OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroscience Research is 7. 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
Time course of functional recovery after 1 cm sciatic nerve resection in rats with or without surgical intervention - measured by grip strength and locomotor activity	77
Spinal nociceptive hypersensitivity induced by intramuscular capsaicin in rats subjected to multiple continuous stress	63
Editorial Board	63
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	51
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	51
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	43
Hippocampal volume reduction is associated with direct measure of insulin resistance in adults	40
Conversion of silent synapses to AMPA receptor-mediated functional synapses in human cortical organoids	39
Cellular bases for reward-related dopamine actions	38
The Medaka approach to evolutionary social neuroscience	35
SUMOylation effects on neural stem cells self-renewal, differentiation, and survival	31
Projection-specific and reversible functional blockage in the association cortex of macaque monkeys	30
Hemiplegic migraine type 2 with new mutation of the ATP1A2 gene in Japanese cases	29
Large-scale foundation models and generative AI for BigData neuroscience	28
Individual electric field predicts functional connectivity changes after anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation in chronic stroke	27
Future projections for mammalian whole-brain simulations based on technological trends in related fields	27
Neuroprotective role of calreticulin after spinal cord injury in mice	26
Neurochemical phenotypes of huntingtin-associated protein 1 in reference to secretomotor and vasodilator neurons in the submucosal plexuses of rodent small intestine	26
Microglia modulate sleep/wakefulness under baseline conditions and under acute social defeat stress in adult mice	25
Zinc finger protein 501 maintains glioblastoma cell growth through enhancing Frizzled-6 expression	24
IP3R1-dependent astrocyte calcium signaling in chronic itch	23
Deeper neural network models better reflect how humans cope with contrast variation in object recognition	23
Potential mechanism of GABA secretion in response to the activation of GluK1-containing kainate receptors	22
Evidence for the involvement of caspases in establishing proper cerebrospinal fluid hydrodynamics	22
Prediction error in dopamine neurons during associative learning	21

New ways of studying subjective experience	21
Transcranial direct current stimulation of the LTPJ shifts the agent’s behaviors in repeated hold-up game	20
Neural mechanism of experience-dependent sensory gain control in C. elegans	20
Reduced gray matter brain volume and cortical thickness in adults with type 1 diabetes and neuropathy	20
Building neuroscience with adaptive circuit census	20
Editorial Board	20
Developmental and postdevelopmental roles of septins in the brain	19
A practical guide for single-cell transcriptome data analysis in neuroscience	19
Bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide enhances synaptic transmission at low-output glutamatergic synapses	19
Glutamatergic neurons from the medial prefrontal cortex to the dorsal raphe nucleus regulate maternal aggression in lactating mice	18
Susceptibility to extinction and reinstatement of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference is related to differences in astrocyte cystine-glutamate antiporter content	18
Sleep stage classification in EEG signals using the clustering approach based probability distribution features coupled with classification algorithms	17
A deep learning algorithm for sleep stage scoring in mice based on a multimodal network with fine-tuning technique	16
Gait rhythm analysis as a new continuous scale for cerebellar ataxia: Power law and lognormal components represent the ataxic gait quantity	16
Firing characteristics of swallowing interneurons in the dorsal medulla during physiologically induced swallowing in perfused brainstem preparation in rats	16
Quantifying acute changes in neurometabolism following blast-induced traumatic brain injury	16
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	16
Inference of monosynaptic connections from parallel spike trains: A review	16
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	16
Early postural adjustments in cats during a reaching task reflect strategies to predict the forthcoming target location	15
Young fecal microbiota transplantation improves working memory in aged recipient rats by increasing interleukin-4 and interleukin-17 levels	15
Transsynaptic activation of human lumbar spinal motoneurons by transvertebral magnetic stimulation	14
Neuroprotection by trans-resveratrol in rats with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)–induced retinal injury: Insights into the role of adenosine A1 receptors	14
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	14
Beta-band power modulation in the human amygdala during a Direct Reach arm reaching task	14
Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall	14
Proton-sensing receptor GPR132 facilitates migration of astrocytes	14
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	14
Focusing new light on brain functions: multiphoton microscopy for deep and super-resolution imaging	14
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	14
Influence of the descending pain-inhibiting serotonergic pathway on the antihyperalgesic effect of gabapentin in neuropathic pain model rats	13
The microglia-blood vessel interactions in the developing brain	13
Editorial announcement – Nearing four decades of Neuroscience Research	13
Characterization of pathological stages in a mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis	13
Different properties of successful and error saccades in marmosets	13
Fixel-based analysis of the diffusion properties of the patients with brain injury and chronic health symptoms	13
Postnatal development of the microstructure of cortical GABAergic synapses and perineuronal nets requires sensory input	13
Lateralized local circuit tuning in female mouse auditory cortex	13
Characterization of forehead blood flow bias on NIRS signals during neural activation with a verbal fluency task	13
Dynamic alpha-gamma phase-amplitude coupling signatures during sevoflurane-induced loss and recovery of consciousness	12
Long-lasting expression of FosB/ΔFosB immunoreactivity following acute stress in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the rat hypothalamus	12
Imaging data analysis using non-negative matrix factorization	12
Prolonged stress-induced depression-like behaviors in aged rats are mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in the hippocampus	12
Nociceptive chemical hypersensitivity in the spinal cord of a rat reserpine-induced fibromyalgia model	12
Editorial: Does big data change neuroscience?	12
Functional segregation and dynamic integration of the corticotectal descending signal in rat	12
In vivo analysis of aggregation propensity of low levels of mislocalized TDP-43 on cytopathological and behavioral phenotype of ALS/FTLD	12
The neurobiology of ticklishness	12
Effects of genome-wide neuroticism-associated variants on five-factor model personality traits in schizophrenia	11
Editorial Board	11

Clinical availability of eye movement during reading	11
Olfactory dysfunction and face processing of social cognition in first-episode psychosis	11
Alternative strategy for driving voltage-oscillator in neocortex of rats	11
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	11
Rat call-evoked electrocorticographic responses and intercortical phase synchrony impaired in a cytokine-induced animal model for schizophrenia	11
Letting the little light of mind shine: Advances and future directions in neurochemical detection	10
The therapeutic role of SSEA3(+) human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells in ischemic stroke model	10
Flexible information representation to stabilize sensory perception despite minor external input variations	10
Identification of epigenetically active L1 promoters in the human brain and their relationship with psychiatric disorders	10
BAX regulates dendritic spine development via mitochondrial fusion	10
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	10
Editorial Board	10
Sex moderates the association between the COMT Val158Met single-nucleotide polymorphism and disorderliness facet of novelty seeking	10
The role of astrocytes in behaviors related to emotion and motivation	10
Delayed gramicidin delivery through an intra-pipette capillary facilitates perforated patch recordings	10
Shank3a/b isoforms regulate the susceptibility to seizures and thalamocortical development in the early postnatal period of mice	9
Phldb2 is essential for regulating hippocampal dendritic spine morphology through drebrin in an adult-type isoform-specific manner	9
Metformin alleviates auditory cell senescence by mitophagy induction	9
Safety evaluations for transtympanic laser stimulation of the cochlea in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	9
Projections from the lowest thoracic and upper lumbar segments to the cerebellar cortex in the rat: An anterograde tracing study	9
Frequency-dependent effects of EEG phase resetting on reaction time	9
Early life stress and altered social behaviors: A perspective across species	9
Neural substrates of choking under pressure: A 7T-fMRI study	9
Song-related brain auditory activity in Bengalese finches as examined by immediate early gene expressions: Comparison of arousal states and the correlational analyses between brain regions	9
Isoflurane effects on the N1 and other long-latency auditory evoked potentials in Wistar rats	9
Synaptic plasticity induced by CA1 synaptic input with bursts superimposed on low-frequency rhythms	9
Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets	9
Neferine alleviates P2X3 receptor in rat dorsal root ganglia mediated neuropathic pain	8
The way forward for neuroethics in Japan: A review of five topics surrounding present challenges	8
New granule cells in the olfactory bulb are associated with high respiratory input in an enriched odor environment	8
Markerless analysis of hindlimb kinematics in spinal cord-injured mice through deep learning	8
Neural basis for estrous cycle-dependent control of female behaviors	8
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	8
Cortical nicotinic enhancement of tone-evoked heightened activities and subcortical nicotinic enlargement of activated areas in mouse auditory cortex	8
Perivascular Hedgehog responsive cells play a critical role in peripheral nerve regeneration via controlling angiogenesis	8
Pim1 kinase provides protection against high glucose-induced stress and apoptosis in cultured dorsal root ganglion neurons	8
Cognitive and hippocampal synaptic profiles in monosodium glutamate-induced obese mice	8
Editorial Board	8
Afferent and efferent connections of the nucleus posterior tuberis in the firemouth cichlid, Thorichthys meeki	8
Contribution of the retrosplenial cortex to route selection in a complex maze	8
The regulation of circadian rhythm by insulin signaling in Drosophila	8
Corrigendum to “Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall” [Neurosci. Res. 212 (2025) 75–83]	8
Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure	8
Glial activation precedes alpha-synuclein pathology in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	8
Behavioral and histochemical characterization of sexually dimorphic responses to acute social isolation and reunion in mice	8
Automatic detection of foot-strike onsets in a rhythmic forelimb movement	7
Porphyrins ameliorate spinocerebellar ataxia type 36 GGCCTG repeat expansion-mediated cytotoxicity	7
Notch1 and Notch2 collaboratively maintain radial glial cells in mouse neurogenesis	7
A systematic study of changes in monoamine neurotransmitters in the rat brain following acute administration of alpha-methyltryptamine (AMT), 5-methoxy-alpha-methyltryptamine (5-MeO-AMT) and 5-methoxy	7
Coexpression of calcineurin A and B subunits in various subcellular and synaptic compartments of cerebellar neurons and glia with particular abundance at parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses	7
Administration of amyloid-β oligomer to the buccal ganglia may reduce food intake and cholinergic synaptic responses within the feeding neural circuit in Aplysia kurodai	7
Clozapine, nimodipine and endosulfan differentially suppress behavioral defects caused by gain-of-function mutations in a two-pore domain K+ channel (UNC-58)	7
Late-spiking retrosplenial cortical neurons are not synchronized with neocortical slow waves in anesthetized mice	7
Sleep, learning, and memory in human research using noninvasive neuroimaging techniques	7
Memory reactivations during sleep	7
Stagnation of glymphatic interstitial fluid flow and delay in waste clearance in the SOD1-G93A mouse model of ALS	7
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	7
Astrocytic and microglial interleukin-1β mediates complement C1q-triggered orofacial mechanical allodynia	7
Correlation between the reduction in hippocampal SirT2 expression and depressive-like behaviors and neurological abnormalities in olfactory bulbectomized mice	7
Anxiety control by astrocytes in the lateral habenula	7
Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain	7
Purposive decision-making task in mice using touchscreen operant apparatus	7
Elucidation of molecular pathogenesis and drug development for psychiatric disorders from rare disease-susceptibility variants	7
The cognitive reality monitoring network and theories of consciousness	7
Genetic labeling of axo-axonic cells in the basolateral amygdala	7
How to study subjective experience in an animal model of blindsight?	7
Active inference leads to Bayesian neurophysiology	7