OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Stress is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	41
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	37
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	36
Central medial and paraventricular thalamic afferents to the orbitofrontal cortex have differential effects on reversal learning	36
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	31
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	31
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	30
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	30
Early-life adversity in rodents: Experimental design is of the essence	29
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)	29
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	28
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	27
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects	26
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	26
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	26
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	25
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies	24
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	24
Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations	23
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
Default mode network connectivity contributes the augment effect stress recovery by natural viewing	22

Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP	21
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward	21
Amygdala reactivity to social stress in young adults: A scoping review of neuroimaging studies	21
Early adversity alters neurodevelopmental milestones in male and female rat pups and motor cortex morphology and gait in juveniles	20
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	19
Science with Seymour Levine: on glucocorticoid action from birth to senescence	19
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses	19
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats	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
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept	18
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF	18
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus	18
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
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats	17
Gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity to produce short-chain fatty acids are associated with acute stress reactivity in healthy adults	16
Editorial Board	16
Effects of chronic stress on cognitive function – From neurobiology to intervention	16
Norepinephrine neurons in the locus coeruleus and the nucleus of the solitary tract drive different stress-related behavioral outputs in mice	16
Hydroxytyrosol confers resilience against the depressive, anxiogenic and cognition-disruptive effects of chronic stress	16
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
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
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc	14
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions	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	14
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood	14
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
Prelimbic Cortex–Associated Stress Sensitisation and Region-Specific Mitochondrial Adaptations Across Preclinical Approaches Relevant to PTSD and Depression	13
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms	13
The adrenal is doing what it’s supposed to do, you just don't understand it	12
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats	12
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats	12
Loss of Pleasure (Anhedonia): A sex-dependent, cross-species consequence of unpredictable signals to the perinatal brain	12
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Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder	12
Integrated brain and body mechanisms underlying acute stress and trauma-related vulnerability	12
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The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus	12
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats	12
Acute stress impairs visual path integration	12
Consistent changes in global gene expression patterns despite strong variation in individual gene expression in the male mouse hippocampus following early life stress	12
Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice	12
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model	11
Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG1	11
The progesterone to estradiol ratio predicts fear extinction in mice and humans	11

Activity of VMS-projecting mPFC neurons encodes individual vulnerability to chronic restraint stress in male mice	11
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Acute stress activates basolateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 (CRHR1): Topographical distribution and projection-specific activation in male and female	11
Environmental enrichment as an intervention to prevent behavioral and neurobiological consequences of maternal separation in rodents: a scope review	11
Postpartum adversity in rats creates a hypervigilant maternal state through selective salience-circuit recruitment	11
Adolescent adversity persistently induces proinflammatory HMGB1 signaling and disrupts the basal forebrain cholinergic system in female rats	11
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life	11
Building a social brain: Cells, circuits and behavior across the lifespan	10
A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems	10
Youth mental health crisis: A translational view of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
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Genetic disruption of dopamine β-hydroxylase dysregulates innate responses to predator odor in mice	10
Glucocorticoids modulate neural activity via a rapid non-genomic effect on Kv2.2 channels in the central nervous system	10
Transcriptomic analysis of chronic social instability stress during adolescence reveals major shifts in the extracellular matrix	10
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Behavioral phenotype analysis highlights sleep heterogeneity and brain cellular activations in a mouse model of PTSD	10
The amygdala mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple interacting mechanisms	10
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner	10
Longitudinal monitoring of prefrontal cortical ensemble dynamics reveals new insights into stress habituation	10
Transcriptomic profiles of susceptibility and resilience to stress in the amygdala and hippocampus of male rats	10