Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Neuroscience 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Salty licorice taste receptor706
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories585
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience416
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit339
A myeloid trisomy 21-associated gene variant is protective from Alzheimer’s disease320
Alcohol’s necessary accessory297
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development287
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex268
Author Correction: Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development259
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping252
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation250
Author Correction: Encapsulated therapeutic stem cells implanted in the tumor resection cavity induce cell death in gliomas249
Amyloid-β-driven glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease model mice is driven by Ca2+-mediated increases in astrocytic cholesterol237
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons227
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning225
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex225
The choreography of cerebral vasculature development222
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep221
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience202
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development201
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex199
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape198
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)191
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks191
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance191
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration177
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling172
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex172
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment172
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control167
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus162
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease161
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy157
A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity152
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics147
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood147
Computational strategies for deliberative thought145
Guest star in OCD145
COVID-19 and brain aging142
How cancer and cortex collude141
Lessons from resilience139
Glioblastoma–neuron networks139
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states132
An organoid biobank for neurodevelopmental disorders129
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal129
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)129
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations128
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses128
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards125
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila125
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD125
CRISPRi screening in cultured human astrocytes uncovers distal enhancers controlling genes dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease124
Neuroimmune interferon signals sustain arthritis pain123
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning121
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences120
Astrocytes make room for microglia120
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy120
Screening for photoreceptor survival120
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology118
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs118
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity118
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease118
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization118
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing116
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD115
Aversion crosses over114
Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology114
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease113
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience113
Spatial proteomic analysis in human Alzheimer’s disease brains enables identification of microenvironment-dependent microglial cell states112
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis112
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia110
Large-scale drug screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients identifies a potential combinatorial therapy110
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons108
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice106
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy105
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes105
In conversation with Corey Harwell104
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease104
Cerebellar organoids get active102
Translation for transmission102
Real control in virtual rats101
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics101
Flipping APOE to reverse Alzheimer’s disease traits100
Commensals boost nerve regeneration99
Big data for classifying ASD98
Comparing primate cerebellums98
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain98
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys97
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice97
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates97
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging96
Dynamics of mature myelin96
Increased neural excitability and glioma synaptic activity drives glioma proliferation in human cortex95
Genetic targeting of premyelinating oligodendrocytes reveals activity-dependent myelination mechanisms93
Neuronal tuning aligns dynamically with object and texture manifolds across the visual hierarchy92
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time92
A glial circadian gene expression atlas reveals cell-type and disease-specific reprogramming in response to amyloid pathology or aging91
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit91
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery91
How to build a cognitive map90
In conversation with Carla Shatz90
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety90
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders90
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep89
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications89
Publisher Correction: Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals88
Author Correction: Autoimmune neuroinflammation leads to neuronal death via MIF nuclease-mediated parthanatos87
UBQLN2 links proteotoxicity with lipid metabolism in neurodegeneration87
Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement87
From pain to brain86
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience86
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis86
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision86
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia85
Considering biological limitations of lesion network mapping85
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis84
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research84
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance84
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model83
A fragile imbalance83
Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells82
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression81
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health81
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making80
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis79
TGFβ signaling mediates microglial resilience to spatiotemporally restricted myelin degeneration78
Charting brain morphology in international healthy and neurological populations77
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques77
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve77
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds76
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings76
Gonads drive the brain75
Complex topology meets simple statistics75
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons75
(Lost) gut feeling75
Rapid motor skill adjustment is associated with population-level modulation of cerebellar error signals74
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet74
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome73
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy73
Freezing forgetting in C. elegans to extend memory retention73
Estrogen dominance drives distinct patterns of brain plasticity73
Sleep cycles process memories73
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off72
Restoring sensation to prosthetics72
Liver-derived exercise factor boosts brain vasculature72
Mapping deep brain stimulation-modulated circuits via precision neuroimaging72
TDP-43 loss brings RNA to a twist ending71
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans71
A couple of couplings71
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates71
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories71
Base barrier cells provide compartmentalization of choroid plexus, brain and CSF70
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation70
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety70
Rapid temporal processing in the olfactory bulb underlies concentration-invariant odor identification and signal decorrelation70
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration69
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses69
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice68
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate68
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood67
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)67
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy67
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice66
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice65
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus65
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice65
Anorexia nervosa microbiota63
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF162
A very sexy circuit62
The eyes have it62
Salience in the raphe62
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience62
A common voice for neural data62
Resilient cortical maps61
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions61
Author Correction: Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain60
Stress and autophagy60
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex60
When protein turns toxic60
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance60
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram59
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time59
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition59
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking58
Astrocytic Ca2+ prevents synaptic depotentiation by limiting repetitive activity in dendrites during motor learning58
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia58
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons57
Corticothalamic communication for action coordination in a skilled motor behavior57
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain57
Persistent interferon signaling causes sensory neuron plasticity and pain before and during arthritis57
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation57
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation56
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps56
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons56
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow56
Convergent information flows explain recurring firing patterns in cerebral cortex55
The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex55
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation55
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex55
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface55
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics55
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development54
In conversation with Aniruddha Das54
Place fields illuminated54
Blood proteins control microglia54
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance53
Altruism and social rewards53
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution53
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence53
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment53
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes53
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations52
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning52
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution52
CRISPR screening by AAV episome-sequencing (CrAAVe-seq): a scalable cell-type-specific in vivo platform uncovers neuronal essential genes52
The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus52
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference52
Tirzepatide affects NAc activity and food preoccupation52
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function51
Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence51
Axonal Eif5a hypusination controls local translation and mitigates defects in FUS-ALS51
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification51
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway50
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making50
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice50
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery50
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila49
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience49
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD49
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit49
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS49
A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning49
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation49
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience49
A cholinergic auditory pathway49
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports49
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors48
The stop and go of glymphatic flow48
Together but opposites in reward48
Functionally diverse human insular architecture with memory-related hippocampal interactions48
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits47
Parallel gut-to-brain pathways orchestrate feeding behaviors47
Author Correction: A single-vector intersectional AAV strategy for interrogating cellular diversity and brain function47
An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates47
Microglia RANK as fertility regulators47
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception47
Author Correction: Dopamine projections to the basolateral amygdala drive the encoding of identity-specific reward memories47
AI predicts how brain injuries disrupt consciousness — and how to restore it once it’s disordered47
Orexin neurons track temporal features of blood glucose in behaving mice47
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