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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy527
Salty licorice taste receptor495
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories421
Alcohol’s necessary accessory410
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex392
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance327
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control324
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience317
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy296
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics262
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping251
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex240
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation223
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy221
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons215
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development215
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling213
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape211
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus208
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development194
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)193
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks192
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning191
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex188
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit188
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease185
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan174
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration174
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience174
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex173
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood172
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties170
Guest star in OCD168
Computational strategies for deliberative thought165
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome152
COVID-19 and brain aging152
How cancer and cortex collude146
Lessons from resilience145
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements144
Glioblastoma–neuron networks142
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs140
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states140
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)139
Aversion crosses over136
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal135
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience131
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD131
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy130
Astrocytes make room for microglia128
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations128
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing126
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes125
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning122
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization122
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences122
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons122
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards121
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease118
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD115
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila114
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy113
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity113
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience112
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology111
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice109
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease107
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis107
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition107
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease104
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia102
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses102
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect101
In conversation with Corey Harwell100
Translation for transmission99
Cerebellar organoids get active98
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics98
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging97
Real control in virtual rats97
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time96
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery96
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice96
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety95
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit94
A glial circadian gene expression atlas reveals cell-type and disease-specific reprogramming in response to amyloid pathology or aging93
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain93
Big data for classifying ASD93
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates92
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury92
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state92
Dynamics of mature myelin92
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys91
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue89
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice89
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin87
How to build a cognitive map87
Commensals boost nerve regeneration87
A fragile imbalance86
In conversation with Carla Shatz85
Personalized EES for SCI85
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep84
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience84
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders83
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications83
Re-conceptualizing domains in neuroscience, hopes and utopias aside83
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis82
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision82
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance81
From pain to brain80
Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement80
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons80
How the brain regulates its own immune system79
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia79
Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells79
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds78
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making78
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis78
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings77
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression77
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research77
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model76
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models76
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health75
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques75
Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways74
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve74
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis73
(Lost) gut feeling73
Complex topology meets simple statistics73
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet72
Gonads drive the brain72
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice72
Author Correction: Mapping microglia states in the human brain through the integration of high-dimensional techniques71
Refining the negative into general and specific71
Sleep cycles process memories70
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans70
Silencing gut CCK cells alters gut reaction to sugar70
TDP-43 loss brings RNA to a twist ending70
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood69
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation69
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off69
Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains69
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome69
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy69
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration68
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus68
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate67
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level67
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses66
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy65
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus65
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)65
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety65
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice64
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice64
Restoring sensation to prosthetics64
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice64
Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO)64
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories63
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates62
Anorexia nervosa microbiota62
Thalamic subnetworks as units of function62
VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error62
A very sexy circuit61
Single-nucleus sequencing finds no adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans61
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience61
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons61
A common voice for neural data61
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF161
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions61
The eyes have it61
Salience in the raphe61
Resilient cortical maps61
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex60
Stress and autophagy60
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance60
Magnetic resonance-based eye tracking using deep neural networks59
Author Correction: Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain59
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex59
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation58
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation58
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time57
Cortical interneurons in autism57
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps57
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow57
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram57
Fear learning induces α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated astrocytic responsiveness that is required for memory persistence57
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons56
The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex56
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain56
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics56
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking55
Adult neurogenesis is altered in neurodegenerative disease55
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation55
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia55
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition54
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface54
Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior54
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain54
Blood proteins control microglia54
Astrocytic Ca2+ prevents synaptic depotentiation by limiting repetitive activity in dendrites during motor learning54
In conversation with Aniruddha Das53
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence52
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance52
Place fields illuminated52
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development52
Puberty reverses sex differences in learning51
Altruism and social rewards51
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila50
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes50
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports50
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD50
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution50
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification49
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice49
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit49
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway49
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation48
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution48
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference48
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making48
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations48
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning48
CRISPR screening by AAV episome-sequencing (CrAAVe-seq): a scalable cell-type-specific in vivo platform uncovers neuronal essential genes48
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS47
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery47
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience47
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment47
Adolescent sleep molds adult social preferences47
A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning47
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function47
Together but opposites in reward46
A cholinergic auditory pathway46
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience46
The stop and go of glymphatic flow45
Impaired gut barrier affects microglia health45
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors45
Integrated cardio-behavioral responses to threat define defensive states45
Functionally diverse human insular architecture with memory-related hippocampal interactions44
Norepinephrine links astrocytic activity to regulation of cortical state44
Orexin neurons track temporal features of blood glucose in behaving mice44
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus44
Author Correction: A single-vector intersectional AAV strategy for interrogating cellular diversity and brain function44
Parallel gut-to-brain pathways orchestrate feeding behaviors44
Corticospinal populations broadcast complex motor signals to coordinated spinal and striatal circuits43
Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex43
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception43
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence42
Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia42
An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates42
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine42
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