• Psychoendocrinology of affective disorders
• Stress
• Animal models of anxiety, depression and psychosomatic disorders
• Sleep-stress interactions

 

Contributes to courses in Biological & Medical Psychology, as well as courses for PhD students. Supervision of undergraduate and graduate student projects.

Academic literature review

• Torbjørn Breivik; Per E Gjermo; Per Kristian Opstad et al. (2025). Brain Structures, Circuits, and Networks Involved in Immune Regulation, Periodontal Health, and Disease. (external link)
• Torbjørn Breivik; Per E Gjermo; Yngvar Gundersen et al. (2024). Microbiota-immune-brain interactions: A new vision in the understanding of periodontal health and disease. (external link)
• Jaap M Koolhaas; Alessandro Bartolomucci; Bauke Buwalda et al. (2011). Stress revisited: A critical evaluation of the stress concept. (external link)

Academic article

• J. Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2005). Trauma and resulting sensitization effects are modulated by psychological factors. (external link)
• Hege Randi Eriksen; Robert Murison; Anne Marta Pensgaard et al. (2005). Cognitive activation theory of stress (CATS): from fish brains to the Olympics. (external link)
• Robert Murison; K. Olafsen (1991). Stress gastric ulceration in rats: Impact of prior stress experience. (external link)
• G. B. Glavin; Robert Murison; James Bruce Overmier et al. (1991). The neurobiology of stress ulcers. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (1991). Juvenile and adult footshock stress modulate later adult gastric pathophysiological reactions to restraint stresses in rats. (external link)
• R. Deinzer; Robert Murison; D. H. Hellhammer et al. (1991). Amino acids and yohimbine prevent poststress gastric ulceration in rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Geir Pedersen; Ine Marlen Baug et al. (1995). Dopaminergic system sensitivity, shock-induced stress and stress-induced gastric ulceration may be interdependent. (external link)
• Bjørn Helge Johnsen; Anita Lill Hansen; Robert Murison et al. (2012). Heart rate variability and cortisol responses during attentional and working memory tasks in naval cadets. (external link)
• Pia Berner Hansson; Robert Murison; Anders Lund et al. (2015). Cognitive functioning and cortisol profiles in first episode major depression. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Ståle Pallesen; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2013). Early and later life stress alter brain activity and sleep in rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison; kÅre sten Olafsen (1991). Stress ulceration in rats: Impact of prior stress experience. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anita L. Hansen (2001). Reliability of the Chronic Mild Stress paradigm: Implications for research and animal welfare. (external link)
• Anette Kristoffersen Harris; Holger Ursin; Robert Murison et al. (2007). Coffee, stress and cortisol in nursing staff. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Håkan Sundberg; Arne Roseth et al. (2003). Proactive sensitizing effects of acute stress on acoustic startle responses and experimentally induced colitis in rats: relationship to corticosterone. (external link)
• Frode Alexander Tuvnes; Hill Aina Steffenach; Robert Murison et al. (2003). Selective hippocampal lesions do not increase adrenocortical activity. (external link)
• J.B. Overmier; Robert Murison; T. Backer Johnsen (1997). Prediction of individual vulnerability to stress-induced gastric ulcerations in rats: A factor analysis of selected behavioral and biological indices. (external link)
• Schale Azak; Robert Murison; Tore Wentzel-Larsen et al. (2013). Maternal depression and infant daytime cortisol. (external link)
• R. Deinzer; Robert Murison (1997). Amino acid effects on post-stress ulcers. Relationship to brain serotonin, 5-HIAA and norepinephrine. (external link)
• Helene Halleland; Anette Harris; Silje Sornes et al. (2009). Subjective health complaints, stress, and coping in orchestra musicians. (external link)
• Hege Randi Eriksen; M. Olff; Robert Murison et al. (1999). The time dimension in stress responses: Relevance for survival and health. (external link)
• Ingrid Jangaard Orre; Kristin Valborg Reinertsen; Pål Aukrust et al. (2011). Higher levels of fatigue are associated with higher CRP levels in disease-free breast cancer survivors. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Clive R. Evjen Bramham; Robert Murison et al. (2006). Chronic mild stress inhibits BDNF protein expression and CREB activation in the dentate gyrus but not in the hippocampus proper. (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; Robert Murison (1999). Defensive Burying Test, Alchohol Consumption and Retention of the Defensive Burying Response. (external link)
• Hege Randi Eriksen; M. Olff; Robert Murison et al. (1999). The time dimension in stress responses: relevance for survival and health. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Arvid Skjerve (1992). Individual behavioral characteristics and extent of stress-induced gastric ulceration in rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1992). The pathological power of the past. (Abstract of paper presented at 25th International Congress of Psychology, Brussels). (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; Robert Murison; M. Sarviharju et al. (1998). Defensive burying and stress gastric erosions in alcohol-preferring AA and alcohol non-preferring ANA rats. (external link)
• G. D. Coover; Robert Murison; Finn Konow Jellestad (1992). Subtotal lesions of the amygdala: The rostal central nucleus in passive avoidance and ulceration. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2000). Anxiety and helplessness in the face of stress predisposes, precipitates and sustains gastric ulceration. (external link)
• T. Sandbak; Robert Murison (1996). Voluntary alcohol consumption in rats: Relationships to defensive burying and stress gastric erosions. (external link)
• T. Breivik; P.S. Thrane; Robert Murison et al. (1996). Følelsesmessige belastninger og periodontitt. (external link)
• M. Kreutz; D. Hellhammer; Robert Murison et al. (1992). Pavlovian conditioning of corticotropin-releasing hormone-induced increase of blood pressure and corticosterone secretion in the rat. (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; Lars Morten Rimol; Finn Konow Jellestad et al. (2000). Relating acoustic startle reactivity and plasticity to alcohol consumption in male Wistar rats. (external link)
• IJ Orre; Sophie Dorothea Fosså; SD Fossa et al. (2008). Chronic cancer-related fatigue in long-term survivors of testicular cancer. (external link)
• Stein Knardahl; Robert Murison (1989). Plasma corticosterone and renin activity during two-way active avoidance learning in spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Gülen Arslan; James Bruce Overmier et al. (2005). An acute stressor enhances sensitivity to a chemical irritant and increases 51-CrEDTA permeability of the colon in adult rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison; J.B. Overmier (1993). Some psychosomatic causal factors of restrain-in-water stress ulcers. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Anne Marie Kinn Rød; Silvia Brekke et al. (2022). Does a single exposure to social defeat render rats more vulnerable to chemically induced colitis than brief inescapable foot-shocks?. (external link)
• Renee D. Goodwin; Christina W. Hoven; Robert Murison et al. (2003). Association between childhood physical abuse and gastrointestinal disorders and migraine in adulthood. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Gülen Arslan; Arne Roseth et al. (2003). Intestinal permeability and faecal granulocyte marker protein in dextran sulphate sodium - induced colitis in rats. (external link)
• Kjetil Steine; Arne Roseth; Gunnar Sandbæk et al. (2003). Økt kortisolnivå, frostskader og påvirkning av muskler og skjelett under ekstreme polarforhold. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (1993). Temporal location of contextual exposure determines whether shocks influence later ulcer vulnerability. (external link)
• Robert Murison; J.B. Overmier (1993). Parallelism among stress effects on ulcer, immunosuppression and analgesia: Commonality of mechanisms?. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Eldbjørg Fiske; Robert Murison et al. (2007). Extracellular levels of serotonin and GABA in the hippocampus after chronic mild stress in rats. - A microdialysis study in an animal model of depression. (external link)
• Pia Berner Hansson; Robert Murison; Anders Lund et al. (2013). Cognitive functioning and cortisol suppression in recurrent major depression. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Åse Lundegaard Mattson; Robert Murison et al. (2014). Hypothermia after chronic mild stress exposure in rats with a history of postnatal maternal separations. (external link)
• Frode A. Tuvnes; Hill-Aina Steffenach; Robert Murison et al. (2003). Selective hippocampal lesions do not increase adrenocortical activity. (external link)
• J.B. Overmier; Robert Murison (1994). Differing mechanisms for proactive effects of intermittent and single shock on gastric ulveration. (external link)
• J.B. Overmier; Robert Murison; T. Taklo et al. (1994). Effects of traumatic stress on defensive burying: An alternative test of the learned helplessness animal model of depression and enhanced retrieval of unpleasant memories. (external link)
• Otto Kalliokoski; Finn Konow Jellestad; Robert Murison (2019). A systematic review of studies utilizing hair glucocorticoids as a measure of stress suggests the marker is more appropriate for quantifying short-term stressors. (external link)
• Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison; Tom Chr Backer Johnsen (1997). Prediction of Individual Vunerability to Stress-induced Gastric Ulcers in Rats: A Factor Analysis of selected Behavioral and Biological Indices. (external link)
• Iris Mulders Steine; Tetyana Zayats; Christine Stansberg et al. (2016). Implication of NOTCH1 Gene in Susceptibility to Anxiety and Depression among Sexual Abuse Victims. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Robert Murison; Eldbjørg Fiske et al. (2005). Effects of chronic mild stress on sexual behavior, locomotor activity and consumption of sucrose and saccharine solutions. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Robert Murison; Jonathan Soule et al. (2016). Mild daily stressors in adulthood may counteract behavioural effects after constant presence of mother during early life. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Peter Meerlo; Torhild Pedersen et al. (2016). A rodent model of night-shift work induces short-term and enduring sleep and electroencephalographic disturbances. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn Rød; Nina Harkestad; Finn Konow Jellestad et al. (2017). Comparison of commercial ELISA assays for quantification of corticosterone in serum. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Robert Murison; Bjørn Bjorvatn et al. (2004). Chronic mild stress affects sucrose intake and sleep in rats. (external link)
• Eliann Øines; Robert Murison; Jelena Mrdalj et al. (2012). Neonatal maternal separation in male rats increases intestinal permeability and affects behavior after chronic social stress. (external link)
• Robert Murison; J.B. Overmier (1998). Comparison of different animal models of stress reveals a non- monotonic effect. (external link)
• Ingrid Jangaard Orre; Robert Murison; Alv Andreas Dahl et al. (2009). Levels of circulating interleukin-1 receptor antagonist and C-reactive protein in long-term survivors of testicular cancer with chronic cancer-related fatigue. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Øystein Enger; Robert Murison (2004). The effects of postnatal maternal separation on stress responsivity and experimentally induced colitis in adult rats. (external link)
• J.B. Overmier; Robert Murison (1998). Animal models reveal the "psych" in the psychosomatics of the peptic ulcers. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn Rød; Anne Marita Milde; Janne Grønli et al. (2012). Long-term effects of footshock and social defeat on anxiety-like behaviours in rats: Relationships to pre-stressor plasma corticosterone concentration. (external link)
• T. Breivik; P.S. Thrane; Robert Murison et al. (1996). Emotional stress effects on immunity, gingivitis and periodontitis. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn; Janne Grønli; Eldbjørg Fiske et al. (2008). A double exposure to social defeat induces sub-chronic effects on sleep and open field dehaviour in rats. (external link)
• Hege Eriksen; Robert Murison; Anne Marte Pensgaard et al. (2005). Cognitive activation theory of stress (CATS) : from fish brains to the Olympics. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Grethe Dagestad; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2012). Post-transcriptional effects and interactions between chronic mild stress and acute sleep deprivation: Regulation of translation factor and cytoplasmic polyadenylation element-binding protein phosphorylation. (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; Robert Murison (2001). Behavioural responses to elevated plus-maze and defensive burying testing, effects on subsequent ethanol intake and effect of ethanol on retention of the burying response. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2001). Is there a role for psychology in ulcer disease?. (external link)
• Hans-Erik Carlsson; Joakim Hagelin; Krister Martin et al. (2001). Samhällets förståelse för djurförsök i biomedicinsk forskning. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn Rød; Robert Murison; Jelena Mrdalj et al. (2014). Effects of social defeat on sleep and behaviour: Importance of the confrontational behaviour. (external link)
• Torbjørn Breivik; Yngvar Gundersen; Trond Myhrer et al. (2006). Enhanced susceptibility to periodontitis in an animal model of depression: reversed by chronic treatment with the anti-depressant tianeptine. (external link)
• Kirsten G. Kjelstrup; Frode A. Tuvnes; Hill-Aina Steffenach et al. (2002). Reduced fear expression after lesions of the ventral hippocampus. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2006). Sensitization and conditioning as contributors to gastrointestinal vulnerability. A review. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2013). Restoring psychology's role in peptic ulcer. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2002). A study of the effects of restraint stress on colitis induced by dextran sulphate sodium in singly housed rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1997). ScandLAS policy. (external link)
• Vaska Vandevska-Radunovic; Robert Murison (2010). Emotional stress and orthodontic tooth movement: effects on apical root resorption, tooth movement, and dental tissue expression of interleukin-1 alpha and calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactive nerve fibres in rats. (external link)
• Anette Harris; Holger Ursin; Robert Murison et al. (2007). Coffee, stress and cortisol in nursing staff. (external link)
• Anita Lill Hansen; Gina Ambroziak; David Thornton et al. (2020). Vitamin D supplementation during winter: Effects on stress resilience in a randomized control trial. (external link)
• Torbjørn Breivik; Yngvar Gundersen; Robert Murison et al. (2015). Maternal deprivation of Lewis rat pups increases the severity of experimental periodontitis in adulthood. (external link)

Conference lecture

• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2004). Sensitization and conditioning as contributors to gastro-intestinal vulnerability. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2004). Trauma and resulting effects are modulated by psychological factors. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2004). Eksperimentell stressforskning: psykosomatisk relevans. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2004). Psychological factors impact on colitis in animal models. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Jan Ivar Ernø; Robert Murison (2004). Kjønnsforskjeller i sensitivisering til kjemisk indusert inflammasjon. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Ståle Pallesen; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2011). Chronic mild stress potentiates a lower brain activity during sleep and wakefulness in rats exposed to long maternal separation. (external link)
• Robert Murison; J.B. Overmier (1994). Serial stressors and gastric ulceration. (external link)
• Andrea Rørvik Marti; Jelena Mrdalj; Silje Skrede et al. (2016). Simulated night work alters clock gene expression in central and peripheral tissue in rats.. (external link)
• Turid Birgitte Boye; Ingard Wilhelmsen; Jørgen Jahnsen et al. (2006). Personality factors predict quality of life in distressed patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), The inspire study. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1993). Mechanisms underlying increases sensitivity to stress ulcer induction in rats (abstract). (external link)
• Robert Murison (2003). Stress and ulcer. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2003). The Norwegian perspective. (external link)
• Gülen Arslan; Kari Erichsen; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2003). Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on DSS-induced Colitis in Rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1993). The neurobiology of stress ulcers (abstract). (external link)
• T. Breivik; Audun H. Nerland; Robert Murison et al. (1998). Influence of stress on immune cell recruitment in rat gingival tissues. (external link)
• Iris Mulders Steine; Tetyana Zayats; Christine Stansberg et al. (2016). Implication of NOTCH1 Gene in Comorbid Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in a Sample of Sexual Abuse Victims.. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2010). Gut ache – what does “stress” have to do with it?. (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; Robert Murison; M. Sarviharju et al. (1998). Defensive Burying and Stress Gastric Erosions in AA and ANA Rat Lines. (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; Robert Murison (1998). Alterations in Brain Amine Content by Defensive Burying and Alcohol in Rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Gulen Arslan; James Bruce Overmier et al. (2004). Effects of an acute stressor on chemically sensitization and permeability of the colon in adult rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Jan Ivar Ernø; Robert Murison (2005). Sensitivity to experimentally induced colitis - gender differences?. (external link)
• Frode Alexander Tuvnes; Hill Aina Steffenach; Edvard Ingjald Moser et al. (2002). Basal plasma corticosterone levels are not increased by selective lesions or temporary inactivation of the hippocampus. (external link)
• Kirsten Gjerstad Kjelstrup; Frode Alexander Tuvnes; Hill Aina Steffenach et al. (2002). Selective lesions of the ventral hippocampus impair expression of unconditioned fear. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Tove Nordling; Kenneth Hugdahl et al. (2006). PTSD and fMRI - a pilot study. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2006). Post-traumatic stress disorder and gut dysfunction. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1996). How individual history shapes disease outcomes - trauma, tumours and ulcers. (external link)
• T. Breivik; Audun H. Nerland; Robert Murison et al. (1998). Influence of stress on immune cell recruitment in rat gingival tissues. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Eldbjørg Fiske; Robert Murison et al. (2007). Serotonin and GABA in the hippocampus after chronic mild stress in rats. A microdialysis study over the sleep/wake cycle in an animal model of depression. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2001). Om rotter og stress: hva har vi lært fra dyremodeller?. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2001). Magetarm lidelser – er stress en medvirkende faktor? Fra basale til kliniske studier. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2001). DSS-modellen for IBD hos dyr – påvirkninger av stress. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2001). Stress og IBD hos rotter. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Torhild Thue Pedersen; Andrea Rørvik Marti et al. (2015). Night work - disturbances in sleep and circadian rhythm parameters. An animal model.. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2000). Psychobiology of GI disorders - Animal models. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2000). Animals models in gastrointestinal research. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2001). Dyremodeller. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2001). Psychobiology of PTSD – Lessons and potentials of basic research. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde; James Bruce Overmier (2000). The re-psychosomatization of peptic ulcer disease. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2000). Stress and GI disorders - Animal models. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2000). What animal models can tell us about designing psychobiological intervention studies with humans. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2000). Psychobiology of GI disorders: Implications of animal models. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2000). Welfare of laboratory rodents. (external link)
• Robert Murison; T. Sandbak; A.M. Milde (1997). Apomorphine sensitivity, corticosterone and ethanol consumption in rats. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Ståle Pallesen; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2011). Early and later life stress leads to a lower brain activity during sleep and wakefulness in rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2000). A study of the effects of stress on colitis induced by dextran sulphate sodium in rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2001). A study of the effects of stress on colitis induced by dextran sulphate sodium in rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2002). Longterm effect of short inescapable footshock on startle responses and experimentally induced colitis in rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2001). The impact of stress on the maintenance of IBD symptoms in male and female rats: Is dextran sulphate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis prolonged in pre-stressed rats?. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Robert Murison; Finn Konow Jellestad et al. (2013). Hypothermia after chronic mild stress exposure in rats with ahistory of postnatal maternal separation. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2002). Psychosomatic theory, research and practice in Norway. Lunch roundtable presentation. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2001). The impact of stress on the maintenance of IBD symptoms in male and female rats: Is dextran sulphate sodium (DSS)- induced colitis prolonged in pre-stressed rats?. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2002). Assessment of granulocyte marker protein and permeability in relationship to experimentally induced colitis in rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Håkan Sundberg; Arne Roseth et al. (2002). Proactive sensitising of a brief stressor on acoustic startle response and chemically-induced colitis in rats: relationship to corticosterone. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2002). Psychobiology of stress and PTSD: potential insights from animal models. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2002). Psychobiology of stress and PTSD: potential insights from animal models. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1992). The pathological power of the past. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Robert Murison (2016). The Neurobiology of Stress. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2001). Animal Models. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2004). External Events Are Internalized in the Brain-Gut Axis. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2004). Animal models. (external link)
• James Bruce Overmier; Robert Murison (2004). Gastric ulcers and stress. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2007). Ulceration, Gastric. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2007). Gastrointestinal Effects. (external link)
• R. Deinzer; Robert Murison; D. Hellhammer et al. (1992). Can tyrosine prevent poststress disturbances?. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2003). Animal models for psychological disorders. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2011). Animal Models for Psychological Disorders. (external link)
• R. Deizner; Robert Murison; D. Hellhammer et al. (1993). Can tyrosine prevent poststress disturbances?. (external link)
• H.K. Bakke; Robert Murison (1995). Cortictropin releasing factor and gastric erosions. (external link)

Conference poster

• Anita Lill Hansen; A. V. Snow; Robert Murison et al. (2006). Individual differences in the relationship between cortisol and cognitive function: Effects of resting heart rate variability. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Grethe Dagestad; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2011). Chronic mild stress and acute sleep deprivation: interactive and brain-region specific effects on regulation of translation factor and CPEB phosphorylation. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Robert Murison; Bjørn Bjorvatn et al. (2002). Sleep/wake effect after chronic mild stress in rats. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Robert Murison; Bjørn Bjorvatn et al. (2001). Sleep/wake effect after chronic mild stress in rats. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2001). The impact of stress on the maintenance of IBD symptoms in male and female rats: is dextran sulphate sodium (DSS) - induced colitis prolonged in pre-stressed rats?. (external link)
• Ingrid Jangård Orre; Alv A. Dahl; Sophie d. Fosså et al. (2006). Associations between cancer related stress and morning cortisol levels in Norwegian long-term survivors of testicular cancer. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn Rød; Jelena Mrdalj; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2012). Sleep Architecture, Behaviour, Corticosterone and Acoustic Startle Response after Double Exposure to Social Defeat in Rats. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison et al. (2012). Early life stress modulates responses to chronic stress later in life; affective and behavioural outcomes in rats. (external link)
• Anette Harris; Robert Murison; Hege Randi Eriksen (2004). An investigation of the relationship between salivary cortisol profile, self-reported job stress, work load and health in a population of health care workers. (external link)
• Siri Waage; Bjørn Bjorvatn; Magnus Odeen et al. (2004). Health effects of 21 days shift periods and long work hours in an isolated and extreme environment. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison; Jan Ivar Ernø (2005). Pre-sensitizing effects on colonic damage - is there a gender difference?. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2010). Altered Body Temperature Rhythm and Depression-like Symptoms following Early and Later Life Stress in Rats. (external link)
• Jelena Mrdalj; Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2010). Chronic mild stress alters body temperature rhythm and induces depression-like symptoms in rats postnatally exposed to long maternal separation. (external link)
• Eliann Øines; Robert Murison; Jelena Mrdalj et al. (2010). Chronic social stress increases colonic permeability in rats postnatally exposed to long maternal separation. (external link)
• Michael J. Rempe; Torhild Thue Pedersen; Peter Meerlo et al. (2016). A rat model for shiftwork: Effects on sleep architecture and sleep homeostasis.. (external link)
• Bjørn Helge Johnsen; Anita Lill Hansen; J.J. Sollers et al. (2002). Heart rate variability is inversely related to cortisol reactivity during cognitive stress. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison; Håkan Sundberg (2002). Sensitising effect of a brief stressor on acoustic startle responses and chemically-induced colitis in rats: Relationships to corticosterone. (external link)
• Håkan Sundberg; Robert Murison (2001). Plasma corticosterone level predicts effects of aversive events in rats. (external link)
• Anita Lill Hansen; Bjørn Helge Johnsen; Robert Murison et al. (2002). Heart rate variability is inversely related to cortisol reactivity during cognitive stress. (external link)
• Frode A. Tuvnes; Hill-Aina Steffenach; Robert Murison et al. (2002). Basal plasma corticosterone levels are not increased by selective lesions or temporary inactivation of the hippocampus. (external link)
• Anne Marita Milde; Robert Murison (2002). The impact of housing conditions on rats welfare. (external link)
• Kirsten G. Kjelstrup; Frode A. Tuvnes; Hill-Aina Steffenach et al. (2002). Selective lesions of the ventral hippocampus impair expression of unconditioned fear. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anita Lill Hansen (2001). Reliability of the Chronic Mild Stress Paradigm: Implications for the Research and Animal Welfare. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2011). Animal model of early and later life stress alters body temperature rhythm and induces depression-like symptoms. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn; Jelena Mrdalj; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2011). Short- and long- term effects on sleep architecture, behaviour, corticosterone and acoustic startle response after two exposures to social defeat in rats. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn Rød; Robert Murison; Jelena Mrdalj et al. (2013). Effects of Social Defeat on sleep and behaviour: The importance of the confrontational behaviour. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Robert Murison; Bjørn Bjorvatn et al. (2003). Chronic Mild Stress in Rats Increase REM sleep and Sleep fragmentation and decrease Sucrose Intake. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2000). Long-term effects of two animal stress procedures on corticosterone levels in rats. (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; Lars Morten Rimol; Robert Murison et al. (2000). The acoustic startle reflex, prepulse inhibition and alcohol consumption in rats. (external link)

Lecture

• Robert Murison (1997). Modulation of stress responsivity in animals School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Swansea, 10.11.97. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1997). Hormones and stress. Neuroscience Research Center, Uppsala University, 8th April 1997. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1997). Individual differences in vulnerability to stress gastric erosions in rats. Institute of Psychiatry, Univeristy of Dundee, 6th November, 1997. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1997). Stress in laboratory animals. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1998). Does enrichment alleviate or exaceerbate "stress" in rats and mice?. (external link)
• Robert Murison; J.B. Overmier (1998). Evidence for conditioning effects on gastrointestinal pathology in rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1998). Stress hos mennesker og dyr. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1998). Stress og trivsel hos folk (Workshop). (external link)
• Robert Murison; Tone Sandbak (1998). Liking a drink might be good for you. (external link)
• Robert Murison (1999). Anxiety and helplessness in the face of stress predisposes, precipitates and sustains gastric ulceration. (external link)
• F.A. Tuvnes; Robert Murison; E.I. Moser et al. (1999). Contextual conditioning and fear expression in rats with dorsal and ventral hippocampal lesions. (external link)
• Tone Sandbak; L.M. Rimol; Robert Murison et al. (1999). The acoustic startle reflex, pre-pulse inhibition and alcohol consumption in rats. (external link)
• Robert Murison; A.M. Milde (1999). Long-term effects of two animal stress procedures on corticosterone: Models for PTSD?. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• H. Lehnert; Robert Murison; H. Weiner et al. (1992). Endocrine and Nutritional Control of Basic Biological Functions. (external link)
• H. Lehnert; Robert Murison; H. Weiner et al. (1993). Endocrine and Nutritional Control of Basic Biological Functions. (external link)
• H. Lehnert; Robert Murison; H. Weiner et al. (1993). Endocrine and Nutritional Control of Basic Biological Functions. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Andrea Rørvik Marti; Jelena Mrdalj; Silje Skrede et al. (2016). Simulated night work alters clock gene expression in central and peripheral tissue in rats.. (external link)
• Torbjørn Elvsåshagen; Erlend Bøen; Torgeir Moberget et al. (2013). Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Studies of LTP-Like Cortical Plasticity in Subjects with Bipolar Disorder and Healthy Controls. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Grethe Dagestad; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2012). Chronic mild stress abolishes a relationship between sleep architecture and translational control. (external link)
• Ingrid Jangaard Orre; Alv A. Dahl; SD Fossa et al. (2007). Associations between cancer related stress and morning cortisol levels in Norwegian long-term survivors of testicular cancer. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Eldbjørg Fiske; Robert Murison et al. (2007). Extracellular levels of serotonin and GABA in the hippocampus after chronic mild stress in rats. A microdialysis study over the sleep/wake cycle in an animal model of depression. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Robert Murison; Tambudzai Kanhema et al. (2005). Chronic mild stress, an animal model of depression, affects the expression of BDNF and 5-HT levels over the sleep/wake cycle in hippocampus in rats. (external link)
• Janne Grønli; Grethe Dagestad; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2008). Sleep deprivation as an antidepressant treatment following chronic mild stress: effects on translation factor EIF4E and EEF2 activity. (external link)
• Michael J. Rempe; Torhild Thue Pedersen; Peter Meerlo et al. (2016). A rat model for shiftwork: Effects on sleep architecture and sleep homeostasis.. (external link)
• Ingrid Jangaard Orre; Alv Andreas Dahl; Sophie Dorothea Fosså et al. (2008). Associations between cancer related stress and morning cortisol levels in Norwegian long-term survivors of testicular cancer. (external link)
• Robert Murison; Anne Marita Milde (2004). Psychological factors impact on colitis in animal models. (external link)
• Anne Marie Kinn Rød; Jelena Mrdalj; Anne Marita Milde et al. (2012). Sleep architecture, behaviour, corticosterone and acoustic startle response after double exposure to social defeat in rats. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Robert Murison; Hege Randi Eriksen (2005). Stress, sensitisation and somatisation: A special issue in honour of Holger Ursin. (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Robert Murison (2000). Gastrointestinal effects. (external link)
• Robert Murison (2000). Ulceration. (external link)

Journal review

• Robert Murison (2001). Review of Biological Basis of Mind-Body Interactions by E.A. Mayer and C.B. Saper. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Cortisol in PTSD and depression

Systematic review of cortisol measured in hair as a measure of stress