Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Neuroscience is 39. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Salty licorice taste receptor769
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories446
A myeloid trisomy 21-associated gene variant is protective from Alzheimer’s disease370
Alcohol’s necessary accessory337
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape323
Author Correction: Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development304
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation284
Author Correction: Encapsulated therapeutic stem cells implanted in the tumor resection cavity induce cell death in gliomas277
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons277
The choreography of cerebral vasculature development274
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience266
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex260
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)254
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep240
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment238
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience217
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development215
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance211
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy210
Amyloid-β-driven glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease model mice is driven by Ca2+-mediated increases in astrocytic cholesterol206
A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity197
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control193
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development181
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning176
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics175
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit170
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus161
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration159
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping158
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood156
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks156
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex152
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease149
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex146
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling145
Guest star in OCD143
Computational strategies for deliberative thought141
COVID-19 and brain aging141
How cancer and cortex collude140
Lessons from resilience140
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states139
Glioblastoma–neuron networks139
An organoid biobank for neurodevelopmental disorders138
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal136
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)136
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila135
Screening for photoreceptor survival133
Astrocytes make room for microglia130
Neuroimmune interferon signals sustain arthritis pain130
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD128
Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology127
Aversion crosses over126
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing125
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience125
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations124
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease123
Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus121
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity121
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia120
Spatial proteomic analysis in human Alzheimer’s disease brains enables identification of microenvironment-dependent microglial cell states119
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses119
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs118
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice118
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning117
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences116
Microglial TDP-43 mediates myelin refinement and represses Tyrobp cryptic exon inclusion in mice115
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization114
CRISPRi screening in cultured human astrocytes uncovers distal enhancers controlling genes dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease113
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes113
Large-scale drug screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients identifies a potential combinatorial therapy112
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease112
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease112
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy111
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis110
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards109
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD108
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology108
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy108
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons107
In conversation with Corey Harwell105
Translation for transmission104
Cerebellar organoids get active102
Real control in virtual rats101
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics101
Publisher Correction: TGFβ signaling mediates microglial resilience to spatiotemporally restricted myelin degeneration100
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit100
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain99
Neuronal tuning aligns dynamically with object and texture manifolds across the visual hierarchy98
Flipping APOE to reverse Alzheimer’s disease traits97
Big data for classifying ASD97
Commensals boost nerve regeneration96
Increased neural excitability and glioma synaptic activity drives glioma proliferation in human cortex95
Comparing primate cerebellums95
Genetic targeting of premyelinating oligodendrocytes reveals activity-dependent myelination mechanisms94
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time93
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery93
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates93
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety93
Dynamics of mature myelin91
A glial circadian gene expression atlas reveals cell-type and disease-specific reprogramming in response to amyloid pathology or aging91
How to build a cognitive map91
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders90
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice90
In conversation with Carla Shatz90
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging90
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 individuals89
From pain to brain88
Author Correction: Autoimmune neuroinflammation leads to neuronal death via MIF nuclease-mediated parthanatos88
Considering biological limitations of lesion network mapping87
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds87
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making87
Cerebrovascular vulnerability and fibrosis in human brain aneurysms85
TGFβ signaling mediates microglial resilience to spatiotemporally restricted myelin degeneration84
Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement83
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research83
Oxytocin promotes socially triggered cataplexy83
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia82
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis82
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis82
UBQLN2 links proteotoxicity with lipid metabolism in neurodegeneration81
Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells81
Mitochondrial stress response drives microglial senescence81
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision81
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis80
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience80
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression80
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance79
Charting brain morphology in international healthy and neurological populations79
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings78
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model78
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health77
Complex topology meets simple statistics77
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons77
(Lost) gut feeling77
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve77
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice76
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet76
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)75
Estrogen dominance drives distinct patterns of brain plasticity75
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy75
Freezing forgetting in C. elegans to extend memory retention74
Sleep cycles process memories74
TDP-43 loss brings RNA to a twist ending73
Liver-derived exercise factor boosts brain vasculature73
A couple of couplings73
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off72
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories72
Mapping deep brain stimulation-modulated circuits via precision neuroimaging72
Rapid temporal processing in the olfactory bulb underlies concentration-invariant odor identification and signal decorrelation71
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration70
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation70
Base barrier cells provide compartmentalization of choroid plexus, brain and CSF70
Restoring sensation to prosthetics70
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood69
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice69
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy68
Author Correction: FUS-mediated regulation of acetylcholine receptor transcription at neuromuscular junctions is compromised in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis68
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice68
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses68
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety68
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates67
An activity-modulated transport route across myelin (TRAM) for motor-driven organelle transfer in oligodendrocytes65
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans65
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome65
Rapid motor skill adjustment is associated with population-level modulation of cerebellar error signals64
Salience in the raphe63
A very sexy circuit63
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF163
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus63
A common voice for neural data63
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience63
Anorexia nervosa microbiota63
The eyes have it63
Resilient cortical maps62
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions62
When protein turns toxic62
Stress and autophagy61
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons61
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex61
Author Correction: Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain61
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance61
Persistent interferon signaling causes sensory neuron plasticity and pain before and during arthritis60
The hippocampus is listening60
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation60
Convergent information flows explain recurring firing patterns in cerebral cortex60
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow59
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram59
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking59
Astrocytic Ca2+ prevents synaptic depotentiation by limiting repetitive activity in dendrites during motor learning59
Corticothalamic communication for action coordination in a skilled motor behavior58
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics58
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation58
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition58
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time58
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex57
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain57
The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex57
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps57
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface56
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia56
Altruism and social rewards56
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons56
Blood proteins control microglia56
In conversation with Aniruddha Das56
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation56
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development56
Place fields illuminated56
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes55
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila55
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence55
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports55
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance55
Tirzepatide affects NAc activity and food preoccupation55
Cell atlas of brain aneurysms reveals fibroblast–macrophage crosstalk54
Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence54
Tryptamine from wake-active monoaminergic neurons regulates sleep homeostasis54
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification53
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment53
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation53
The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus53
DBS: from neuromodulation to neuroremodelling53
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit52
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution52
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning52
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway52
Axonal Eif5a hypusination controls local translation and mitigates defects in FUS-ALS52
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations52
Aberrant tau accumulation caused by MAPT mutations induces early pathological changes in axonal transport that are rescued by p38α inhibition52
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making51
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference51
Focal astrocyte loss reveals nuclear translocation during lesion repopulation51
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice51
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD50
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience50
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery50
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function50
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS50
CRISPR screening by AAV episome-sequencing (CrAAVe-seq): a scalable cell-type-specific in vivo platform uncovers neuronal essential genes50
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution50
A cholinergic auditory pathway50
Together but opposites in reward49
Author Correction: A single-vector intersectional AAV strategy for interrogating cellular diversity and brain function49
Functionally diverse human insular architecture with memory-related hippocampal interactions49
The stop and go of glymphatic flow49
Author Correction: Dopamine projections to the basolateral amygdala drive the encoding of identity-specific reward memories49
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience49
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus49
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors48
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