OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Stress is 14. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a psychobiotic therapy for depression: Bifidobacterium breve CCFM1025 reverses chronic stress-induced depressive symptoms and gut microbial abnormalities in mice	163
Gender-related time course of sleep disturbances and psychological symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study on the Italian population	100
A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	95
Allopregnanolone in postpartum depression: Role in pathophysiology and treatment	75
A systematic review of the Trier Social Stress Test methodology: Issues in promoting study comparison and replicable research	74
Allopregnanolone in premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD): Evidence for dysregulated sensitivity to GABA-A receptor modulating neuroactive steroids across the menstrual cycle	73
Probiotic consumption relieved human stress and anxiety symptoms possibly via modulating the neuroactive potential of the gut microbiota	66
Synaptic and behavioral effects of chronic stress are linked to dynamic and sex-specific changes in microglia function and astrocyte dystrophy	51
Allopregnanolone: From molecular pathophysiology to therapeutics. A historical perspective	51
Alterations of frontal-temporal gray matter volume associate with clinical measures of older adults with COVID-19	50
Post-finasteride syndrome: An emerging clinical problem	46
A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice	46
Social isolation alters behavior, the gut-immune-brain axis, and neurochemical circuits in male and female prairie voles	40
Realising the therapeutic potential of neuroactive steroid modulators of the GABAA receptor	40
Stress hormones mediate developmental plasticity in vertebrates with complex life cycles	38
Involvement of oxidative stress and mitochondrial mechanisms in air pollution-related neurobiological impairments	37
Pleiotropic actions of allopregnanolone underlie therapeutic benefits in stress-related disease	36
Amygdala functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of trauma prospectively predicts severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms	35
Lateral hypothalamus orexinergic inputs to lateral habenula modulate maladaptation after social defeat stress	32
Sex-stratified gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study of trauma, posttraumatic-stress, and suicidality	32
Anatomically and functionally distinct locus coeruleus efferents mediate opposing effects on anxiety-like behavior	32
Susceptibility and resilience to chronic social defeat stress in adolescent male mice: No correlation between social avoidance and sucrose preference	31
To stress or not to stress: Brain-behavior-immune interaction may weaken or promote the immune response to SARS-CoV-2	30
Transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation reduces sympathetic responses to stress in posttraumatic stress disorder: A double-blind, randomized, sham controlled trial	30
Exposure to different early-life stress experiences results in differentially altered DNA methylation in the brain and immune system	30

Glucocorticoids, the evolution of the stress-response, and the primate predicament	29
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure	29
Deconstructing the role of the exposome in youth suicidal ideation: Trauma, neighborhood environment, developmental and gender effects	28
Early life stress dysregulates kappa opioid receptor signaling within the lateral habenula	28
Mediterranean diet, stress resilience, and aging in nonhuman primates	28
The role of allopregnanolone in depressive-like behaviors: Focus on neurotrophic proteins	28
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	27
Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review	27
Increased methylation of NR3C1 and SLC6A4 is associated with blunted cortisol reactivity to stress in major depression	26
Mineralocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid receptor work alone and together in cell-type-specific manner: Implications for resilience prediction and targeted therapy	26
The neural correlates of psychosocial stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of spectral analysis EEG studies	26
A novel mouse model for vulnerability to alcohol dependence induced by early-life adversity	25
Forecasting individual risk for long-term Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in emergency medical settings using biomedical data: A machine learning multicenter cohort study	24
Resilience to stress and sex-specific remodeling of microglia and neuronal morphology in a rat model of anxiety and anhedonia	24
Early life adversity predicts brain-gut alterations associated with increased stress and mood	24
Chronic adolescent stress causes sustained impairment of cognitive flexibility and hippocampal synaptic strength in female rats	23
Prenatal stress leads to deficits in brain development, mood related behaviors and gut microbiota in offspring	23
Pregnane steroidogenesis is altered by HIV-1 Tat and morphine: Physiological allopregnanolone is protective against neurotoxic and psychomotor effects	23
Cellular senescence as a driver of cognitive decline triggered by chronic unpredictable stress	22
Associations between PTSD-Related extinction retention deficits in women and plasma steroids that modulate brain GABAA and NMDA receptor activity	22
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	22
Early life stress-induced alterations in the activity and morphology of ventral tegmental area neurons in female rats	22
miR-9-5p is involved in the rescue of stress-dependent dendritic shortening of hippocampal pyramidal neurons induced by acute antidepressant treatment with ketamine	21
Understanding how stress responses and stress-related behaviors have evolved in zebrafish and mammals	21
Dynamic functional network connectivity associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms in COVID-19 survivors	20
Long-term effects of stress early in life on microRNA-30a and its network: Preventive effects of lurasidone and potential implications for depression vulnerability	20
Composite contributions of cerebrospinal fluid GABAergic neurosteroids, neuropeptide Y and interleukin-6 to PTSD symptom severity in men with PTSD	20
Pregnancy associated epigenetic markers of inflammation predict depression and anxiety symptoms in response to discrimination	20
Variations in response to trauma and hippocampal subfield changes	20
Dissection of the relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming using the Shank3B mutant autistic model, acute stress model and chronic pain model	20
Infralimbic cortical glutamate output is necessary for the neural and behavioral consequences of chronic stress	20
Post-traumatic stress disorder and its association with stroke and stroke risk factors: A literature review	20
Maternal antioxidant treatment prevents the adverse effects of prenatal stress on the offspring's brain and behavior	20
Cholinergic neurotransmission in the basolateral amygdala during cued fear extinction	19
Gene expression in the dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortices implicates immune-related gene networks in PTSD	19
Childhood adversity correlates with stable changes in DNA methylation trajectories in children and converges with epigenetic signatures of prenatal stress	19
Characterizing the behavioral and neuroendocrine features of susceptibility and resilience to social stress	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
Stress induces microglia-associated synaptic circuit alterations in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex	18
Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression	18
Early life adversity in male mice sculpts reward circuits	18
Epigenetic mechanisms impacted by chronic stress across the rodent lifespan	17
A projection from the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus to the shell of the nucleus accumbens contributes to footshock stress-induced social avoidance	17
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	17
The functional connectome predicts feeling of stress on regular days and during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Long term effects of peripubertal stress on excitatory and inhibitory circuits in the prefrontal cortex of male and female mice	17
The stress susceptibility factor FKBP51 controls S-ketamine-evoked release of mBDNF in the prefrontal cortex of mice	17
Dopamine modulates individual differences in avoidance behavior: A pharmacological, immunohistochemical, neurochemical and volumetric investigation	17
Proteomic and mitochondrial adaptations to early-life stress are distinct in juveniles and adults	17

Brain-wide mapping of c-fos expression in the single prolonged stress model and the effects of pretreatment with ACH-000029 or prazosin	16
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	16
The functional connectome in posttraumatic stress disorder	16
Telencephalic regulation of the HPA axis in birds	16
The cerebellum and psychological trauma: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies	16
Sex differences in the delayed impact of acute stress on the amygdala	16
Cannabis vapor self-administration elicits sex- and dose-specific alterations in stress reactivity in rats	16
Allopregnanolone (1938–2019): A trajectory of 80 years of outstanding scientific achievements	16
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS	16
Do changes in microglial status underlie neurogenesis impairments and depressive-like behaviours induced by psychological stress? A systematic review in animal models	16
Connecting the biology of stress, allostatic load and epigenetics to social structures and processes	16
PPAR and functional foods: Rationale for natural neurosteroid-based interventions for postpartum depression	16
Genetic evidence for a large overlap and potential bidirectional causal effects between resilience and well-being	16
Acute sleep deprivation during pregnancy in rats: Rapid elevation of placental and fetal inflammation and kynurenic acid	16
Erasing m6A-dependent transcription signature of stress-sensitive genes triggers antidepressant actions	15
Prevalence of posttraumatic stress symptoms in health care workers after exposure to patients with COVID-19	15
Hippocampal-specific insulin resistance elicits behavioral despair and hippocampal dendritic atrophy	15
Juvenile exposure to acute traumatic stress leads to long-lasting alterations in grey matter myelination in adult female but not male rats	15
Male long-Evans rats: An outbred model of marked hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal hyperactivity	15
Dual imaging of dendritic spines and mitochondria in vivo reveals hotspots of plasticity and metabolic adaptation to stress	15
Individual baseline behavioral traits predict the resilience phenotype after chronic social defeat	14
Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults	14
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	14
Stress enhances hippocampal neuronal synchrony and alters ripple-spike interaction	14
Sex differences in the effect of the FKBP5 inhibitor SAFit2 on anxiety and stress-induced reinstatement following cocaine self-administration	14
Intersectional analysis of chronic mild stress-induced lncRNA-mRNA interaction networks in rat hippocampus reveals potential anti-depression/anxiety drug targets	14
Circulating endocannabinoids and prospective risk for depression in trauma-injury survivors	14
Molecular impacts of childhood abuse on the human brain	14
Programming effects of peripubertal stress on spatial learning	14