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- Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition (2009) (3373)
- The role of childhood trauma in the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders: preclinical and clinical studies (2001) (2598)
- The potential role of hypocortisolism in the pathophysiology of stress-related bodily disorders (2000) (1671)
- The link between childhood trauma and depression: Insights from HPA axis studies in humans (2008) (1449)
- Association of FKBP5 polymorphisms and childhood abuse with risk of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults. (2008) (1246)
- Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene–childhood trauma interactions (2012) (1178)
- Current research trends in early life stress and depression: Review of human studies on sensitive periods, gene–environment interactions, and epigenetics (2012) (843)
- Childhood trauma associated with smaller hippocampal volume in women with major depression. (2002) (789)
- Differential responses to psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy in patients with chronic forms of major depression and childhood trauma (2003) (740)
- Influence of child abuse on adult depression: moderation by the corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene. (2008) (643)
- Neurobiological and psychiatric consequences of child abuse and neglect. (2010) (566)
- Importance of Studying the Contributions of Early Adverse Experience to Neurobiological Findings in Depression (2004) (522)
- The impact of early adverse experiences on brain systems involved in the pathophysiology of anxiety and affective disorders (1999) (496)
- Altered Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Responses to Provocative Challenge Tests in Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (2001) (469)
- The role of early adverse experience and adulthood stress in the prediction of neuroendocrine stress reactivity in women: A multiple regression analysis (2002) (450)
- Increased stress-induced inflammatory responses in male patients with major depression and increased early life stress. (2006) (435)
- The Dexamethasone/Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Test in Men with Major Depression: Role of Childhood Trauma (2008) (341)
- Increased Stress-Induced Inflammatory Responses in Male Patients With Major Depression and Increased Early Life Stress (2006) (333)
- Abuse-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Alterations of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Women With Chronic Pelvic Pain (1998) (305)
- The effects of child abuse and neglect on cognitive functioning in adulthood. (2012) (293)
- Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: relevance of glucocorticoid signaling (2015) (293)
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A clinically empirical approach to its definition and study (2005) (288)
- Neurobiology of early life stress: clinical studies. (2002) (284)
- A short review on the psychoneuroimmunology of posttraumatic stress disorder: From risk factors to medical comorbidities (2011) (273)
- Influence of maternal thyroid hormones during gestation on fetal brain development (2017) (262)
- Childhood trauma and risk for chronic fatigue syndrome: association with neuroendocrine dysfunction. (2009) (252)
- Effect of Childhood Trauma on Adult Depression and Neuroendocrine Function: Sex-Specific Moderation by CRH Receptor 1 Gene (2009) (242)
- Early adverse experience and risk for chronic fatigue syndrome: results from a population-based study. (2006) (218)
- Prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome in metropolitan, urban, and rural Georgia (2007) (213)
- Decreased cortical representation of genital somatosensory field after childhood sexual abuse. (2013) (210)
- Sensitivity to Intranasal Oxytocin in Adult Men with Early Parental Separation (2007) (200)
- The Role of Early Adverse Life Events in the Etiology of Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (1997) (196)
- The effects of neonatal stress on brain development: Implications for psychopathology (1999) (195)
- Maternal Systemic Interleukin-6 During Pregnancy Is Associated With Newborn Amygdala Phenotypes and Subsequent Behavior at 2 Years of Age (2018) (186)
- Pituitary-adrenal responses to standard and low-dose dexamethasone suppression tests in adult survivors of child abuse (2004) (186)
- Association between childhood maltreatment and adult emotional dysregulation in a low-income, urban, African American sample: Moderation by oxytocin receptor gene (2011) (165)
- Increased peripheral NF-κB pathway activity in women with childhood abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder (2011) (164)
- Genome-wide DNA methylation levels and altered cortisol stress reactivity following childhood trauma in humans (2016) (163)
- Decreased cortisol awakening response after early loss experience (2005) (157)
- Psychometric properties of the CDC Symptom Inventory for assessment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2005) (155)
- Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment Exposure: Implications for Fetal Brain Development. (2017) (143)
- Higher heart rate and reduced heart rate variability persist during sleep in chronic fatigue syndrome: A population-based study (2007) (129)
- Neuroendocrine and Immune Contributors to Fatigue (2010) (127)
- Attenuated morning salivary cortisol concentrations in a population-based study of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome and well controls. (2008) (124)
- Alterations in Diurnal Salivary Cortisol Rhythm in a Population-Based Sample of Cases With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2008) (121)
- HPA Axis Reactivity and Lymphocyte Glucocorticoid Sensitivity in Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Chronic Pelvic Pain (2008) (115)
- Association of hormonal contraceptive use with reduced levels of depressive symptoms: a national study of sexually active women in the United States. (2013) (109)
- Addiction Research Consortium: Losing and regaining control over drug intake (ReCoDe)—From trajectories to mechanisms and interventions (2019) (108)
- Cognitive Dysfunction Relates to Subjective Report of Mental Fatigue in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2006) (98)
- Chronic Pelvic Pain as a Somatoform Disorder (1999) (90)
- Translating basic research knowledge on the biological embedding of early-life stress into novel approaches for the developmental programming of lifelong health (2019) (85)
- Sleep characteristics of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome and non-fatigued controls: results from a population-based study (2006) (84)
- Glucocorticoid receptor polymorphisms and haplotypes associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (2007) (83)
- Effects of Antenatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Socio-Economic Status on Neonatal Brain Development are Modulated by Genetic Risk (2017) (81)
- Oxytocin pathways in the intergenerational transmission of maternal early life stress (2017) (77)
- Gene–Environment Interactions and Intermediate Phenotypes: Early Trauma and Depression (2013) (71)
- The low-dose dexamethasone suppression test in fibromyalgia. (2007) (68)
- Neurobiology of Early-Life Stress (2003) (66)
- Effects of phenytoin on memory, cognition and brain structure in post-traumatic stress disorder: a pilot study (2005) (66)
- Psychiatric Comorbidity in Persons With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Identified From the Georgia Population (2009) (66)
- Genetic evaluation of the serotonergic system in chronic fatigue syndrome (2008) (63)
- HOT TOPICS (2012) (61)
- Personality Features and Personality Disorders in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Population-Based Study (2010) (57)
- Perception versus polysomnographic assessment of sleep in CFS and non-fatigued control subjects: results from a population-based study (2007) (55)
- Neural response to social rejection in children with early separation experiences. (2014) (55)
- Orthostatic instability in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome. (2005) (53)
- Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder with phenytoin: an open-label pilot study. (2004) (53)
- Cumulative life stress in chronic fatigue syndrome (2011) (51)
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) and Vasopressin Concentrations Predict Pituitary Response in the CRF Stimulation Test: A Multiple Regression Analysis (2003) (47)
- Stress and immunosenescence: The role of telomerase (2019) (45)
- Psychological and endocrine correlates of chronic pelvic pain associated with adhesions. (1999) (42)
- Blunted cortisol stress reactivity in low–income children relates to lower memory function (2018) (41)
- Coping styles in people with chronic fatigue syndrome identified from the general population of Wichita, KS. (2006) (41)
- Assessing cortisol reactivity to a linguistic task as a marker of stress in individuals with left-hemisphere stroke and aphasia. (2007) (34)
- Inflammatory Measures in Depressed Patients With and Without a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences (2018) (32)
- Psychoendocrinological Observations in Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain a (1997) (29)
- Erratum: Differential responses to psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy in patients with chronic forms of major depression and childhood trauma (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (November 25, 2003) 100, 24 (14293-14296)) (2005) (28)
- Emotional availability in mothers with borderline personality disorder and mothers with remitted major depression is differently associated with psychopathology among school-aged children. (2018) (25)
- Impact of acute psychosocial stress on peripheral blood gene expression pathways in healthy men☆ (2009) (24)
- Gynecological history in chronic fatigue syndrome: a population-based case-control study. (2011) (24)
- HPA axis reactivity in chronic pelvic pain: association with depression (2009) (23)
- Regional Prevalence of Fatiguing Illnesses in the United States Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (2004) (22)
- Combined effects of genotype and childhood adversity shape variability of DNA methylation across age (2021) (20)
- Association between chronotype and body mass index: The role of C-reactive protein and the cortisol response to stress (2019) (18)
- Stable longitudinal associations of family income with children’s hippocampal volume and memory persist after controlling for polygenic scores of educational attainment (2019) (18)
- Neural Representation of Maternal Face Processing: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study (2007) (17)
- Swimming against the Tide (1999) (17)
- Child abuse potential in mothers with early life maltreatment, borderline personality disorder and depression. (2018) (16)
- Neurobiological Pathways Involved in Fear, Stress, and PTSD (2018) (16)
- Dynamic DNA methylation changes in the maternal oxytocin gene locus (OXT) during pregnancy predict postpartum maternal intrusiveness (2019) (16)
- Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development (2021) (15)
- Childhood adversity correlates with stable changes in DNA methylation trajectories in children and converges with epigenetic signatures of prenatal stress (2021) (14)
- Childhood Trauma and Risk for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2016) (13)
- Childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk of subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnancy (2017) (12)
- Cognitive control moderates parenting stress effects on children's diurnal cortisol (2018) (12)
- A Role of Oxytocin Receptor Gene Brain Tissue Expression Quantitative Trait Locus rs237895 in the Intergenerational Transmission of the Effects of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment. (2019) (12)
- Hair cortisol concentrations are associated with hippocampal subregional volumes in children (2020) (12)
- [Early-life stress and vulnerability for disease in later life]. (2016) (11)
- Ambulatory assessment for precision psychiatry: Foundations, current developments and future avenues (2021) (10)
- Characterization in humans of in vitro leucocyte maximal telomerase activity capacity and association with stress (2018) (10)
- The neuroendocrine effects of early life trauma (2010) (10)
- Child Maltreatment as a Root Cause of Mortality Disparities: A Call for Rigorous Science to Mobilize Public Investment in Prevention and Treatment. (2016) (9)
- Immediate and longitudinal effects of maltreatment on systemic inflammation in young children (2020) (9)
- Alterations of empathy in mothers with a history of early life maltreatment, depression, and borderline personality disorder and their effects on child psychopathology (2019) (9)
- Psychobiological Consequences of Child Maltreatment (2018) (9)
- Differential neural activity and connectivity for processing one's own face: A preliminary report (2011) (9)
- Hypocortisolism and Stress (2007) (9)
- Neonatal hippocampal volume moderates the effects of early postnatal enrichment on cognitive development (2020) (9)
- Psychobiological Consequences of Child Maltreatment (2018) (9)
- Lifetime Stress Accelerates Epigenetic Aging (2015) (9)
- Association between chronotype and body mass index: Role of C-reactive protein and the cortisol response to stress (2019) (8)
- Transmission of the adverse consequences of childhood maltreatment across generations: Focus on gestational biology (2022) (8)
- Trauma Spectrum Disorders (2006) (7)
- Intergenerational transmission of childhood trauma? Testing cellular aging in mothers exposed to sexual abuse and their children (2020) (7)
- Deficiency of Inflammatory Response to Acute Trauma Exposure as a Neuroimmune Mechanism Driving the Development of Chronic PTSD: Another Paradigmatic Shift for the Conceptualization of Stress-Related Disorders? (2020) (6)
- Tolerability of the dexamethasone-corticotropin releasing hormone test in major depressive disorder. (2011) (6)
- Investigating differential effects of socio-emotional and mindfulness-based online interventions on mental health, resilience and social capacities during the COVID-19 pandemic: The study protocol (2021) (6)
- Correction to: Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: relevance of glucocorticoid signaling (2018) (6)
- [Psychobiological aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder]. (1999) (6)
- The association between history of prenatal loss and maternal psychological state in a subsequent pregnancy: an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study (2021) (6)
- The effects of social isolation stress and discrimination on mental health (2022) (5)
- Chronic fatigue syndrome. (2010) (5)
- Maternal preconceptual and gestational stress, hair cortisol concentrations during pregnancy and newborn brain integrity (2016) (5)
- Coping Styles in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Findings from a Population-Based Study (2012) (5)
- Larger amygdala volumes after childhood trauma associated with depression and cortisol response to psychosocial stress in adulthood (2012) (5)
- Assembling a cohort for in-depth, longitudinal assessments of the biological embedding of child maltreatment: Methods, complexities, and lessons learned (2021) (5)
- Oxytocin and Pair Bonding: On Possible Influences During the Life Course (2012) (4)
- Stress, Early Life (2020) (4)
- Oxytocin und Misshandlungspotenzial (2019) (4)
- Effects of stress on 6- and 7-year-old children's emotional memory differs by gender. (2020) (4)
- New perspective on chronic fatigue syndrome: lessons from developmental neuroscience (2009) (3)
- Childhood Trauma and Adult Stress Responsiveness (2009) (2)
- The challenge of ascertainment of exposure to childhood maltreatment: Issues and considerations (2020) (2)
- Loss and Deprivation: From Animal Models to Clinical Presentation (2005) (2)
- Telomere length in individuals with and without major depression and adverse childhood experiences (2022) (2)
- Trauma and depression (2006) (2)
- Longitudinal developmental trajectories do not follow cross-sectional age associations in hippocampal subfield and memory development (2021) (2)
- Keyes et Al. Respond to "hormonal contraception and mood". (2013) (2)
- Exposure to childhood maltreatment and systemic inflammation across pregnancy: The moderating role of depressive symptomatology (2022) (2)
- [Oxytocin and maltreatment potential : Influence of maternal depression, borderline personality disorder and experience of early childhood maltreatment]. (2019) (2)
- A variation in the oxytocin receptor gene moderates the relationship between early maternal care in childhood and interleukin 6 (IL-6) concentrations during pregnancy (2016) (1)
- Exposure to child maltreatment is associated with elevated stress and immune mediators in children aged 3–5 years (2016) (1)
- Brain structural alterations in newborns of mothers exposed to childhood trauma (2016) (1)
- Impaired empathic functioning in chronic depression: Behavioral evidence for the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) model. (2022) (1)
- Risk for adult posttraumatic stress disorder is predicted by child abuse and FKBP5, a gene regulating stress-responsiveness (2008) (1)
- Stress Neurobiology and Developmental Psychopathology (2016) (1)
- Pharmacological Stress Tests (2020) (1)
- In vitro stimulated leukocyte telomerase activity is associated with chronic stress exposure (2016) (1)
- Stress and immunosenescence: The role of telomerase (2019) (1)
- Bidirectional effect of early adversity on epigenetic ageing in children: Mediation by C-reactive protein and moderation by FKBP5 gene and cortisol status (2019) (1)
- Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: relevance of glucocorticoid signaling (2015) (1)
- FROM EFFICACY TO EFFECTIVENESS - ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF CFS (2007) (1)
- Immediate biological embedding of maltreatment in children: Berlin Longitudinal Children Study (BerlinLCS) (2017) (1)
- Abstract # 1795 Plasma levels of lipopolysaccharide-binding protein in response to psychosocial stress induction: Association with sympathetic nervous system response (2016) (0)
- Dynamic DNA methylation changes in the oxytocin locus (OXT) during pregnancy are associated with maternal parenting behavior (2017) (0)
- Relationship between Borderline Personality Disorder, Emotional Availability, and Cortisol Output in Mother-Child Dyads (2022) (0)
- Hippocampal volume in children aged 3–5 years with verified maltreatment exposure (2016) (0)
- Enhanced psychosocial stress-induced IL-6 responses are associated with attenuated stress-induced cortisol responses in patients with major depression and increased early life stress (2006) (0)
- Intergenerational Trauma Transmission? Test of Cellular Aging in Mothers Exposed to Sexual Abuse and Their Children (2020) (0)
- OXTR brain tissue expression quantitative locus rs237895 moderates the association between maternal childhood maltreatment and non-optimal maternal behavior with implications for offspring socio-emotional development and attachment security (2019) (0)
- Stress effects on emotional memory in middle childhood (2019) (0)
- Validation of a measure of in-vitro stimulated telomerase expression as a stress-related biomarker for human studies (2015) (0)
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity to physical stress in adult women with a history of child abuse (2002) (0)
- Front & Back Matter (2012) (0)
- Brain imaging in Psychopharmacology (2004) (0)
- Elevated C-reactive protein levels in children aged 3–5 years with verified exposure to maltreatment: Sex differences and association with depressive symptoms (2019) (0)
- Intestinal dysbiosis in maltreated children is associated with concentrations of salivary cortisol, C-reactive protein and with depressive symptoms (2019) (0)
- Epigenetic Modification as Mediator of Gene-Childhood Trauma Interactions (2013) (0)
- Maternal prenatal depression and infant DNA methylome maturation: Developmental regulation of DNA methylation and relevance for infant behavior (2019) (0)
- Altered female sex hormone effects on adrenocorticotropin secretion in women with adverse childhood experiences (2007) (0)
- Dr. Heim and Colleagues Reply (2002) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Characterization in humans of in vitro leucocyte maximal telomerase activity capacity and association with stress" (2017) (0)
- Pituitary-adrenal responsiveness of adult survivors of childhood abuse in the CRF stimulation test (2000) (0)
- [Joint Conference of the German Society for Medical Sociology and the German Society for Medical Psychology from September 28 - 30, 2016]. (2016) (0)
- Oxytocin andmaltreatment potential . Influence of maternal depression , borderline personality disorder and experience of early childhoodmaltreatment (2019) (0)
- Symptoms: A National Study of Sexually Active Women in the United States Association of Hormonal Contraceptive Use With Reduced Levels of Depressive (2015) (0)
- Abstract # 4402 Intestinal dysbiosis in maltreated children is associated with concentrations of salivary cortisol, C-reactive protein and with depressive symptoms (2019) (0)
- Childhood maltreatment severity is associated with smaller total brain size in preschool age children (2019) (0)
- Hypocortisolism and the triad of fatigue, pain, and stress (2000) (0)
- Correction to: Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: relevance of glucocorticoid signaling (2018) (0)
- [Erratum to: Oxytocin and maltreatment potential : Influence of maternal depression, borderline personality disorder and experience of early childhood maltreatment]. (2019) (0)
- The role of cortisol reactivity and gray matter structure in income disparities of children's memory performance (2017) (0)
- Characterization of in vitro leukocyte maximal telomerase activity capacity (mTAC) as a stress-related measure for human studies (2017) (0)
- Differential effects of hair cortisol and cumulative risk for chronic stress on reward anticipation-mediated memory enhancement in children (2017) (0)
- Exposure to childhood trauma is associated with increased risk for subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnancy (2016) (0)
- Characterization of in vitro leukocyte maximal telomerase activity capacity (mTAC) in humans: Association with chronic stress exposure and stress-reactivity (2017) (0)
- Psychiatric symptom severity mediates the effect of adversity on epigenetic aging in children aged 3–5 years (2019) (0)
- Abstract #4336 C-reactive protein levels in children aged 3–5 years with verified exposure to maltreatment: Sex differences and association with depression (2019) (0)
- National prevalence of fatiguing illness before and after September 11, 2001 (2003) (0)
- #107 Indicators of innate immune system activity in humans increase with psychosocial stressor challenge: Major depressives vs. non-depressives (2005) (0)
- Abstract #4288 Maximal telomerase activity capacity (mTAC) mediates the effect of the cortisol stress response on leukocyte telomere length (2019) (0)
- Formative Experiences: Commentary (2010) (0)
- Hypocortisolism in chronic pelvic pain: Effect of glucocorticoid treatment on pain symptomatology (2000) (0)
- Pattern of expression in different stages of schizophrenia : comparing induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons with post mortem cerebral cortex (2015) (0)
- Maximal telomerase activity capacity (mTAC) underlies the link between the cortisol response to stress and telomere length (2023) (0)
- Neonatal amygdala volume modulates the effects of the early caregiving environment on infant social development (2015) (0)
- Immediate biological embedding of maltreatment in children: Moderating effects of FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) gene on cortisol reactivity and amygdala volume in children aged 3–5 years (2019) (0)
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