OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Neurosciences is 26. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Brain’s Glymphatic System: Current Controversies	313
The Emerging Science of Interoception: Sensing, Integrating, Interpreting, and Regulating Signals within the Self	264
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: From Genetics to Functional Pathways	248
Effects of Exercise on Brain and Cognition Across Age Groups and Health States	174
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the Central Nervous System	157
Neural Circuits of Interoception	149
Where is Cingulate Cortex? A Cross-Species View	144
Astrocytic processes: from tripartite synapses to the active milieu	127
The Effects of Age-Related Hearing Loss on the Brain and Cognitive Function	126
Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self	124
Prefrontal Cortex Development in Health and Disease: Lessons from Rodents and Humans	123
Signaling by cGAS–STING in Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, and Aging	121
Blood–Brain Barrier Dynamics to Maintain Brain Homeostasis	116
Mitochondria and Calcium in Alzheimer’s Disease: From Cell Signaling to Neuronal Cell Death	116
The neuroinvasiveness, neurotropism, and neurovirulence of SARS-CoV-2	115
A Unifying Account of Angular Gyrus Contributions to Episodic and Semantic Cognition	113
Diseases, Disorders, and Comorbidities of Interoception	111
Immunometabolism in the Brain: How Metabolism Shapes Microglial Function	108
Cellular senescence at the crossroads of inflammation and Alzheimer's disease	107
Microglial Phagocytosis: A Disease-Associated Process Emerging from Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics	104
Circuit organization of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex	101
Prenatal Origins of ASD: The When, What, and How of ASD Development	99
Computational Models of Interoception and Body Regulation	98
Is COVID-19 a Perfect Storm for Parkinson’s Disease?	96
Movement-Related Signals in Sensory Areas: Roles in Natural Behavior	96

Magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG): the next generation of functional neuroimaging	93
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Prenatal Preeclampsia Exposure	91
Interventions and Manipulations of Interoception	90
How Do Sensory Neurons Sense Danger Signals?	86
Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder	84
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: In the Challenge Lies a Solution	84
Neurodevelopmental Optimization after Early-Life Adversity: Cross-Species Studies to Elucidate Sensitive Periods and Brain Mechanisms to Inform Early Intervention	82
The Paradox of HIV Blood–Brain Barrier Penetrance and Antiretroviral Drug Delivery Deficiencies	80
How critical is brain criticality?	79
A Multi-Brain Framework for Social Interaction	77
16p11.2 Copy Number Variations and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	75
Social Cognition in the Age of Human–Robot Interaction	74
Microglia versus Monocytes: Distinct Roles in Degenerative Diseases of the Retina	74
Cause or consequence? Alpha oscillations in visuospatial attention	70
Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks	66
Functional interplay between central and autonomic nervous systems in human fear conditioning	64
Principles of Corticocortical Communication: Proposed Schemes and Design Considerations	64
Tapping into Multi-Faceted Human Behavior and Psychopathology Using fMRI Brain Dynamics	63
Synthesizing Views to Understand Sex Differences in Response to Early Life Adversity	63
Glucocorticoids as Mediators of Adverse Outcomes of Prenatal Stress	62
The Gut–CNS Axis in Multiple Sclerosis	60
Non-cell-autonomous pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	59
Transforming the Concept of Memory Reactivation	59
A Vessel for Change: Endothelial Dysfunction in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease	59
Basal Progenitor Morphology and Neocortex Evolution	58
The Distributed Nociceptive System: A Framework for Understanding Pain	58
A Dendrite-Focused Framework for Understanding the Actions of Ketamine and Psychedelics	58
The Multifaceted Roles of KCC2 in Cortical Development	57
Microglia in Cancer Therapy-Related Cognitive Impairment	56
Lysosomal dysfunction in neurodegeneration: emerging concepts and methods	56
The many dimensions of human hippocampal organization and (dys)function	56
Narratives for Neuroscience	55
Resurrecting the Mysteries of Big Tau	54
LRRK2 and idiopathic Parkinson’s disease	53
The quest for multiscale brain modeling	52
Extracellular Vesicles as an Emerging Frontier in Spinal Cord Injury Pathobiology and Therapy	52
Neurobiology of the lateral septum: regulation of social behavior	52
How Outcome Uncertainty Mediates Attention, Learning, and Decision-Making	51
The use of language in autism research	51
Modulating the Neuromodulators: Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Endocannabinoid System	51
Getting in Touch with Mechanical Pain Mechanisms	50
Proteome Homeostasis Dysfunction: A Unifying Principle in ALS Pathogenesis	49
Circular RNAs: The Brain Transcriptome Comes Full Circle	48
The paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus: an integrative node underlying homeostatic behavior	47
Autophagy in Neuronal Development and Plasticity	46
Dopamine ‘ups and downs’ in addiction revisited	46
Neurovascular coupling: motive unknown	46
Closing in on Mechanisms of Open Neural Tube Defects	46
The Tail of the Striatum: From Anatomy to Connectivity and Function	44
Brain cell type-specific cholesterol metabolism and implications for learning and memory	43

Calcium-dependent docking of synaptic vesicles	43
Mitochondria-lysosome contact site dynamics and misregulation in neurodegenerative diseases	42
How cancer hijacks the body’s homeostasis through the neuroendocrine system	42
50 years of mnemonic persistent activity: quo vadis?	42
Connecting TDP-43 Pathology with Neuropathy	42
Quiescent Neural Stem Cells for Brain Repair and Regeneration: Lessons from Model Systems	42
Noisy Synaptic Conductance: Bug or a Feature?	41
Olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19: new insights into the underlying mechanisms	41
Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Bilateral Communication between Glioblastoma and Astrocytes	40
Distributional Reinforcement Learning in the Brain	40
The Role of Astrocytes in Remyelination	40
Astrocyte and neuron cooperation in long-term depression	40
Macrophages on the margin: choroid plexus immune responses	39
Going beyond primary motor cortex to improve brain–computer interfaces	38
Entorhinal cortex dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease	37
Interbrain synchrony: on wavy ground	36
RNA N6-Methyladenosine and the Regulation of RNA Localization and Function in the Brain	36
Post-translational Modifications of Opioid Receptors	36
Cortical disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function	36
Walking with Salamanders: From Molecules to Biorobotics	36
Local cholesterol metabolism orchestrates remyelination	35
Regulation of GABAARs by Transmembrane Accessory Proteins	35
Insulin action in the brain: cell types, circuits, and diseases	33
Mitochondrial dysfunction as a trigger of programmed axon death	33
Using artificial neural networks to ask ‘why’ questions of minds and brains	32
Kalirin and Trio: RhoGEFs in Synaptic Transmission, Plasticity, and Complex Brain Disorders	32
Circuit-Based Biomarkers for Mood and Anxiety Disorders	32
Do Nicotinic Receptors Modulate High-Order Cognitive Processing?	32
Translational approaches to understanding resilience to Alzheimer’s disease	31
To look or not to look: dissociating presaccadic and covert spatial attention	31
Neural consequences of chronic sleep disruption	31
The foundation and architecture of precision medicine in neurology and psychiatry	31
Beneficial and detrimental functions of microglia during viral encephalitis	31
The emerging association between COVID-19 and acute stroke	30
Imaging Brain Metabolism Using Hyperpolarized 13C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	30
Mitochondrial signalling and homeostasis: from cell biology to neurological disease	30
The calcium-dependent protease calpain in neuronal remodeling and neurodegeneration	30
Impacts of Sleep Loss versus Waking Experience on Brain Plasticity: Parallel or Orthogonal?	30
Where is the error? Hierarchical predictive coding through dendritic error computation	30
Deep learning and the Global Workspace Theory	29
VPS10P Domain Receptors: Sorting Out Brain Health and Disease	29
Proteostatic regulation in neuronal compartments	29
Watch and Learn: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning from Others’ Actions	29
Mechanical Forces Orchestrate Brain Development	29
Resolving the Synaptic versus Developmental Dichotomy of Autism Risk Genes	29
Intercellular Communication in the Nervous System Goes Viral	28
Alcohol and the brain: from genes to circuits	28
Peripheral Innervation in the Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis	28
Hypothalamic Interactions with Large-Scale Neural Circuits Underlying Reinforcement Learning and Motivated Behavior	28
Drosophila Mechanosensory Transduction	27
Shedding Light on Chandelier Cell Development, Connectivity, and Contribution to Neural Disorders	27
Excitotoxicity Revisited: Mitochondria on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	26
α-Synuclein in synaptic function and dysfunction	26
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) agonism as a new treatment strategy for schizophrenia and related disorders	26
Deep entorhinal cortex: from circuit organization to spatial cognition and memory	26
Neural basis of prosocial behavior	26