Psychoneuroendocrinology

Article	Citations
How to study the menstrual cycle: Practical tools and recommendations	125
Interleukin-6 as potential mediator of long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms of COVID-19	86
Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of the Trier Social Stress Test in eliciting physiological stress responses in children and adolescents	66
Oxytocin and postpartum depression: A systematic review	56
Polyphenols selectively reverse early-life stress-induced behavioural, neurochemical and microbiota changes in the rat	54
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and psychological distress symptoms in patients with affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic	52
Volatility as a Concept to Understand the Impact of Stress on the Microbiome	52
Evaluation of stress, burnout and hair cortisol levels in health workers at a University Hospital during COVID-19 pandemic	51
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in Depression	49
Gut microbiome-derived lactate promotes to anxiety-like behaviors through GPR81 receptor-mediated lipid metabolism pathway	49
Immune-inflammatory markers and psychosis risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis	45
The effects of exercise intensity on the cortisol response to a subsequent acute psychosocial stressor	43
Hair cortisol concentration as a biomarker of parental burnout	42
The gut microbiota-brain axis, psychobiotics and its influence on brain and behaviour: A systematic review	41
Cortisol and development of depression in adolescence and young adulthood – a systematic review and meta-analysis	40
Maternal prenatal psychological distress and hair cortisol levels associate with infant fecal microbiota composition at 2.5 months of age	38
The gut microbiota metabolite indole increases emotional responses and adrenal medulla activity in chronically stressed male mice	38
Associations between brain activity and endogenous and exogenous cortisol – A systematic review	38
Salivary oxytocin in pigs, cattle, and goats during positive human-animal interactions	38
Adverse childhood experiences and low socioeconomic status with respect to allostatic load in adulthood: A systematic review	36
Measuring salivary markers of inflammation in health research: A review of methodological considerations and best practices	36
Validation of an online version of the Trier Social Stress Test in a study of adolescents	35
Systemic inflammation as a driver of health disparities among sexually-diverse and gender-diverse individuals	35
The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load	34

Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)	34
Mother and child hair cortisol during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations among physiological stress, pandemic-related behaviors, and child emotional-behavioral health	33
Childhood trauma and dysregulation of multiple biological stress systems in adulthood: Results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)	33
Is there a relation between major depression and hair cortisol? A systematic review and meta-analysis	32
Adult neurogenesis augmentation attenuates anhedonia and HPA axis dysregulation in a mouse model of chronic stress and depression	32
Evaluating measures of allostatic load in adolescents: A systematic review	29
The role of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor DNA methylation in antenatal depression and infant stress regulation	29
Associations of waking cortisol with DHEA and testosterone across the pubertal transition: Effects of threat-related early life stress	29
Investigating individual stress reactivity: High hair cortisol predicts lower acute stress responses	28
Stress and hair cortisol concentrations in nurses during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Does the choice of Allostatic Load scoring algorithm matter for predicting age-related health outcomes?	27
Effect of sugar administration on cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress	27
Kynurenine metabolites and ratios differ between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and healthy controls	27
Early life adversity and age acceleration at mid-life and older ages indexed using the next-generation GrimAge and Pace of Aging epigenetic clocks	26
A randomized, double-blind study on efficacy and safety of sepranolone in premenstrual dysphoric disorder	26
Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis do not depend on endogenous opioids in humans	25
A systematic review on the effects of social discrimination on telomere length	25
Assessment of conditioned fear extinction in male and female adolescent rats	25
Diabetes, antidiabetic medications and risk of depression – A population-based cohort and nested case-control study	25
The association between allostatic load and cognitive function: A systematic and meta-analytic review	25
The neuroendocrinology of stress: Glucocorticoid signaling mechanisms	25
Race, socioeconomic status, and low-grade inflammatory biomarkers across the lifecourse: A pooled analysis of seven studies	25
PPARγ-mediated microglial activation phenotype is involved in depressive-like behaviors and neuroinflammation in stressed C57BL/6J and ob/ob mice	25
Parental sensitivity mediates the sustained effect of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on cortisol in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial	25
Ghrelin and PYY in low-weight females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder compared to anorexia nervosa and healthy controls	24
The effect of oral contraceptive use on cortisol reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test: A meta-analysis	24
Colonization with the commensal fungus Candida albicans perturbs the gut-brain axis through dysregulation of endocannabinoid signaling	24
Estradiol promotes and progesterone reduces anxiety-like behavior produced by nicotine withdrawal in female rats	24
Sex difference or hormonal difference in mental rotation? The influence of ovarian milieu	24
Gastrointestinal symptoms, gut microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics in anorexia nervosa: A review of mechanistic rationale and clinical evidence	24
Human nail cortisol as a retrospective biomarker of chronic stress: A systematic review	24
A systematic review of hair cortisol during pregnancy: Reference ranges and methodological considerations	23
Biological correlates of early life stressful events in major depressive disorder	23
Prenatal pregnancy-related anxiety predicts boys’ ADHD symptoms via placental C-reactive protein	23
Risk factors for postpartum relapse in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of psychosocial stress and the biological stress system	23
Exposure to police-related deaths and physiological stress among urban black youth	23
Objective and subjective socioeconomic status associated with metabolic syndrome severity among African American adults in Jackson Heart Study	23
Endocrine stress response in pregnancy and 12 weeks postpartum – Exploring risk factors for postpartum depression	23
Gender-affirming hormone treatment and cognitive function in transgender young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
Association between hair cortisol and diurnal basal cortisol levels: A 30-day validation study	22
Community violence and cellular and cytokine indicators of inflammation in adolescents	22
Testosterone treatment, internalizing symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction in transgender boys	22
Consequences of pandemic-associated social restrictions: Role of social support and the oxytocin system	22
Relationship satisfaction predicts lower stress and inflammation in breast cancer survivors: A longitudinal study of within-person and between-person effects	21
Exercise-induced increases in Anandamide and BDNF during extinction consolidation contribute to reduced threat following reinstatement: Preliminary evidence from a randomized controlled trial	21
Long-term activation of hippocampal glial cells and altered emotional behavior in male and female adult rats after different neonatal stressors	21
Altered thyroid hormone profile in patients with Alzheimer’s disease	21
Neural responses to threat and reward and changes in inflammation following a mindfulness intervention	21
Adverse childhood experiences and early life inflammation in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children	21
Natural variation in the oxytocin receptor gene and rearing interact to influence reproductive and nonreproductive social behavior and receptor binding	21

A preliminary study of gut microbiome variation and HPA axis reactivity in healthy infants	21
Ovariectomy-induced depressive-like behavior and brain glucose metabolism changes in female rats are not affected by chronic mild stress	21
Acute and Chronic Stress in Daily Police Service: A Three-Week N-of-1 Study	21
Psychological stress and cortisol during pregnancy: An ecological momentary assessment (EMA)-Based within- and between-person analysis	21
Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) and Childhood Adversity Influence Trust	21
Sex influences the effects of APOE genotype and Alzheimer’s diagnosis on neuropathology and memory	20
Hydrocortisone administration for reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Commonly-used rodent tests of anxiety-like behavior lack predictive validity for human sex differences	20
Glucocorticoid ultradian rhythmicity differentially regulates mood and resting state networks in the human brain: A randomised controlled clinical trial	20
The longitudinal association of changes in diurnal cortisol features with fasting glucose: MESA	20
Disinhibition of PVN-projecting GABAergic neurons in AV region in BNST participates in visceral hypersensitivity in rats	20
Associations between oxytocin and empathy in humans: A systematic literature review	20
Interactions of OXTR rs53576 and emotional trauma on hippocampal volumes and perceived social support in adolescent girls	19
Socioeconomic status trajectories across the life course, daily discrimination, and inflammation among Black and white adults	19
Peripheral immune dysregulation in the ART era of HIV-associated neurocognitive impairments: A systematic review	19
Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress predicts HPA reactivity and psychopathology in adolescent offspring: Project Ice Storm	19
Higher cortisol levels may proceed a manic episode and are related to disease severity in patients with bipolar disorder	19
Delayed effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation	19
Endocrine and immunomodulatory effects of social isolation and loneliness across adulthood	19
Maternal prenatal cortisol programs the infant hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis	19
Endocannabinoid concentrations in hair and mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors	19
Prenatal maternal stress prospectively relates to shorter child buccal cell telomere length	19
Intimate partner violence and hair cortisol concentration: A biomarker for HPA axis function	19
Stressor-Cortisol Concordance Among Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis: Novel Findings from the NAPLS Cohort	19
Chronic social stress in mice alters energy status including higher glucose need but lower brain utilization	19
Intranasal vasopressin like oxytocin increases social attention by influencing top-down control, but additionally enhances bottom-up control	19
Impaired hormonal regulation of appetite in schizophrenia: A narrative review dissecting intrinsic mechanisms and the effects of antipsychotics	19
Divergent effects of oxytocin on eye contact in bonobos and chimpanzees	18
Intranasal oxytocin administration facilitates the induction of long-term potentiation and promotes cognitive performance of maternally separated rats	18
Effects of prenatal stress on behavioural and neurodevelopmental outcomes are altered by maternal separation in the neonatal period	18
Autonomic nervous system activity predicts increasing serum cytokines in children	18
Cortisol awakening response in PTSD treatment: Predictor or mechanism of change	18
The non-aromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone (DHT) facilitates sexual behavior in ovariectomized female rats primed with estradiol	18
The effects of acute work stress and appraisal on psychobiological stress responses in a group office environment	18
Sex differences in metabolic disorder patterns of first-episode drug-naive patients with schizophrenia	18
Endocrine and psychosocial moderators of mindfulness-based stress reduction for the prevention of perimenopausal depressive symptoms: A randomized controlled trial	18
BDNF serum levels and cognitive improvement in drug-naive first episode patients with schizophrenia: A prospective 12-week longitudinal study	18
Intranasal oxytocin as a potential therapeutic strategy in post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review	18
Depression in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of blood inflammatory markers	18
The effects of testosterone on the physiological response to social and somatic stressors	18
Lived experience and allostatic load among transmasculine people living in the United States	17
Structural brain alterations in older adults exposed to early-life adversity	17
Psychiatric comorbidities and adverse childhood experiences in women with self-reported polycystic ovary syndrome: An Australian population-based study	17
Not within spitting distance: Salivary immunoassays of estradiol have subpar validity for predicting cycle phase	17
Black-White racial health disparities in inflammation and physical health: Cumulative stress, social isolation, and health behaviors	17
7, 8-Dihydroxy-4-methylcoumarin reverses depression model-induced depression-like behaviors and alteration of dendritic spines in the mood circuits	17
Positive affect and peripheral inflammatory markers among adults: A narrative review	16
Plasma leptin, but not adiponectin, is associated with cognitive impairment in older adults	16
Sex difference in cognitive impairment in drug-free schizophrenia: Association with miR-195 levels	16
The relationship between sleep problems and cortisol in people with type 2 diabetes	16
How to assess and interpret everyday life salivary cortisol measures: A tutorial on practical and statistical considerations	16
Imagining a positive future reduces cortisol response to awakening and reactivity to acute stress	16
Specificity of plasma oxytocin immunoassays: A comparison of commercial assays and sample preparation techniques using oxytocin knockout and wildtype mice	16
Early traumatic experiences impair the functioning of both components of the endogenous stress response system in adult people with eating disorders	16
Hair glucocorticoid levels in Parkinson’s disease	16
Timing of menarche and abnormal hippocampal connectivity in youth at clinical-high risk for psychosis	16
Neuroactive steroids and depression in early pregnancy	16
Impact of loneliness on diurnal cortisol in youth	15
High and low anxiety phenotypes in a rat model of complex post-traumatic stress disorder are associated with different alterations in regional brain monoamine neurotransmission	15
The modulation of social behavior and empathy via oral contraceptives and female sex hormones	15
Antibiotics exposure attenuates chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced anxiety-like and depression-like behavior	15
Peripheral inflammation marker relationships to cognition in healthy older adults – A systematic review	15
Delivery room skin-to-skin contact in preterm infants affects long-term expression of stress response genes	15
Longitudinal proneuroactive and neuroactive steroid profiles in medication-free women with, without and at-risk for perinatal depression: A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis	15
Maternal psychosocial functioning, obstetric health history, and newborn telomere length	15
Restraint stress affects circulating NUCB2/nesfatin-1 and phoenixin levels in male rats	15
Molecular markers of neuroendocrine function and mitochondrial biogenesis associated with early life stress	15
Orexin 2 receptor in the nucleus accumbens is critical for the modulation of acute stress-induced anxiety	15
Predictors of irritability symptoms in mildly depressed perimenopausal women	15
A history of childhood trauma and allostatic load in patients with psychotic disorders with respect to stress coping strategies	15
The role of the cannabinoid system in fear memory and extinction in male and female mice	15
Factors contributing to stability and instability in alpha-amylase activity in diluted saliva samples over time	15
Early childhood adversity and HPA axis activity in adulthood:The importance of considering minimal age at exposure	15
Disaster-related prenatal maternal stress, and childhood HPA-axis regulation and anxiety: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study	15
Fetal programming pathway from maternal mental health to infant cortisol functioning: The role of placental 11β-HSD2 mRNA expression	15
Targeted bisulfite sequencing: A novel tool for the assessment of DNA methylation with high sensitivity and increased coverage	15
Effects of gender and personality on everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure	15
Low serum placental lactogen at term is associated with postnatal symptoms of depression and anxiety in women delivering female infants	14
Perceived stress but not hair cortisol concentration is related to adult cognitive performance	14
Salivary cortisol reactivity to psychological stressors in infancy: A meta-analysis	14

Serum soluble epoxide hydrolase related oxylipins and major depression in patients with type 2 diabetes	14
Estrous cycle contributes to state-dependent contextual fear in female rats	14
Sexually divergent cortical control of affective-autonomic integration	14
A soft baby carrier intervention enhances amygdala responses to infant crying in fathers: A randomized controlled trial	14
Effects of early-life stress on peripheral and central mitochondria in male mice across ages	14
Oxytocin receptors in the midbrain dorsal raphe are essential for postpartum maternal social and affective behaviors	14
Developmental effects in physiological stress in early adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder	14
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Everyday Discrimination Scale and biomarker outcomes	14
Childhood trauma affects autobiographical memory deficits through basal cortisol and prefrontal-extrastriate functional connectivity	14
17β-estradiol activation of dorsal hippocampal TrkB is independent of increased mature BDNF expression and is required for enhanced memory consolidation in female mice	14
Experiences affect social behaviors via altering neuronal morphology and oxytocin system	14
The supramammillary nucleus controls anxiety-like behavior; key role of GLP-1R	13
The influence of maternal anxiety and cortisol during pregnancy on childhood anxiety symptoms	13
Association between prolonged separation from parents and allostatic load among children in China	13
Cellular allostatic load is linked to increased energy expenditure and accelerated biological aging	13
Implicit and explicit emotional memory recall in anxiety and depression: Role of basolateral amygdala and cortisol-norepinephrine interaction	13
Altered social recognition memory and hypothalamic neuropeptide expression in adolescent male and female rats following prenatal alcohol exposure and/or early-life adversity	13
Transcriptomic analyses of black women in neighborhoods with high levels of violence	13
Competitive anxiety or Coronavirus anxiety? The psychophysiological responses of professional football players after returning to competition during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Increased dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is associated with anxiety in adolescent girls	13
Sepsis survivor mice exhibit a behavioral endocrine syndrome with ventral hippocampal dysfunction	13
A short Mindfulness retreat can improve biological markers of stress and inflammation	13
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis	13
For better and worse? The roles of closeness, marital behavior, and age in spouses’ cardiometabolic similarity	12
Cardiometabolic risk in young adults with depression and evidence of inflammation: A birth cohort study	12
Comparison of hair cortisol concentrations between self- and professionally-collected hair samples and the role of five-factor personality traits as potential moderators	12
Socioeconomic position, immune function, and its physiological markers	12
Associations between social adversity and young children’s hair cortisol: A systematic review	12
Oxytocin and social anxiety: Interactions with sex hormones	12
Associations of saliva cortisol and hair cortisol with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and major depressive disorder: An epidemiological cohort study in adolescents and young adults	12
The roles of comorbidity and trauma exposure and its timing in shaping HPA axis patterns in depression	12
Antidepressant effect in diabetes-associated depression: A novel potential of RAAS inhibition	12
Cesarean delivery and infant cortisol regulation	12
Sleep disturbance, neuro-immune markers, and depressive symptoms in older age: Conditional process analysis from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA)	12
RETRACTED: Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin gene is associated with gray matter volume and trait empathy in mothers	12
Effects of weariness of life, suicide ideations and suicide attempt on HPA axis regulation in depression	12
The mediating role of allostatic load in the relationship between early life adversity and cognitive function across the adult lifespan	12
Integrative psycho-biophysiological markers in predicting psychological resilience	12
Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment on offspring obesity risk: A fetal programming perspective	12
The role of psychopathic traits, social anxiety and cortisol in social approach avoidance tendencies	12
Developmental stage-dependent relationships between ghrelin levels and hippocampal white matter connections in low-weight anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa	12
Patterns of change in telomere length over the first three years of life in healthy children	12
Gonadal steroid hormone receptors in the medial amygdala contribute to experience-dependent changes in stress vulnerability	12
Cortisol reactivity in social anxiety disorder: A highly standardized and controlled study	12
Examining the role of ovarian hormones in the association between worry and working memory across the menstrual cycle	11
Social anxiety is associated with greater peripheral oxytocin reactivity to psychosocial stress	11
Endogenous testosterone levels are predictive of symptom reduction with exposure therapy in social anxiety disorder	11
Leptin and ghrelin concentrations and eating behaviors during the early and late luteal phase in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder	11
Dynamic behavior of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in human saliva	11
Hair cortisol change at COVID-19 pandemic onset predicts burnout among health personnel	11
Effect of adverse childhood experiences on hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis function and antidepressant efficacy in untreated first episode patients with major depressive disorder	11
PTSD and the klotho longevity gene: Evaluation of longitudinal effects on inflammation via DNA methylation	11
Intact circadian rhythm despite cortisol hypersecretion in Alzheimer’s disease: A meta-analysis	11
Differences in patterns of metabolic abnormality and metabolic syndrome between early-onset and adult-onset first-episode drug-naive schizophrenia patients	11
Awakening cortisol indicators, advanced glycation end products, stress perception, depression and anxiety in parents of children with chronic conditions	11
A neurobiological link between transportation noise exposure and metabolic disease in humans	11
Leptin mediates improvements in cognitive function following treatment with infliximab in adults with bipolar depression	11
Effects of high fat diet-induced obesity and pregnancy on prepartum and postpartum maternal mouse behavior	11
IL-6, sTNF-R2, and CRP in the context of sleep, circadian preference, and health in adolescents with eveningness chronotype: Cross-sectional and longitudinal treatment effects	11
High-dose testosterone treatment reduces monoamine oxidase A levels in the human brain: A preliminary report	11
Perinatal determinants of neonatal hair glucocorticoid concentrations	11
Psychological well-being and gene expression in Korean adults: The role of age	11
Telomere dynamics across the early life course: Findings from a longitudinal study in children	11
Kisspeptin modulates gamma-aminobutyric acid levels in the human brain	11
Sedentary behaviour is associated with heightened cardiovascular, inflammatory and cortisol reactivity to acute psychological stress	11
The association between allostatic load and brain: A systematic review	11
Fronto-striatal changes along the menstrual cycle during working memory: Effect of sex hormones on activation and connectivity patterns	11
Social isolation in adolescence and long-term changes in the gut microbiota composition and in the hippocampal inflammation: Implications for psychiatric disorders – Dirk Hellhammer Award Paper 2021	11
Allostatic load and systemic comorbidities in psychiatric disorders	11
Is there an association between prenatal testosterone and autistic traits in adolescents?	11
The gut reaction to couples’ relationship troubles: A route to gut dysbiosis through changes in depressive symptoms	11
The association between the renin-angiotensin system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in anxiety disorders: A systematic review of animal studies	11
Social regulation of inflammation related gene expression in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis	10
Eating behavior modulates the sensitivity to the central effects of GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment: a secondary analysis of a randomized trial	10
Association between racial/ethnic discrimination and pubertal development in early adolescence	10
Oxytocin receptor expression and epigenetic regulation in the anterior cingulate cortex of individuals with a history of severe childhood abuse	10
Effects of brief stress management interventions on distress and leukocyte nuclear factor kappa B expression during primary treatment for breast cancer: A randomized trial	10
Cellular and serotonergic correlates of habituated neuroendocrine responses in male and female rats.	10
Youths’ processing of emotion information: Responses to chronic and video-based laboratory stress	10
Human macrophages stimulate expression of inflammatory mediators in adipocytes; effects of second-generation antipsychotics and glucocorticoids on cellular cross-talk	10
Dissociating cognitive, behavioral and physiological stress-related responses through dorsolateral prefrontal cortex inhibition	10
Microbiota and stress: a loop that impacts memory	10
Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice	10
Effects of sex hormones on brain GABA and glutamate levels in a cis- and transgender cohort	10
Effects of glucose intake on stress reactivity in young, healthy men	10
Coordination between frontolimbic resting state connectivity and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis functioning in adolescents with and without depression	10
Effects of a Mindfulness-based Intervention on diurnal cortisol pattern in disadvantaged families: A randomized controlled trial	10
Intra-individual stability of hair endocannabinoid and N-acylethanolamine concentrations	10
Job insecurity and risk of coronary heart disease: Mediation analyses of health behaviors, sleep problems, physiological and psychological factors	10
Sense of purpose in life and inflammation in healthy older adults: A longitudinal study	10
Within-person changes in cancer-related distress predict breast cancer survivors’ inflammation across treatment	10
Cortisol slopes and conflict: A spouse’s perceived stress matters	10
Human defensive freezing: Associations with hair cortisol and trait anxiety	10
Decreased putamen activation in balancing goal-directed and habitual behavior in binge eating disorder	10
Reduced NLRP3 inflammasome expression in the brain is associated with stress resilience	10