OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Stress is 14. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a psychobiotic therapy for depression: Bifidobacterium breve CCFM1025 reverses chronic stress-induced depressive symptoms and gut microbial abnormalities in mice	157
Gender-related time course of sleep disturbances and psychological symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study on the Italian population	99
A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	93
Allopregnanolone in premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD): Evidence for dysregulated sensitivity to GABA-A receptor modulating neuroactive steroids across the menstrual cycle	73
Allopregnanolone in postpartum depression: Role in pathophysiology and treatment	72
A systematic review of the Trier Social Stress Test methodology: Issues in promoting study comparison and replicable research	71
Probiotic consumption relieved human stress and anxiety symptoms possibly via modulating the neuroactive potential of the gut microbiota	64
Allopregnanolone: From molecular pathophysiology to therapeutics. A historical perspective	51
Synaptic and behavioral effects of chronic stress are linked to dynamic and sex-specific changes in microglia function and astrocyte dystrophy	50
Alterations of frontal-temporal gray matter volume associate with clinical measures of older adults with COVID-19	49
Post-finasteride syndrome: An emerging clinical problem	46
A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice	44
Social isolation alters behavior, the gut-immune-brain axis, and neurochemical circuits in male and female prairie voles	40
Realising the therapeutic potential of neuroactive steroid modulators of the GABAA receptor	38
Pleiotropic actions of allopregnanolone underlie therapeutic benefits in stress-related disease	36
Involvement of oxidative stress and mitochondrial mechanisms in air pollution-related neurobiological impairments	35
Stress hormones mediate developmental plasticity in vertebrates with complex life cycles	33
Amygdala functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of trauma prospectively predicts severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms	33
Anatomically and functionally distinct locus coeruleus efferents mediate opposing effects on anxiety-like behavior	32
Sex-stratified gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study of trauma, posttraumatic-stress, and suicidality	31
To stress or not to stress: Brain-behavior-immune interaction may weaken or promote the immune response to SARS-CoV-2	30
Exposure to different early-life stress experiences results in differentially altered DNA methylation in the brain and immune system	30
Susceptibility and resilience to chronic social defeat stress in adolescent male mice: No correlation between social avoidance and sucrose preference	29
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure	29
The role of allopregnanolone in depressive-like behaviors: Focus on neurotrophic proteins	28

Lateral hypothalamus orexinergic inputs to lateral habenula modulate maladaptation after social defeat stress	28
Transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation reduces sympathetic responses to stress in posttraumatic stress disorder: A double-blind, randomized, sham controlled trial	28
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
Mediterranean diet, stress resilience, and aging in nonhuman primates	27
Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review	27
Glucocorticoids, the evolution of the stress-response, and the primate predicament	27
Increased methylation of NR3C1 and SLC6A4 is associated with blunted cortisol reactivity to stress in major depression	25
A novel mouse model for vulnerability to alcohol dependence induced by early-life adversity	25
Mineralocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid receptor work alone and together in cell-type-specific manner: Implications for resilience prediction and targeted therapy	24
Early life stress dysregulates kappa opioid receptor signaling within the lateral habenula	24
Deconstructing the role of the exposome in youth suicidal ideation: Trauma, neighborhood environment, developmental and gender effects	24
Early life adversity predicts brain-gut alterations associated with increased stress and mood	23
Prenatal stress leads to deficits in brain development, mood related behaviors and gut microbiota in offspring	23
Pregnane steroidogenesis is altered by HIV-1 Tat and morphine: Physiological allopregnanolone is protective against neurotoxic and psychomotor effects	23
Chronic adolescent stress causes sustained impairment of cognitive flexibility and hippocampal synaptic strength in female rats	23
Early life stress-induced alterations in the activity and morphology of ventral tegmental area neurons in female rats	22
Resilience to stress and sex-specific remodeling of microglia and neuronal morphology in a rat model of anxiety and anhedonia	22
Forecasting individual risk for long-term Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in emergency medical settings using biomedical data: A machine learning multicenter cohort study	22
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	22
Cellular senescence as a driver of cognitive decline triggered by chronic unpredictable stress	22
The neural correlates of psychosocial stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of spectral analysis EEG studies	22
Associations between PTSD-Related extinction retention deficits in women and plasma steroids that modulate brain GABAA and NMDA receptor activity	21
Pregnancy associated epigenetic markers of inflammation predict depression and anxiety symptoms in response to discrimination	20
Maternal antioxidant treatment prevents the adverse effects of prenatal stress on the offspring's brain and behavior	20
Infralimbic cortical glutamate output is necessary for the neural and behavioral consequences of chronic stress	20
Composite contributions of cerebrospinal fluid GABAergic neurosteroids, neuropeptide Y and interleukin-6 to PTSD symptom severity in men with PTSD	20
Long-term effects of stress early in life on microRNA-30a and its network: Preventive effects of lurasidone and potential implications for depression vulnerability	20
Dynamic functional network connectivity associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms in COVID-19 survivors	19
Cholinergic neurotransmission in the basolateral amygdala during cued fear extinction	19
Childhood adversity correlates with stable changes in DNA methylation trajectories in children and converges with epigenetic signatures of prenatal stress	19
Variations in response to trauma and hippocampal subfield changes	19
Understanding how stress responses and stress-related behaviors have evolved in zebrafish and mammals	19
Post-traumatic stress disorder and its association with stroke and stroke risk factors: A literature review	19
Dissection of the relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming using the Shank3B mutant autistic model, acute stress model and chronic pain model	19
Neurochemically distinct populations of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis modulate innate fear response to weak threat evoked by predator odor stimuli	18
Early life adversity in male mice sculpts reward circuits	18
Gene expression in the dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortices implicates immune-related gene networks in PTSD	18
BNST transient activity associates with approach behavior in a stressful environment and is modulated by the parabrachial nucleus	18
miR-9-5p is involved in the rescue of stress-dependent dendritic shortening of hippocampal pyramidal neurons induced by acute antidepressant treatment with ketamine	18
A projection from the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus to the shell of the nucleus accumbens contributes to footshock stress-induced social avoidance	17
Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression	17
Proteomic and mitochondrial adaptations to early-life stress are distinct in juveniles and adults	17
The functional connectome predicts feeling of stress on regular days and during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Stress induces microglia-associated synaptic circuit alterations in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex	17
The stress susceptibility factor FKBP51 controls S-ketamine-evoked release of mBDNF in the prefrontal cortex of mice	16
Epigenetic mechanisms impacted by chronic stress across the rodent lifespan	16
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	16
Acute sleep deprivation during pregnancy in rats: Rapid elevation of placental and fetal inflammation and kynurenic acid	16
Cannabis vapor self-administration elicits sex- and dose-specific alterations in stress reactivity in rats	16
PPAR and functional foods: Rationale for natural neurosteroid-based interventions for postpartum depression	16

Genetic evidence for a large overlap and potential bidirectional causal effects between resilience and well-being	16
Long term effects of peripubertal stress on excitatory and inhibitory circuits in the prefrontal cortex of male and female mice	16
Brain-wide mapping of c-fos expression in the single prolonged stress model and the effects of pretreatment with ACH-000029 or prazosin	16
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	16
Allopregnanolone (1938–2019): A trajectory of 80 years of outstanding scientific achievements	16
Do changes in microglial status underlie neurogenesis impairments and depressive-like behaviours induced by psychological stress? A systematic review in animal models	16
Characterizing the behavioral and neuroendocrine features of susceptibility and resilience to social stress	15
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS	15
Dopamine modulates individual differences in avoidance behavior: A pharmacological, immunohistochemical, neurochemical and volumetric investigation	15
The functional connectome in posttraumatic stress disorder	15
Erasing m6A-dependent transcription signature of stress-sensitive genes triggers antidepressant actions	15
Telencephalic regulation of the HPA axis in birds	15
Sex differences in the delayed impact of acute stress on the amygdala	14
Circulating endocannabinoids and prospective risk for depression in trauma-injury survivors	14
Juvenile exposure to acute traumatic stress leads to long-lasting alterations in grey matter myelination in adult female but not male rats	14
Connecting the biology of stress, allostatic load and epigenetics to social structures and processes	14
The cerebellum and psychological trauma: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies	14
Sex differences in the effect of the FKBP5 inhibitor SAFit2 on anxiety and stress-induced reinstatement following cocaine self-administration	14
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	14
Stress enhances hippocampal neuronal synchrony and alters ripple-spike interaction	14
Hippocampal-specific insulin resistance elicits behavioral despair and hippocampal dendritic atrophy	14
Programming effects of peripubertal stress on spatial learning	14
Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults	14
Prevalence of posttraumatic stress symptoms in health care workers after exposure to patients with COVID-19	14