OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is 8. 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
Resistance, vulnerability and resilience: A review of the cognitive cerebellum in aging and neurodegenerative diseases	62
A predictive account of how novelty influences declarative memory	40
Generalization and the hippocampus: More than one story?	35
The role of intrinsic excitability in the evolution of memory: Significance in memory allocation, consolidation, and updating	31
Stress & executive functioning: A review considering moderating factors	28
Left lateral parietal rTMS improves cognition and modulates resting brain connectivity in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: Possible role of BDNF and oxidative stress	28
Cerebellum and cognition: Does the rodent cerebellum participate in cognitive functions?	26
Guanfacine’s mechanism of action in treating prefrontal cortical disorders: Successful translation across species	26
Midbrain circuits of novelty processing	24
The critical role of the hippocampal NLRP3 inflammasome in social isolation-induced cognitive impairment in male mice	23
Males and females differ in the regulation and engagement of, but not requirement for, protein degradation in the amygdala during fear memory formation	23
Amygdala-hippocampal interactions in synaptic plasticity and memory formation	23
Expectation-driven novelty effects in episodic memory	22
GLP-1R activation ameliorated novel-object recognition memory dysfunction via regulating hippocampal AMPK/NF-κB pathway in neuropathic pain mice	22
The role of neuronal excitability, allocation to an engram and memory linking in the behavioral generation of a false memory in mice	21
Inhibition of brain 17β-estradiol synthesis by letrozole induces cognitive decline in male and female rats	20
Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus represent strategic context even while simultaneously changing representation throughout a task session	20
Improving cognitive functioning in major depressive disorder with psychedelics: A dimensional approach	20
Prefrontal oscillations modulate the propagation of neuronal activity required for working memory	20
Neurotrophins as a reliable biomarker for brain function, structure and cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
The role of hippocampal mossy cells in novelty detection	18
Touchscreen cognitive testing: Cross-species translation and co-clinical trials in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease	17
Effect of chronic sleep deprivation and sleep recovery on hippocampal CA3 neurons, spatial memory and anxiety-like behavior in rats	17
Role of Wnt signaling in synaptic plasticity and memory	17
A brief period of sleep deprivation negatively impacts the acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval of object-location memories	17

Aging is not equal across memory systems	17
The effects of offline and online prefrontal vs parietal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on verbal and spatial working memory	17
Sodium butyrate as a selective cognitive enhancer for weak or impaired memory	16
Failures of memory and the fate of forgotten memories	16
Evidence for two distinct thalamocortical circuits in retrosplenial cortex	16
Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus controls fear memory reconsolidation	15
Encoding and consolidation of motor sequence learning in young and older adults	15
Timing matters: Transcranial direct current stimulation after extinction learning impairs subsequent fear extinction retention	15
The diversity of linkage-specific polyubiquitin chains and their role in synaptic plasticity and memory formation	15
The separate and combined properties of the granular (area 29) and dysgranular (area 30) retrosplenial cortex	15
Beyond the hippocampus: The role of parahippocampal-prefrontal communication in context-modulated behavior	14
Whole-body procedural learning benefits from targeted memory reactivation in REM sleep and task-related dreaming	14
Effects of active exploration on novelty-related declarative memory enhancement	14
Contextual source information modulates neural face processing in the absence of conscious recognition: A threat-of-shock study	14
Extended amygdala circuits are differentially activated by context fear conditioning in male and female rats	14
New functions of the rodent prelimbic and infralimbic cortex in instrumental behavior	14
Ceftriaxone regulates glutamate production and vesicular assembly in presynaptic terminals through GLT-1 in APP/PS1 mice	13
Interactions between prelimbic cortex and basolateral amygdala contribute to morphine-induced conditioned taste aversion in conditioning and extinction	13
The effects of adolescent alcohol exposure on learning and related neurobiology in humans and rodents	13
miRNA-324/-133a essential for recruiting new synapse innervations and associative memory cells in coactivated sensory cortices	13
Persistence of the extinction of fear memory requires late-phase cAMP/PKA signaling in the infralimbic cortex	13
Interactions between the hippocampus and the auditory pathway	12
Autonomic/central coupling benefits working memory in healthy young adults	12
Elevated fear responses to threatening cues in rats with early life stress is associated with greater excitability and loss of gamma oscillations in ventral-medial prefrontal cortex	12
Age- and sex-specific fear conditioning deficits in mice lacking Pcdh10, an Autism Associated Gene	11
Working memory load modulates oscillatory activity and the distribution of fast frequencies across frontal theta phase during working memory maintenance	11
Thalamic nucleus reuniens regulates fear memory destabilization upon retrieval	11
Enhanced conditioning of adverse memories in the mouse modified swim test is associated with neuroinflammatory changes – Effects that are susceptible to antidepressants	11
Neural repetition suppression effects in the human hippocampus	11
Irradiation increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor precursor signaling in the mouse hippocampus	11
Higher post-encoding cortisol benefits the selective consolidation of emotional aspects of memory	11
Neural synchronization between the anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortices during effort-based decision making	11
Long-term changes in metabolic brain network drive memory impairments in rats following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia	11
Consolidation and generalisation across sleep depend on individual EEG factors and sleep spindle density	11
The posterior insular cortex is necessary for the consolidation of tone fear conditioning	11
Far from the nuclear crowd: Cytoplasmic lncRNA and their implications in synaptic plasticity and memory	11
Improving consolidation by applying anodal transcranial direct current stimulation at primary motor cortex during repetitive practice	11
Acute vagus nerve stimulation enhances reversal learning in rats	11
Ventral hippocampus mediates the context-dependence of two-way signaled avoidance in male rats	11
Prefrontal cortex VAMP1 gene network moderates the effect of the early environment on cognitive flexibility in children	10
Exposure to elevated embryonic kynurenine in rats: Sex-dependent learning and memory impairments in adult offspring	10
Classical music, educational learning, and slow wave sleep: A targeted memory reactivation experiment	10
Amnesia for context fear is caused by widespread disruption of hippocampal activity	10
Selective activation of the right hippocampus during navigation by spatial cues in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus)	10
Histone H2A.Z is required for androgen receptor-mediated effects on fear memory	10
Prelimbic input to basolateral amygdala facilitates the acquisition of trace cued fear memory under weak training conditions	10
Increased dynamic flexibility in the medial temporal lobe network following an exercise intervention mediates generalization of prior learning	10
Intrinsic plasticity and birdsong learning	10
Transcranial alternating current stimulation at theta frequency to left parietal cortex impairs associative, but not perceptual, memory encoding	10
Deep brain stimulation and cognition: Translational aspects	10

Functional interaction of ventral hippocampal CA1 region and prelimbic cortex contributes to the encoding of contextual fear association of stimuli separated in time	10
Degradation of an appetitive olfactory memory via devaluation of sugar reward is mediated by 5-HT signaling in the honey bee	10
Sleep deprivation directly following eyeblink-conditioning impairs memory consolidation	10
Sleep to remember, sleep to forget: Rapid eye movement sleep can have inverse effects on recall and generalization of fear memories	10
The circadian clock gene Per1 modulates context fear memory formation within the retrosplenial cortex in a sex-specific manner	9
Retrograde and anterograde contextual fear amnesia induced by selective elimination of layer IV-Va neurons in the granular retrosplenial cortex (A29)	9
Survival of the salient: Aversive learning rescues otherwise forgettable memories via neural reactivation and post-encoding hippocampal connectivity	9
Inactivation of the striatum in aged rats rescues their ability to learn a hippocampus-sensitive spatial navigation task	9
Using EEG microstates to examine post-encoding quiet rest and subsequent word-pair memory	9
Optogenetic inhibition of either the anterior or posterior retrosplenial cortex disrupts retrieval of a trace, but not delay, fear memory	9
Integrity of the uncinate fasciculus is associated with emotional pattern separation-related fMRI signals in the hippocampal dentate and CA3	9
Time to learn: The role of the molecular circadian clock in learning and memory	9
Conditional knockout of MET receptor tyrosine kinase in cortical excitatory neurons leads to enhanced learning and memory in young adult mice but early cognitive decline in older adult mice	9
Systemic HDAC3 inhibition ameliorates impairments in synaptic plasticity caused by simulated galactic cosmic radiation exposure in male mice	9
Sexually dimorphic muscarinic acetylcholine receptor modulation of contextual fear learning in the dentate gyrus	9
Motor learning rapidly increases synaptogenesis and astrocytic structural plasticity in the rat cerebellum	9
The role of L-type calcium channels in neuronal excitability and aging	9
Consequence of stroke for feature recall and binding in visual working memory	9
Encoding-linked pupil response is modulated by expected and unexpected novelty: Implications for memory formation and neurotransmission	9
Habituation in high-throughput genetic model organisms as a tool to investigate the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders	9
No benefit of auditory closed-loop stimulation on memory for semantically-incongruent associations	9
Frontal cortex stroke-induced impairment in spatial working memory on the trial-unique nonmatching-to-location task in mice	9
Prefrontal but not cerebellar tDCS attenuates renewal of extinguished conditioned eyeblink responses	9
IQGAP1/ERK regulates fear memory formation via histone posttranslational modifications induced by HDAC2	8
Early-life stress is associated with a preponderance of habitual responding in a novel instrumental avoidance learning paradigm	8
Medial entorhinal cortex lesions produce delay-dependent disruptions in memory for elapsed time	8
Human-induced pluripotent stem cells as a model for studying sporadic Alzheimer’s disease	8
Dual projecting cells linking thalamic and cortical communication routes between the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus	8
Repeated mild traumatic brain injuries impair visual discrimination learning in adolescent mice	8
Impaired cerebellar plasticity and eye-blink conditioning in calpain-1 knock-out mice	8
Spatial context and the functional role of the postrhinal cortex	8
NMDA receptors in the CeA and BNST differentially regulate fear conditioning to predictable and unpredictable threats	8
Delaying feedback compensates for impaired reinforcement learning in developmental dyslexia	8
Role of noradrenergic arousal for fear extinction processes in rodents and humans	8
Examining a role for the retrosplenial cortex in age-related memory impairment	8
Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling	8
Deepened sleep makes hippocampal spatial memory more persistent	8
On the role of the dopaminergic system in the memory deficits induced by maternal deprivation	8
Cannabinoid agonist administration within the cerebellar cortex impairs motor learning	8
The effects of acute Cannabis smoke or Δ9-THC injections on the trial-unique, nonmatching-to-location and five-choice serial reaction time tasks in male Long-Evans rats	8
Pharmacological inhibition of phosphodiesterase 7 enhances consolidation processes of spatial memory	8