OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Brain mechanisms of HPA axis regulation: neurocircuitry and feedback in context Richard Kvetnansky lecture	69
Understanding neurobehavioral effects of acute and chronic stress in zebrafish	29
Chronic social defeat stress in female mice leads to sex-specific behavioral and neuroendocrine effects	28
Allostatic load and mental health: a latent class analysis of physiological dysregulation	24
A scoping review of interventions targeting allostatic load	23
N-acetyl cysteine treatment mitigates biomarkers of oxidative stress in different tissues of bile duct ligated rats	23
Stress, allostatic load and mental health in Indigenous Australians	21
Oxytocin, cortisol, and cognitive control during acute and naturalistic stress	20
Low glucocorticoids in stress-related disorders: the role of inflammation	19
Social isolation alters hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis activity after chronic variable stress in male C57BL/6 mice	19
Resistance training as an acute stressor in healthy young men: associations with heart rate variability, alpha-amylase, and cortisol levels	17
Priorities in stress research: a view from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health	16
Gut microbiota diversity but not composition is related to saliva cortisol stress response at the age of 2.5 months	16
Prenatal stress and increased susceptibility to anxiety-like behaviors: role of neuroinflammation and balance between GABAergic and glutamatergic transmission	16
Laughter yoga reduces the cortisol response to acute stress in healthy individuals	15
Infrared thermography is an effective, noninvasive measure of HPA activation	14
Sex- and stress-dependent effects of a single injection of ketamine on open field and forced swim behavior	14
Acute stress reduces reward-related neural activity: Evidence from the reward positivity	12
Exhaustion disorder and altered brain activity in frontal cortex detected with fNIRS	11
Prefrontal cortex PACAP signaling: organization and role in stress regulation	11
Lower activity of salivary alpha-amylase in youths with depression	11
Exploring hair steroid concentrations in asylum seekers, internally displaced refugees, and immigrants	11
Early life stress decreases cell proliferation and the number of putative adult neural stem cells in the adult hypothalamus	11
Early life stress due to repeated maternal separation alters the working memory acquisition brain functional network	11
Cortisol levels versus self-report stress measures during pregnancy as predictors of adverse infant outcomes: a systematic review	11

Experience and activity-dependent control of glucocorticoid receptors during the stress response in large-scale brain networks	11
Early social deprivation does not affect cortisol response to acute and chronic stress in zebrafish	10
Stress-induced expression pattern of glutamate signaling genes associated with anhedonia	10
Alterations of autonomic nervous system and HPA axis basal activity and reactivity to acute stress: a comparison of traumatized adolescents and healthy controls	10
Behavioral and neuroendocrine consequences of disrupting a long-term monogamous social bond in aging prairie voles	10
The gonadal response to social stress and its relationship to cortisol	9
Sex differences in stress-induced sleep deficits	9
Induction of acute stress through an internet-delivered Trier Social Stress Test as assessed by photoplethysmography on a smartphone	9
Stress and stress-related disease states as topics of multi-approach research	9
Noradrenergic enhancement of object recognition and object location memory in mice	9
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in post-traumatic stress disorder and cocaine use disorder	9
Anxiogenic-like effect of chronic lipopolysaccharide is associated with increased expression of matrix metalloproteinase 9 in the rat amygdala	9
Psychobiological evidence of the stress resilience fostering properties of a cosmetic routine	8
Enriched environment ameliorates dexamethasone effects on emotional reactivity and metabolic parameters in mice	8
Safe in my heart: resting heart rate variability longitudinally predicts emotion regulation, worry, and sense of safeness during COVID-19 lockdown	8
Hair cortisol predicts avoidance behavior and depressiveness after first-time and single-event trauma exposure in motor vehicle crash victims	8
Effect of acute psychosocial stress on the brain-derived neurotrophic factor in humans – a randomized cross within trial	8
Social isolation in mice: behavior, immunity, and tumor growth	8
A validation study on fingernail cortisol: correlations with one-month cortisol levels estimated by hair and saliva samples	7
Vasopressin and post-traumatic stress disorder	7
Mild-to-moderate schizotypal traits relate to physiological arousal from social stress	7
Vagally mediated heart rate variability, stress, and perceived social support: a focus on sex differences	7
Everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure: do social closeness and timing matter?	7
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, gut microbiota composition and serum cortisol levels	7
Cognitive impairments and recovery in patients with work-related stress complaints – four years later	7
Reflections on Bruce S. McEwen’s contributions to stress neurobiology and so much more	7
Design and validation of an electrophysiological based tool to assess chronic stress. Case study: burnout syndrome in caregivers	7
The streamlined allostatic load index is associated with perceived stress in life – findings from the MIDUS study	7
Searching for glycomic biomarkers for predicting resilience and vulnerability in a rat model of posttraumatic stress disorder	7
Hippocampal NG2+ pericytes in chronically stressed rats and depressed patients: a quantitative study	7
Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer	7
The effects of light exposure on the cortisol stress response in human males	6
γ-Oryzanol produces an antidepressant-like effect in a chronic unpredictable mild stress model of depression in Drosophila melanogaster	6
Lack of social touch alters anxiety-like and social behaviors in male mice	6
Married but lonely. Impact of poor marital quality on diurnal cortisol patterns in older people: findings from the cross-sectional KORA-Age study	6
Social defeat stress affects resident’s clock gene and bdnf expression in the brain	6
Pre-pandemic electrodermal activity predicts current COVID-related fears: household size during lockdown as a moderating factor	6
Cortisol changes in healthy children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
A proposed role for glucocorticoids in mediating dopamine-dependent cue-reward learning	6
Differential effects of recent versus past traumas on mood, social support, binge drinking, emotional eating and BMI, and on neural responses to acute stress	6
Menstrual variation in the acute testosterone and cortisol response to laboratory stressors correlate with baseline testosterone fluctuations at a within- and between-person level	6
Chronic unpredictable stress shifts rat behavior from exploration to exploitation	6
Acute psychosocial stress increases third-party helping but not punishing behavior	6
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) supplementation alleviates dexamethasone treatment-induced oxidative stress and inflammation response in broiler chickens	6
Validity of the Trier Social Stress Test in studying discrimination stress	6
Are Nestin-positive cells responsive to stress?	6
Elevated miR-34a expression and altered transcriptional profile are associated with adverse electromechanical remodeling in the heart of male rats exposed to social stress	6
The association between chronic stress, hair cortisol, and angiographically documented coronary atherosclerosis, a case-control study	5
Restraint stress induces uterine microenvironment disorder in mice during early pregnancy through the β₂-AR/cAMP/PKA pathway	5
DHEA-S production capacity in relation to perceived prolonged stress	5

Changes in kynurenine pathway metabolites after acute psychosocial stress in healthy males: a single-arm pilot study	5
Immediate stress alters social and object interaction and recognition memory in nearly isogenic rat strains with differing stress reactivity	5
Childhood maltreatment and within-person associations between cortisol and affective experience	5
Emotional stress & decision-making: an emotional stressor significantly reduces loss aversion	5
Blunted opioid regulation of the HPA stress response during nicotine withdrawal: therapeutic implications	5
Stress and steroid interaction modulates expression of estrogen receptor alpha in the brain, pituitary, and testes of immatureGallus gallus domesticus	5
Hyper-reactivity of HPA axis in Fischer 344 rats is associated with impaired cardiovascular and behavioral adaptation to repeated restraint stress	5
Effectiveness of game-based meditation therapy on neurobiological stress systems in adolescents with posttraumatic symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	5
Behavioral effects of chronic stress in Carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	5
Chronic stress and anticipatory event-related potentials: the moderating role of resilience	5
“Sick-but-not-dead”: multiple paths to catecholamine deficiency in Lewy body diseases	4
Help or punishment: acute stress moderates basal testosterone's association with prosocial behavior	4
Joint associations of regular exercise and healthy diet with psychobiological stress reactivity in a healthy male sample	4
The effect of kangaroo care on modulate chronic stress response in preterm infants and mothers	4
What moderates salivary markers of inflammation reactivity to stress? A descriptive report and meta-regression	4
Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women	4
Food and nutritional insecurity is associated with depressive symptoms mediated by NR3C1 gene promoter 1F methylation	4
Increase in cortisol concentration due to standardized bright and blue light exposure on saliva cortisol in the morning following sleep laboratory	4
Reward anticipation buffers neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to acute psychosocial stress in healthy young adults	4
The same stress has divergent effects on social versus asocial manifestations of anxiety-like behavior over time	4
Age-dependent changes in hormonal stress reactivity following repeated restraint stress throughout adolescence in male rats	4
Maternal separation with neonatal pain influences later-life fear conditioning and somatosenation in male and female rats	4
Males with low risk-taking propensity overestimate risk under acute psychological stress	4
Testing a method to improve predictions of disease and mortality risk in western lowland gorillas (gorilla gorilla gorilla) using allostatic load	4
Change in toddlers’ cortisol activity during a year in childcare. Associations with childcare quality, child temperament, well-being and maternal education	4
Physiological behavior during stress anticipation across different chronic stress exposure adaptive models	4
Children’s hair cortisol and hair testosterone concentrations in response to environmental changes: from summer holidays to school	3
Chronic stress in adolescence differentially affects cocaine vulnerability in adulthood in a selectively bred rat model of individual differences: role of accumbal dopamine signaling	3
Examining the same-day relationship between morning cortisol after awakening, perceived stress in the morning, and physical activity in youth	3
Interaction ofFKBP5variant rs3800373 and city living alters the neural stress response in the anterior cingulate cortex	3
Effects of social tolerance on stress: hair cortisol concentrations in the tolerant Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana) and the despotic long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)	3
Identification of salivary microRNA profiles in male mouse model of chronic sleep disorder	3
Chronic stress predicts post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms via executive function deficits among urban American Indian children	3
Effects of psychosocial stress on prosociality: the moderating role of current life stress and thought control	3
Venlafaxine reduces the striatal il6/il10 ratio and increases hippocampal GR expression in female mice subjected to chronic social instability stress	3
Stress response asymmetries in African American emerging adults exposed to chronic social adversity	3
Measuring stress: a review of the current cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) measurement techniques and considerations for the future of mental health monitoring	3
Gender roles are related to cortisol habituation to repeated social evaluative stressors in adults: secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial	3
Possible roles of brain derived neurotrophic factor and corticotropin releasing hormone neurons in the nucleus of hippocampal commissure functioning within the avian neuroendocrine regulation of stres	3
Applied relaxation and cortisol secretion: findings from a randomized controlled indicated prevention trial in adults with stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms	3
Relationships between antenatal corticosteroids and catecholamine blood pressure support in neonates: considering of maternal stress-related diseases	3
Association of stress-related neural activity and baseline interleukin-6 plasma levels in healthy adults	3
Variation in trauma-related behavioral effects using a preclinical rat model of three predator exposure stress	3