Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Neuroscience is 35. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy465
Salty licorice taste receptor450
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks442
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories438
Alcohol’s necessary accessory382
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)376
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex328
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit290
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons288
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus278
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy276
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex246
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control230
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy222
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance217
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development201
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling201
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration199
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience198
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties194
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation193
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex192
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping188
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease180
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience178
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex177
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways177
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan174
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning169
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood169
Revisiting the neurovascular unit164
Guest star in OCD161
Computational strategies for deliberative thought160
COVID-19 and brain aging157
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome157
How cancer and cortex collude156
Lessons from resilience151
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal146
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs142
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience141
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)140
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)138
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements134
Aversion crosses over134
Glioblastoma–neuron networks132
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states132
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila131
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences131
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience130
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy128
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning127
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations127
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis126
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia123
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards121
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease121
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology120
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons119
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition116
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy114
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization114
A role for the cortex in sleep–wake regulation113
A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging112
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease111
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity111
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect110
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses110
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice108
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP108
Translation for transmission107
Cerebellar organoids get active107
Causal reductionism and causal structures106
In conversation with Corey Harwell106
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue105
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state105
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury100
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys100
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice99
How to build a cognitive map99
Real control in virtual rats97
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain97
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics97
Commensals boost nerve regeneration96
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time95
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety94
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice92
Dynamics of mature myelin92
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin91
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit91
Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement90
A fragile imbalance89
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience88
In conversation with Carla Shatz88
Personalized EES for SCI88
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep87
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia86
Microglia set the pace for tau spread86
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research85
How the brain regulates its own immune system85
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders84
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance84
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications83
From pain to brain83
Re-conceptualizing domains in neuroscience, hopes and utopias aside82
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making81
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds81
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision80
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons79
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve79
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis78
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models78
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis78
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health78
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression77
Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways77
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings77
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model77
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis77
(Lost) gut feeling76
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques76
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet75
Gonads drive the brain75
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice75
Complex topology meets simple statistics75
Restoring sensation to prosthetics74
VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error73
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation73
Divergent projections of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus mediate the selection of passive and active defensive behaviors72
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus72
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration72
Author Correction: Mapping microglia states in the human brain through the integration of high-dimensional techniques71
Refining the negative into general and specific71
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates70
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice70
Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains70
Author Correction: Disordered grids in the third dimension70
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories69
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy69
Silencing gut CCK cells alters gut reaction to sugar69
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans69
Sleep cycles process memories69
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off68
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood67
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses67
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice66
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate66
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice66
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)66
Thalamic subnetworks as units of function65
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus65
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome64
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level64
Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO)63
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety63
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy63
Polygenic risk scores do not add value for predicting schizophrenia outcomes62
Anorexia nervosa microbiota62
Salience in the raphe62
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF162
Single-nucleus sequencing finds no adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans61
A very sexy circuit61
A common voice for neural data61
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons60
The eyes have it60
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics60
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience59
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions59
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow58
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance58
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex58
Stress and autophagy58
Serotonin and addiction prevention58
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain57
Resilient cortical maps57
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation57
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram57
Adult neurogenesis is altered in neurodegenerative disease57
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time56
Magnetic resonance-based eye tracking using deep neural networks56
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
Fear learning induces α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated astrocytic responsiveness that is required for memory persistence55
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation55
The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex55
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface55
Cortical interneurons in autism54
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
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia53
Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior53
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex53
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition53
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation53
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development52
In conversation with Aniruddha Das52
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance52
Blood proteins control microglia52
Puberty reverses sex differences in learning51
Place fields illuminated51
Altruism and social rewards51
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence51
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations50
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes50
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution50
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment50
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports49
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery49
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation49
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience49
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD49
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution49
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice48
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit48
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference48
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila48
A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning48
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience47
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway47
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification47
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS47
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making47
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function47
Precisely timed theta oscillations are selectively required during the encoding phase of memory47
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits45
A cholinergic auditory pathway45
Impaired gut barrier affects microglia health45
Adolescent sleep molds adult social preferences45
The stop and go of glymphatic flow44
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus44
Together but opposites in reward44
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors44
Integrated cardio-behavioral responses to threat define defensive states43
Multimodal profiling of the transcriptional regulatory landscape of the developing mouse cortex identifies Neurog2 as a key epigenome remodeler43
Parallel gut-to-brain pathways orchestrate feeding behaviors43
Functionally diverse human insular architecture with memory-related hippocampal interactions43
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception43
Orexin neurons track temporal features of blood glucose in behaving mice43
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence42
An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates42
Corticospinal populations broadcast complex motor signals to coordinated spinal and striatal circuits42
Aerobic glycolysis is the predominant means of glucose metabolism in neuronal somata, which protects against oxidative damage42
Norepinephrine links astrocytic activity to regulation of cortical state42
Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia42
Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex42
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine41
Author Correction: Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction41
It’s go time41
Humans can intermittently respond to verbal stimuli when sleeping41
Do all norepinephrine surges disrupt sleep?41
In conversation with Sonia Mayoral40
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