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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	122
Editorial Board	73
Spinal nociceptive hypersensitivity induced by intramuscular capsaicin in rats subjected to multiple continuous stress	59
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	56
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	49
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	46
Individual electric field predicts functional connectivity changes after anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation in chronic stroke	43
Hippocampal volume reduction is associated with direct measure of insulin resistance in adults	41
Hemiplegic migraine type 2 with new mutation of the ATP1A2 gene in Japanese cases	41
Concordant pattern of the HPA axis response to visceral stimulation and CRH administration	37
Microglia modulate sleep/wakefulness under baseline conditions and under acute social defeat stress in adult mice	34
Cellular bases for reward-related dopamine actions	34
SUMOylation effects on neural stem cells self-renewal, differentiation, and survival	34
The Medaka approach to evolutionary social neuroscience	34
Conversion of silent synapses to AMPA receptor-mediated functional synapses in human cortical organoids	31
Neurochemical phenotypes of huntingtin-associated protein 1 in reference to secretomotor and vasodilator neurons in the submucosal plexuses of rodent small intestine	29
Neuroprotective role of calreticulin after spinal cord injury in mice	28
Future projections for mammalian whole-brain simulations based on technological trends in related fields	26
Large-scale foundation models and generative AI for BigData neuroscience	26
Neural mechanism of experience-dependent sensory gain control in C. elegans	26
IP3R1-dependent astrocyte calcium signaling in chronic itch	25
Zinc finger protein 501 maintains glioblastoma cell growth through enhancing Frizzled-6 expression	25
Deeper neural network models better reflect how humans cope with contrast variation in object recognition	24
Evidence for the involvement of caspases in establishing proper cerebrospinal fluid hydrodynamics	23
Kv3.1 channels regulate the rate of critical period plasticity	23

Potential mechanism of GABA secretion in response to the activation of GluK1-containing kainate receptors	23
New ways of studying subjective experience	22
Prediction error in dopamine neurons during associative learning	22
Transcranial direct current stimulation of the LTPJ shifts the agent’s behaviors in repeated hold-up game	22
Building neuroscience with adaptive circuit census	22
Bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide enhances synaptic transmission at low-output glutamatergic synapses	21
Reduced gray matter brain volume and cortical thickness in adults with type 1 diabetes and neuropathy	21
Developmental and postdevelopmental roles of septins in the brain	21
Early postural adjustments in cats during a reaching task reflect strategies to predict the forthcoming target location	20
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	19
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	19
Glutamatergic neurons from the medial prefrontal cortex to the dorsal raphe nucleus regulate maternal aggression in lactating mice	19
A practical guide for single-cell transcriptome data analysis in neuroscience	19
Young fecal microbiota transplantation improves working memory in aged recipient rats by increasing interleukin-4 and interleukin-17 levels	18
Gait rhythm analysis as a new continuous scale for cerebellar ataxia: Power law and lognormal components represent the ataxic gait quantity	18
Firing characteristics of swallowing interneurons in the dorsal medulla during physiologically induced swallowing in perfused brainstem preparation in rats	18
A deep learning algorithm for sleep stage scoring in mice based on a multimodal network with fine-tuning technique	17
Susceptibility to extinction and reinstatement of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference is related to differences in astrocyte cystine-glutamate antiporter content	17
Inference of monosynaptic connections from parallel spike trains: A review	17
Beta-band power modulation in the human amygdala during a Direct Reach arm reaching task	16
Sleep stage classification in EEG signals using the clustering approach based probability distribution features coupled with classification algorithms	15
“Scrap & build” functional circuits: Molecular and cellular basis of neural remodeling	15
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	15
Quantifying acute changes in neurometabolism following blast-induced traumatic brain injury	15
Characterization of pathological stages in a mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis	14
Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall	14
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	14
Focusing new light on brain functions: multiphoton microscopy for deep and super-resolution imaging	14
Transsynaptic activation of human lumbar spinal motoneurons by transvertebral magnetic stimulation	14
Proton-sensing receptor GPR132 facilitates migration of astrocytes	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
Postnatal development of the microstructure of cortical GABAergic synapses and perineuronal nets requires sensory input	13
Dynamic alpha-gamma phase-amplitude coupling signatures during sevoflurane-induced loss and recovery of consciousness	13
Influence of the descending pain-inhibiting serotonergic pathway on the antihyperalgesic effect of gabapentin in neuropathic pain model rats	13
Functional segregation and dynamic integration of the corticotectal descending signal in rat	13
Different properties of successful and error saccades in marmosets	13
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	13
Fixel-based analysis of the diffusion properties of the patients with brain injury and chronic health symptoms	13
Rat call-evoked electrocorticographic responses and intercortical phase synchrony impaired in a cytokine-induced animal model for schizophrenia	13
Lateralized local circuit tuning in female mouse auditory cortex	13
Editorial announcement – Nearing four decades of Neuroscience Research	13
Characterization of forehead blood flow bias on NIRS signals during neural activation with a verbal fluency task	13
Prolonged stress-induced depression-like behaviors in aged rats are mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in the hippocampus	13
Nociceptive chemical hypersensitivity in the spinal cord of a rat reserpine-induced fibromyalgia model	13
Imaging data analysis using non-negative matrix factorization	12
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	12
The microglia-blood vessel interactions in the developing brain	12
Olfactory dysfunction and face processing of social cognition in first-episode psychosis	12
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	12
In vivo analysis of aggregation propensity of low levels of mislocalized TDP-43 on cytopathological and behavioral phenotype of ALS/FTLD	12

Editorial: Does big data change neuroscience?	12
Editorial Board	12
Letting the little light of mind shine: Advances and future directions in neurochemical detection	11
Identification of epigenetically active L1 promoters in the human brain and their relationship with psychiatric disorders	11
Diet-induced dysbiosis of the maternal gut microbiome in early life programming of neurodevelopmental disorders	11
Sex moderates the association between the COMT Val158Met single-nucleotide polymorphism and disorderliness facet of novelty seeking	11
BAX regulates dendritic spine development via mitochondrial fusion	11
Clinical availability of eye movement during reading	11
Alternative strategy for driving voltage-oscillator in neocortex of rats	11
The role of astrocytes in behaviors related to emotion and motivation	11
Editorial Board	11
Effects of genome-wide neuroticism-associated variants on five-factor model personality traits in schizophrenia	11
The therapeutic role of SSEA3(+) human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells in ischemic stroke model	11
Flexible information representation to stabilize sensory perception despite minor external input variations	10
Frequency-dependent effects of EEG phase resetting on reaction time	10
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	10
Projections from the lowest thoracic and upper lumbar segments to the cerebellar cortex in the rat: An anterograde tracing study	10
Phldb2 is essential for regulating hippocampal dendritic spine morphology through drebrin in an adult-type isoform-specific manner	10
Delayed gramicidin delivery through an intra-pipette capillary facilitates perforated patch recordings	10
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	10
Metformin alleviates auditory cell senescence by mitophagy induction	9
Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets	9
Isoflurane effects on the N1 and other long-latency auditory evoked potentials in Wistar rats	9
Cognitive and hippocampal synaptic profiles in monosodium glutamate-induced obese mice	9
Neural substrates of choking under pressure: A 7T-fMRI study	9
Shank3a/b isoforms regulate the susceptibility to seizures and thalamocortical development in the early postnatal period of mice	9
Early life stress and altered social behaviors: A perspective across species	9
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	9
Pim1 kinase provides protection against high glucose-induced stress and apoptosis in cultured dorsal root ganglion neurons	9
Myelin plasticity modulates neural circuitry required for learning and behavior	9
Safety evaluations for transtympanic laser stimulation of the cochlea in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	9
Afferent and efferent connections of the nucleus posterior tuberis in the firemouth cichlid, Thorichthys meeki	9
Glial activation precedes alpha-synuclein pathology in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	9
Neural basis for estrous cycle-dependent control of female behaviors	8
Elucidation of molecular pathogenesis and drug development for psychiatric disorders from rare disease-susceptibility variants	8
Automatic detection of foot-strike onsets in a rhythmic forelimb movement	8
The way forward for neuroethics in Japan: A review of five topics surrounding present challenges	8
The regulation of circadian rhythm by insulin signaling in Drosophila	8
Markerless analysis of hindlimb kinematics in spinal cord-injured mice through deep learning	8
Editorial Board	8
Memory reactivations during sleep	8
Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain	8
Perivascular Hedgehog responsive cells play a critical role in peripheral nerve regeneration via controlling angiogenesis	8
Contribution of the retrosplenial cortex to route selection in a complex maze	8
Cortical nicotinic enhancement of tone-evoked heightened activities and subcortical nicotinic enlargement of activated areas in mouse auditory cortex	8
Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure	8
Purposive decision-making task in mice using touchscreen operant apparatus	8
Late-spiking retrosplenial cortical neurons are not synchronized with neocortical slow waves in anesthetized mice	8
Behavioral and histochemical characterization of sexually dimorphic responses to acute social isolation and reunion in mice	8
Modification of rectal function and emotion by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in humans	8
Neferine alleviates P2X3 receptor in rat dorsal root ganglia mediated neuropathic pain	8
New granule cells in the olfactory bulb are associated with high respiratory input in an enriched odor environment	8
Clozapine, nimodipine and endosulfan differentially suppress behavioral defects caused by gain-of-function mutations in a two-pore domain K+ channel (UNC-58)	7
Sleep, learning, and memory in human research using noninvasive neuroimaging techniques	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
Stagnation of glymphatic interstitial fluid flow and delay in waste clearance in the SOD1-G93A mouse model of ALS	7
Astrocytic and microglial interleukin-1β mediates complement C1q-triggered orofacial mechanical allodynia	7
Genetic labeling of axo-axonic cells in the basolateral amygdala	7
Corticostriatal contributions to dysregulated motivated behaviors in stress, depression, and substance use disorders	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
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	7
Anxiety control by astrocytes in the lateral habenula	7
Correlation between the reduction in hippocampal SirT2 expression and depressive-like behaviors and neurological abnormalities in olfactory bulbectomized mice	7
Frontoparietal theta tACS nonselectively enhances encoding, maintenance, and retrieval stages in visuospatial working memory	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
The cognitive reality monitoring network and theories of consciousness	7
Active inference leads to Bayesian neurophysiology	7
How to study subjective experience in an animal model of blindsight?	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
Difference in infantile mother preference is associated with adult anxiety/object recognition in C57BL/6 mice	7