Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Neuroscience is 36. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy577
Salty licorice taste receptor527
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories451
Alcohol’s necessary accessory436
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties352
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons343
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex315
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics271
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment269
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance267
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation245
A myeloid trisomy 21-associated gene variant is protective from Alzheimer’s disease243
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep238
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control229
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping228
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy227
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling225
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience214
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)208
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex208
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning204
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy203
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience195
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development192
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood192
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development192
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex190
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease184
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration179
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus179
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape175
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan165
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks160
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex159
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit158
Guest star in OCD153
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome151
Computational strategies for deliberative thought151
How cancer and cortex collude149
COVID-19 and brain aging149
Lessons from resilience146
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements144
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states142
Glioblastoma–neuron networks142
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences139
An organoid biobank for neurodevelopmental disorders138
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs132
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila131
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience129
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD129
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes128
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect127
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease127
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis126
Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology120
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy117
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology117
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia117
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)116
Aversion crosses over115
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal113
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience113
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD109
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing109
Astrocytes make room for microglia109
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards109
Large-scale drug screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients identifies a potential combinatorial therapy109
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy107
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses107
CRISPRi screening in cultured human astrocytes uncovers distal enhancers controlling genes dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease106
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization105
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice104
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease104
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity102
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease102
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons102
In conversation with Corey Harwell101
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations101
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning101
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition101
Cerebellar organoids get active100
Real control in virtual rats100
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics100
Translation for transmission100
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice100
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery99
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time97
Genetic targeting of premyelinating oligodendrocytes reveals activity-dependent myelination mechanisms97
Big data for classifying ASD96
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain96
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates95
Commensals boost nerve regeneration95
A glial circadian gene expression atlas reveals cell-type and disease-specific reprogramming in response to amyloid pathology or aging92
Flipping APOE to reverse Alzheimer’s disease traits91
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit90
Increased neural excitability and glioma synaptic activity drives glioma proliferation in human cortex88
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging88
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin88
Dynamics of mature myelin88
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety87
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys87
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice87
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury87
How to build a cognitive map86
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state86
A fragile imbalance85
In conversation with Carla Shatz84
Personalized EES for SCI84
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience83
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders83
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep83
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications82
Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells82
From pain to brain81
How the brain regulates its own immune system81
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model81
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia80
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds80
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance79
Publisher Correction: Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals79
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research79
Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways79
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision78
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis78
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health77
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis77
Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement77
Charting brain morphology in international healthy and neurological populations76
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve76
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression76
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models75
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis75
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings75
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons75
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques75
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making75
Complex topology meets simple statistics74
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice74
(Lost) gut feeling74
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet73
Gonads drive the brain73
Refining the negative into general and specific72
TDP-43 loss brings RNA to a twist ending71
Silencing gut CCK cells alters gut reaction to sugar71
Author Correction: Mapping microglia states in the human brain through the integration of high-dimensional techniques71
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories71
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy70
Sleep cycles process memories70
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate70
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)69
Estrogen dominance drives distinct patterns of brain plasticity69
Rapid motor skill adjustment is associated with population-level modulation of cerebellar error signals69
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety68
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice68
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses68
Freezing forgetting in C. elegans to extend memory retention67
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus67
Restoring sensation to prosthetics67
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off66
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans66
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation66
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration65
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice65
Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains65
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood65
Thalamic subnetworks as units of function65
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus65
Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO)64
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy64
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
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates63
Anorexia nervosa microbiota62
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice62
A very sexy circuit62
Salience in the raphe62
The eyes have it61
A common voice for neural data61
Single-nucleus sequencing finds no adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans60
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons60
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF160
Resilient cortical maps59
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience59
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance59
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions59
Stress and autophagy59
When protein turns toxic58
Author Correction: Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain58
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex58
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics57
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation57
Convergent information flows explain recurring firing patterns in cerebral cortex57
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking57
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons56
Astrocytic Ca2+ prevents synaptic depotentiation by limiting repetitive activity in dendrites during motor learning56
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation55
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time55
Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior55
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow55
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps54
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation54
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface54
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain54
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram54
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain53
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia53
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex53
In conversation with Aniruddha Das52
The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex52
Blood proteins control microglia52
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance52
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition52
Altruism and social rewards51
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development51
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes51
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence51
Puberty reverses sex differences in learning51
Place fields illuminated51
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila50
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit50
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning49
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment49
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making49
Tirzepatide affects NAc activity and food preoccupation48
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations48
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports48
CRISPR screening by AAV episome-sequencing (CrAAVe-seq): a scalable cell-type-specific in vivo platform uncovers neuronal essential genes47
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation47
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
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD47
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway46
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution46
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference46
Axonal Eif5a hypusination controls local translation and mitigates defects in FUS-ALS46
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification45
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience45
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution45
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery45
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice45
Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence45
Adolescent sleep molds adult social preferences44
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience44
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS44
A cholinergic auditory pathway44
Multi-region m6A epitranscriptome profiling of the human brain reveals spatial and temporal variation and enrichment of disease-associated loci43
Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia43
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits43
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus43
Together but opposites in reward43
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