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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	43
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	39
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Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation	36
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	36
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	35
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	35
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	32
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	32
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	32
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	31
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)	29
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	28
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	27
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	26
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	26
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	25
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects	24
Withdrawal notice to: “Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats” [	23
Default mode network connectivity contributes the augment effect stress recovery by natural viewing	23
Pyridostigmine bromide elicits progressive and chronic impairments in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male rats	23
Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP	23

Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations	23
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	22
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses	22
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies	22
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward	22
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats	21
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	21
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept	20
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats	19
Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people	19
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus	19
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF	19
Effects of chronic stress on cognitive function – From neurobiology to intervention	18
Greater stress and trauma mediate race-related differences in epigenetic age between Black and White young adults in a community sample	18
Can the gut-brain axis provide insight into psilocybin's therapeutic value in reducing stress?	18
Early life stress induced sex-specific changes in behavior is paralleled by altered locus coeruleus physiology in BALB/cJ mice	18
Frontal cortical volume deficits as enduring evidence of childhood abuse in community adults with AUD and HIV infection comorbidity	18
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions	17
An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function	17
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc	17
Sex and chronic stress alter the distribution of glutamate receptors within rat hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells following oxycodone conditioned place preference	17
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood	17
Toll-like receptor 7: A novel neuroimmune target to reduce excessive alcohol consumption	16
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study	16
Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder	16
Effects of social isolation on locus coeruleus opioid receptor expression and affective behavior	16
The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus	15
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms	15
Deep brain stimulation changes locus coeruleus responses to social stress from activation to inhibition	15
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress	14
Acute stress impairs visual path integration	14
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice	14
Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder	14
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CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats	13
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats	13
Polygenic scores for empathy associate with posttraumatic stress severity in response to certain traumatic events	13
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model	13
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats	13
Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice	13
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS	13
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner	12
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A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems	12
Adolescent adversity persistently induces proinflammatory HMGB1 signaling and disrupts the basal forebrain cholinergic system in female rats	12
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life	12
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
Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG1	11
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Chronic restraint stress produces sex-specific behavioral and molecular outcomes in the dorsal and ventral rat hippocampus	10

The amygdala mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple interacting mechanisms	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
Emotional comorbidities in epilepsy result from seizure-induced corticosterone activity	10
Glucocorticoids modulate neural activity via a rapid non-genomic effect on Kv2.2 channels in the central nervous system	10
Genetic disruption of dopamine β-hydroxylase dysregulates innate responses to predator odor in mice	10
Youth mental health crisis: A translational view of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Cellular and immunometabolic mechanisms of inflammation in depression: Preliminary findings from single cell RNA sequencing and a tribute to Bruce McEwen	10
Epigenetic mechanisms impacted by chronic stress across the rodent lifespan	10
Building a social brain: Cells, circuits and behavior across the lifespan	10
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