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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	84
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation	62
Editorial Board	54
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	54
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	48
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	43
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	41
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	39
Editorial Board	39
Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness	38
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	37
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 brain	34
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	34
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	33
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	32
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	32
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	32
Chronic adolescent stress increases exploratory behavior but does not appear to change the acute stress response in adult male C57BL/6 mice	31
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	31
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects	30
Stress-induced vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction depends on cofilin modulation	29
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	29
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	29
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder	28

Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	28
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	28
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties	28
Dual imaging of dendritic spines and mitochondria in vivo reveals hotspots of plasticity and metabolic adaptation to stress	27
Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations	27
Default mode network connectivity contributes the augment effect stress recovery by natural viewing	27
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 studies	27
Pyridostigmine bromide elicits progressive and chronic impairments in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male rats	26
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus	25
Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP	25
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward	25
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	25
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure	25
Cellular senescence as a driver of cognitive decline triggered by chronic unpredictable stress	24
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	24
Acute stress blunts prediction error signals in the dorsal striatum during reinforcement learning	24
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses	24
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats	24
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF	23
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept	23
Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor-mediated stimulation of a GABAergic projection from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus	23
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats	23
Roles of corticotropin-releasing factor signaling in the lateral habenula in anxiety-like and alcohol drinking behaviors in male rats	23
Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people	22
Frontal cortical volume deficits as enduring evidence of childhood abuse in community adults with AUD and HIV infection comorbidity	22
Male long-Evans rats: An outbred model of marked hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal hyperactivity	22
Effects of chronic stress on cognitive function – From neurobiology to intervention	22
Early life stress induced sex-specific changes in behavior is paralleled by altered locus coeruleus physiology in BALB/cJ mice	22
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 outcomes	21
An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function	21
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc	21
Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder	21
Sex and chronic stress alter the distribution of glutamate receptors within rat hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells following oxycodone conditioned place preference	20
Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression	20
Greater stress and trauma mediate race-related differences in epigenetic age between Black and White young adults in a community sample	20
The coupling of RACK1 with the beta isoform of the glucocorticoid receptor promotes resilience to chronic stress exposure	20
Toll-like receptor 7: A novel neuroimmune target to reduce excessive alcohol consumption	20
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood	19
Stress-induced visceral pain in female rats is associated with epigenetic remodeling in the central nucleus of the amygdala	19
Effects of social isolation on locus coeruleus opioid receptor expression and affective behavior	19
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study	19
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions	19
Deep brain stimulation changes locus coeruleus responses to social stress from activation to inhibition	19
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms	18
Editorial Board	18
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice	18
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats	18
The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus	18

Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress	18
Acute stress impairs visual path integration	17
Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder	17
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model	17
Polygenic scores for empathy associate with posttraumatic stress severity in response to certain traumatic events	17
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS	17
Reversed patterns of resting state functional connectivity for females vs. males in posttraumatic stress disorder	17
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats	17
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats	17
Consideration of sex as a biological variable in the translation of pharmacotherapy for stress-associated drug seeking	16
Editorial Board	16
Roles of miR-432 and circ_0000418 in mediating the anti-depressant action of ADAR1	16
Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice	16
From genetics to systems biology of stress-related mental disorders	16
Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG1	15
A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems	15
Acute stress activates basolateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 (CRHR1): Topographical distribution and projection-specific activation in male and female	15
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner	15
Editorial Board	15
Corticosterone dynamically regulates retrotransposable element expression in the rat hippocampus and C6 cells	15
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life	15
Early life adversity affecting the attachment bond alters ventral tegmental area transcriptomic patterning and behavior almost exclusively in female mice	14
Prenatal stress dysregulates resting-state functional connectivity and sensory motifs	14
Building a social brain: Cells, circuits and behavior across the lifespan	14
Transcriptomic profiles of susceptibility and resilience to stress in the amygdala and hippocampus of male rats	14