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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why Brain Criticality Is Clinically Relevant: A Scoping Review	97
Origins, Development, and Compartmentation of the Granule Cells of the Cerebellum	93
Calcium Permeable-AMPA Receptors and Excitotoxicity in Neurological Disorders	67
EZcalcium: Open-Source Toolbox for Analysis of Calcium Imaging Data	65
Challenges for Therapeutic Applications of Opsin-Based Optogenetic Tools in Humans	62
Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine in Learned Behavior: Anatomical Modularity and Spatiotemporal Integration in Targets	56
Effects of rTMS Treatment on Cognitive Impairment and Resting-State Brain Activity in Stroke Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial	55
A Diversity of Intrinsic Timescales Underlie Neural Computations	51
The Nucleus Accumbens: A Common Target in the Comorbidity of Depression and Addiction	50
Subpopulations of Projection Neurons in the Olfactory Bulb	50
From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior	45
The Effects of Long Duration Spaceflight on Sensorimotor Control and Cognition	44
Dopaminergic Dysregulation in Syndromic Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights From Genetic Mouse Models	44
Aberrant Dynamic Functional Connectivity of Default Mode Network in Schizophrenia and Links to Symptom Severity	43
Freely Behaving Mice Can Brake and Turn During Optogenetic Stimulation of the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region	42
Connectivity and Functionality of the Globus Pallidus Externa Under Normal Conditions and Parkinson's Disease	41
Alzheimer’s Disease Projection From Normal to Mild Dementia Reflected in Functional Network Connectivity: A Longitudinal Study	41
Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development	40
The Drosophila Split Gal4 System for Neural Circuit Mapping	39
Glypicans and Heparan Sulfate in Synaptic Development, Neural Plasticity, and Neurological Disorders	37
Subsampled Directed-Percolation Models Explain Scaling Relations Experimentally Observed in the Brain	36
Common Principles in Functional Organization of VIP/Calretinin Cell-Driven Disinhibitory Circuits Across Cortical Areas	36
Dopamine Circuit Mechanisms of Addiction-Like Behaviors	35
The Dynamics of Functional Brain Networks Associated With Depressive Symptoms in a Nonclinical Sample	35
Top-Down Inference in the Auditory System: Potential Roles for Corticofugal Projections	35

The Medial Septum as a Potential Target for Treating Brain Disorders Associated With Oscillopathies	34
A Probabilistic Framework for Decoding Behavior From in vivo Calcium Imaging Data	33
Persistent Activity During Working Memory From Front to Back	33
Transient Astrocytic Gq Signaling Underlies Remote Memory Enhancement	32
Hippocampal Somatostatin Interneurons, Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity and Memory	32
Corticothalamic Pathways in Auditory Processing: Recent Advances and Insights From Other Sensory Systems	30
Challenges to the Vestibular System in Space: How the Brain Responds and Adapts to Microgravity	29
Dissociable Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms for Mediating the Influences of Visual Cues on Microsaccadic Eye Movements	27
Anatomy and Function of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neurons	27
Whole-Brain Mapping the Direct Inputs of Dorsal and Ventral CA1 Projection Neurons	26
Event-Based Sensing and Signal Processing in the Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Domain: A Review	22
Interneuron Types and Their Circuits in the Basolateral Amygdala	22
Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons Regulate Cortical Sensory Plasticity in Adulthood and Development Through Shared Mechanisms	22
Dopamine Neurons That Cotransmit Glutamate, From Synapses to Circuits to Behavior	22
Calcium Imaging and the Curse of Negativity	21
Insights Into Spinal Dorsal Horn Circuit Function and Dysfunction Using Optical Approaches	21
Respiration-Driven Brain Oscillations in Emotional Cognition	21
Hypothetical Roles of the Olfactory Tubercle in Odor-Guided Eating Behavior	20
Plasticity of Persistent Activity and Its Constraints	19
Neural Circuits for Social Interactions: From Microcircuits to Input-Output Circuits	19
Cholinergic Projections From the Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus Contact Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus	19
Genetic Mechanisms Underlying the Evolution of Connectivity in the Human Cortex	19
Effects of Locomotion in Auditory Cortex Are Not Mediated by the VIP Network	19
Von Economo Neurons – Primate-Specific or Commonplace in the Mammalian Brain?	19
Prefrontal GABAergic Interneurons Gate Long-Range Afferents to Regulate Prefrontal Cortex-Associated Complex Behaviors	18
Function and Regulation of ALDH1A1-Positive Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Neurons in Motor Control and Parkinson’s Disease	18
Brain Connectometry Changes in Space Travelers After Long-Duration Spaceflight	18
Functional Organisation of the Mouse Superior Colliculus	17
Corticothalamic Pathways From Layer 5: Emerging Roles in Computation and Pathology	17
Activation of the ARCPOMC→MeA Projection Reduces Food Intake	17
Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles	17
Differential Rearrangement of Excitatory Inputs to the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain Models	17
The Development of the Mesoprefrontal Dopaminergic System in Health and Disease	17
Visuomotor Adaptation Brain Changes During a Spaceflight Analog With Elevated Carbon Dioxide (CO2): A Pilot Study	17
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	16
The Drosophila Larval Locomotor Circuit Provides a Model to Understand Neural Circuit Development and Function	16
Serotonergic Modulation of Locomotor Activity From Basal Vertebrates to Mammals	16
Electroacupuncture-Related Metabolic Brain Connectivity in Neuropathic Pain due to Brachial Plexus Avulsion Injury in Rats	16
Learning-Dependent Dendritic Spine Plasticity Is Reduced in the Aged Mouse Cortex	16
Heterosynaptic Plasticity and the Experience-Dependent Refinement of Developing Neuronal Circuits	15
Oxytocinergic Feedback Circuitries: An Anatomical Basis for Neuromodulation of Social Behaviors	15
Auditory Long-Range Parvalbumin Cortico-Striatal Neurons	15
Resting-State Co-activation Patterns as Promising Candidates for Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease in Aged Mice	14
Cerebellar Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation Reduces Upper Limb Spasticity After Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	14
Cortical and Subcortical Circuits for Cross-Modal Plasticity Induced by Loss of Vision	14
General Distributed Neural Control and Sensory Adaptation for Self-Organized Locomotion and Fast Adaptation to Damage of Walking Robots	14
Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods	14
The Effects of 30 Minutes of Artificial Gravity on Cognitive and Sensorimotor Performance in a Spaceflight Analog Environment	14
Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Non-breeding Aggression: Common Strategies Between Birds and Fish	14
A Case for Thalamic Mechanisms of Schizophrenia: Perspective From Modeling 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome	14

Inhibitory NPY Neurons Provide a Large and Heterotopic Commissural Projection in the Inferior Colliculus	13
Spatial Updating Depends on Gravity	13
The Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: Beyond Locomotor Control	13
Cortical Electrical Stimulation Ameliorates Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Sensorimotor and Cognitive Deficits in Rats	13
An Autism-Associated Neuroligin-3 Mutation Affects Developmental Synapse Elimination in the Cerebellum	13
Sex-Related Differential Whole-Brain Input Atlas of Locus Coeruleus Noradrenaline Neurons	13
Regulation of Social Recognition Memory in the Hippocampal Circuits	13
Activity-Dependent Remodeling of Synaptic Protein Organization Revealed by High Throughput Analysis of STED Nanoscopy Images	13
Changing the Cortical Conductor’s Tempo: Neuromodulation of the Claustrum	12
The Photoconvertible Fluorescent Probe, CaMPARI, Labels Active Neurons in Freely-Moving Intact Adult Fruit Flies	12
Recent Advances in Neural Circuits for Taste Perception in Hunger	12
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	12
The Flow of Axonal Information Among Hippocampal Subregions: 1. Feed-Forward and Feedback Network Spatial Dynamics Underpinning Emergent Information Processing	12
Monosynaptic Retrograde Tracing From Prelimbic Neuron Subpopulations Projecting to Either Nucleus Accumbens Core or Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus	12
Endocannabinoid-Mediated Control of Neural Circuit Excitability and Epileptic Seizures	12
Cognitive Networks (Cognits) Process and Maintain Working Memory	11
Not One, but Many Critical States: A Dynamical Systems Perspective	11
Distinct Encoding of Reward and Aversion by Peptidergic BNST Inputs to the VTA	11
Comprehensive Imaging of Sensory-Evoked Activity of Entire Neurons Within the Awake Developing Brain Using Ultrafast AOD-Based Random-Access Two-Photon Microscopy	11
The Interplay of Synaptic Plasticity and Scaling Enables Self-Organized Formation and Allocation of Multiple Memory Representations	11
Inhibitory Circuits in the Basolateral Amygdala in Aversive Learning and Memory	11
Müller Glia in Retinal Development: From Specification to Circuit Integration	11
Disturbed Balance of Inhibitory Signaling Links Hearing Loss and Cognition	11
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	11
Altered Brain Criticality in Schizophrenia: New Insights From Magnetoencephalography	10
Neural Substrates of Visual Perception and Working Memory: Two Sides of the Same Coin or Two Different Coins?	10
Uncovering the Connectivity Logic of the Ventral Tegmental Area	10
Adjudicating Between Local and Global Architectures of Predictive Processing in the Subcortical Auditory Pathway	10
Inhibitory circuits in fear memory and fear-related disorders	10
Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus	10
A Simple and Efficient Method for Visualizing Individual Cells in vivo by Cre-Mediated Single-Cell Labeling by Electroporation (CREMSCLE)	10
The Engram’s Dark Horse: How Interneurons Regulate State-Dependent Memory Processing and Plasticity	10
Modulation of the Corticomotor Excitability by Repetitive Peripheral Magnetic Stimulation on the Median Nerve in Healthy Subjects	10
Automated Curation of CNMF-E-Extracted ROI Spatial Footprints and Calcium Traces Using Open-Source AutoML Tools	10
SynapseJ: An Automated, Synapse Identification Macro for ImageJ	10
Unraveling the Role of Dopaminergic and Calretinin Interneurons in the Olfactory Bulb	10
α3β4∗ Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Strongly Modulate the Excitability of VIP Neurons in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus	10
Recognition of Cognitive Impairment in Adult Moyamoya Disease: A Classifier Based on High-Order Resting-State Functional Connectivity Network	10
Cortical Stimulation Induces Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials of Inferior Colliculus Neurons in a Frequency-Specific Manner	10
A Physical Perspective to the Inductive Function of Myelin—A Missing Piece of Neuroscience	10
Using Flies to Understand Social Networks	9
Trans-Synaptic Regulation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors by Elfn Proteins in Health and Disease	9
Neural Substrates and Models of Omission Responses and Predictive Processes	9
Neuronal Graphs: A Graph Theory Primer for Microscopic, Functional Networks of Neurons Recorded by Calcium Imaging	9
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	9
The Role of the Medial Septum—Associated Networks in Controlling Locomotion and Motivation to Move	9
Cannabinoids in Chronic Pain: Therapeutic Potential Through Microglia Modulation	9
Cell-Type Specific Neuromodulation of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons via Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Layer 4 of Rat Barrel Cortex	9
Activity of a vmPFC-DRN Pathway Corresponds With Resistance to Acute Social Defeat Stress	9
Laser-Induced Apoptosis of Corticothalamic Neurons in Layer VI of Auditory Cortex Impact on Cortical Frequency Processing	9
Regulation of Hippocampal Gamma Oscillations by Modulation of Intrinsic Neuronal Excitability	9
Not All That Is Gold Glitters: PV-IRES-Cre Mouse Line Shows Low Efficiency of Labeling of Parvalbumin Interneurons in the Perirhinal Cortex	9
Neuropeptide System Regulation of Prefrontal Cortex Circuitry: Implications for Neuropsychiatric Disorders	9
C1q Regulates Horizontal Cell Neurite Confinement in the Outer Retina	9
Selective Participation of Single Cortical Neurons in Neuronal Avalanches	9
Locomotion Control With Frequency and Motor Pattern Adaptations	9
Corticofugal VIP Gabaergic Projection Neurons in the Mouse Auditory and Motor Cortex	9
The Complement of Projection Neurons Activated Determines the Type of Feeding Motor Program in Aplysia	9