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Clemens Kirschbaum

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1 Two formulas for computation of the area under the curve represent measures of total hormone concentration versus time-dependent change. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2003 10.23
2 Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress. Biol Psychiatry 2003 4.94
3 A mechanism converting psychosocial stress into mononuclear cell activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 3.82
4 Sex differences in HPA axis responses to stress: a review. Biol Psychol 2004 3.75
5 The cortisol awakening response (CAR): facts and future directions. Int J Psychophysiol 2008 3.09
6 Socioeconomic status, race, and diurnal cortisol decline in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Psychosom Med 2006 2.52
7 Compliance with saliva sampling protocols: electronic monitoring reveals invalid cortisol daytime profiles in noncompliant subjects. Psychosom Med 2003 2.32
8 Hair cortisol as a biomarker of traumatization in healthy individuals and posttraumatic stress disorder patients. Biol Psychiatry 2013 2.30
9 Differences in cortisol awakening response on work days and weekends in women and men from the Whitehall II cohort. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2004 2.19
10 Determinants of the diurnal course of salivary alpha-amylase. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2007 2.09
11 Human salivary alpha-amylase reactivity in a psychosocial stress paradigm. Int J Psychophysiol 2005 2.02
12 The cortisol awakening response - normal values and confounds. Noise Health 2000 1.97
13 Dissociation between reactivity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary system to repeated psychosocial stress. Psychosom Med 2003 1.95
14 Prenatal stress diminishes neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of juvenile rhesus monkeys. Biol Psychiatry 2003 1.91
15 Clinical depression and regulation of the inflammatory response during acute stress. Psychosom Med 2005 1.83
16 The relationship between smoking status and cortisol secretion. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006 1.80
17 Psychosocial stress-induced activation of salivary alpha-amylase: an indicator of sympathetic activity? Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004 1.80
18 Diurnal cortisol variations and symptoms in patients with interstitial cystitis. J Urol 2002 1.73
19 Impact of antenatal synthetic glucocorticoid exposure on endocrine stress reactivity in term-born children. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2012 1.72
20 Acute HPA axis responses, heart rate, and mood changes to psychosocial stress (TSST) in humans at different times of day. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2004 1.66
21 Socioeconomic status and stress-related biological responses over the working day. Psychosom Med 2003 1.65
22 Socioeconomic and race/ethnic differences in daily salivary cortisol profiles: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010 1.63
23 Analysis of cortisol in hair--state of the art and future directions. Brain Behav Immun 2012 1.56
24 The psychosocial stress-induced increase in salivary alpha-amylase is independent of saliva flow rate. Psychophysiology 2006 1.54
25 The social dimension of stress reactivity: acute stress increases prosocial behavior in humans. Psychol Sci 2012 1.52
26 State and trait affect as predictors of salivary cortisol in healthy adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005 1.51
27 Altered cortisol awakening response in posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005 1.50
28 Effects of intraoperative breaks on mental and somatic operator fatigue: a randomized clinical trial. Surg Endosc 2010 1.50
29 Effects of the menstrual cycle on auditory event-related potentials. Horm Behav 2004 1.46
30 Work stress, socioeconomic status and neuroendocrine activation over the working day. Soc Sci Med 2004 1.45
31 Hypocortisolism and increased glucocorticoid sensitivity of pro-Inflammatory cytokine production in Bosnian war refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder. Biol Psychiatry 2004 1.43
32 Heritability of daytime cortisol levels in children. Behav Genet 2003 1.43
33 Traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder in soldiers following deployment abroad: how big is the hidden problem? Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012 1.37
34 Cortisol responses to mild psychological stress are inversely associated with proinflammatory cytokines. Brain Behav Immun 2003 1.36
35 Glucose metabolic changes in the prefrontal cortex are associated with HPA axis response to a psychosocial stressor. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2008 1.34
36 Does cellular aging relate to patterns of allostasis? An examination of basal and stress reactive HPA axis activity and telomere length. Physiol Behav 2011 1.33
37 The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in habitual smokers. Int J Psychophysiol 2005 1.33
38 Depressive symptoms and cortisol rhythmicity predict survival in patients with renal cell carcinoma: role of inflammatory signaling. PLoS One 2012 1.30
39 Human hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to acute psychosocial stress in laboratory settings. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2010 1.25
40 Life-time socio-economic position and cortisol patterns in mid-life. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2007 1.24
41 Posttraumatic stress disorder and obesity: evidence for a risk association. Am J Prev Med 2008 1.21
42 Salivary cortisol sampling compliance: comparison of patients and healthy volunteers. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2004 1.20
43 The Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G): A new research tool for controlled simultaneous social stress exposure in a group format. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010 1.18
44 Increased cortisol concentrations in hair of severely traumatized Ugandan individuals with PTSD. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 1.18
45 Effort-reward imbalance, overcommitment, and measures of cortisol and blood pressure over the working day. Psychosom Med 2004 1.17
46 Differential heart rate reactivity and recovery after psychosocial stress (TSST) in healthy children, younger adults, and elderly adults: the impact of age and gender. Int J Behav Med 2004 1.17
47 Hippocampal damage abolishes the cortisol response to psychosocial stress in humans. Horm Behav 2009 1.16
48 Salivary alpha-amylase stress reactivity across different age groups. Psychophysiology 2010 1.16
49 Free cortisol awakening responses are influenced by awakening time. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2004 1.15
50 Qigong improves quality of life in women undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer: results of a randomized controlled trial. Cancer 2013 1.14
51 Randomized, controlled trial of yoga in women with breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy. J Clin Oncol 2014 1.14
52 Cortisol secretion and fatigue: associations in a community based cohort. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009 1.14
53 Decreased hair cortisol concentrations in generalised anxiety disorder. Psychiatry Res 2011 1.13
54 Cortisol in hair, body mass index and stress-related measures. Biol Psychol 2012 1.12
55 Circadian regulation of cortisol after hippocampal damage in humans. Biol Psychiatry 2004 1.12
56 Identifying patterns in cortisol secretion in an older population. Findings from the Whitehall II study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010 1.12
57 Intraindividual stability of hair cortisol concentrations. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 1.12
58 Early neglect and abuse predict diurnal cortisol patterns in adults A study of international adoptees. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009 1.11
59 Familial influences on basal salivary cortisol in an adult population. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005 1.10
60 Measures of social position and cortisol secretion in an aging population: findings from the Whitehall II study. Psychosom Med 2009 1.10
61 Stress on the dance floor: the cortisol stress response to social-evaluative threat in competitive ballroom dancers. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 2007 1.08
62 Sex differences in pain and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical responses to opioid blockade. Psychosom Med 2004 1.08
63 Quantitative analysis of steroid hormones in human hair using a column-switching LC-APCI-MS/MS assay. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2013 1.06
64 Use of hair cortisol analysis to detect hypercortisolism during active drinking phases in alcohol-dependent individuals. Biol Psychol 2010 1.05
65 Genetics of cortisol secretion and depressive symptoms: a candidate gene and genome wide association approach. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 1.03
66 Effects of oral cortisol treatment in healthy young women on memory retrieval of negative and neutral words. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2005 1.03
67 The role of the serotonin transporter polymorphism for the endocrine stress response in newborns. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009 1.02
68 Aging diurnal rhythms and chronic stress: Distinct alteration of diurnal rhythmicity of salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol. Biol Psychol 2010 1.02
69 Introducing a novel method to assess cumulative steroid concentrations: increased hair cortisol concentrations over 6 months in medicated patients with depression. Stress 2011 1.01
70 Diurnal cortisol dysregulation, functional disability, and depression in women with ovarian cancer. Cancer 2010 1.01
71 Acute stress responses in salivary alpha-amylase predict increases of plasma norepinephrine. Biol Psychol 2012 1.00
72 Stress reduces use of negative feedback in a feedback-based learning task. Behav Neurosci 2010 1.00
73 The heritability of perceived stress. Psychol Med 2006 0.99
74 Cortisol in hair and the metabolic syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2013 0.99
75 The scanner as a stressor: evidence from subjective and neuroendocrine stress parameters in the time course of a functional magnetic resonance imaging session. Int J Psychophysiol 2010 0.98
76 Prenatal stress diminishes the cytokine response of leukocytes to endotoxin stimulation in juvenile rhesus monkeys. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002 0.98
77 Glucocorticoid sensitivity in humans-interindividual differences and acute stress effects. Stress 2003 0.98
78 Endogenous estradiol and testosterone levels are associated with cognitive performance in older women and men. Horm Behav 2002 0.98
79 Medial prefrontal cortex damage affects physiological and psychological stress responses differently in men and women. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010 0.97
80 Stathmin, a gene regulating neural plasticity, affects fear and anxiety processing in humans. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2010 0.96
81 Predicting the failure of disc surgery by a hypofunctional HPA axis: evidence from a prospective study on patients undergoing disc surgery. Pain 2005 0.96
82 Inflexibly focused under stress: acute psychosocial stress increases shielding of action goals at the expense of reduced cognitive flexibility with increasing time lag to the stressor. J Cogn Neurosci 2011 0.96
83 Do social disadvantage and early family adversity affect the diurnal cortisol rhythm in infants? The Generation R Study. Horm Behav 2009 0.96
84 Classification criteria for distinguishing cortisol responders from nonresponders to psychosocial stress: evaluation of salivary cortisol pulse detection in panel designs. Psychosom Med 2013 0.95
85 Interaction of serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region and stressful life events predicts cortisol stress response. Neuropsychopharmacology 2011 0.95
86 The relationship between alcohol consumption and cortisol secretion in an aging cohort. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2007 0.94
87 Glucose but not protein or fat load amplifies the cortisol response to psychosocial stress. Horm Behav 2002 0.94
88 Determinants of the NF-kappaB response to acute psychosocial stress in humans. Brain Behav Immun 2008 0.94
89 Elevated hair cortisol concentrations in endurance athletes. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 0.93
90 The stressed prefrontal cortex and goal-directed behaviour: acute psychosocial stress impairs the flexible implementation of task goals. Exp Brain Res 2011 0.93
91 A striking pattern of cortisol non-responsiveness to psychosocial stress in patients with panic disorder with concurrent normal cortisol awakening responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009 0.93
92 Excellence in performance and stress reduction during two different full scale simulator training courses: a pilot study. Resuscitation 2009 0.93
93 No morning cortisol response in patients with severe global amnesia. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005 0.92
94 Predictors of hair cortisol concentrations in older adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2013 0.91
95 Salivary cortisol in a middle-aged community sample: results from 990 men and women of the KORA-F3 Augsburg study. Eur J Endocrinol 2010 0.91
96 Within and between session changes in subjective and neuroendocrine stress parameters during magnetic resonance imaging: A controlled scanner training study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012 0.91
97 Children under stress - COMT genotype and stressful life events predict cortisol increase in an acute social stress paradigm. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2011 0.91
98 Predicting cortisol stress responses in older individuals: influence of serotonin receptor 1A gene (HTR1A) and stressful life events. Horm Behav 2011 0.89
99 Better not to deal with two tasks at the same time when stressed? Acute psychosocial stress reduces task shielding in dual-task performance. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2012 0.89
100 Is salivary alpha-amylase an indicator of autonomic nervous system dysregulations in mental disorders?--a review of preliminary findings and the interactions with cortisol. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2013 0.89
101 Estradiol or estradiol/progesterone treatment in older women: no strong effects on cognition. Neurobiol Aging 2004 0.88
102 Sex-specific adaptation of endocrine and inflammatory responses to repeated nauseogenic body rotation. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005 0.88
103 Cortisol's effects on hippocampal activation in depressed patients are related to alterations in memory formation. J Psychiatr Res 2011 0.87
104 Age and sex steroid-related changes in glucocorticoid sensitivity of pro-inflammatory cytokine production after psychosocial stress. J Neuroimmunol 2002 0.87
105 Hypothalamic blood flow correlates positively with stress-induced cortisol levels in subjects with social anxiety disorder. Psychosom Med 2006 0.87
106 Serotonin transporter gene variation and stressful life events impact processing of fear and anxiety. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2008 0.87
107 Toward standardization of hair cortisol measurement: results of the first international interlaboratory round robin. Ther Drug Monit 2015 0.87
108 Comparison of salivary cortisol as measured by different immunoassays and tandem mass spectrometry. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012 0.87
109 Association between childhood trauma and low hair cortisol in depressed patients and healthy control subjects. Biol Psychiatry 2013 0.86
110 Visuospatial short-term memory explains deficits in tower task planning in high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder. Child Neuropsychol 2010 0.86
111 Influence of functional tryptophan hydroxylase 2 gene variation and sex on the startle response in children, young adults, and older adults. Biol Psychol 2010 0.85
112 Leptin concentrations in response to acute stress predict subsequent intake of comfort foods. Physiol Behav 2012 0.85
113 Children with high-functioning autism show a normal cortisol awakening response (CAR). Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010 0.85
114 Latent inhibition of rotation chair-induced nausea in healthy male and female volunteers. Psychosom Med 2005 0.84
115 Genetic contributions to acute autonomic stress responsiveness in children. Int J Psychophysiol 2011 0.84
116 No response of plasma substance P, but delayed increase of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist to acute psychosocial stress. Life Sci 2006 0.84
117 Intraindividual variation in recent stress exposure as a moderator of cortisol and testosterone levels. Ann Behav Med 2003 0.84
118 Depersonalization/derealization during acute social stress in social phobia. J Anxiety Disord 2013 0.84
119 The cortisol awakening response in infants: ontogeny and associations with development-related variables. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012 0.84
120 Variation in genes involved in dopamine clearance influence the startle response in older adults. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2011 0.83
121 Prevalence, incidence and determinants of PTSD and other mental disorders: design and methods of the PID-PTSD+3 study. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2012 0.83
122 No effects of repeated forced wakings during three consecutive nights on morning cortisol awakening responses (CAR): a preliminary study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2007 0.83
123 Short and long-term effects of smoking on cortisol in older adults. Int J Psychophysiol 2011 0.82
124 Work breaks during minimally invasive surgery in children: patient benefits and surgeon's perceptions. Eur J Pediatr Surg 2012 0.82
125 Impact of chemotherapy for childhood leukemia on brain morphology and function. PLoS One 2013 0.82
126 Effects of nutrition on neuro-endocrine stress responses. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2007 0.81
127 Enhanced sympathetic arousal in response to FMRI scanning correlates with task induced activations and deactivations. PLoS One 2013 0.81
128 Altered salivary alpha-amylase awakening response in Bosnian War refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 0.80
129 Associations of serum cortisol with cognitive function and dementia: the Rotterdam Study. J Alzheimers Dis 2011 0.80
130 Cortisol patterns are associated with T cell activation in HIV. PLoS One 2013 0.80
131 Moderate psychosocial stress appears not to impair recall of words learned 4 weeks prior to stress exposure. Stress 2002 0.80
132 Hair testosterone and visuospatial memory in middle-aged men and women with and without depressive symptoms. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2013 0.80
133 Chronic sleep curtailment impairs the flexible implementation of task goals in new parents. J Sleep Res 2010 0.80
134 Blunted salivary and plasma cortisol response in patients with panic disorder under psychosocial stress. Int J Psychophysiol 2013 0.79
135 Parity does not alter baseline or stimulated activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in women. Dev Psychobiol 2006 0.79
136 The cortisol awakening response in toddlers and young children. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2013 0.78
137 Lower stress system activity and higher peripheral inflammation in competitive ballroom dancers. Biol Psychol 2012 0.78
138 A noise-reduction program in a pediatric operation theatre is associated with surgeon's benefits and a reduced rate of complications: a prospective controlled clinical trial. Ann Surg 2014 0.78
139 Impact of sleep deprivation and subsequent recovery sleep on cortisol in unmedicated depressed patients. Am J Psychiatry 2004 0.78
140 Perceived stress has genetic influences distinct from neuroticism and depression. Behav Genet 2013 0.77
141 Effects of cortisol on emotional but not on neutral memory are correlated with peripheral glucocorticoid sensitivity of inflammatory cytokine production. Int J Psychophysiol 2008 0.77
142 Trauma exposure is associated with increased context-dependent adjustments of cognitive control in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy controls. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2014 0.76
143 Transcranial electrical stimulation modifies the neuronal response to psychosocial stress exposure. Hum Brain Mapp 2013 0.76
144 Diurnal cortisol rhythm and cognitive functioning in toddlers: the Generation R Study. Child Neuropsychol 2013 0.76
145 Association of blood pressure and antihypertensive drugs with diurnal alpha-amylase activity. Int J Psychophysiol 2011 0.76
146 Psychological and physiological responses following repeated peer death. PLoS One 2013 0.75
147 Dissociation between ACTH and cortisol response in DEX-CRH test in patients with panic disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012 0.75
148 Autonomic dysregulation in burnout and depression: evidence for the central role of exhaustion. Scand J Work Environ Health 2017 0.75