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Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	154
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	112
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	109
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	105
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	104
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	95
Neural Circuits for Emotion	94
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	73
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	73
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	72
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	69
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	65
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	62
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	55
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	55
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	44
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	43
Development of the Binocular Circuit	41
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	40
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	40
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	37
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	37
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	37
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	36
Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	34

Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory	32
Topological Neuroscience: Linking Circuits to Function	31
Astrocyte Endfeet in Brain Function and Pathology: Open Questions	29
Synaptic Mechanisms Regulating Mood State Transitions in Depression	27
How Do You Build a Cognitive Map? The Development of Circuits and Computations for the Representation of Space in the Brain	26
Cortical Integration of Vestibular and Visual Cues for Navigation, Visual Processing, and Perception	24
Neural Control of Naturalistic Behavior Choices	24
Neuroscientific Evidence for Processing Without Awareness	23
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Phase Separation–Mediated Compartmentalization Underlies Synapse Formation and Plasticity	19
The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders	19
Receptor-Ribosome Coupling: A Link Between Extrinsic Signals and mRNA Translation in Neuronal Compartments	19
Cell Type–Specific Studies of Human Tissue for Investigation of the Molecular Cell Biology of Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease	19
Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	18
The Visual Systems of Zebrafish	18
Developmental Origins and Oncogenesis in Medulloblastoma	17
Silent Synapses in the Adult Brain	17
Neuromodulation and Neurophysiology on the Timescale of Learning and Decision-Making	17
Replay and Ripples in Humans	16
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Meningeal Lymphatics in Central Nervous System Diseases	14
From Blur to Brilliance: The Ascendance of Advanced Microscopy in Neuronal Cell Biology	11
Prenatal Immune Stress: Its Impact on Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders	11