OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Neurobiology is 16. 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
Perceptual hue, lightness, and chroma are represented in a multidimensional functional anatomical map in macaque V1	174
Replicating infant-specific reactive astrocyte functions in the injured adult brain	154
Opposing effects of nicotine on hypothalamic arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neurons	122
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Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli	94
Voltage-gated calcium channels contribute to spontaneous glutamate release directly via nanodomain coupling or indirectly via calmodulin	87
Loss of TDP-43 promotes somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice	85
Uncovering and leveraging the return of voluntary motor programs after paralysis using a bi-cortical neuroprosthesis	76
Trigeminal nerve stimulation restores hippocampal dopamine deficiency to promote cognitive recovery in traumatic brain injury	75
Signal peptide peptidase-like 2b modulates the amyloidogenic pathway and exhibits an Aβ-dependent expression in Alzheimer's disease	74
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Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala	58
Injury to thalamocortical projections following traumatic brain injury results in attractor dynamics for cortical networks	58
Using high spatial resolution fMRI to understand representation in the auditory network	57
Immune response in retinal degenerative diseases – Time to rethink?	55
A common neural code for representing imagined and inferred tastes	54
Emergence of abstract sound representations in the ascending auditory system	53
Loss of glycine receptors in the nucleus accumbens and ethanol reward in an Alzheimer´s Disease mouse model	52
A tradeoff between efficiency and robustness in the hippocampal-neocortical memory network during human and rodent sleep	51
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Manipulation of radixin phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens core modulates risky choice behavior	49
ERO1A inhibition mitigates neuronal ER stress and ameliorates UBQLN2ALS phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster	46

Pax3 induces target-specific reinnervation through axon collateral expression of PSA-NCAM	44
A molecularly defined orbitofrontal cortical neuron population controls compulsive-like behavior, but not inflexible choice or habit	43
Sodium leak channel contributes to neuronal sensitization in neuropathic pain	42
The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in Alzheimer’s disease: From pathophysiology to therapeutic approaches	41
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Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease	38
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Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals ECM remodeling-tumor stiffness-FAK as a key driver of vestibular schwannoma progression	37
Auditory decisions in the supplementary motor area	37
Decoding stress granules dynamics: Implications for neurodegenerative disease	36
Partial reprogramming by cyclical overexpression of Yamanaka factors improves pathological phenotypes of tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease	36
Selective optogenetic stimulation of glutamatergic, but not GABAergic, vestibular nuclei neurons induces immediate and reversible postural imbalance in mice	35
α-synuclein aggregates induce c-Abl activation and dopaminergic neuronal loss by a feed-forward redox stress mechanism	34
Plexin-A4 mediates amyloid-β–induced tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease animal model	34
Astrocytic AT1R deficiency ameliorates Aβ-induced cognitive deficits and synaptotoxicity through β-arrestin2 signaling	33
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	33
Mesoscale organization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways in macaque monkey revealed by 7T fMRI	33
Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detection and regeneration	32
Extracellular vesicles as reconfigurable therapeutics for eye diseases: Promises and hurdles	32
Microproteins encoded by short open reading frames: Vital regulators in neurological diseases	32
NPTX2 transfection improves synaptic E/I balance and performance in learning impaired aged rats	31
The multifaceted role of the CXC chemokines and receptors signaling axes in ALS pathophysiology	31
Astrocytic EphB3 receptors regulate d-serine-gated synaptic plasticity and memory	31
Role of extracellular vesicles in neurodegenerative diseases	30
c-Abl regulates a synaptic plasticity-related transcriptional program involved in memory and learning	30
Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment	30
Traumatic brain injury recapitulates developmental changes of axons	30
The omnipresence of autonomic modulation in health and disease	29
New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro- and microstructural MRI findings	29
The Celsr3-Kif2a axis directs neuronal migration in the postnatal brain	29
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The fasciola cinereum subregion of the hippocampus is important for the acquisition of visual contextual memory	28
Alterations of synaptic plasticity in Angelman syndrome model mice are rescued by 5-HT7R stimulation	28
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Neuroimmune interactions and immunoengineering strategies in peripheral nerve repair	27
Functional organization of spatial frequency tuning in macaque V1 revealed with two-photon calcium imaging	27
Imaging faster neural dynamics with fast fMRI: A need for updated models of the hemodynamic response	27
Neuronal threshold functions: Determining symptom onset in neurological disorders	27
Cortical connectivity is embedded in resting state at columnar resolution	27
Neuronal activity and NIBS in developmental myelination and remyelination – Current state of knowledge	26
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Negative effects of brain regulatory T cells depletion on epilepsy	26
The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning	26
Optogenetic stimulation of CA3 pyramidal neurons restores synaptic deficits to improve spatial short-term memory in APP/PS1 mice	25
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Configuration-sensitive face-body interactions in primate visual cortex	25
HIV infection of astrocytes compromises inter-organelle interactions and inositol phosphate metabolism: A potential mechanism of bystander damage and viral reservoir survival	25
Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control	25
Atypical connectome topography and signal flow in temporal lobe epilepsy	25
Transient beta activity and cortico-muscular connectivity during sustained motor behaviour	24

ATP and adenosine—Two players in the control of seizures and epilepsy development	24
Mutant FUS induces chromatin reorganization in the hippocampus and alters memory processes	24
Circadian medicine for aging attenuation and sleep disorders: Prospects and challenges	23
Macaque V1 responses to 2nd-order contrast-modulated stimuli and the possible subcortical and cortical contributions	23
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The role of circadian rhythm in choroid plexus functions	22
Ketamine administration during adolescence impairs synaptic integration and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the adult dentate gyrus	22
Astrocytic GluN2A alleviates sleep deprivation-induced elevation of Aβ through regulating neprilysin and AQP4 via the calcineurin/NFAT pathway	22
Emerging role of astrocytes in oxytocin-mediated control of neural circuits and brain functions	20
Causal manipulation of gaze-following in the macaque temporal cortex	20
Pathogenic oligomeric Tau alters neuronal RNA processes through the formation of nuclear heteromeric amyloids with RNA-binding protein Musashi1	19
Visualization of differential GPCR crosstalk in DRD1-DRD2 heterodimer upon different dopamine levels	19
Statistical power or more precise insights into neuro-temporal dynamics? Assessing the benefits of rapid temporal sampling in fMRI	19
Multiple dimensions of syntactic structure are resolved earliest in posterior temporal cortex	19
Supporting generalization in non-human primate behavior by tapping into structural knowledge: Examples from sensorimotor mappings, inference, and decision-making	19
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Inhibition of death-associated protein kinase 1 attenuates cis P-tau and neurodegeneration in traumatic brain injury	18
Neuropathic pain modeling: Focus on synaptic and ion channel mechanisms	18
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Kv1.1 channels inhibition in the rat motor cortex recapitulates seizures associated with anti-LGI1 encephalitis	18
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression	18
Recurrent de novo single point variant on the gene encoding Na+/K+ pump results in epilepsy	18
Digging into the intrinsic capacity concept: Can it be applied to Alzheimer’s disease?	17
The role of altered translation in intellectual disability and epilepsy	17
The role of TREM2 in myelin sheath dynamics: A comprehensive perspective from physiology to pathology	17
DJ-1 in neurodegenerative diseases: Pathogenesis and clinical application	17
How pushing the spatiotemporal resolution of fMRI can advance neuroscience	17
Analogous cognitive strategies for tactile learning in the rodent and human brain	16
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Face pareidolia minimally engages macaque face selective neurons	16
Breaking the boundaries of interacting with the human brain using adaptive closed-loop stimulation	16
An evolutionary conserved division-of-labor between archicortical and neocortical ripples organizes information transfer during sleep	16
Expanding the stimulus domain: Co-occurrence of motion and body-category selectivity in the macaque ventral STS	16
Maladaptive reorganization following SCI: The role of body representation and multisensory integration	16
Activation of neuronal FLT3 promotes exaggerated sensorial and emotional pain-related behaviors facilitating the transition from acute to chronic pain	16
Dysregulation of alternative splicing underlies synaptic defects in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	16
Higher and deeper: Bringing layer fMRI to association cortex	16
Islet amyloid polypeptide triggers α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson’s disease	16
Tau promotes oxidative stress-associated cycling neurons in S phase as a pro-survival mechanism: Possible implication for Alzheimer’s disease	16
Constraints on persistent activity in a biologically detailed network model of the prefrontal cortex with heterogeneities	16
Early top-down control of internal selection induced by retrospective cues in visual working memory: advantage of peripheral over central cues	16