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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness	53
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation	50
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	42
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	39
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	38
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	38
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	37
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	36
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	34
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	34
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)	31
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	31
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	31
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	30
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	30
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	30
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties	29
Stress-induced vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction depends on cofilin modulation	29
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	28
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects	28
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	28
Chronic adolescent stress increases exploratory behavior but does not appear to change the acute stress response in adult male C57BL/6 mice	27
Withdrawal notice to: “Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats” [	26

Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	26
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder	26
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	26
Dual imaging of dendritic spines and mitochondria in vivo reveals hotspots of plasticity and metabolic adaptation to stress	25
Pyridostigmine bromide elicits progressive and chronic impairments in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male rats	25
Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP	25
An inverted U-shaped relationship between chronic stress and the motivation to expend effort for reward	25
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	24
Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies	24
Not just a witness: Highlighting the utility of witness social defeat stress for the examination of neuroimmune-cardiovascular interactions across diverse populations	24
The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure	24
Sex and stressor modality influence acute stress-induced dynamic changes in corticolimbic endocannabinoid levels in adult Sprague Dawley rats	23
Acute stress blunts prediction error signals in the dorsal striatum during reinforcement learning	23
Genetics and epigenetics of stress: New avenues for an old concept	23
The impact of distal stress on the spontaneous recovery of conditioned defensive responses	23
Hyperexcitation of the glutamatergic neurons in lateral hypothalamus induced by chronic pain contributes to depression-like behavior and learning and memory impairment in male mice	23
Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats	22
Imbalanced glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid stress hormone receptor function has sex-dependent and independent regulatory effects in the mouse hippocampus	22
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates social isolation-induced anxiety by modulating mitochondrial function, antioxidant enzymes, and BDNF	22
Cellular senescence as a driver of cognitive decline triggered by chronic unpredictable stress	22
Roles of corticotropin-releasing factor signaling in the lateral habenula in anxiety-like and alcohol drinking behaviors in male rats	21
Sleep disturbance and suicide risk among sexual and gender minority people	21
Effects of chronic stress on cognitive function – From neurobiology to intervention	21
Male long-Evans rats: An outbred model of marked hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal hyperactivity	21
Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor-mediated stimulation of a GABAergic projection from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus	21
Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc	20
Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression	20
Multidimensional predictors of antidepressant responses: Integrating mitochondrial, genetic, metabolic and environmental factors with clinical outcomes	20
Early life stress induced sex-specific changes in behavior is paralleled by altered locus coeruleus physiology in BALB/cJ mice	20
An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function	19
Frontal cortical volume deficits as enduring evidence of childhood abuse in community adults with AUD and HIV infection comorbidity	19
Sex and chronic stress alter the distribution of glutamate receptors within rat hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells following oxycodone conditioned place preference	19
Sleep spindles, stress and PTSD: The state of the science and future directions	19
Can the gut-brain axis provide insight into psilocybin's therapeutic value in reducing stress?	19
Stress during puberty exerts sex-specific effects on depressive-like behavior and monoamine neurotransmitters in adolescence and adulthood	19
Enduring memory consequences of early-life stress / adversity: Structural, synaptic, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms	18
Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder	18
The coupling of RACK1 with the beta isoform of the glucocorticoid receptor promotes resilience to chronic stress exposure	18
Stress-induced visceral pain in female rats is associated with epigenetic remodeling in the central nucleus of the amygdala	18
Greater stress and trauma mediate race-related differences in epigenetic age between Black and White young adults in a community sample	18
Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice	18
Toll-like receptor 7: A novel neuroimmune target to reduce excessive alcohol consumption	18
Adjunct treatment with ketamine enhances the therapeutic effects of extinction learning after chronic unpredictable stress	17
The antidepressant effect of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation is mediated by parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the dorsal dentate gyrus	17
Effects of social isolation on locus coeruleus opioid receptor expression and affective behavior	17
Editorial Board	17
Vicarious heterosexism-based stress induces alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis craving and negative affect among sexual minority young adults: An experimental study	17
Deep brain stimulation changes locus coeruleus responses to social stress from activation to inhibition	17
Imaging a putative marker of brain cortisol regulation in alcohol use disorder	16
Polygenic scores for empathy associate with posttraumatic stress severity in response to certain traumatic events	16

Social isolation postweaning alters reward-related dopamine dynamics in a region-specific manner in adolescent male rats	16
Reversed patterns of resting state functional connectivity for females vs. males in posttraumatic stress disorder	16
Acute stress impairs visual path integration	16
CRF binding protein activity in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is essential for stress adaptations and normal maternal behaviour in lactating rats	16
Changes in the rodent gut microbiome following chronic restraint stress and low-intensity rTMS	16
Gestational stress decreases postpartum mitochondrial respiration in the prefrontal cortex of female rats	16
Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice	15
Roles of miR-432 and circ_0000418 in mediating the anti-depressant action of ADAR1	15
Early- and late-phase changes of brain activity and early-phase neuromodulation in the posttraumatic stress disorder rat model	15
From genetics to systems biology of stress-related mental disorders	15
Consideration of sex as a biological variable in the translation of pharmacotherapy for stress-associated drug seeking	15
Editorial Board	15
Corticosterone dynamically regulates retrotransposable element expression in the rat hippocampus and C6 cells	14
Acute stress alters recognition memory and AMPA/NMDA receptor subunits in a sex-dependent manner	14
Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG1	14
A gut (microbiome) feeling about addiction: Interactions with stress and social systems	14
Acute stress activates basolateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 (CRHR1): Topographical distribution and projection-specific activation in male and female	14
Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life	14
Editorial Board	13
Cellular and immunometabolic mechanisms of inflammation in depression: Preliminary findings from single cell RNA sequencing and a tribute to Bruce McEwen	13
Early life adversity affecting the attachment bond alters ventral tegmental area transcriptomic patterning and behavior almost exclusively in female mice	13
Emotional comorbidities in epilepsy result from seizure-induced corticosterone activity	13
Prenatal stress dysregulates resting-state functional connectivity and sensory motifs	13
Youth mental health crisis: A translational view of the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Genetic disruption of dopamine β-hydroxylase dysregulates innate responses to predator odor in mice	13
Editorial Board	13
Building a social brain: Cells, circuits and behavior across the lifespan	13