Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Neuroscience 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.)
ArticleCitations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy432
Salty licorice taste receptor425
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks420
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories392
Alcohol’s necessary accessory358
Maybe too much of a good thing in gene therapy342
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex290
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit268
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control265
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons264
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience252
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus232
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation215
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development214
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance212
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience187
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex187
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning186
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy185
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex184
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping184
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling177
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)175
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood174
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex170
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties163
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan161
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy161
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways158
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease156
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration155
Revisiting the neurovascular unit155
Guest star in OCD153
Computational strategies for deliberative thought151
COVID-19 and brain aging149
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome149
Lessons from resilience145
How cancer and cortex collude145
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal140
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis139
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)137
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience137
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)135
Aversion crosses over134
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements129
Glioblastoma–neuron networks127
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states126
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia126
A role for the cortex in sleep–wake regulation125
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations122
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses120
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards120
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice119
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons118
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila117
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity117
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization113
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs113
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect113
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience113
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition112
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease110
A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging108
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology106
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning105
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease104
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP103
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy103
In conversation with Corey Harwell102
Translation for transmission102
Cerebellar organoids get active102
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit102
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics101
Real control in virtual rats101
Commensals boost nerve regeneration99
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain99
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time96
Causal reductionism and causal structures95
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice94
Reduced sociability and social agency encoding in adult Shank3-mutant mice are restored through gene re-expression in real time92
Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement91
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice91
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin91
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury90
How to build a cognitive map90
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue89
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state89
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety89
Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders89
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys89
Dynamics of mature myelin87
In conversation with Carla Shatz86
Personalized EES for SCI86
A fragile imbalance86
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience85
Microglia set the pace for tau spread84
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep84
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders83
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons82
From pain to brain82
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance82
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research82
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia80
How the brain regulates its own immune system80
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications80
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health79
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision78
Re-conceptualizing domains in neuroscience, hopes and utopias aside78
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making78
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings77
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models77
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis76
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression76
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis75
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds74
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model74
Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways73
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve73
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques73
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis73
(Lost) gut feeling73
Complex topology meets simple statistics72
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice71
Gonads drive the brain71
Author Correction: Mapping microglia states in the human brain through the integration of high-dimensional techniques70
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet70
Refining the negative into general and specific70
Restoring sensation to prosthetics70
Author Correction: Disordered grids in the third dimension69
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy69
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off69
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories68
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses68
Silencing gut CCK cells alters gut reaction to sugar68
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice68
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate67
Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO)66
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice66
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation66
Divergent projections of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus mediate the selection of passive and active defensive behaviors65
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration65
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus65
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome65
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice64
Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains64
VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error64
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety64
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy64
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)64
Thalamic subnetworks as units of function62
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood62
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level61
Polygenic risk scores do not add value for predicting schizophrenia outcomes61
Salience in the raphe61
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF160
Single-nucleus sequencing finds no adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans60
A very sexy circuit60
Anorexia nervosa microbiota60
Adult neurogenesis is altered in neurodegenerative disease59
The eyes have it59
A common voice for neural data59
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions58
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience58
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics58
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram58
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons58
Stress and autophagy57
Magnetic resonance-based eye tracking using deep neural networks57
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance57
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex57
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia57
Serotonin and addiction prevention57
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons57
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation56
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex56
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface56
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain56
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation55
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking54
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain54
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps54
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation53
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition52
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow52
Blood proteins control microglia52
Coexpression network architecture reveals the brain-wide and multiregional basis of disease susceptibility52
Cortical interneurons in autism52
Fear learning induces α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated astrocytic responsiveness that is required for memory persistence52
Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior52
In conversation with Aniruddha Das52
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development51
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance51
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment51
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes50
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence50
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit50
Puberty reverses sex differences in learning50
Altruism and social rewards50
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD50
Place fields illuminated50
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports49
A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning49
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution49
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery49
Exome sequencing in obsessive–compulsive disorder reveals a burden of rare damaging coding variants49
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making48
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution48
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila48
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification48
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience47
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations47
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice46
Precisely timed theta oscillations are selectively required during the encoding phase of memory46
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function46
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation46
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway46
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience45
A cholinergic auditory pathway45
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS45
Adolescent sleep molds adult social preferences45
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference45
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits45
Impaired gut barrier affects microglia health45
Together but opposites in reward44
An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates44
Multimodal profiling of the transcriptional regulatory landscape of the developing mouse cortex identifies Neurog2 as a key epigenome remodeler44
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors44
Integrated cardio-behavioral responses to threat define defensive states43
The stop and go of glymphatic flow43
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception43
Norepinephrine links astrocytic activity to regulation of cortical state43
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine42
Causal role for the primate superior colliculus in the computation of evidence for perceptual decisions42
Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia42
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus42
Orexin neurons track temporal features of blood glucose in behaving mice42
Formalizing planning and information search in naturalistic decision-making41
Aerobic glycolysis is the predominant means of glucose metabolism in neuronal somata, which protects against oxidative damage41
Parallel gut-to-brain pathways orchestrate feeding behaviors41
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence41
Corticospinal populations broadcast complex motor signals to coordinated spinal and striatal circuits41
Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex41
Humans can intermittently respond to verbal stimuli when sleeping40
Sensory and behavioral modulation of thalamic head-direction cells40
Do all norepinephrine surges disrupt sleep?40
In conversation with Sonia Mayoral40
Author Correction: Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction40
It’s go time40
A basic role for glia in sleep homeostasis39
The kainate receptor GluK2 mediates cold sensing in mice39
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