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Fear conditioning with single prolonged stress

From 2021 to 2025, 70 animal research papers mentioned single prolonged stress and fear conditioning in their title or abstract.

That is 5.4 times the 13 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention single prolonged stress and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 3.5 times as many.

70 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned single prolonged stress and fear conditioning
49% of the 142 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention single prolonged stress and a test mention fear conditioning
3% of the 2,010 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention fear conditioning also mention single prolonged stress
5.4 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention single prolonged stress and fear conditioning, by year, 2001 to 2026

The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.

  • Papers in a full year
  • 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
Papers by year
YearPapers
20010
20020
20030
20040
20050
20062
20072
20083
20092
20100
20111
20122
20133
20143
20154
20166
20178
201814
201916
202013
202119
202210
202312
202410
202519
2026 (part year)13

Papers that mention single prolonged stress and fear conditioning fell from 19 in 2021 to 10 in 2022, then rose to 19 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. We take a paper's species from PubMed's indexing when the indexing names one. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find a species in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted. Papers that PubMed indexed under the subject heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025.

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 70 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
46 papers 66%
Mouse
24 papers 34%
Other animals
3 papers 4%

“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.

Tests mentioned alongside fear conditioning

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 70 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 42 (60%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions single prolonged stress and fear conditioning.

A paper that mentions either only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The search terms are in the list of models and techniques and the test list. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.

More pairings

Every pairing of an animal model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

Other tests with single prolonged stress

The page on fear conditioning counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on single prolonged stress ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Fear conditioning with single prolonged stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/single-prolonged-stress/fear-conditioning

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_single_prolonged_stress_fear_conditioning_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Fear conditioning with single prolonged stress},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/single-prolonged-stress/fear-conditioning},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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