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| 1 | The Awakening Cortisol Response: Methodological Issues and Significance | Stress | 2004 | 694 |
| 2 | Stress, Glucocorticoids, and Damage to the Nervous System: The Current State of Confusion | Stress | 1996 | 652 |
| 3 | Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal and hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axes: sex differences in regulation of stress responsivity | Stress | 2017 | 414 |
| 4 | “More than skin deep”: stress neurobiology and mental health consequences of racial discrimination | Stress | 2015 | 385 |
| 5 | Stress, depression and cardiovascular dysregulation: A review of neurobiological mechanisms and the integration of research from preclinical disease models | Stress | 2009 | 361 |
| 6 | Human models in acute and chronic stress: Assessing determinants of individual hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis activity and reactivity | Stress | 2010 | 315 |
| 7 | Psychosocial stress impairs working memory at high loads: An association with cortisol levels and memory retrieval | Stress | 2006 | 294 |
| 8 | Effects of Chronic Stress on Structure and Cell Function in Rat Hippocampus and Hypothalamus | Stress | 2004 | 281 |
| 9 | Exploratory rearing: a context- and stress-sensitive behavior recorded in the open-field test | Stress | 2018 | 280 |
| 10 | Elevated content of cortisol in hair of patients with severe chronic pain: A novel biomarker for stress | Stress | 2008 | 272 |
| 11 | Modulation of anxiety circuits by serotonergic systems | Stress | 2005 | 266 |
| 12 | Chronic early life stress induced by limited bedding and nesting (LBN) material in rodents: critical considerations of methodology, outcomes and translational potential | Stress | 2017 | 263 |
| 13 | Allostasis, Homeostats, and the Nature of Stress | Stress | 2002 | 262 |
| 14 | Displacement Activities as a Behavioral Measure of Stress in Nonhuman Primates and Human Subjects | Stress | 2002 | 251 |
| 15 | Role of glucocorticoid negative feedback in the regulation of HPA axis pulsatility | Stress | 2018 | 249 |
| 16 | The effects of prenatal maternal stress on children's cognitive development: Project Ice Storm | Stress | 2005 | 247 |
| 17 | Glucocorticoid action networks and complex psychiatric and/or somatic disorders | Stress | 2007 | 244 |
| 18 | Evolution of concepts of stress | Stress | 2007 | 244 |
| 19 | Corticosterone Effects on BDNF Expression in the Hippocampus Implications for Memory Formation | Stress | 2000 | 243 |
| 20 | Maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety is associated with child executive function at 6–9 years age | Stress | 2011 | 232 |
| 21 | The legacy of Hans Selye and the origins of stress research: A retrospective 75 years after his landmark brief “Letter” to the Editor#ofNature | Stress | 2012 | 223 |
| 22 | Mechanisms of rapid glucocorticoid feedback inhibition of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis | Stress | 2011 | 222 |
| 23 | Sex Differences in Chronic Stress Effects on Memory in Rats | Stress | 2002 | 221 |
| 24 | The assessment of cortisol in human hair: Associations with sociodemographic variables and potential confounders | Stress | 2012 | 220 |
| 25 | Stress effects in the hippocampus: Synaptic plasticity and memory | Stress | 2006 | 217 |
| 26 | Autonomic dysfunction and heart rate variability in depression | Stress | 2015 | 213 |
| 27 | Divergent Stress Responses and Coping Styles in Psychogenetically Selected Roman High-(RHA) and Low-(RLA) Avoidance Rats: Behavioural, Neuroendocrine and Developmental Aspects | Stress | 2003 | 212 |
| 28 | LY354740, an mGlu2/3 Receptor Agonist as a Novel Approach to Treat Anxiety/Stress | Stress | 2003 | 206 |
| 29 | Measurement and meaning of salivary cortisol: A focus on health and disease in children | Stress | 2008 | 205 |
| 30 | Social defeat stress induces a depression-like phenotype in adolescent male c57BL/6 mice | Stress | 2014 | 205 |
| 31 | Role of stress, corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) and amygdala plasticity in chronic anxiety | Stress | 2005 | 203 |
| 32 | A link between stress and depression: Shifts in the balance between the kynurenine and serotonin pathways of tryptophan metabolism and the etiology and pathophysiology of depression | Stress | 2008 | 197 |
| 33 | Sex differences in prenatal epigenetic programing of stress pathways | Stress | 2011 | 191 |
| 34 | Changes in Behaviour and Body Weight Following a Single or Double Social Defeat in Rats | Stress | 1996 | 182 |
| 35 | Hemispheric Asymmetry in Stress Processing in Rat Prefrontal Cortex and the Role of Mesocortical Dopamine | Stress | 2004 | 176 |
| 36 | Modulation ofin vivooxidative status by exogenous corticosterone and restraint stress in rats | Stress | 2009 | 166 |
| 37 | Fecal microbiota transplantation from chronic unpredictable mild stress mice donors affects anxiety-like and depression-like behavior in recipient mice via the gut microbiota-inflammation-brain axis | Stress | 2019 | 165 |
| 38 | Mapping Brain Response to Social Stress in Rodents With c-fos Expression: A Review | Stress | 2002 | 156 |
| 39 | Chronic work stress and exhaustion is associated with higher allostastic load in female school teachers | Stress | 2009 | 151 |
| 40 | Attenuation of maternal psychophysiological stress responses and the maternal cortisol awakening response over the course of human pregnancy | Stress | 2010 | 150 |
| 41 | Salivary cortisol concentrations, stress and quality of life in women with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain | Stress | 2008 | 148 |
| 42 | Childhood maternal care is associated with DNA methylation of the genes for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and oxytocin receptor (OXTR) in peripheral blood cells in adult men and women | Stress | 2015 | 148 |
| 43 | Stress, Glucocorticoids, and Memory: A Meta-analytic Review | Stress | 2003 | 146 |
| 44 | Maternal prenatal stress and cortisol reactivity to stressors in human infants | Stress | 2011 | 146 |
| 45 | Prenatal maternal anxiety and early childhood temperament | Stress | 2011 | 146 |
| 46 | The effect of stress on core and peripheral body temperature in humans | Stress | 2013 | 145 |
| 47 | Exposure to a stressor produces a long lasting enhancement of fear learning in rats | Stress | 2009 | 143 |
| 48 | Altered stress responses in children exposed to early adversity: A systematic review of salivary cortisol studies | Stress | 2011 | 143 |
| 49 | Sex-dependent changes induced by prenatal stress in cortical and hippocampal morphology and behaviour in rats: An update | Stress | 2011 | 142 |
| 50 | Chronic stress, metabolism, and metabolic syndrome | Stress | 2011 | 142 |
