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ReviewNeurobiology of stress2019

Stress, sensitive periods, and substance abuse.

Susan L Andersen

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Review in Neurobiology of stress, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Premature release of action sequences in adolescent male rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026
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  2. Discrimination Distress and Current Combustible and Non-combustible Tobacco Product Use Among US Youth, 2023.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  3. Early-life adversity alters adult nucleus incertus neurons: implications for neuronal mechanisms of increased stress and compulsive behavior vulnerability.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  9. Internalizing Pathways to Adolescent Substance Use from Adverse Childhood Experiences.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
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  11. Intersection of adverse childhood experiences, suicide and overdose prevention.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2024
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  17. Climate Change and Substance-Use Behaviors: A Risk-Pathways Framework.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Susan L AndersenMcLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA.

Funding

Early Drug Exposure and Drug Reward MechanismsR01DA015403 · NIDA · MC LEAN HOSPITAL (BELMONT, MA) · PI ANDERSEN, SUSAN L · 2003 to 2014
$2.6M
Sensitive periods, development, and substance abuseR01DA026485 · NIDA · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI ANDERSEN, SUSAN L · 2011 to 2015
$1.8M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA015403NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA026485
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research on the inter-relationship between drug abuse and social stress has primarily focused on the role of stress exposure during adulthood and more recently, adolescence. Adolescence is a time of heightened reward sensitivity, but it is also a time when earlier life experiences are expressed. Exposure to stress early in postnatal life is associated with an accelerated age of onset for drug use. Lifelong addiction is significantly greater if drug use is initiated during early adolescence. Understanding how developmental changes following stress exposure interact with sensitive periods to unfold over the course of maturation is integral to reducing their later impact on substance use. Arousal levels, gender/sex, inflammation, and the timing of stress exposure play a role in the vulnerability of these circuits. The current review focuses on how early postnatal stress impacts brain development during a sensitive period to increase externalizing and internalizing behaviors in adolescence that include social interactions (aggression; sexual activity), working memory impairment, and depression. How stress effects the developmental trajectories of brain circuits that are associated with addiction are discussed for both clinical and preclinical studies.

Indexed as

AdolescenceArousalInflammationMaltreatmentSensitive period

Identifiers

PMID30569003
PMCPMC6288983

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