Neurobiology of Stress

Papers
(The median citation count of Neurobiology of Stress is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation62
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Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic54
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone48
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques43
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents41
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?39
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Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness38
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice37
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)35
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain34
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala34
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice33
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children32
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue32
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats32
Chronic adolescent stress increases exploratory behavior but does not appear to change the acute stress response in adult male C57BL/6 mice31
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses31
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects30
Stress-induced vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction depends on cofilin modulation29
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome29
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development29
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder28
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation28
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue28
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties28
Dual imaging of dendritic spines and mitochondria in vivo reveals hotspots of plasticity and metabolic adaptation to stress27
Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations27
Default mode network connectivity contributes the augment effect stress recovery by natural viewing27
Withdrawal notice to: “Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats” [27
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies27
Pyridostigmine bromide elicits progressive and chronic impairments in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male rats26
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus25
Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP25
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward25
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons25
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure25
Cellular senescence as a driver of cognitive decline triggered by chronic unpredictable stress24
Hyperexcitation of the glutamatergic neurons in lateral hypothalamus induced by chronic pain contributes to depression-like behavior and learning and memory impairment in male mice24
Acute stress blunts prediction error signals in the dorsal striatum during reinforcement learning24
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses24
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats24
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF23
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept23
Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor-mediated stimulation of a GABAergic projection from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus23
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats23
Roles of corticotropin-releasing factor signaling in the lateral habenula in anxiety-like and alcohol drinking behaviors in male rats23
Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people22
Frontal cortical volume deficits as enduring evidence of childhood abuse in community adults with AUD and HIV infection comorbidity22
Male long-Evans rats: An outbred model of marked hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal hyperactivity22
Effects of chronic stress on cognitive function – From neurobiology to intervention22
Early life stress induced sex-specific changes in behavior is paralleled by altered locus coeruleus physiology in BALB/cJ mice22
Can the gut-brain axis provide insight into psilocybin's therapeutic value in reducing stress?22
Multidimensional predictors of antidepressant responses: Integrating mitochondrial, genetic, metabolic and environmental factors with clinical outcomes21
An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function21
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc21
Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder21
Sex and chronic stress alter the distribution of glutamate receptors within rat hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells following oxycodone conditioned place preference20
Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression20
Greater stress and trauma mediate race-related differences in epigenetic age between Black and White young adults in a community sample20
The coupling of RACK1 with the beta isoform of the glucocorticoid receptor promotes resilience to chronic stress exposure20
Toll-like receptor 7: A novel neuroimmune target to reduce excessive alcohol consumption20
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood19
Stress-induced visceral pain in female rats is associated with epigenetic remodeling in the central nucleus of the amygdala19
Effects of social isolation on locus coeruleus opioid receptor expression and affective behavior19
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study19
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions19
Deep brain stimulation changes locus coeruleus responses to social stress from activation to inhibition19
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms18
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Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice18
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats18
The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus18
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress18
Acute stress impairs visual path integration17
Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder17
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model17
Polygenic scores for empathy associate with posttraumatic stress severity in response to certain traumatic events17
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS17
Reversed patterns of resting state functional connectivity for females vs. males in posttraumatic stress disorder17
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats17
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats17
Consideration of sex as a biological variable in the translation of pharmacotherapy for stress-associated drug seeking16
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Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice16
Roles of miR-432 and circ_0000418 in mediating the anti-depressant action of ADAR116
From genetics to systems biology of stress-related mental disorders16
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Corticosterone dynamically regulates retrotransposable element expression in the rat hippocampus and C6 cells15
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life15
Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG115
A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems15
Acute stress activates basolateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 (CRHR1): Topographical distribution and projection-specific activation in male and female15
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner15
Transcriptomic profiles of susceptibility and resilience to stress in the amygdala and hippocampus of male rats14
Early life adversity affecting the attachment bond alters ventral tegmental area transcriptomic patterning and behavior almost exclusively in female mice14
Prenatal stress dysregulates resting-state functional connectivity and sensory motifs14
Building a social brain: Cells, circuits and behavior across the lifespan14
Chronic restraint stress produces sex-specific behavioral and molecular outcomes in the dorsal and ventral rat hippocampus13
Epigenetic mechanisms impacted by chronic stress across the rodent lifespan13
Insights from a laboratory and naturalistic investigation on stress, rumination and frontal brain functioning in MDD: An fNIRS study13
Maternal immune activation alters placental histone-3 lysine-9 tri-methylation, offspring sensorimotor processing, and hypothalamic transposable element expression in a sex-specific manner13
Longitudinal monitoring of prefrontal cortical ensemble dynamics reveals new insights into stress habituation13
Genetic disruption of dopamine β-hydroxylase dysregulates innate responses to predator odor in mice13
Glucocorticoids modulate neural activity via a rapid non-genomic effect on Kv2.2 channels in the central nervous system13
Hippocampal-specific insulin resistance elicits behavioral despair and hippocampal dendritic atrophy13
The amygdala mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple interacting mechanisms13
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Emotional comorbidities in epilepsy result from seizure-induced corticosterone activity13
Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens core and shell subregions in the expression and extinction of conditioned fear13
Cellular and immunometabolic mechanisms of inflammation in depression: Preliminary findings from single cell RNA sequencing and a tribute to Bruce McEwen13
Effects of autotaxin and lysophosphatidic acid deficiencies on depression-like behaviors in mice exposed to chronic unpredictable mild stress13
Youth mental health crisis: A translational view of the COVID-19 pandemic13
Estimating foraging behavior in rodents using a modified paradigm measuring threat imminence dynamics12
Cortical volume alteration in the superior parietal region mediates the relationship between childhood abuse and PTSD avoidance symptoms: A complementary multimodal neuroimaging study12
The link between early-life adversity and later alcohol use disorder: A role for microglia?12
Exposure to early-life stress uncovers shared biological signatures underlying vulnerability in the habenula and insular cortex of male and female adult rats12
Greater maltreatment severity is associated with smaller brain volume with implication for intellectual ability in young children12
A prospective examination of sex differences in posttraumatic autonomic functioning12
Aggression as a contributing factor to social defeat and stress vulnerability12
Adolescent environmental enrichment induces social resilience and alters neural gene expression in a selectively bred rodent model with anxious phenotype12
Maternal adverse childhood experiences and infant subcortical brain volume12
Translational relevance of behavioral, neural, and electroencephalographic profiles in a mouse model of post-traumatic stress disorder11
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Whole-brain input mapping of the lateral versus medial anterodorsal bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the mouse11
Disentangling sex differences in the shared genetic architecture of posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic experiences, and social support with body size and composition11
Influence of pro-obesogenic dietary habits on stress-induced cognitive alterations in healthy adult volunteers11
Serum adiponectin-levels are predictive of posttraumatic stress disorder in women11
The mineralocorticoid receptor and extra-synaptic NMDA receptor in the lateral habenula involve in the vulnerability to early life stress in the maternal separation model11
Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review10
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Neural correlates of stress-reactive rumination in depression – The role of childhood trauma and social anxiety10
DCC, a potential target for controlling fear memory extinction and hippocampal LTP in male mice receiving single prolonged stress10
The neurocomputational signature of decision-making for unfair offers in females under acute psychological stress10
Threat imminence reveals links among unfolding of anticipatory physiological response, cortical-subcortical intrinsic functional connectivity, and anxiety10
Transcriptional and cell type profiles of cortical brain regions showing ultradian cortisol rhythm dependent responses to emotional face stimulation10
The role of objective sleep in implicit and explicit affect regulation: A comprehensive review10
Subjective stress and any drinking during alcohol treatment: Disentangling within and between person autoregressive effects10
Regulation of stress-provoked aggressive behavior using endocannabinoids10
Prenatal stress leads to deficits in brain development, mood related behaviors and gut microbiota in offspring10
Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms10
Relationship between psychosocial stress-induced prefrontal cortex activity and gut microbiota in healthy Participants—A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study10
Blue light at night produces stress-evoked heightened aggression by enhancing brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the basolateral amygdala10
High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor10
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Distinct populations of lateral preoptic nucleus neurons jointly contribute to depressive-like behaviors through divergent projections in male mice9
Isolation of the differential effects of chronic and acute stress in a manner that is not confounded by stress severity9
Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive and emotional responses to psychosocial stressors in healthy humans9
The neural correlates of psychosocial stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of spectral analysis EEG studies9
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Early-life stress impairs acquisition and retrieval of fear memories: sex-effects, corticosterone modulation, and partial prevention by targeting glucocorticoid receptors at adolescent age9
Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults9
No effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis9
Stronger functional network connectivity and social support buffer against negative affect during the COVID-19 outbreak and after the pandemic peak9
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Amygdala and hippocampal subregions mediate outcomes following trauma during typical development: Evidence from high-resolution structural MRI9
IMVEST, an immersive multimodal virtual environment stress test for humans that adjusts challenge to individual's performance9
Inter- and transgenerational heritability of preconception chronic stress or alcohol exposure: Translational outcomes in brain and behavior8
Stress-induced cortisol response predicts empathy for pain: The role of task-based connectivity between the insula and sensorimotor cortex during acute stress8
Interactive effects of early life adversity and adolescent basolateral amygdala activity on corticolimbic connectivity and behavior8
Integrative approaches to studying sleep, stress, and related disorders8
Cholecystokinin-expressing interneurons mediated inhibitory transmission and plasticity in basolateral amygdala modulate stress-induced anxiety-like behaviors in mice8
Cross-species analysis uncovers the mitochondrial stress response in the hippocampus as a shared mechanism in mouse early life stress and human depression8
Illuminating the impact of stress: In vivo approaches to track stress-related neural adaptations8
Increased salivary oxytocin correlates with lower self-reported interoceptive accuracy in functional neurological disorders8
Chronic stress promotes basal ganglia disinhibition by increasing the excitatory drive of direct-pathway neurons8
Sex and hormonal status influence the anxiolytic-like effect of oxytocin in mice8
The habenula clock influences response to a stressor8
Electroacupuncture attenuates anxiety caused by chronic mild stress through inhibiting NOX2-derived oxidative stress in ventral hippocampus8
The role of the stress system in recovery after traumatic brain injury: A tribute to Bruce S. McEwen7
Sex-dependent effects of early life stress on reinforcement learning and limbic cortico-striatal functional connectivity7
Potential vulnerability and resilience to accelerated brain aging in women exposed to stressful life events: insights from the brain age prediction model7
Characterizing the behavioral and neuroendocrine features of susceptibility and resilience to social stress7
Impact of stress resilience and susceptibility on fear learning, anxiety, and alcohol intake7
Glucocorticoid receptors regulate central amygdala GABAergic synapses in Marchigian-Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats7
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Neuroanatomical prediction of individual anxiety problems level using machine learning models: A population-based cohort study of young adults7
Neural connectome prospectively encodes the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Prior experience with behavioral control over stress facilitates social dominance7
Endocannabinoid and neuroplasticity-related changes as susceptibility factors in a rat model of posttraumatic stress disorder7
Acute stress yields a sex-dependent facilitation of signaled active avoidance in rats7
Astrocyte focal adhesion kinase reduces passive stress coping by inhibiting ciliary neurotrophic factor only in female mice7
Nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation improves depressive-like behaviors through BDNF-mediated alterations in brain functional connectivity of dopaminergic pathway7
Alcohol and stress exposure across the lifespan are key risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline7
CRF-receptor1 modulation of the dopamine projection to prelimbic cortex facilitates cognitive flexibility after acute and chronic stress6
Microglia-specific transcriptional repression of interferon-regulated genes after prolonged stress in mice6
Hippocampal neurogenesis mediates sex-specific effects of social isolation and exercise on fear extinction in adolescence6
Intact GR dimerization is critical for restraining plasma ACTH levels during chronic psychosocial stress6
Intersectional analysis of chronic mild stress-induced lncRNA-mRNA interaction networks in rat hippocampus reveals potential anti-depression/anxiety drug targets6
Dopamine and D1 receptor in hippocampal dentate gyrus involved in chronic stress-induced alteration of spatial learning and memory in rats6
Pubertal changes in the pituitary and adrenal glands of male and female rats: Relevance to stress reactivity6
Bruce S. McEwen and his continued legacy6
Effects of chronic social stress on oligodendrocyte proliferation-maturation and myelin status in prefrontal cortex and amygdala in adult mice6
Behavioral coping with chronic defeat stress in mice: A systematic review of current protocols6
Sex-dependent factors of alcohol and neuroimmune mechanisms6
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miR-9-5p is involved in the rescue of stress-dependent dendritic shortening of hippocampal pyramidal neurons induced by acute antidepressant treatment with ketamine6
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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 rats6
Basal cortisol level modulates stress-induced opioid-seeking behavior6
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