Neurobiology of Stress

Papers
(The median citation count of Neurobiology of Stress is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Bruce S. McEwen and his continued legacy127
Serum adiponectin-levels are predictive of posttraumatic stress disorder in women90
The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide system as a sex-specific modulator of hippocampal response to threat stimuli66
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Choosing memory retrieval strategies: A critical role for inhibition in the dentate gyrus52
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats51
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Neural circuitry involved in conditioned inhibition via safety signal learning is sensitive to trauma exposure46
Stress in pregnancy - Implications for fetal BDNF in amniotic fluid at birth45
Whole-brain input mapping of the lateral versus medial anterodorsal bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the mouse43
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 BDNF41
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress39
Influence of pro-obesogenic dietary habits on stress-induced cognitive alterations in healthy adult volunteers37
The neurocomputational signature of decision-making for unfair offers in females under acute psychological stress36
A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice36
Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness35
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice34
The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus32
Intact GR dimerization is critical for restraining plasma ACTH levels during chronic psychosocial stress31
Social context modulates active avoidance: Contributions of the anterior cingulate cortex in male and female rats31
Longitudinal CSF proteome profiling in mice to uncover the acute and sustained mechanisms of action of rapid acting antidepressant (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine (HNK)30
Regulation of stress-provoked aggressive behavior using endocannabinoids30
Alterations of frontal-temporal gray matter volume associate with clinical measures of older adults with COVID-1929
Disentangling sex differences in the shared genetic architecture of posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic experiences, and social support with body size and composition28
Baiap3 regulates depressive behaviors in mice via attenuating dense core vesicle trafficking in subsets of prefrontal cortex neurons28
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic27
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone26
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study26
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain25
Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review25
Threat imminence reveals links among unfolding of anticipatory physiological response, cortical-subcortical intrinsic functional connectivity, and anxiety25
Theta oscillatory dynamics serving cognitive control index psychosocial distress in youth25
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)24
Stress-induced visceral pain in female rats is associated with epigenetic remodeling in the central nucleus of the amygdala24
Prenatal stress leads to deficits in brain development, mood related behaviors and gut microbiota in offspring24
Do changes in microglial status underlie neurogenesis impairments and depressive-like behaviours induced by psychological stress? A systematic review in animal models24
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents23
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala23
Stress and reward: A multimodal assessment of childhood sexual abuse23
Intersectional analysis of chronic mild stress-induced lncRNA-mRNA interaction networks in rat hippocampus reveals potential anti-depression/anxiety drug targets23
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Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms22
Behavioral coping with chronic defeat stress in mice: A systematic review of current protocols22
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation22
Telencephalic regulation of the HPA axis in birds22
Microglia-derived TNF-α inhibiting GABAergic neurons in the anterior lateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis precipitates visceral hypersensitivity induced by colorectal distension in rats22
The double-edged sword of the hippocampus-ventromedial prefrontal cortex resting-state connectivity in stress susceptibility and resilience: A prospective study21
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice21
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?21
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A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic20
Environmental enrichment attenuates depressive-like behavior in maternal rats by inhibiting neuroinflammation and apoptosis and promoting neuroplasticity20
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice20
The mineralocorticoid receptor and extra-synaptic NMDA receptor in the lateral habenula involve in the vulnerability to early life stress in the maternal separation model20
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques20
A voxel-level brain-wide association study of cortisol at 8 a.m.: Evidence from Cushing's disease19
Effects of chronic social stress on oligodendrocyte proliferation-maturation and myelin status in prefrontal cortex and amygdala in adult mice19
Childhood maltreatment results in altered deactivation of reward processing circuits in depressed patients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of a facial emotion recognition task19
Stress hormones mediate developmental plasticity in vertebrates with complex life cycles19
Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms19
Brain receptor dynamics in early and adult life stress: Gateways to maladaptive coping strategies18
Retrotransposons and the brain: Exploring a complex relationship between mobile elements, stress, and neurological health18
Blue light at night produces stress-evoked heightened aggression by enhancing brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the basolateral amygdala18
The role of objective sleep in implicit and explicit affect regulation: A comprehensive review18
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Neural activity during response inhibition in mild traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder17
Stress induces microglia-associated synaptic circuit alterations in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex17
Cortical gyrification morphology in PTSD: A neurobiological risk factor for severity?17
Molecular impacts of childhood abuse on the human brain17
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children17
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue16
Physiological and behavioral contagion/buffering effects of chronic unpredictable stress in a socially enriched environment: A preliminary study16
Prenatal infection and adolescent social adversity affect microglia, synaptic density, and behavior in male rats16
Corrigendum to “Cross-sectional study of retrospective self-reported childhood emotional neglect and inhibitory neurometabolite levels in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex in adult humans” [Neur16
Early life adversity in male mice sculpts reward circuits16
Long term effects of peripubertal stress on excitatory and inhibitory circuits in the prefrontal cortex of male and female mice16
Early resource scarcity causes cortical astrocyte enlargement and sex-specific changes in the orbitofrontal cortex transcriptome in adult rats15
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties15
Reversed patterns of resting state functional connectivity for females vs. males in posttraumatic stress disorder15
SNX27: A trans-species cognitive modulator with implications for anxiety and stress susceptibility15
Basal cortisol level modulates stress-induced opioid-seeking behavior15
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation15
Brain-wide mapping of c-Fos expression with fluorescence micro-optical sectioning tomography in a chronic sleep deprivation mouse model15
Transcriptional and cell type profiles of cortical brain regions showing ultradian cortisol rhythm dependent responses to emotional face stimulation15
Inhibition of adult neurogenesis reduces avoidance behavior in male, but not female, mice subjected to early life adversity15
Subjective stress and any drinking during alcohol treatment: Disentangling within and between person autoregressive effects15
High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor15
Amygdalar endocannabinoids are affected by predator odor stress in a sex-specific manner and modulate acoustic startle reactivity in female rats15
CRF-receptor1 modulation of the dopamine projection to prelimbic cortex facilitates cognitive flexibility after acute and chronic stress15
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats15
Stress resilience is an active and multifactorial process manifested by structural, functional, and molecular changes in synapses14
Subcallosal area 25: Its responsivity to the stress hormone cortisol and its opposing effects on appetitive motivation in marmosets14
Stronger functional network connectivity and social support buffer against negative affect during the COVID-19 outbreak and after the pandemic peak14
DCC, a potential target for controlling fear memory extinction and hippocampal LTP in male mice receiving single prolonged stress14
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Poststress social isolation exerts anxiolytic effects by activating the ventral dentate gyrus13
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats13
Immersive virtual plus-maze to examine behavior and psychophysiological-related variables in young people with problematic alcohol and cannabis consumption13
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Impact of acute psychosocial stress on attentional control in humans. A study of evoked potentials and pupillary response12
The stress of losing sleep: Sex-specific neurobiological outcomes12
Relationship between psychosocial stress-induced prefrontal cortex activity and gut microbiota in healthy Participants—A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study12
The neural correlates of psychosocial stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of spectral analysis EEG studies12
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS12
The importance of REM sleep fragmentation in the effects of stress on sleep: Perspectives from preclinical studies12
Neural correlates of stress-reactive rumination in depression – The role of childhood trauma and social anxiety12
Polygenic scores for empathy associate with posttraumatic stress severity in response to certain traumatic events12
Rodent models of stress and dendritic plasticity – Implications for psychopathology11
What a difference timing makes: Cortisol effects on neural underpinnings of emotion regulation11
Controlling intrusive thoughts of future fears under stress11
Chronic adolescent stress increases exploratory behavior but does not appear to change the acute stress response in adult male C57BL/6 mice11
Bacteria - derived short chain fatty acids restore sympathoadrenal responsiveness to hypoglycemia after antibiotic-induced gut microbiota depletion11
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder11
Dopamine and D1 receptor in hippocampal dentate gyrus involved in chronic stress-induced alteration of spatial learning and memory in rats11
Dissection of the relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming using the Shank3B mutant autistic model, acute stress model and chronic pain model11
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development11
Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder11
Stress-induced vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction depends on cofilin modulation11
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome11
Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats11
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue10
Allopregnanolone: Regenerative therapeutic to restore neurological health10
Sex and hormonal status influence the anxiolytic-like effect of oxytocin in mice10
Acute stress impairs visual path integration10
Lateral hypothalamus orexinergic inputs to lateral habenula modulate maladaptation after social defeat stress10
The functional connectome in posttraumatic stress disorder10
Subcutaneous Mycobacterium vaccae ameliorates the effects of early life adversity alone or in combination with chronic stress during adulthood in male and female mice10
Omega-3 alleviates behavioral and molecular changes in a mouse model of stress-induced juvenile depression10
Dysfunctional synaptic pruning by microglia correlates with cognitive impairment in sleep-deprived mice: Involvement of CX3CR1 signaling10
Genetic evidence for a large overlap and potential bidirectional causal effects between resilience and well-being10
Sex-dependent factors of alcohol and neuroimmune mechanisms10
Roles of miR-432 and circ_0000418 in mediating the anti-depressant action of ADAR19
Corticotropin releasing factor neurons in the visual cortex mediate long-term changes in visual function induced by early adversity9
“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 stress9
Amygdala and hippocampal subregions mediate outcomes following trauma during typical development: Evidence from high-resolution structural MRI9
Resilience to stress and sex-specific remodeling of microglia and neuronal morphology in a rat model of anxiety and anhedonia9
Environmental enrichment reverses stress-induced changes in the brain-gut axis to ameliorate chronic visceral and somatic hypersensitivity9
Integrating and fragmenting memories under stress and alcohol9
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies9
Intra-BLA alteration of interneurons’ modulation of activity in rats, reveals a dissociation between effects on anxiety symptoms and extinction learning9
Sex-dependent long-term effects of prepubescent stress on the posterior parietal cortex9
Inter- and transgenerational heritability of preconception chronic stress or alcohol exposure: Translational outcomes in brain and behavior9
Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive and emotional responses to psychosocial stressors in healthy humans9
αCaMKII in the lateral amygdala mediates PTSD-Like behaviors and NMDAR-Dependent LTD9
Chronic stress promotes basal ganglia disinhibition by increasing the excitatory drive of direct-pathway neurons9
Cholecystokinin-expressing interneurons mediated inhibitory transmission and plasticity in basolateral amygdala modulate stress-induced anxiety-like behaviors in mice9
Consideration of sex as a biological variable in the translation of pharmacotherapy for stress-associated drug seeking9
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure9
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model9
Pyridostigmine bromide elicits progressive and chronic impairments in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male rats8
Genomic glucocorticoid receptor effects guide acute stress-induced delayed anxiety and basolateral amygdala spine plasticity in rats8
Heightened SAM- and HPA-axis activity during acute stress impairs decision-making: A systematic review on underlying neuropharmacological mechanisms8
Acute stress selectively blunts reward anticipation but not consumption: An ERP study8
Dual imaging of dendritic spines and mitochondria in vivo reveals hotspots of plasticity and metabolic adaptation to stress8
Emotional salience network involved in constructing two-dimensional fear space in humans8
Effects of acute stress on reward processing: A comprehensive meta-analysis of rodent and human studies8
No effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis8
IMVEST, an immersive multimodal virtual environment stress test for humans that adjusts challenge to individual's performance8
Estrogen receptor beta in the central amygdala regulates the deleterious behavioral and neuronal consequences of repeated social stress in female rats8
Opposing effects of pre-encoding stress on neural substrates of item and emotional contextual source memory retrieval8
From genetics to systems biology of stress-related mental disorders8
Acute stress differentially alters reward-related decision making and inhibitory control under threat of punishment8
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Neuroanatomical markers of social cognition in neglected adolescents7
Early-life stress impairs acquisition and retrieval of fear memories: sex-effects, corticosterone modulation, and partial prevention by targeting glucocorticoid receptors at adolescent age7
Remote contextual fear retrieval engages activity from salience network regions in rats7
Transcriptome dynamics in mouse amygdala under acute and chronic stress revealed by thiol-labeled RNA sequencing7
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons7
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Erasing m6A-dependent transcription signature of stress-sensitive genes triggers antidepressant actions7
Distinct populations of lateral preoptic nucleus neurons jointly contribute to depressive-like behaviors through divergent projections in male mice7
Reactivating a positive feedback loop VTA-BLA-NAc circuit associated with positive experience ameliorates the attenuated reward sensitivity induced by chronic stress7
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Analysis of the cerebellar molecular stress response led to first evidence of a role for FKBP51 in brain FKBP52 expression in mice and humans7
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Withdrawal notice to: “Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats” [7
Cross-species analysis uncovers the mitochondrial stress response in the hippocampus as a shared mechanism in mouse early life stress and human depression7
LGI1 governs neuritin-mediated resilience to chronic stress6
Mineralocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid receptor work alone and together in cell-type-specific manner: Implications for resilience prediction and targeted therapy6
Amygdala size varies with stress perception6
Binge drinking is associated with higher cortisol and lower hippocampal and prefrontal gray matter volume: Prospective association with future alcohol intake6
Chronic adolescent stress causes sustained impairment of cognitive flexibility and hippocampal synaptic strength in female rats6
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats6
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Individual longitudinal changes in DNA-methylome identify signatures of early-life adversity and correlate with later outcome6
Juvenile exposure to acute traumatic stress leads to long-lasting alterations in grey matter myelination in adult female but not male rats6
An epigenetic mechanism of social isolation stress in adolescent female mice6
Isolation of the differential effects of chronic and acute stress in a manner that is not confounded by stress severity6
Low-dose S-ketamine exerts antidepressant-like effects via enhanced hippocampal synaptic plasticity in postpartum depression rats6
Acute stress blunts prediction error signals in the dorsal striatum during reinforcement learning6
The role of TET proteins in stress-induced neuroepigenetic and behavioural adaptations6
Probiotic consumption relieved human stress and anxiety symptoms possibly via modulating the neuroactive potential of the gut microbiota6
Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults6
Sex-Specific Regulation of Microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced Anxiety Phenotype in Mice6
The habenula clock influences response to a stressor6
Contributions of PTSD polygenic risk and environmental stress to suicidality in preadolescents6
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