and immunomodulating treatments for severe mental disorders11
Association of psychosocial stress and poverty with plasma and extracellular vesicle mitochondrial DNA levels11
Socioeconomic Status and Cortisol Concentrations during a Social-Evaluative Stressor: Associations with Emotional Reactivity11
The Unique and Interactive Roles of Neural Reward Sensitivity and Family Conflict in Predicting Youth’s Internalizing Problems: A Biopsychosocial Approach11
Examining maternal social perceptions and stress responses during pregnancy11
Low doses of fluoxetine for the treatment of emotional premenstrual syndrome: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot study11
Everyday perceptions of safety and racial disparities in hair cortisol concentration11
Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error11
Low serum allopregnanolone levels in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder11
Stress-responsive Psychobiological Markers During Pregnancy and Fetal and Infant Outcomes Across Countries11
Does high perceived stress over the past month alter cortisol reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test?11
Cortisol and changes in depressive symptoms: The moderating role of DHEA11
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
Editorial Board11
Social network position and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity in older Koreans11
How do early and recent life stress shape cortisol reactivity and decision making in middle-to-older adulthood?11
Examination of positive states of mind and heart rate variability: Stress appraisals as a mechanism in trauma-exposed adults11
Announcement: 2025 call for Bruce McEwen lifetime achievement nominations11
Investigating the association between hair progesterone, anxiety, sleep quality, and other determinants in South African females11
Trauma film viewing and intrusive memories: Relationship between salivary alpha amylase, endocannabinoids, and cortisol11
- The effects of pre-extinction stress vs. physical exercise on contextualised extinction memories11
Social connection and gene regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Divergent patterns for online and in-person interaction11
Editorial Board11
Trends in hair cortisol from preconception to the postpartum period11
Sex, menstrual cycle, and hormonal contraceptives influences on global–local processing11
Echoes of conflict and displacement in maternal health: Life-course violence, timing, and maternal stress after childbirth at the northern Thailand-Myanmar border10
Childhood trauma and cortical thickness in healthy women, women with post-traumatic stress disorder, and women with borderline personality disorder10
Bruce McEwen: Mentees’ tribute10
Preschool-aged children’s hair cortisol and parents’ behavior, psychopathology, and stress10
Associations of gestational anxiety and depression with neonatal hair steroid levels10
Hatha yoga reduces momentary stress but does not impact diurnal profiles of salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase: a randomized controlled trial10
Exploring the dissociative subtype of PTSD: The role of early-life trauma, cortisol, and inflammatory profiles10
- Beyond the limited evidence for an association between childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation: the moderating role of genetic sensitivity to the environment10
Higher morning cortisol is associated with lower intuitive eating in midlife women10
Diurnal dynamic range as index of dysregulation of system dynamics. A cortisol examplar using data from the Study of Midlife in the United States10
Mitochondrial DNA as a marker for treatment-response in post-traumatic stress disorder10
Evaluating changes in GABAergic and glutamatergic pathways in early life following prenatal stress and postnatal neurosteroid supplementation10
Memory under pressure: The impact of acute stress across different memory tasks10
A novel biomarker of interleukin 6 activity and clinical and cognitive outcomes in depression10
Perinatal hair cortisol concentrations linked to psychological distress and unpredicted birth complications10
Impact of Perinatal Depression on Offspring HPA Axis Functioning10
Sex-specific associations between placental corticotropin releasing hormone and problem behaviors in childhood10
Salivary oxytocin after play with parents predicts behavioural problems in preschool children10
Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva10
Presentation 3: Prospective association between insomnia and C-reactive protein: sex differences10
Effect of lipid-based nutrient supplementation on children's hair cortisol in late childhood10
The interplay between inflammation, stress and mitochondria in Bipolar Disorder9
- Long-term effect of prenatal stress on offspring gut microbiome composition and functionality: possible implications on behavioural outcomes9
Attention to social threat predicts diurnal cortisol dynamics during the high school transition9
Mitochondrial morphology in the mouse adrenal cortex: Influence of chronic psychosocial stress9
The impacts of hate violence on the adrenocortical functioning, psychosocial adjustment, and mental health of ethnically/racially diverse LGBQ young adults9
The association between maternal symptoms of depression and hair glucocorticoids in infants across the perinatal period9
α-GalCer regulates acute stress-induced steroidogenesis by modulating lipid metabolism in female BALB/c mice9
Testosterone administration enhances the expectation and perception of painful and non-painful somatosensory stimuli9
- Effect of a stress education video intervention on stress mindsets and co- rumination in Quebec youth9
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
Association between inflammation and cognition: Triangulation of evidence using a population-based cohort and Mendelian randomization analyses9
Longitudinal Associations of Adolescent Stress and Cortisol, Testosterone, and DHEA during the COVID-19 Pandemic9
Hormonal contraception & face processing: Examining face gender, androgenicity & treatment duration9
Multifactorial stress reactivity to virtual TSST-C in healthy children and adolescents—It works, but not as well as a real TSST-C9
TSST-OL: Comparison between online and laboratory application and effects on empathy9
Teasing apart the role of glucocorticoids as mediator or indicator of stress: Recent insights from animal studies9
- The Impact of a Deceptive Virtual Agent on Stress Markers in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room9
- multi-cohort study of prospective associations between prenatal stress, epigenetically-assessed glucocorticoid exposure, and child psychiatric symptoms.9
The role of rumination in shaping emotional symptom trajectories across the menstrual cycle9
The effect of inflammation, SARS-CoV-2 infection, age and mental health on serotonin, and kynurenine and catecholamine pathway metabolites9
Chronic stress and its effects on behavior, RNA expression of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and the M-current of NPY neurons9
Comparing different operationalizations of allostatic load measured in mid-life and their patterning by race and cumulative life course socioeconomic status9
Socioeconomic status and morbidity: Are stress exposure, stress reactivity, or both the key mediators?9
Discrimination and Cortisol Dynamics among Older African Americans Adults8
Hair cortisol concentration and its association with acute stress responses and recovery in a sample of medical students in Germany8
Neuronal TLR4 overexpression in the medial prefrontal cortex is associated with neuroinflammation and depression-like behaviors in ovariectomized rats8
Estrous cycle contributes to state-dependent contextual fear in female rats8
Pre-pandemic socio-emotional vulnerability, internalizing and externalizing symptoms predict changes in hair cortisol concentrations in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in children8
Temporal associations between salivary cortisol and emotions in clinically depressed individuals and matched controls: A dynamic time warp analysis8
- Sensitization Effect of Perinatal Adversity on the Association Between Cumulative Childhood and Adolescence Adversity and a Polyepigenetic Stress Score at the End of Adolescence: A Prospective Study8
Loss of association between plasma irisin levels and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease8
Social recognition in laboratory mice requires integration of behaviorally-induced somatosensory, auditory and olfactory cues8
The contribution of alexithymia, childhood maltreatment, impulsivity, C-reactive protein, lipid profile, and thyroid hormones to aggression and psychological distress (depression and anxiety) in schiz8
Relationship of sleep with diurnal cortisol rhythm considering sleep measurement and cortisol sampling schemes8
- Hair steroid concentration before and after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in preschoolers: the moderating effect of family characteristics8
Exploring Patterns of Microglial Activation in Psychosis and other Brain Disorders8
Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Context8
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