OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neurobiology of Stress is 27. 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
Towards a psychobiotic therapy for depression: Bifidobacterium breve CCFM1025 reverses chronic stress-induced depressive symptoms and gut microbial abnormalities in mice	150
Gender-related time course of sleep disturbances and psychological symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study on the Italian population	98
A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	92
A systematic review of the Trier Social Stress Test methodology: Issues in promoting study comparison and replicable research	70
Allopregnanolone in premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD): Evidence for dysregulated sensitivity to GABA-A receptor modulating neuroactive steroids across the menstrual cycle	70
Allopregnanolone in postpartum depression: Role in pathophysiology and treatment	70
Probiotic consumption relieved human stress and anxiety symptoms possibly via modulating the neuroactive potential of the gut microbiota	60
Synaptic and behavioral effects of chronic stress are linked to dynamic and sex-specific changes in microglia function and astrocyte dystrophy	50
Allopregnanolone: From molecular pathophysiology to therapeutics. A historical perspective	50
Alterations of frontal-temporal gray matter volume associate with clinical measures of older adults with COVID-19	45
Post-finasteride syndrome: An emerging clinical problem	42
A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice	42
Social isolation alters behavior, the gut-immune-brain axis, and neurochemical circuits in male and female prairie voles	39
Realising the therapeutic potential of neuroactive steroid modulators of the GABAA receptor	37
Pleiotropic actions of allopregnanolone underlie therapeutic benefits in stress-related disease	34
Involvement of oxidative stress and mitochondrial mechanisms in air pollution-related neurobiological impairments	34
Anatomically and functionally distinct locus coeruleus efferents mediate opposing effects on anxiety-like behavior	32
Amygdala functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of trauma prospectively predicts severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms	31
Exposure to different early-life stress experiences results in differentially altered DNA methylation in the brain and immune system	30
Stress hormones mediate developmental plasticity in vertebrates with complex life cycles	30
To stress or not to stress: Brain-behavior-immune interaction may weaken or promote the immune response to SARS-CoV-2	30
Sex-stratified gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study of trauma, posttraumatic-stress, and suicidality	29
The role of allopregnanolone in depressive-like behaviors: Focus on neurotrophic proteins	28
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure	28
Lateral hypothalamus orexinergic inputs to lateral habenula modulate maladaptation after social defeat stress	27

Transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation reduces sympathetic responses to stress in posttraumatic stress disorder: A double-blind, randomized, sham controlled trial	27
Susceptibility and resilience to chronic social defeat stress in adolescent male mice: No correlation between social avoidance and sucrose preference	27
Lacticaseibacillus paracasei Lpc-37® improves psychological and physiological markers of stress and anxiety in healthy adults: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled and parallel clinical tria	27