Psychoneuroendocrinology

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychoneuroendocrinology is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis131
Activation of Type I Interferon and Complement component 3a receptor signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits113
Resting-state functional connectivity in Autoimmune Addison's Disease108
Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health83
Trauma-informed immunopsychiatry: the moderating role of early life adversity on inflammatory responses77
- Impairment of social behavior is associated with different transcriptomic profiles of the Habenula in vulnerable and resilient rats exposed to prenatal stress76
Editorial Board65
Effects of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and subjective birth experience on the risk of postpartum depression and maternal bonding65
- Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Associations Between Adolescent Hormones and Stress Coping54
- Maternal reflective functioning and attachment outcomes of an online s inging intervention for postnatal depression: SHAPER-PNDO, a s ingle-arm clinical trial51
Exploring sampling bias by assessing sex ratios in stress research: a comparative metascience study50
Association between parent work-family conflict and offspring inflammation48
Impact of Loneliness on Diurnal Cortisol in Youth during COVID-1947
Disentangling the effects of depression and perceived stress on cortisol levels in individuals with obesity46
Stress impairs response to antidepressants by activating HPA axis and immune system43
When asking ‘how are you?’ may not be enough: The relationship between stress and alcohol use43
The Moderating Effects of Regular Caffeine Use on Cortisol Reactivity under Explicit Negative-Evaluative Stress42
Neural and cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project41
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)41
Women's domain-specific affiliation across the menstrual cycle40
Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding40
Presentation 1: The moderating effects of religious service attendance and exposure to neighborhoods high in violent crime on conditions associated with glucocorticoid resistance amongst Black adolesc39
Presentation 4: Age, stress, and markers of inflammation among african american adults: Findings from the heart of detroit study38
Investigation of the impact of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on anhedonia, reward processing and sustained attention37
Presentation 1: Maternal behavioral health during pregnancy and newborn telomere length37
Placenta DNA methylation levels of the promoter region of the leptin receptor gene are associated with infant cortisol36
Allostatic load and depressive symptoms in older adults: An analysis of 12-year panel data35
The association between COVID-19 pandemic and maternal isolated hypothyroxinemia in first and second trimesters35
Chronic stress derails brain serotonin and its role in postpartum behavior33
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)32
Salivary uric acid dynamics are associated with stress response hormones among African Americans in an urban sample32
Insulin-like growth factor-1 and cognition in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus31
Oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways in female eating disorders and borderline personality disorders with emotional dysregulation as linking factors with impulsivity and trauma31
Enhanced endogenous oxytocin signaling in the brain modulates neural responses to social misalignment and promotes conformity in humans: A multi-locus genetic profile approach29
Differential associations between fatigue and psychobiological stress measures in women with depression and women with somatic symptom disorder29
Effects of sex hormones on brain GABA and glutamate levels in a cis- and transgender cohort29
Chronic stress induces depression-like behavior in rats through affecting brain mitochondrial function and inflammation28
The role of combined modifiable lifestyle behaviors in the association between exposure to stressors and allostatic load: A systematic review of observational studies.27
Sedentary behaviour is associated with heightened cardiovascular, inflammatory and cortisol reactivity to acute psychological stress27
- CARWatch – An Open-Source Framework for Objective Cortisol Awakening Response Assessment26
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: Nativity as an Effect Modifier26
Testing Pathways from Stress Exposure to Physiology in Marginalized Populations26
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis26
Executive functioning mediates the association between inflammation and 12-month depression-onset during adolescence26
Cortisol effects on the neural correlates of cognitive emotion regulation – does timing matter?26
What matters when? A multiversal investigation of pubertal timing measurement and mental health25
Immune mechanisms in stress response: from vulnerability to pharmacological intervention25
Early Experience and Inflammation25
Prediction of adolescent depression from demographic, clinical, and survey data from ALSPAC using machine learning25
Everyday Salivary Cortisol in Older Adulthood: Capturing Time-Varying Socio-Emotional Contours in the Wild25
Sex-specific associations between loneliness and hair cortisol among older african american adults24
- Beyond Birth Control: Emotion Regulation in Pill and IUD Users23
Presentation 2: Analyzing temperature effects on mitochondrial bioenergetics in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from individuals with and without major depressive disorder: an empirical contributio23
Spontaneous emotion regulation in social stress: Impact on state anxiety, cortisol and blood glucose23
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the relationship between subjective socioeconomic status and prenatal mental health: results from babip birth cohort in turkey23
Does plasma oxytocin mediate stress reduction after compassion-based mental training?23
Intranasal oxytocin to treat substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials23
- Personality and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity: A moderating role of meaning in life22
- Facing baby cuteness: how nurturing care and oxytocin system gene methylation are associated with responses to baby schema22
Psychoneuroendocrine Research in the Era of the Replication Crisis22
- Relationship resilience buffers the association between pregnancy stress and postpartum depressive symptoms during COVID-1921
Neural and glial damage markers in women after long-term weight-recovery from anorexia nervosa21
11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 deficiency prevents PTSD-like memory in young adult mice21
Hair steroid before and after COVID-19 in preschoolers: the moderation of family characteristics20
Relationship between immunometabolic status and cognitive performance among major depression disorder patients20
Trajectory of ghrelin and PYY around a test meal in males and females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder versus healthy controls20
The association between depression and the cortisol awakening response is moderated by loneliness in men from a non-clinical sample20
Your suffering is my stressor: Proinflammatory gene expression rises with spousal distress in middle-aged and older couples20
A subpopulation of oxytocin neurons initiate expression of CRF receptor 1 (CRFR1) in females post parturition20
A 4-session written emotional disclosure intervention lowers 6-month sympathoadrenal urinary output in persons living with HIV19
Open science needs a standardized data format: Suggestions for the field of psychoneuroendocrinology19
Consequences of pandemic-associated social restrictions: Role of social support and the oxytocin system19
Infants’ cortisol reactivity and infant–mother cortisol synchrony in urban Chinese families: The role of maternal control strategy19
Announcement: 2025 Call for Dirk Hellhammer Award Nominations19
Maternal high BMI: Sex-dimorphic alterations in maternal and offspring stress indices19
Genetic variants in COMT and ESR1 genes shape treatment response to raloxifene in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders19
Longitudinal effects of maternal depressive and anxious symptomatology on child hair cortisol and cortisone from pregnancy to 5-years: The EDEN mother-child cohort18
Association between cognitive function and IL-18 levels in schizophrenia: Dependent on IL18 − 607 A/C polymorphism18
Testosterone administration affects H-MRS metabolite spectra in transgender men18
(A Lack of) Sex Differences in the Effects of Acute Stress on Attentional Bias to Threat18
Mid-pregnancy allopregnanolone levels and trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms18
Elevated serum angiotensin ii levels in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders18
Does stress influence executive functions through mechanisms other than control itself? Examining the effects of stress on cognitive inhibition within the theory of emotional foundations of cognitive 18
A short Mindfulness retreat can improve biological markers of stress and inflammation18
An observational study on the association of anti-thyroid autoantibodies with clinical, EEG, MRI, FDG-PET, cerebrospinal fluid and anti-neuronal antibody findings in 530 patients with schizophreniform17
Sense of purpose in life and inflammation in healthy older adults: A longitudinal study17
Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)17
Self-selection bias in human stress research: a systematic review17
Associations between sickness behavior, but not inflammatory cytokines, and psychiatric comorbidity in chronic pain17
Depression in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of blood inflammatory markers17
Oxytocin modulation in the medial prefrontal cortex of pair-exposed rats during fear conditioning16
Mating-induced release of oxytocin in the mouse lateral septum: Implications for social fear extinction16
Age-dependent effects of estradiol on temporal memory: A role for the type 1 cannabinoid receptor?16
Time-dependent effects of acute stress on working memory performance: A systematic review and hypothesis16
Patterns of stress-related change in salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol among young children: Associations with maternal psychosocial risk factors16
Prediction of cord blood leptin on infant’s neurodevelopment: A birth cohort in rural Yunnan, China16
Chronic olanzapine treatment leads to increased opioid receptor expression and changes in feeding regulating neurons in the female rat hypothalamus16
Interaction between isolated maternal hypothyroxinemia and pregnancy-related anxiety on preschooler’s internalizing and externalizing problems: A birth cohort study16
Blood epigenetic clock and childhood maltreatment predict premature brain aging in cocaine users16
Metabolites of progesterone in pregnancy: Associations with perinatal anxiety16
Association between the improvement in depressive symptoms and serum BDNF levels in drug-naive first episode patients with schizophrenia: A longitudinal follow-up16
Effects of psychological, sensory, and metabolic energy prime manipulation on the acute endocrine stress response in fasted women16
Aging biological markers in a cohort of antipsychotic-naïve first-episode psychosis patients16
- Cortisol as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Psychosocial Job Quality and Allostatic Load: A Structural Equation Model from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing16
Plasma circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA in social anxiety disorder16
The STRESS-NL database: A resource for human acute stress studies across the Netherlands16
- Does ovulation affect the cortisol awakening response?15
- Stratification strategies for immune-targeted pharmacological treatments in Major Depressive Disorder15
- Olanzapine and fecal microbiota transplantation from antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia patients alter metabolic profiles differentially in male and female mice.15
Announcement: 2025 Call for Dirk Hellhammer Award nominations15
Association between early life adversity and allostatic load in girls with precocious puberty15
Explaining the conundrum: Discrimination is associated with lower CVD risk15
Lack of association between severity of ADHD symptoms and salivary oxytocin levels15
Trait reappraisal is positively associated with more effective habituation of the cortisol stress response15
Observer’s adrenal corticosterone secretion involvement in vicarious fear conditioning15
Corrigendum to “Prepubertal ovariectomy confers resilience to stress-induced anxiety in adult female mice” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 148 (2023) 105997]15
Effects of menstrual cycle phase and ovulation on the salivary cortisol awakening response15
- Infant Stress Reactivity in Postpartum Psychosis15
- Network meta-analysis on psychological interventions efficacy on immune biomarkers15
Adverse mood effects of oral contraceptives relate to brain connectivity changes within a triple-network model15
Early life adversity: programming inflammation and immunosenescence through immunometabolic pathways?15
Sex-specific differences in the relationship between thyroid hormones and neurocognition in schizophrenia: A large-scale cross-sectional study15
Associations between Early Life Stress, Prenatal Stress, Hair Cortisol and Birth Outcomes15
History of sexual abuse predicts distinct diurnal cortisol slopes in incarcerated girls and boys14
Associations between oxytocin and empathy in humans: A systematic literature review14
- How do Mindfulness-based Trainings Reduce Physiological Stress? Assessing Changes in Attention and Acceptance Traits and Their Role in Cortisol Reduction14
Hormone ratios suffer from striking lack of robustness to measurement error14
Exploring effect of chamber - restricted environmental stimulation therapy on salivary cortisol and information overload in young adults14
Association between trauma exposure and glucocorticosteroid concentration in hair during pregnancy14
Inflammation and future depressive symptoms among recently bereaved spouses14
Presentation 3: Metabolite fingerprinting of blood serum reveals glyceraldehyde as a biomarker candidate of lymphocyte telomere length in depression14
Prolonged ketamine therapy differentially rescues psychobehavioural deficits via modulation of nitro-oxidative stress and oxytocin receptors in the gut-brain-axis of chronically-stressed mice14
Anti-inflammatory Effect of Ketamine: A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomised Study14
Orexin 2 receptor in the nucleus accumbens is critical for the modulation of acute stress-induced anxiety14
Editorial Board13
Corrigendum to “Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 143 (2022) 105852]13
Dimensions of early-life adversity and SLC6A4 methylation in emerging adults13
The impact of motherhood on anxiety symptoms over the menstrual cycle: A translational approach in female rats and women13
Editorial Board13
The Unique and Interactive Roles of Neural Reward Sensitivity and Family Conflict in Predicting Youth’s Internalizing Problems: A Biopsychosocial Approach13
Social network position and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity in older Koreans13
Letter to the Editor: An erroneous reading of our systematic review on the gut-microbiota-brain axis. A Letter to the Editor in response to “The gut microbiota-brain axis, psychobiotics and its influe13
- Cyclical Changes in Reward: Relationship with Affective State and Sex Hormones (CRASH)13
Child Cortisol Output During Cold Pressor Task is Associated with Trait Anxiety, but Not Maternal Antenatal Depression13
Editorial Board13
Corrigendum to “Short-term environmental enrichment is sufficient to counter stress-induced anxiety and associated structural and molecular plasticity in basolateral amygdala” [Psychoneuroendocrinolog13
Reward Circuitry and Symptoms of Anhedonia as Modifiable Targets for Therapeutic Interventions in Depressed Patients with High Inflammation13
Longitudinal Patterns of Neuroendocrine Coupling from Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence13
The future of psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology: The future in humans13
Corrigendum to “Gender-affirming hormonal treatment changes neural processing of emotions in trans men: An fMRI study” Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022, 146, 10592813
Social connection and gene regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Divergent patterns for online and in-person interaction12
The influence of maternal anxiety and cortisol during pregnancy on childhood anxiety symptoms12
Salivary cortisol measures across the clinical stages of psychosis: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis12
Compassion buffers the association between trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity: Findings of a cross-sectional study12
Sleep disturbance, neuro-immune markers, and depressive symptoms in older age: Conditional process analysis from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA)12
Effect of adverse childhood experiences on hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis function and antidepressant efficacy in untreated first episode patients with major depressive disorder12
The association between fear regulation and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in women victims of interpersonal trauma.12
Mental health is related to metabolic syndrome: The Hispanic community health study/ study of Latinos12
Gastrointestinal symptoms, gut microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics in anorexia nervosa: A review of mechanistic rationale and clinical evidence12
Evidence that perinatal ovarian hormones promote women’s sexual attraction to men12
Autonomic nervous system function before and after trauma-focused psychotherapy in youth with (partial) posttraumatic stress disorder12
Trends in hair cortisol from preconception to the postpartum period12
Removal notice to "Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin gene is associated with gray matter volume and trait empathy in mothers", Psychoneuroendocrinology, Volume 123 (2021), 10502612
Adverse childhood experiences and late-life diurnal HPA axis activity: Associations of different childhood adversity types and interaction with timing in a sample of older East Prussian World War II r12
Cortisol interdependence during psychotherapy in major depressive disorder12
Gender-affirming hormonal treatment changes neural processing of emotions in trans men: An fMRI study12
Associations between hair cortisol and subjective stress measures in a large occupational sample12
Everyday perceptions of safety and racial disparities in hair cortisol concentration12
Does high perceived stress over the past month alter cortisol reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test?12
Associations between prenatal distress, mitochondrial health, and gestational age: findings from birth cohorts in us and turkey12
Editorial Board11
Higher allostatic load in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project11
Associations of depression and anxiety and adolescent telomere length11
Metabolic features of adolescent major depressive disorder: A comparative study between treatment-resistant depression and first-episode drug-naive depression11
Early Life Adversity alters Maternal-Fetal-Placental Biology and may Propagate Population Health Disparities11
Immune biomarkers in the CSF and immunomodulating treatments for severe mental disorders11
A pilot investigation examining systemic inflammation in pediatric chronic pain patients11
Cortisol and changes in depressive symptoms: The moderating role of DHEA11
Stress-responsive Psychobiological Markers During Pregnancy and Fetal and Infant Outcomes Across Countries11
How do early and recent life stress shape cortisol reactivity and decision making in middle-to-older adulthood?11
Association between peripheral plasma cytokine levels and suicidal ideation in first-episode, drug-naïve major depressive disorder11
Fatty acid desaturase 1/2 (FADS1 and FADS2), fatty acid desaturase indices, and their relationships with metabolic syndrome in female adults with first-episode schizophrenia after antipsychotic medica11
Allostatic load and systemic comorbidities in psychiatric disorders11
Socioeconomic Status and Cortisol Concentrations during a Social-Evaluative Stressor: Associations with Emotional Reactivity11
Bruce McEwen: Mentees’ tribute11
Using ecological momentary assessment to track how contemplative mental training is implemented into everyday life11
Editorial Board11
- Beyond the limited evidence for an association between childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation: the moderating role of genetic sensitivity to the environment11
Impact of Perinatal Depression on Offspring HPA Axis Functioning11
Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error11
Editorial Board11
Black-White racial health disparities in inflammation and physical health: Cumulative stress, social isolation, and health behaviors11
Cellular and serotonergic correlates of habituated neuroendocrine responses in male and female rats.11
The relationship between personality and brain anatomy in premenstrual dysphoric disorder11
Cinnamaldehyde (TRPA1 agonist) protected against olanzapine-induced metabolic alterations in mice: involvement of hypothalamic energy sensing, appetite regulation and inflammatory aberrations11
HPA axis, Social Support, Mindfulness training, Compassion (Self/others) training and Resilience11
- The effects of pre-extinction stress vs. physical exercise on contextualised extinction memories11
Hair cortisol and depression among homeless youth11
Perinatal hair cortisol concentrations linked to psychological distress and unpredicted birth complications10
Evaluating changes in GABAergic and glutamatergic pathways in early life following prenatal stress and postnatal neurosteroid supplementation10
Salivary oxytocin after play with parents predicts behavioural problems in preschool children10
Sex, menstrual cycle, and hormonal contraceptives influences on global–local processing10
Depression: What neuroinflammation has to do with it and how nutrition can play a beneficial role10
Trauma film viewing and intrusive memories: Relationship between salivary alpha amylase, endocannabinoids, and cortisol10
Memory under pressure: The impact of acute stress across different memory tasks10
Positive and negative affect are associated with salivary cortisol in the everyday life of older adults: A quantitative synthesis of four aging studies10
The transition to parenthood: Linking hormones, brain, and behavior10
Childhood trauma and cortical thickness in healthy women, women with post-traumatic stress disorder, and women with borderline personality disorder10
Longitudinal association between saliva and hair cortisol concentration: A systematic comparison10
CRF-CRFR1 system within the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex are involved in consolation deficits under acute restraint stress in mandarin voles10
Associations of gestational anxiety and depression with neonatal hair steroid levels10
Sex-specific associations between placental corticotropin releasing hormone and problem behaviors in childhood10
Higher morning cortisol is associated with lower intuitive eating in midlife women10
Investigating the association between hair progesterone, anxiety, sleep quality, and other determinants in South African females10
Effects of chronic intranasal oxytocin on visual attention to faces vs. natural scenes in older adults10
Hatha yoga reduces momentary stress but does not impact diurnal profiles of salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase: a randomized controlled trial10
A novel biomarker of interleukin 6 activity and clinical and cognitive outcomes in depression10
Gut microbiota alterations in schizophrenia might be related to stress exposure: Findings from the machine learning analysis10
Echoes of conflict and displacement in maternal health: Life-course violence, timing, and maternal stress after childbirth at the northern Thailand-Myanmar border10
Examining maternal social perceptions and stress responses during pregnancy10
Announcement: 2025 call for Bruce McEwen lifetime achievement nominations10
Effects of sociocultural stressors on maternal responsivity and the infant behavioral and neuroendocrine response to stress in families of Mexican descent10
Oral contraceptive use is not related to gender self-concept10
Preschool-aged children’s hair cortisol and parents’ behavior, psychopathology, and stress10
Low doses of fluoxetine for the treatment of emotional premenstrual syndrome: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot study10
Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva10
Presentation 3: Prospective association between insomnia and C-reactive protein: sex differences10
Diurnal dynamic range as index of dysregulation of system dynamics. A cortisol examplar using data from the Study of Midlife in the United States10
Mitochondrial DNA as a marker for treatment-response in post-traumatic stress disorder10
Low serum allopregnanolone levels in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder10
- The Impact of a Deceptive Virtual Agent on Stress Markers in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room9
Effect of lipid-based nutrient supplementation on children's hair cortisol in late childhood9
Association between inflammation and cognition: Triangulation of evidence using a population-based cohort and Mendelian randomization analyses9
Chronic stress and its effects on behavior, RNA expression of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and the M-current of NPY neurons9
- Effect of a stress education video intervention on stress mindsets and co- rumination in Quebec youth9
Prenatal stress and hair cortisol in a sample of Latina women9
Attention to social threat predicts diurnal cortisol dynamics during the high school transition9
Does a laboratory-based CO2 challenge induce a hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis stress response in healthy adults?9
- Long-term effect of prenatal stress on offspring gut microbiome composition and functionality: possible implications on behavioural outcomes9
Mitochondrial morphology in the mouse adrenal cortex: Influence of chronic psychosocial stress9
Exploring the dissociative subtype of PTSD: The role of early-life trauma, cortisol, and inflammatory profiles9
Hormonal contraception & face processing: Examining face gender, androgenicity & treatment duration9
Multifactorial stress reactivity to virtual TSST-C in healthy children and adolescents—It works, but not as well as a real TSST-C9
Corrigendum to “Sex differences in the associations between maternal prenatal distress and infant cortisol reactivity and recovery” [Psychoneuroendocrinology 124 (2021) 105064]9
Teasing apart the role of glucocorticoids as mediator or indicator of stress: Recent insights from animal studies9
Integrative psycho-biophysiological markers in predicting psychological resilience9
Androgen receptor polymorphism, mental rotation, and spatial visualization in men9
Trait positive affect buffers the association between experimental sleep disruption and inflammation9
TSST-OL: Comparison between online and laboratory application and effects on empathy9
- multi-cohort study of prospective associations between prenatal stress, epigenetically-assessed glucocorticoid exposure, and child psychiatric symptoms.9
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