ReviewNeurobiology of stress2019
Neurobiological links between stress and anxiety.
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 219 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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219 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Exploring the efficacy of intranasal oxytocin (OXT) for anxiety and stress-related disorders through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study: a systematic review.BMC pharmacology & toxicology · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of Electrical Stimulation on Mental Stress, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
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- Self-Guided Internet-Based Mindfulness-Informed Stress Management for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial With Longitudinal Network Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Factors associated with dental fear and anxiety among smokers in urban dental clinics: a cross-sectional analysis.BMC oral health · 2026Trial
- Comparative efficacy of virtual reality headset and auditory distraction for reducing anxiety and pain during inferior alveolar nerve block in 7-10-year-old children: a clinical trial.BMC pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Lactococcus cremoris YRC3780 improves subjective stress response in the Uchida-Kraepelin test: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Impact of Vitamin B1 and Vitamin B2 Supplementation on Anxiety, Stress, and Sleep Quality: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2025Trial
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- Impact of the HOPE Intervention on Mental Health Literacy, Psychological Well-Being and Stress Levels amongst University Undergraduates: A Randomised Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Benefits from one session of deep and slow breathing on vagal tone and anxiety in young and older adults.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on resilience of vulnerable women at drop-in centers in the southeast of Iran.BMC women's health · 2021Trial
- Effects of an African Circle Dance Programme on Internally Displaced Persons with Depressive Symptoms: A Quasi-Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Ketamine preserves perineuronal nets in chronic stressed mice brain through the inhibition of microglia activation.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2026Article
- Association between handgrip strength and symptoms of anxiety and depression among university students: A cross-sectional study.Physiological reports · 2026Article
- Resetting the hippocampal buffer: a neurocognitive account of psychedelic therapy for anxiety-related psychopathology.Psychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Anxiety, depression, and academic stress among students attending and not attending professional coaching: A cross-sectional study.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- Immune dysregulation and gut microbiota: Connection to health and disease development.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- Meditation and breathwork on anxiety in Parkinson's disease: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- Exendin-4 alleviates anxiety-like behaviors in chronic restraint stress miceActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026Article
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Abstract
Stress and anxiety have intertwined behavioral and neural underpinnings. These commonalities are critical for understanding each state, as well as their mutual interactions. Grasping the mechanisms underlying this bidirectional relationship will have major clinical implications for managing a wide range of psychopathologies. After briefly defining key concepts for the study of stress and anxiety in pre-clinical models, we present circuit, as well as cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in either or both stress and anxiety. First, we review studies on divergent circuits of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) underlying emotional valence processing and anxiety-like behaviors, and how norepinephrine inputs from the locus coeruleus (LC) to the BLA are responsible for acute-stress induced anxiety. We then describe recent studies revealing a new role for mitochondrial function within the nucleus accumbens (NAc), defining individual trait anxiety in rodents, and participating in the link between stress and anxiety. Next, we report findings on the impact of anxiety on reward encoding through alteration of circuit dynamic synchronicity. Finally, we present work unravelling a new role for hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons in controlling anxiety-like and stress-induce behaviors. Altogether, the research reviewed here reveals circuits sharing subcortical nodes and underlying the processing of both stress and anxiety. Understanding the neural overlap between these two psychobiological states, might provide alternative strategies to manage disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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