OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Stress is 13. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	129
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	93
Editorial Board	68
Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness	60
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	55
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation	52
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	52
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	49
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	48
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	47
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	44
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)	43
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	42
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	40
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	37
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	37
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	36
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	35
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties	32
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	32
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	31
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	31
Chronic adolescent stress increases exploratory behavior but does not appear to change the acute stress response in adult male C57BL/6 mice	30
The functional connectome in posttraumatic stress disorder	30
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder	29

Stress-induced vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction depends on cofilin modulation	29
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	28
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	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
Dual imaging of dendritic spines and mitochondria in vivo reveals hotspots of plasticity and metabolic adaptation to stress	26
Regulation of Behavioral Responses to Single Prolonged Stress in Male and Female Rats: Role of PACAP	26
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies	26
Pyridostigmine bromide elicits progressive and chronic impairments in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male rats	26
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure	26
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	25
Molecular characterization of the stress network in individuals at risk for schizophrenia	25
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward	25
Probiotic consumption relieved human stress and anxiety symptoms possibly via modulating the neuroactive potential of the gut microbiota	25
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses	24
Acute stress blunts prediction error signals in the dorsal striatum during reinforcement learning	24
Blood and affective markers of stress in Elite Airmen during a preparatory training course: A pilot study	23
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats	23
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept	23
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats	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
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus	23
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF	23
The functional connectome predicts feeling of stress on regular days and during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Cellular senescence as a driver of cognitive decline triggered by chronic unpredictable stress	23
Early life stress induced sex-specific changes in behavior is paralleled by altered locus coeruleus physiology in BALB/cJ mice	22
Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people	22
Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder	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
Roles of corticotropin-releasing factor signaling in the lateral habenula in anxiety-like and alcohol drinking behaviors in male rats	22
An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function	22
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc	21
Deciphering the links between psychological stress, depression, and neurocognitive decline in patients with Down syndrome	21
Sex and chronic stress alter the distribution of glutamate receptors within rat hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells following oxycodone conditioned place preference	21
Frontal cortical volume deficits as enduring evidence of childhood abuse in community adults with AUD and HIV infection comorbidity	20
Multidimensional predictors of antidepressant responses: Integrating mitochondrial, genetic, metabolic and environmental factors with clinical outcomes	20
The coupling of RACK1 with the beta isoform of the glucocorticoid receptor promotes resilience to chronic stress exposure	20
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions	20
Effects of social isolation on locus coeruleus opioid receptor expression and affective behavior	19
Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression	19
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study	19
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice	19
Toll-like receptor 7: A novel neuroimmune target to reduce excessive alcohol consumption	19
Evolution of stress responses refine mechanisms of social rank	19
Stress-induced visceral pain in female rats is associated with epigenetic remodeling in the central nucleus of the amygdala	19
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood	19
Greater stress and trauma mediate race-related differences in epigenetic age between Black and White young adults in a community sample	19
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress	18
miR-132 downregulation alleviates behavioral impairment of rats exposed to single prolonged stress, reduces the level of apoptosis in PFC, and upregulates the expression of MeCP2 and BDNF	18
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms	18

The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus	18
Editorial Board	17
Genetic evidence for a large overlap and potential bidirectional causal effects between resilience and well-being	17
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS	17
Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder	17
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats	17
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats	17
Acute stress impairs visual path integration	17
“Live together, die alone”: The effect of re-socialization on behavioural performance and social-affective brain-related proteins after a long-term chronic social isolation stress	16
Reversed patterns of resting state functional connectivity for females vs. males in posttraumatic stress disorder	16
Consideration of sex as a biological variable in the translation of pharmacotherapy for stress-associated drug seeking	16
Roles of miR-432 and circ_0000418 in mediating the anti-depressant action of ADAR1	16
Polygenic scores for empathy associate with posttraumatic stress severity in response to certain traumatic events	16
From genetics to systems biology of stress-related mental disorders	16
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats	16
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model	16
Sex-dependent long-term effects of prepubescent stress on the posterior parietal cortex	15
Amygdala size varies with stress perception	15
Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice	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
Chronic adolescent stress causes sustained impairment of cognitive flexibility and hippocampal synaptic strength in female rats	15
Editorial Board	15
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life	15
A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems	14
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner	14
Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG1	14
Emotional comorbidities in epilepsy result from seizure-induced corticosterone activity	13
Early life adversity affecting the attachment bond alters ventral tegmental area transcriptomic patterning and behavior almost exclusively in female mice	13
Epigenetic mechanisms impacted by chronic stress across the rodent lifespan	13
Glucocorticoids modulate neural activity via a rapid non-genomic effect on Kv2.2 channels in the central nervous system	13
The impact of child abuse on the neurobiology of self-processing in depressed adolescents	13
Prenatal stress dysregulates resting-state functional connectivity and sensory motifs	13
Chronic restraint stress produces sex-specific behavioral and molecular outcomes in the dorsal and ventral rat hippocampus	13
Longitudinal monitoring of prefrontal cortical ensemble dynamics reveals new insights into stress habituation	13
Genomic factors underlying sex differences in trauma-related disorders	13
Editorial Board	13
Corticosterone dynamically regulates retrotransposable element expression in the rat hippocampus and C6 cells	13
Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens core and shell subregions in the expression and extinction of conditioned fear	13
Genetic disruption of dopamine β-hydroxylase dysregulates innate responses to predator odor in mice	13