OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	75
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	60
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	54
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	44
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	43
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	42
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	42
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	41
Effects of blood flow restriction on motoneurons synchronization	37
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	36
Aberrant protein S-nitrosylation contributes to hyperexcitability-induced synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease: Mechanistic insights and potential therapies	31
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	26
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	26
Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	25
Effective training procedure for a simultaneous bimanual movement task in head-fixed mice	25
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	25
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	24
A deep network-based model of hippocampal memory functions under normal and Alzheimer’s disease conditions	24
The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	23
Toward Naturalistic Neuroscience of Navigation: Opportunities in Coral Reef Fish	23
Auditory processing neurons influence song evaluation and strength of mate preference in female songbirds	21
Clarifying the neural circuit mechanisms of spontaneous social behavior in macaques	21
The effects of chemogenetic targeting of serotonin-projecting pathways on L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia and psychosis in a bilateral rat model of Parkinson’s disease	21
Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex	21
Multisite rTMS combined with cognitive training modulates effective connectivity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	20

An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive	20
Long-term self-reported symptoms and psychophysical tests in COVID-19 subjects experiencing persistent olfactory dysfunction: a 4-year follow-up study	20
Dissociated neuronal cultures as model systems for self-organized prediction	20
Hippocampal Connectivity of the Presubiculum in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)	19
Future research directions to identify risks and mitigation strategies for neurostructural, ocular, and behavioral changes induced by human spaceflight: A NASA-ESA expert group consensus report	19
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	19
How early olfactory experiences influence brain development in mice	19
Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb	19
GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: pathological involvement and therapeutic potential	18
Dorsal striatum c-Fos activity in perseverative ephrin-A2A5−/− mice and the cellular effect of low-intensity rTMS	18
How perceptual learning rewires brain connectivity: lessons from the visual system in a top-down perspective	17
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	16
Social learning and exploration–exploitation dilemma in decision-making	16
Editorial: Naturalistic neuroscience — Towards a full cycle from lab to field	16
Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks	16
Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens	16
Task-dependent increases and decreases of BOLD signal in theory of mind brain regions during strategic social interaction	15
Vagus nerve stimulation as a predictive coding modulator that enhances feedforward over feedback transmission	15
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	15
The choroid plexus- cerebrospinal fluid axis as a lifespan regulator of neural stem cells and circuit plasticity	15
Neural activity responsiveness by maturation of inhibition underlying critical period plasticity	15
Synaptic connectivity amongst components of the locomotor central pattern generator	15
Dendritic synaptome of calcium-binding protein containing GABAergic interneurons in the mouse primary visual cortex	14
Improved motor imagery skills after repetitive passive somatosensory stimulation: a parallel-group, pre-registered study	14
Ataxia-associated DNA repair genes protect the Drosophila mushroom body and locomotor function against glutamate signaling-associated damage	14
An operating principle of the cerebral cortex, and a cellular mechanism for attentional trial-and-error pattern learning and useful classification extraction	14
A specific olfactory bulb interneuron subtype Tpbg/5T4 generated at embryonic and neonatal stages	14
Tunable dual-AAV sparse labeling of PV+ retinal ganglion cells enables single-neuron projection by fMOST	14
Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques	13
Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior?	13
The ventral hippocampus is activated in olfactory but not auditory threat memory	13
Morphological evidence for neuronal connections between the olfactory neurogenic region and the striatum in adult rats	13
Anatomical and Functional Connectivity at the Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Mitral Cell–Granule Cell Synapse: Impact on Recurrent and Lateral Inhibition	13
Axonal α7* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate glutamatergic signaling and synaptic vesicle organization in ventral hippocampal projections	13
Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies	13
Assessment of a single trial impact on the amplitude of the averaged event related potentials	13
Research progress on the neural circuits mechanisms of anxiety	12
Activity-dependent dendrite patterning in the postnatal barrel cortex	12
Reliability of TMS measurements using conventional hand-hold method with different numbers of stimuli for tibialis anterior muscle in healthy adults	12
Anesthetized animal experiments for neuroscience research	11
Early-life stress differentially affects CA3 synaptic inputs converging on apical and basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons	11
Interhemispheric neural characteristics of noxious mechano-nociceptive stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex	11
Regulation of body weight and food intake by AGRP neurons during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice	11
Edonerpic maleate prevents epileptic seizure during recovery from brain damage by balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs	11
Profiling neurotransmitter-evoked glial responses by RNA-sequencing analysis	11
Optimization of modularity during development to simplify walking control across multiple steps	10
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits	10
A Novel Device of Reaching, Grasping, and Retrieving Task for Head-Fixed Mice	10
Evidence of spatial periodic firing in the subiculum of mice	10
Spinal inhibitory interneurons: regulators of coordination during locomotor activity	10

The cerebellum engages multiple pre-motor pathways through a divergent-convergent architecture to shape whisker dynamics	10
Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice	10
Editorial: GABAergic circuits in health and disease	10
A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure	10
Specific structural changes in Parkinson’s disease-related olfactory dysfunction compared to others forms of olfactory dysfunction	10
Prostaglandin E2 Exerts Biphasic Dose Response on the PreBötzinger Complex Respiratory-Related Rhythm	9
Electrophysiologically distinct bed nucleus of the stria terminalis projections to the ventral tegmental area in mice	9
Changes in synaptic inputs to dI3 INs and MNs after complete transection in adult mice	9
Echinoderm radial glia in adult cell renewal, indeterminate growth, and regeneration	9
Cupid’s quiver: Integrating sensory cues in rodent mating systems	9
Oxytocin modulation of the insular cortex: implications for social cognition and neurodevelopmental disorders	9
Integration of optic flow into the sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust	9
Anterior basolateral amygdala neurons comprise a remote fear memory engram	9
The corticofugal oscillatory modulation of the cochlear receptor during auditory and visual attention is preserved in tinnitus	9
Editorial: Unveiling the structure and function of brain microcircuits: Experiments, algorithms and simulations	9
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	9
Interneuron odyssey: molecular mechanisms of tangential migration	9
The circuitry regulation of associative learning: dissociated and integrated function of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus	9
Role of locomotor efference copy in vertebrate gaze stabilization	9