Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 1. 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
Offspring attachment416
Sensory cortex quashes subcortical escape instinct409
Give and take304
(New neurons) singing in the avian brain297
Avoiding interpretational pitfalls in fluorescence imaging of the brain292
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function289
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures232
Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action218
The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation198
When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis197
Neuroferroptosis in health and diseases194
The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain184
Rewarding astrocytes178
The power of direct observation: discovery of REM sleep176
Inflammation alters cognition after cancer immunotherapy174
From local APP expression to network dysfunction157
How witnessing distress alters resilience157
Indirect neurogenesis in space and time156
Brain mitochondria as key drivers of cognition and behaviour153
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms146
Understanding neural circuit function through synaptic engineering139
The cognitive impact of light: illuminating ipRGC circuit mechanisms135
Astrocyte engulfment132
Cilia make connections126
Benefit worth the cost121
Tightening synaptic relations120
Network models to enhance the translational impact of cross-species studies119
Causal prominence for neuroscience119
The neural bases for timing of durations117
Consequences of trisomy 21 for brain development in Down syndrome117
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications111
Post-injury pain and behaviour: a control theory perspective110
Structure–function coupling in macroscale human brain networks108
Neuronal maturation and axon regeneration: unfixing circuitry to enable repair104
Striatal shaping of hypothalamic control101
To fire or not to fire: decisions mediated by localized processing and dendritic spikes100
A metabotropic receptor for glycine99
Opening the gate to regeneration95
Reply to ‘The language network is topographically diverse and driven by rapid syntactic inferences’93
Reply to ‘Fear, anxiety and the functional architecture of the human central extended amygdala’92
Cueing motivation90
The short and long pathways to memory89
Central neural circuits underlying itch sensation86
The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence84
Redefining the central pattern generator for vertebrate locomotion82
Reply to ‘Boundary issues for multidimensional frameworks of representation’82
Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks78
Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders74
The brain’s action-mode network74
Brain on standby — how torpor made ‘tauopathy’ reversible72
Peroxidation protectors72
The plasticitome of cortical interneurons71
Using human 3D organoid models to gain mechanistic insight in motor neuron diseases71
From compulsivity to compulsion: the neural basis of compulsive disorders69
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies65
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence65
Endothelial cells as key players in cerebral small vessel disease64
CaMKII: a central molecular organizer of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory63
Structural MRI of brain similarity networks63
Reply to ‘Language is widely distributed throughout the brain’61
Switching into a dissociated state61
Barriers and brain fog59
Facial expressions reveal inner cognitive processes59
Towards single-cell-resolution global maps of mammalian brains58
Schizophrenia genomics: genetic complexity and functional insights56
Controlling communication54
Remapping revisited: how the hippocampus represents different spaces54
An intriguing role of repeat-element RNAs in nerve injury repair54
Integrated cardio-behavioural defensive states54
Skill switching54
A biophysical perspective on the resilience of neuronal excitability across timescales54
Concept cells and social memory: the abstract representation of familiar individuals52
‘Magic’ mechanisms underlie psilocybin’s effects in chronic pain52
Linking activity dyshomeostasis and sleep disturbances in Alzheimer disease51
Central regulation of stress-evoked peripheral immune responses50
A neuronal subcompartment view of ATP production49
Species differences44
Caught in a trap44
Neurogenic signatures of cognitive decline and resilience43
Regulating intestinal immunity43
A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition42
Reply to ‘Post-encounter freezing during approach–avoidance conflict: the role of the hippocampus’42
The gatekeeper of ongoing pain: an endogenous analgesic circuit that prioritizes survival42
Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders41
Fly connectome over the wire40
Correcting early circuit errors39
Coding corners39
Human hippocampal circuit characterization38
Psilocybin shapes neural plasticity in selective brain networks38
Reply to ‘Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience as collections of practices’38
Reply to ‘Musical neurodynamics and the ‘inner voice’’38
Mechanics of amyloid clearance37
Gene therapy for CNS disorders: modalities, delivery and translational challenges36
The neurobiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection35
Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight34
Immune dysfunction in Alzheimer disease33
A tripartite view of the posterior cingulate cortex32
Multi-timescale neural dynamics for multisensory integration32
Multiple system atrophy: at the crossroads of cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms31
Lipid metabolism, remodelling and intercellular transfer in the CNS30
Sleep–wake regulation by baroreflex circuitry29
Saccades can modulate auditory brain networks29
Astrocyte antennae28
Losing sleep in heart disease28
Circuit control of competition28
Functional diversity of amacrine cells27
Twenty-five years of covering neuroscience27
Author Correction: The transition to motherhood: linking hormones, brain and behaviour25
Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience25
Musical neurodynamics and the ‘inner voice’25
Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination25
Going offline to enhance memory during sleep25
Neuroimmune mechanisms and therapies mediating post-ischaemic brain injury and repair24
The vascular contribution to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia24
Interictal network dysfunction and cognitive impairment in epilepsy23
Myelin under attack endangers axons22
Avoiding social interactions22
Parallel processing of alternative approaches22
Mapping the cell-type-specific effects of ageing in the human cortex20
Learning in the overparametrized brain18
Echolocation over long distances18
Olfactory neurons can feel the (heart) beat18
Why so slow? Models of parkinsonian bradykinesia17
Eye movements provide insight into amnesia17
Rethinking women’s brain health16
Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle15
Time alone: cytokine-induced isolation during sickness15
What neural oscillations can and cannot do for syntactic structure building15
Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits15
The neuroconnectionist research programme15
Attentional capture14
Disentangling human inference14
Psilocybin desynchronization persists in the human brain14
Reliable social switch13
The human hippocampus beyond episodic memory12
The on-site, on-demand, neuronal gene machine11
Promoting axon regeneration after injury11
A neural compass for real-world navigation11
Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging10
Sleep and circadian rhythmicity as entangled processes serving homeostasis9
Mitochondrial complex I deficiency and Parkinson disease9
RNA granules in flux: dynamics to balance physiology and pathology9
Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought9
How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis9
The unexpected value of communicating science to the public8
Delving into thalamic drive8
Playing tag at the axon8
Tiny recurrent neural networks for discovering cognitive strategies8
Neural compositions use multigoal building blocks8
Linking the exposome to the brain–behaviour phenotype8
A new myeloid cell migration route8
Neural adaptation to climate change: mechanisms, limits and opportunities8
A new target for leptin8
Self-recognition mirrored from others8
The core language network separated from other networks during primate evolution7
m6A in RNA: a key regulator of brain development, function and disease7
The molecular determinants of microglial developmental dynamics7
Data-driven modelling of neurodegenerative disease progression: thinking outside the black box7
Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models7
The long COVID haul6
From avoidance to new action: the multifaceted role of the striatal indirect pathway6
CRISPR-TO: a versatile tool for programmable control of the spatial transcriptome6
How eating makes asthma worse6
Wired for immunity: neuroimmune control of the lung by sensory neurons5
Dynamical models to evaluate structure–function relationships in network neuroscience5
Role of dysregulated calcium homeostasis in astrocytes in neurodegenerative disorders5
The diverse forms and roles of the neuronal endoplasmic reticulum5
Large-scale electrophysiology at single-spike resolution5
Dynamic modulation of the blood–brain barrier in the healthy brain5
Ripple contributions to human memory: making the spiking content count5
Circuit mechanisms governing endocannabinoid modulation of affective behaviour and stress adaptation5
Multisensory coding of self-motion and its contribution to navigation5
The neuropathobiology of multiple sclerosis5
Sensory neuron signals drive bone repair5
Ruminating on replay during the awake state5
Repulsion in the human hippocampus is linked to internal beliefs4
Avoiding bias in fluorescence sensor readout4
A frequency location to remember4
Alternative splicing in neurodegenerative disease and the promise of RNA therapies4
Getting anxious about immune system activation4
Development, wiring and function of dopamine neuron subtypes4
Investigating human visual cortex variability4
Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress3
Acetylcholine: a candidate substrate for hippocampal predictive learning?3
Heading into the wild: setting the course to natural neuroscience3
Reward encoded relative to experience3
Spectrins: molecular organizers and targets of neurological disorders3
Shaping the brain vasculature in development and disease in the single-cell era3
Light dampens metabolism3
Detection, processing and reinforcement of social cues: regulation by the oxytocin system3
What scrub jays have taught us about the neural intersection of memory and action selection3
Metabolic vulnerability and tau pathology in combination drive necroptosis2
Genetically defined neuron types underlying visuomotor transformation in the superior colliculus2
Dopamine signals threat-coping behaviour in threat–reward conflicts2
Time to let the model speak for itself with closed-loop neurophysiology2
Oligomeric tau might spread trans-synaptically in Alzheimer disease2
The neural circuits and signalling pathways of opioid use disorder2
A structural function for CaMKII2
Rewinding reward2
Key genes and convergent pathogenic mechanisms in Parkinson disease2
The emerging roles of long non-coding RNAs in the nervous system2
Natural primate neurobiology2
Publisher Correction: The transition to motherhood: linking hormones, brain and behaviour2
A far-red dopamine sensor unlocks multiplex views of in vivo neuromodulation2
Classifying inhibitory synapses in the cortex: beyond cell types2
GABA tone regulation and its cognitive functions in the brain2
Mapping the social memory network2
Mapping cilia connections in the human brain2
Sleuthing subjectivity: a review of covert measures of consciousness2
Climate change matters to neuroscience2
A roadmap for conducting more inclusive research on brain resilience in ageing and dementia2
Structurally informed models of directed brain connectivity2
Glia of the heart’s nervous system2
Neurovascular influence2
Tracking ingestion2
Mapping the molecular effects of Down syndrome in the developing brain2
Planning projections2
Attractor and integrator networks in the brain2
Towards a cross-cultural framework for predictive coding of music1
Neural manifolds: more than the sum of their neurons1
Social representation1
Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model1
On analogies in vertebrate and insect visual systems1
Untangling neurodegeneration1
When the ‘selfish’ brain and the ‘selfish’ immune system clash1
Remission from addiction: erasing the wrong circuits or making new ones?1
Boundary deprivation does not prevent grid cell maturation1
The AMPA receptor life cycle: assembly, regulation and synaptic diversity1
Data sharing in neuroimaging: experiences from the BIDS project1
Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease1
Working together to build strong scientific communities1
Soporific supper?1
Pathways to sex preferences1
Publisher Correction: Structural neural plasticity evoked by rapid-acting antidepressant interventions1
Unfolding cognitive decline mechanisms1
mTOR and neuroinflammation in epilepsy: implications for disease progression and treatment1
Goal-directed learning in adolescence: neurocognitive development and contextual influences1
Olfactory coding in mosquitoes1
Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful1
Neural basis of social hierarchy across species1
Variants in a noncoding gene drive prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder1
Revealing silent synapses in the adult brain1
Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain1
How mechanisms of stem cell polarity shape the human cerebral cortex1
On the power of simple models: when emergent properties predict clinical outcomes1
Thalamic drive starts action sequences1
The neocortical column as a universal template for perception and world-model learning1
Controlling corticosterone1
Mechanisms of axonal support by oligodendrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles1
Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning1
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