Neurobiology of Stress

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Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	37
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Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	36
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	36
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	35
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	33
Central medial and paraventricular thalamic afferents to the orbitofrontal cortex have differential effects on reversal learning	29
Early-life adversity in rodents: Experimental design is of the essence	28
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	27
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	26
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)	26
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	26
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	26
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	26
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	26
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	26
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	25
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects	24
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	23
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies	23
Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP	22
Withdrawal notice to: “Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats” [	22

Amygdala reactivity to social stress in young adults: A scoping review of neuroimaging studies	22
Early adversity alters neurodevelopmental milestones in male and female rat pups and motor cortex morphology and gait in juveniles	21
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward	20
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	20
Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations	20
Default mode network connectivity contributes the augment effect stress recovery by natural viewing	20
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus	19
Science with Seymour Levine: on glucocorticoid action from birth to senescence	19
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept	19
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses	19
Hyperexcitation of the glutamatergic neurons in lateral hypothalamus induced by chronic pain contributes to depression-like behavior and learning and memory impairment in male mice	18
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats	18
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats	17
Hydroxytyrosol confers resilience against the depressive, anxiogenic and cognition-disruptive effects of chronic stress	17
Norepinephrine neurons in the locus coeruleus and the nucleus of the solitary tract drive different stress-related behavioral outputs in mice	17
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF	17
Early life stress induced sex-specific changes in behavior is paralleled by altered locus coeruleus physiology in BALB/cJ mice	17
Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people	17
Effects of chronic stress on cognitive function – From neurobiology to intervention	16
Gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity to produce short-chain fatty acids are associated with acute stress reactivity in healthy adults	15
Frontal cortical volume deficits as enduring evidence of childhood abuse in community adults with AUD and HIV infection comorbidity	15
An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function	15
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood	14
Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder	14
Toll-like receptor 7: A novel neuroimmune target to reduce excessive alcohol consumption	14
Can the gut-brain axis provide insight into psilocybin's therapeutic value in reducing stress?	14
Greater stress and trauma mediate race-related differences in epigenetic age between Black and White young adults in a community sample	13
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress	13
The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus	13
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions	13
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc	13
Effects of social isolation on locus coeruleus opioid receptor expression and affective behavior	13
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study	13
Deep brain stimulation changes locus coeruleus responses to social stress from activation to inhibition	13
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms	13
Consistent changes in global gene expression patterns despite strong variation in individual gene expression in the male mouse hippocampus following early life stress	12
The adrenal is doing what it’s supposed to do, you just don't understand it	12
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice	12
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Integrated brain and body mechanisms underlying acute stress and trauma-related vulnerability	12
Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder	12
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Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats	11
Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice	11
Adolescent adversity persistently induces proinflammatory HMGB1 signaling and disrupts the basal forebrain cholinergic system in female rats	11
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats	11
Acute stress impairs visual path integration	11
Postpartum adversity in rats creates a hypervigilant maternal state through selective salience-circuit recruitment	11
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CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats	11

Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model	11
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life	10
Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG1	10
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Behavioral phenotype analysis highlights sleep heterogeneity and brain cellular activations in a mouse model of PTSD	10
Acute stress activates basolateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 (CRHR1): Topographical distribution and projection-specific activation in male and female	10
The progesterone to estradiol ratio predicts fear extinction in mice and humans.	10
Genetic disruption of dopamine β-hydroxylase dysregulates innate responses to predator odor in mice	10
A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems	10
Environmental enrichment as an intervention to prevent behavioral and neurobiological consequences of maternal separation in rodents: a scope review	10
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner	10
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Cellular and immunometabolic mechanisms of inflammation in depression: Preliminary findings from single cell RNA sequencing and a tribute to Bruce McEwen	9
Youth mental health crisis: A translational view of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Glucocorticoids modulate neural activity via a rapid non-genomic effect on Kv2.2 channels in the central nervous system	9
Transcriptomic analysis of chronic social instability stress during adolescence reveals major shifts in the extracellular matrix	9
The amygdala mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple interacting mechanisms	9
Building a social brain: Cells, circuits and behavior across the lifespan	9
Transcriptomic profiles of susceptibility and resilience to stress in the amygdala and hippocampus of male rats	9
Longitudinal monitoring of prefrontal cortical ensemble dynamics reveals new insights into stress habituation	9
Emotional comorbidities in epilepsy result from seizure-induced corticosterone activity	9
Aggression as a contributing factor to social defeat and stress vulnerability	8
Brain network centrality following stress in adults with major depressive disorder and childhood trauma	8
Effects of autotaxin and lysophosphatidic acid deficiencies on depression-like behaviors in mice exposed to chronic unpredictable mild stress	8
Exposure to early-life stress uncovers shared biological signatures underlying vulnerability in the habenula and insular cortex of male and female adult rats	8
Estimating foraging behavior in rodents using a modified paradigm measuring threat imminence dynamics	8
The role of proinflammatory response and the kynurenine pathway in the association between childhood maltreatment and lifetime substance use disorder	8
Cortical volume alteration in the superior parietal region mediates the relationship between childhood abuse and PTSD avoidance symptoms: A complementary multimodal neuroimaging study	8
Adolescent environmental enrichment induces social resilience and alters neural gene expression in a selectively bred rodent model with anxious phenotype	8
Greater maltreatment severity is associated with smaller brain volume with implication for intellectual ability in young children	8
Maternal adverse childhood experiences and infant subcortical brain volume	8
The mineralocorticoid receptor and extra-synaptic NMDA receptor in the lateral habenula involve in the vulnerability to early life stress in the maternal separation model	7
The role of objective sleep in implicit and explicit affect regulation: A comprehensive review	7
Blue light at night produces stress-evoked heightened aggression by enhancing brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the basolateral amygdala	7
Maternal immune activation alters placental histone-3 lysine-9 tri-methylation, offspring sensorimotor processing, and hypothalamic transposable element expression in a sex-specific manner	7
Serum adiponectin-levels are predictive of posttraumatic stress disorder in women	7
Subjective stress and any drinking during alcohol treatment: Disentangling within and between person autoregressive effects	7
Age-dependent effects of chronic traumatic and social isolation stress on mice social behavior	7
DCC, a potential target for controlling fear memory extinction and hippocampal LTP in male mice receiving single prolonged stress	7
The link between early-life adversity and later alcohol use disorder: A role for microglia?	7
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Whole-brain input mapping of the lateral versus medial anterodorsal bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the mouse	7
Transcriptional and cell type profiles of cortical brain regions showing ultradian cortisol rhythm dependent responses to emotional face stimulation	7
Neural correlates of stress-reactive rumination in depression – The role of childhood trauma and social anxiety	7
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Differential associations between early life adversity subtypes and adolescent stress reactivity across neuroendocrine, autonomic, immune, and metabolic systems	7
The neurocomputational signature of decision-making for unfair offers in females under acute psychological stress	7
Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms	6
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Cholecystokinin-expressing interneurons mediated inhibitory transmission and plasticity in basolateral amygdala modulate stress-induced anxiety-like behaviors in mice	6
Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive and emotional responses to psychosocial stressors in healthy humans	6
Chronic stress promotes basal ganglia disinhibition by increasing the excitatory drive of direct-pathway neurons	6
Inter- and transgenerational heritability of preconception chronic stress or alcohol exposure: Translational outcomes in brain and behavior	6
Comparative analysis of multiple chronic unpredictable mild stress paradigms in mice: Behavioural and physiological validity	6
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Isolation of the differential effects of chronic and acute stress in a manner that is not confounded by stress severity	6
Corrigendum to “The insular cortex-nucleus tractus solitarius glutamatergic pathway involved in acute stress-induced gastric mucosal damage in rats” [Neurobiol. Stress (2025) 100723]	6
Early-life stress impairs acquisition and retrieval of fear memories: sex-effects, corticosterone modulation, and partial prevention by targeting glucocorticoid receptors at adolescent age	6
Relationship between psychosocial stress-induced prefrontal cortex activity and gut microbiota in healthy Participants—A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	6
Cross-species analysis uncovers the mitochondrial stress response in the hippocampus as a shared mechanism in mouse early life stress and human depression	6
High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor	6
IBS stress reactivity phenotype is associated with blood transcriptome profiles and microstructural and functional brain changes	6
Distinct populations of lateral preoptic nucleus neurons jointly contribute to depressive-like behaviors through divergent projections in male mice	6
Potential vulnerability and resilience to accelerated brain aging in women exposed to stressful life events: insights from the brain age prediction model	5
Astrocyte focal adhesion kinase reduces passive stress coping by inhibiting ciliary neurotrophic factor only in female mice	5
Glucocorticoid receptors regulate central amygdala GABAergic synapses in Marchigian-Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	5
Sex and hormonal status influence the anxiolytic-like effect of oxytocin in mice	5
Increased salivary oxytocin correlates with lower self-reported interoceptive accuracy in functional neurological disorders	5
Integrative approaches to studying sleep, stress, and related disorders	5
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Nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation improves depressive-like behaviors through BDNF-mediated alterations in brain functional connectivity of dopaminergic pathway	5
Microglia-specific transcriptional repression of interferon-regulated genes after prolonged stress in mice	5
Stress-induced cortisol response predicts empathy for pain: The role of task-based connectivity between the insula and sensorimotor cortex during acute stress	5
Interactive effects of early life adversity and adolescent basolateral amygdala activity on corticolimbic connectivity and behavior	5
Neuroanatomical prediction of individual anxiety problems level using machine learning models: A population-based cohort study of young adults	5
Alcohol and stress exposure across the lifespan are key risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline	5
Neuroplacentology of stress: Novel frontiers linking maternal mental health to offspring neurodevelopment	5
Sex-dependent effects of early life stress on reinforcement learning and limbic cortico-striatal functional connectivity	5
No effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	5
Electroacupuncture attenuates anxiety caused by chronic mild stress through inhibiting NOX2-derived oxidative stress in ventral hippocampus	5

Illuminating the impact of stress: In vivo approaches to track stress-related neural adaptations	5
Acute stress yields a sex-dependent facilitation of signaled active avoidance in rats	4
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Intact GR dimerization is critical for restraining plasma ACTH levels during chronic psychosocial stress	4
Basal cortisol level modulates stress-induced opioid-seeking behavior	4
Dopamine and D1 receptor in hippocampal dentate gyrus involved in chronic stress-induced alteration of spatial learning and memory in rats	4
Bruce S. McEwen and his continued legacy	4
Endocannabinoid and neuroplasticity-related changes as susceptibility factors in a rat model of posttraumatic stress disorder	4
Different early-life adversity paradigms have disparate effects on maternal care, neuronal activation, and social behavior in developing mice	4
Behavioral coping with chronic defeat stress in mice: A systematic review of current protocols	4
Controlling intrusive thoughts of future fears under stress	4
Physiological and behavioral contagion/buffering effects of chronic unpredictable stress in a socially enriched environment: A preliminary study	4
Prior experience with behavioral control over stress facilitates social dominance	4
The role of the stress system in recovery after traumatic brain injury: A tribute to Bruce S. McEwen	4
Hair stress hormones in individuals with a recent suicide attempt experiencing a depressive episode	4
Prenatal stress induces transient developmental alterations in distinct GABAergic populations and leads to long-lasting behavioral abnormalities	4
The importance of REM sleep fragmentation in the effects of stress on sleep: Perspectives from preclinical studies	4