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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	109
Gender-related time course of sleep disturbances and psychological symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study on the Italian population	102
A systematic review of the Trier Social Stress Test methodology: Issues in promoting study comparison and replicable research	77
Probiotic consumption relieved human stress and anxiety symptoms possibly via modulating the neuroactive potential of the gut microbiota	74
Synaptic and behavioral effects of chronic stress are linked to dynamic and sex-specific changes in microglia function and astrocyte dystrophy	57
Alterations of frontal-temporal gray matter volume associate with clinical measures of older adults with COVID-19	55
A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice	48
Social isolation alters behavior, the gut-immune-brain axis, and neurochemical circuits in male and female prairie voles	47
Stress hormones mediate developmental plasticity in vertebrates with complex life cycles	42
Anatomically and functionally distinct locus coeruleus efferents mediate opposing effects on anxiety-like behavior	41
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure	40
The neural correlates of psychosocial stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of spectral analysis EEG studies	37
Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review	36
Lateral hypothalamus orexinergic inputs to lateral habenula modulate maladaptation after social defeat stress	35
Glucocorticoids, the evolution of the stress-response, and the primate predicament	35
Sex-stratified gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study of trauma, posttraumatic-stress, and suicidality	35
To stress or not to stress: Brain-behavior-immune interaction may weaken or promote the immune response to SARS-CoV-2	34
Early life stress dysregulates kappa opioid receptor signaling within the lateral habenula	33
Exposure to different early-life stress experiences results in differentially altered DNA methylation in the brain and immune system	33
Transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation reduces sympathetic responses to stress in posttraumatic stress disorder: A double-blind, randomized, sham controlled trial	32
A novel mouse model for vulnerability to alcohol dependence induced by early-life adversity	31
Deconstructing the role of the exposome in youth suicidal ideation: Trauma, neighborhood environment, developmental and gender effects	30
Forecasting individual risk for long-term Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in emergency medical settings using biomedical data: A machine learning multicenter cohort study	30
Mediterranean diet, stress resilience, and aging in nonhuman primates	29
Mineralocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid receptor work alone and together in cell-type-specific manner: Implications for resilience prediction and targeted therapy	29

Early life adversity predicts brain-gut alterations associated with increased stress and mood	29
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	29
Understanding how stress responses and stress-related behaviors have evolved in zebrafish and mammals	29
Chronic adolescent stress causes sustained impairment of cognitive flexibility and hippocampal synaptic strength in female rats	29
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	28
Prenatal stress leads to deficits in brain development, mood related behaviors and gut microbiota in offspring	27
Increased methylation of NR3C1 and SLC6A4 is associated with blunted cortisol reactivity to stress in major depression	27
Resilience to stress and sex-specific remodeling of microglia and neuronal morphology in a rat model of anxiety and anhedonia	26
Dissection of the relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming using the Shank3B mutant autistic model, acute stress model and chronic pain model	25
Cholinergic neurotransmission in the basolateral amygdala during cued fear extinction	25
Dynamic functional network connectivity associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms in COVID-19 survivors	24
Early life stress-induced alterations in the activity and morphology of ventral tegmental area neurons in female rats	24
miR-9-5p is involved in the rescue of stress-dependent dendritic shortening of hippocampal pyramidal neurons induced by acute antidepressant treatment with ketamine	24
Cellular senescence as a driver of cognitive decline triggered by chronic unpredictable stress	24
Characterizing the behavioral and neuroendocrine features of susceptibility and resilience to social stress	24
Associations between PTSD-Related extinction retention deficits in women and plasma steroids that modulate brain GABAA and NMDA receptor activity	23
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	23
Post-traumatic stress disorder and its association with stroke and stroke risk factors: A literature review	22
Stress induces microglia-associated synaptic circuit alterations in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex	22
Long-term effects of stress early in life on microRNA-30a and its network: Preventive effects of lurasidone and potential implications for depression vulnerability	22
Pregnancy associated epigenetic markers of inflammation predict depression and anxiety symptoms in response to discrimination	22
Maternal antioxidant treatment prevents the adverse effects of prenatal stress on the offspring's brain and behavior	22
Gene expression in the dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortices implicates immune-related gene networks in PTSD	21
Childhood adversity correlates with stable changes in DNA methylation trajectories in children and converges with epigenetic signatures of prenatal stress	21
Infralimbic cortical glutamate output is necessary for the neural and behavioral consequences of chronic stress	21
Variations in response to trauma and hippocampal subfield changes	21
Cannabis vapor self-administration elicits sex- and dose-specific alterations in stress reactivity in rats	21
Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression	20
Epigenetic mechanisms impacted by chronic stress across the rodent lifespan	20
The functional connectome predicts feeling of stress on regular days and during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens core and shell subregions in the expression and extinction of conditioned fear	19
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS	19
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	19
Intersectional analysis of chronic mild stress-induced lncRNA-mRNA interaction networks in rat hippocampus reveals potential anti-depression/anxiety drug targets	19
Allopregnanolone (1938–2019): A trajectory of 80 years of outstanding scientific achievements	19
Stress-induced cortisol response is associated with right amygdala volume in early childhood	18
Brain-wide mapping of c-fos expression in the single prolonged stress model and the effects of pretreatment with ACH-000029 or prazosin	18
Dual imaging of dendritic spines and mitochondria in vivo reveals hotspots of plasticity and metabolic adaptation to stress	18
The functional connectome in posttraumatic stress disorder	18
Telencephalic regulation of the HPA axis in birds	18
The stress susceptibility factor FKBP51 controls S-ketamine-evoked release of mBDNF in the prefrontal cortex of mice	18
Juvenile exposure to acute traumatic stress leads to long-lasting alterations in grey matter myelination in adult female but not male rats	18
Genetic evidence for a large overlap and potential bidirectional causal effects between resilience and well-being	18
Early life adversity in male mice sculpts reward circuits	18
BNST transient activity associates with approach behavior in a stressful environment and is modulated by the parabrachial nucleus	18
Neurochemically distinct populations of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis modulate innate fear response to weak threat evoked by predator odor stimuli	18
Connecting the biology of stress, allostatic load and epigenetics to social structures and processes	18
A projection from the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus to the shell of the nucleus accumbens contributes to footshock stress-induced social avoidance	18
Long term effects of peripubertal stress on excitatory and inhibitory circuits in the prefrontal cortex of male and female mice	18
Proteomic and mitochondrial adaptations to early-life stress are distinct in juveniles and adults	18

Do changes in microglial status underlie neurogenesis impairments and depressive-like behaviours induced by psychological stress? A systematic review in animal models	18
The social instability stress paradigm in rat and mouse: A systematic review of protocols, limitations, and recommendations	17
Sex differences in the delayed impact of acute stress on the amygdala	17
Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults	17
The cerebellum and psychological trauma: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies	17
Hippocampal-specific insulin resistance elicits behavioral despair and hippocampal dendritic atrophy	17
Prevalence of posttraumatic stress symptoms in health care workers after exposure to patients with COVID-19	17
Chronic restraint stress produces sex-specific behavioral and molecular outcomes in the dorsal and ventral rat hippocampus	17
Circulating endocannabinoids and prospective risk for depression in trauma-injury survivors	17
κ-Opioid receptor antagonism reverses heroin withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia in male and female rats	16
Individual baseline behavioral traits predict the resilience phenotype after chronic social defeat	16
From genetics to systems biology of stress-related mental disorders	16
Male long-Evans rats: An outbred model of marked hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal hyperactivity	15
miR-34a induces spine damages via inhibiting synaptotagmin-1 in depression	15
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	15
Erasing m6A-dependent transcription signature of stress-sensitive genes triggers antidepressant actions	15
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder	15
Stress-induced visceral pain in female rats is associated with epigenetic remodeling in the central nucleus of the amygdala	15
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	15
Insights from a laboratory and naturalistic investigation on stress, rumination and frontal brain functioning in MDD: An fNIRS study	15
Sex differences in the effect of the FKBP5 inhibitor SAFit2 on anxiety and stress-induced reinstatement following cocaine self-administration	15
Molecular impacts of childhood abuse on the human brain	15
Effects of chronic social stress on oligodendrocyte proliferation-maturation and myelin status in prefrontal cortex and amygdala in adult mice	15
Stress enhances hippocampal neuronal synchrony and alters ripple-spike interaction	14
Childhood maltreatment results in altered deactivation of reward processing circuits in depressed patients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of a facial emotion recognition task	14
Placental DNA methylation marks are associated with maternal depressive symptoms during early pregnancy	14
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	14
Reducing glutamic acid decarboxylase in the dorsal dentate gyrus attenuates juvenile stress induced emotional and cognitive deficits	14
Disinhibition of somatostatin interneurons confers resilience to stress in male but not female mice	14
Brain histamine and oleoylethanolamide restore behavioral deficits induced by chronic social defeat stress in mice	13
Sex and age differences in cognitive bias and neural activation in response to cognitive bias testing	13
Antidepressant-relevant behavioral and synaptic molecular effects of long-term fasudil treatment in chronically stressed male rats	13
Programming effects of peripubertal stress on spatial learning	13
Impact of stress resilience and susceptibility on fear learning, anxiety, and alcohol intake	13
Stress-induced changes in modular organizations of human brain functional networks	13
Low-dose S-ketamine exerts antidepressant-like effects via enhanced hippocampal synaptic plasticity in postpartum depression rats	13
Microglia-specific transcriptional repression of interferon-regulated genes after prolonged stress in mice	13
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats	13
Severe childhood and adulthood stress associates with neocortical layer-specific reductions of mature spines in psychiatric disorders	13