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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Bruce S. McEwen and his continued legacy	127
Serum adiponectin-levels are predictive of posttraumatic stress disorder in women	90
The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide system as a sex-specific modulator of hippocampal response to threat stimuli	66
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Choosing memory retrieval strategies: A critical role for inhibition in the dentate gyrus	52
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	51
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Neural circuitry involved in conditioned inhibition via safety signal learning is sensitive to trauma exposure	46
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Stress in pregnancy - Implications for fetal BDNF in amniotic fluid at birth	45
Whole-brain input mapping of the lateral versus medial anterodorsal bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the mouse	43
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	41
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress	39
Influence of pro-obesogenic dietary habits on stress-induced cognitive alterations in healthy adult volunteers	37
The neurocomputational signature of decision-making for unfair offers in females under acute psychological stress	36
A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice	36
Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness	35
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice	34
The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus	32
Intact GR dimerization is critical for restraining plasma ACTH levels during chronic psychosocial stress	31
Social context modulates active avoidance: Contributions of the anterior cingulate cortex in male and female rats	31
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 endocannabinoids	30
Alterations of frontal-temporal gray matter volume associate with clinical measures of older adults with COVID-19	29
Disentangling sex differences in the shared genetic architecture of posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic experiences, and social support with body size and composition	28

Baiap3 regulates depressive behaviors in mice via attenuating dense core vesicle trafficking in subsets of prefrontal cortex neurons	28
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	26
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study	26
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	25
Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review	25
Threat imminence reveals links among unfolding of anticipatory physiological response, cortical-subcortical intrinsic functional connectivity, and anxiety	25
Theta oscillatory dynamics serving cognitive control index psychosocial distress in youth	25
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 amygdala	24
Prenatal stress leads to deficits in brain development, mood related behaviors and gut microbiota in offspring	24
Do changes in microglial status underlie neurogenesis impairments and depressive-like behaviours induced by psychological stress? A systematic review in animal models	24
Stress and reward: A multimodal assessment of childhood sexual abuse	23
Intersectional analysis of chronic mild stress-induced lncRNA-mRNA interaction networks in rat hippocampus reveals potential anti-depression/anxiety drug targets	23
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	23
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	23
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Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms	22
Behavioral coping with chronic defeat stress in mice: A systematic review of current protocols	22
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation	22
Telencephalic regulation of the HPA axis in birds	22
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 rats	22
The double-edged sword of the hippocampus-ventromedial prefrontal cortex resting-state connectivity in stress susceptibility and resilience: A prospective study	21
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	21
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 pandemic	20
Environmental enrichment attenuates depressive-like behavior in maternal rats by inhibiting neuroinflammation and apoptosis and promoting neuroplasticity	20
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	20
The mineralocorticoid receptor and extra-synaptic NMDA receptor in the lateral habenula involve in the vulnerability to early life stress in the maternal separation model	20
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	20
A voxel-level brain-wide association study of cortisol at 8 a.m.: Evidence from Cushing's disease	19
Effects of chronic social stress on oligodendrocyte proliferation-maturation and myelin status in prefrontal cortex and amygdala in adult mice	19
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	19
Stress hormones mediate developmental plasticity in vertebrates with complex life cycles	19
Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms	19
Brain receptor dynamics in early and adult life stress: Gateways to maladaptive coping strategies	18
Retrotransposons and the brain: Exploring a complex relationship between mobile elements, stress, and neurological health	18
Blue light at night produces stress-evoked heightened aggression by enhancing brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the basolateral amygdala	18
The role of objective sleep in implicit and explicit affect regulation: A comprehensive review	18
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Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	17
Neural activity during response inhibition in mild traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder	17
Stress induces microglia-associated synaptic circuit alterations in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex	17
Cortical gyrification morphology in PTSD: A neurobiological risk factor for severity?	17
Molecular impacts of childhood abuse on the human brain	17
Long term effects of peripubertal stress on excitatory and inhibitory circuits in the prefrontal cortex of male and female mice	16
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	16
Physiological and behavioral contagion/buffering effects of chronic unpredictable stress in a socially enriched environment: A preliminary study	16
Prenatal infection and adolescent social adversity affect microglia, synaptic density, and behavior in male rats	16

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” [Neur	16
Early life adversity in male mice sculpts reward circuits	16
Early resource scarcity causes cortical astrocyte enlargement and sex-specific changes in the orbitofrontal cortex transcriptome in adult rats	15
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties	15
Basal cortisol level modulates stress-induced opioid-seeking behavior	15
Reversed patterns of resting state functional connectivity for females vs. males in posttraumatic stress disorder	15
SNX27: A trans-species cognitive modulator with implications for anxiety and stress susceptibility	15
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	15
Brain-wide mapping of c-Fos expression with fluorescence micro-optical sectioning tomography in a chronic sleep deprivation mouse model	15
Inhibition of adult neurogenesis reduces avoidance behavior in male, but not female, mice subjected to early life adversity	15
Transcriptional and cell type profiles of cortical brain regions showing ultradian cortisol rhythm dependent responses to emotional face stimulation	15
Subjective stress and any drinking during alcohol treatment: Disentangling within and between person autoregressive effects	15
High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor	15
Amygdalar endocannabinoids are affected by predator odor stress in a sex-specific manner and modulate acoustic startle reactivity in female rats	15
CRF-receptor1 modulation of the dopamine projection to prelimbic cortex facilitates cognitive flexibility after acute and chronic stress	15
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats	15
Stress resilience is an active and multifactorial process manifested by structural, functional, and molecular changes in synapses	14
Subcallosal area 25: Its responsivity to the stress hormone cortisol and its opposing effects on appetitive motivation in marmosets	14
Stronger functional network connectivity and social support buffer against negative affect during the COVID-19 outbreak and after the pandemic peak	14
DCC, a potential target for controlling fear memory extinction and hippocampal LTP in male mice receiving single prolonged stress	14
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Poststress social isolation exerts anxiolytic effects by activating the ventral dentate gyrus	13
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats	13
Immersive virtual plus-maze to examine behavior and psychophysiological-related variables in young people with problematic alcohol and cannabis consumption	13
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