Neurobiology of Stress

Papers
(The median citation count of Neurobiology of Stress 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice50
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats36
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation36
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic36
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?35
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice34
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala34
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone32
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain29
Central medial and paraventricular thalamic afferents to the orbitofrontal cortex have differential effects on reversal learning28
EARLY-LIFE ADVERSITY IN RODENTS: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN IS OF THE ESSENCE27
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children27
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)27
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents27
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques27
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue27
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses26
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation26
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects26
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies25
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome25
Pyridostigmine bromide elicits progressive and chronic impairments in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male rats24
Default mode network connectivity contributes the augment effect stress recovery by natural viewing23
Withdrawal notice to: “Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats” [23
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward22
Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP22
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons22
Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations21
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus20
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses20
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats19
Early life stress induced sex-specific changes in behavior is paralleled by altered locus coeruleus physiology in BALB/cJ mice19
Hyperexcitation of the glutamatergic neurons in lateral hypothalamus induced by chronic pain contributes to depression-like behavior and learning and memory impairment in male mice19
Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people19
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept19
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats19
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF19
Effects of chronic stress on cognitive function – From neurobiology to intervention18
An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function18
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc17
Toll-like receptor 7: A novel neuroimmune target to reduce excessive alcohol consumption17
Frontal cortical volume deficits as enduring evidence of childhood abuse in community adults with AUD and HIV infection comorbidity17
Can the gut-brain axis provide insight into psilocybin's therapeutic value in reducing stress?17
Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder17
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions16
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress15
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood15
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study15
Greater stress and trauma mediate race-related differences in epigenetic age between Black and White young adults in a community sample15
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice15
Effects of social isolation on locus coeruleus opioid receptor expression and affective behavior14
The adrenal is doing what it’s supposed to do, you just don't understand it13
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Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder13
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The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus13
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats13
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats13
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats13
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms13
Acute stress impairs visual path integration13
Deep brain stimulation changes locus coeruleus responses to social stress from activation to inhibition13
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model13
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Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG112
Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice12
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life12
Behavioral phenotype analysis highlights sleep heterogeneity and brain cellular activations in a mouse model of PTSD11
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A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems11
Glucocorticoids modulate neural activity via a rapid non-genomic effect on Kv2.2 channels in the central nervous system11
The amygdala mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple interacting mechanisms11
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner11
Adolescent adversity persistently induces proinflammatory HMGB1 signaling and disrupts the basal forebrain cholinergic system in female rats11
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Longitudinal monitoring of prefrontal cortical ensemble dynamics reveals new insights into stress habituation11
Acute stress activates basolateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 (CRHR1): Topographical distribution and projection-specific activation in male and female11
Youth mental health crisis: A translational view of the COVID-19 pandemic11
Building a social brain: Cells, circuits and behavior across the lifespan11
Aggression as a contributing factor to social defeat and stress vulnerability10
Adolescent environmental enrichment induces social resilience and alters neural gene expression in a selectively bred rodent model with anxious phenotype10
The link between early-life adversity and later alcohol use disorder: A role for microglia?10
Genetic disruption of dopamine β-hydroxylase dysregulates innate responses to predator odor in mice10
Emotional comorbidities in epilepsy result from seizure-induced corticosterone activity10
Estimating foraging behavior in rodents using a modified paradigm measuring threat imminence dynamics10
Transcriptomic profiles of susceptibility and resilience to stress in the amygdala and hippocampus of male rats10
Maternal immune activation alters placental histone-3 lysine-9 tri-methylation, offspring sensorimotor processing, and hypothalamic transposable element expression in a sex-specific manner10
Cortical volume alteration in the superior parietal region mediates the relationship between childhood abuse and PTSD avoidance symptoms: A complementary multimodal neuroimaging study10
Cellular and immunometabolic mechanisms of inflammation in depression: Preliminary findings from single cell RNA sequencing and a tribute to Bruce McEwen10
Exposure to early-life stress uncovers shared biological signatures underlying vulnerability in the habenula and insular cortex of male and female adult rats9
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Greater maltreatment severity is associated with smaller brain volume with implication for intellectual ability in young children9
The mineralocorticoid receptor and extra-synaptic NMDA receptor in the lateral habenula involve in the vulnerability to early life stress in the maternal separation model9
Serum adiponectin-levels are predictive of posttraumatic stress disorder in women9
Maternal adverse childhood experiences and infant subcortical brain volume9
Effects of autotaxin and lysophosphatidic acid deficiencies on depression-like behaviors in mice exposed to chronic unpredictable mild stress9
The neurocomputational signature of decision-making for unfair offers in females under acute psychological stress9
Whole-brain input mapping of the lateral versus medial anterodorsal bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the mouse8
Subjective stress and any drinking during alcohol treatment: Disentangling within and between person autoregressive effects8
Relationship between psychosocial stress-induced prefrontal cortex activity and gut microbiota in healthy Participants—A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study8
The neural correlates of psychosocial stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of spectral analysis EEG studies8
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Transcriptional and cell type profiles of cortical brain regions showing ultradian cortisol rhythm dependent responses to emotional face stimulation8
Age-dependent effects of chronic traumatic and social isolation stress on mice social behavior8
Neural correlates of stress-reactive rumination in depression – The role of childhood trauma and social anxiety8
The role of objective sleep in implicit and explicit affect regulation: A comprehensive review8
DCC, a potential target for controlling fear memory extinction and hippocampal LTP in male mice receiving single prolonged stress8
Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms8
Blue light at night produces stress-evoked heightened aggression by enhancing brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the basolateral amygdala8
High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor8
Corrigendum to “The insular cortex-nucleus tractus solitarius glutamatergic pathway involved in acute stress-induced gastric mucosal damage in rats” [Neurobiol. Stress (2025) 100723]7
Early-life stress impairs acquisition and retrieval of fear memories: sex-effects, corticosterone modulation, and partial prevention by targeting glucocorticoid receptors at adolescent age7
Inter- and transgenerational heritability of preconception chronic stress or alcohol exposure: Translational outcomes in brain and behavior7
Cross-species analysis uncovers the mitochondrial stress response in the hippocampus as a shared mechanism in mouse early life stress and human depression7
Cholecystokinin-expressing interneurons mediated inhibitory transmission and plasticity in basolateral amygdala modulate stress-induced anxiety-like behaviors in mice7
Isolation of the differential effects of chronic and acute stress in a manner that is not confounded by stress severity7
IBS stress reactivity phenotype is associated with blood transcriptome profiles and microstructural and functional brain changes7
Stress-induced cortisol response predicts empathy for pain: The role of task-based connectivity between the insula and sensorimotor cortex during acute stress7
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Amygdala and hippocampal subregions mediate outcomes following trauma during typical development: Evidence from high-resolution structural MRI7
Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive and emotional responses to psychosocial stressors in healthy humans7
Sex and hormonal status influence the anxiolytic-like effect of oxytocin in mice7
Illuminating the impact of stress: In vivo approaches to track stress-related neural adaptations7
Electroacupuncture attenuates anxiety caused by chronic mild stress through inhibiting NOX2-derived oxidative stress in ventral hippocampus7
Distinct populations of lateral preoptic nucleus neurons jointly contribute to depressive-like behaviors through divergent projections in male mice7
Chronic stress promotes basal ganglia disinhibition by increasing the excitatory drive of direct-pathway neurons7
No effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis7
Interactive effects of early life adversity and adolescent basolateral amygdala activity on corticolimbic connectivity and behavior6
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Astrocyte focal adhesion kinase reduces passive stress coping by inhibiting ciliary neurotrophic factor only in female mice6
The role of the stress system in recovery after traumatic brain injury: A tribute to Bruce S. McEwen6
Endocannabinoid and neuroplasticity-related changes as susceptibility factors in a rat model of posttraumatic stress disorder6
Pubertal changes in the pituitary and adrenal glands of male and female rats: Relevance to stress reactivity6
Integrative approaches to studying sleep, stress, and related disorders6
Neuroplacentology of stress: Novel frontiers linking maternal mental health to offspring neurodevelopment6
Nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation improves depressive-like behaviors through BDNF-mediated alterations in brain functional connectivity of dopaminergic pathway6
Sex-dependent effects of early life stress on reinforcement learning and limbic cortico-striatal functional connectivity6
Acute stress yields a sex-dependent facilitation of signaled active avoidance in rats6
Microglia-specific transcriptional repression of interferon-regulated genes after prolonged stress in mice6
Increased salivary oxytocin correlates with lower self-reported interoceptive accuracy in functional neurological disorders6
Neuroanatomical prediction of individual anxiety problems level using machine learning models: A population-based cohort study of young adults6
Alcohol and stress exposure across the lifespan are key risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline6
Potential vulnerability and resilience to accelerated brain aging in women exposed to stressful life events: insights from the brain age prediction model6
Glucocorticoid receptors regulate central amygdala GABAergic synapses in Marchigian-Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats6
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Prior experience with behavioral control over stress facilitates social dominance6
Intra-BLA alteration of interneurons’ modulation of activity in rats, reveals a dissociation between effects on anxiety symptoms and extinction learning5
Effects of chronic social stress on oligodendrocyte proliferation-maturation and myelin status in prefrontal cortex and amygdala in adult mice5
Physiological and behavioral contagion/buffering effects of chronic unpredictable stress in a socially enriched environment: A preliminary study5
Behavioral coping with chronic defeat stress in mice: A systematic review of current protocols5
The importance of REM sleep fragmentation in the effects of stress on sleep: Perspectives from preclinical studies5
Basal cortisol level modulates stress-induced opioid-seeking behavior5
Corrigendum to ‘Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder’, Neurobiology of Stress5
Hair stress hormones in individuals with a recent suicide attempt experiencing a depressive episode5
Intact GR dimerization is critical for restraining plasma ACTH levels during chronic psychosocial stress5
Prenatal stress induces transient developmental alterations in distinct GABAergic populations and leads to long-lasting behavioral abnormalities5
Brain-wide mapping of c-Fos expression with fluorescence micro-optical sectioning tomography in a chronic sleep deprivation mouse model5
Sex-dependent factors of alcohol and neuroimmune mechanisms5
Microglia-derived TNF-α inhibiting GABAergic neurons in the anterior lateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis precipitates visceral hypersensitivity induced by colorectal distension in rats5
Bruce S. McEwen and his continued legacy5
Controlling intrusive thoughts of future fears under stress5
Dopamine and D1 receptor in hippocampal dentate gyrus involved in chronic stress-induced alteration of spatial learning and memory in rats5
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