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ReviewNeurobiology of stress2025

Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms.

Catherine Jensen Peña

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Review in Neurobiology of stress, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Multilevel Effects of Socioeconomic Factors on the Somatic Status of Contemporary Youth Across Russian Regions.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026
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  5. Altered Postnatal Chromatin Development in the Nucleus Accumbens Primes Enduring Stress Sensitivity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  14. Neurobiology of resilience to early life stress.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  15. Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  16. Maternal separation disrupts noradrenergic control of adult coping behaviors.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Catherine Jensen PeñaPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, 40 Woodlands Way, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

Funding

Epigenetic priming of response to future stressorsR01MH129643 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Catherine Jensen Pena · 2022 to 2026
$3.8M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH129643
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early-life stress sensitizes individuals to additional stressors and increases lifetime risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Research in both human populations and rodent models of early-life stress have sought to determine how different types of stressors contribute to vulnerability, and whether there are developmental sensitive periods for such effects. Although differences in the type and timing of rodent early-life stress paradigms have led to differences in specific behavioral outcomes, this complexity is present among humans as well. Robust rodent research now shows how early-life stress increases sensitivity to future stressors at behavioral, neural circuit, and molecular levels. These recent discoveries are laying the foundation for translation to more effective interventions relevant for those who experienced childhood stress and trauma.

Indexed as

Early life adversityEarly-life stressEpigenetic primingEpigeneticsRNA-SequencingSensitive periodsSensitization

Identifiers

PMID40134543
PMCPMC11932861

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