OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 10. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternation of Neuronal Feature Selectivity Induced by Paired Optogenetic-Mechanical Stimulation in the Barrel Cortex	77
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	77
Challenges to the Vestibular System in Space: How the Brain Responds and Adapts to Microgravity	67
Sensitivity of Visual System in 5-Day “Dry” Immersion With High-Frequency Electromyostimulation	61
Using Flies to Understand Social Networks	56
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	50
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	43
An in vivo Calcium Imaging Approach for the Identification of Cell-Type Specific Patterns in the Developing Cortex	39
Discriminating Sleep From Freezing With Cortical Spindle Oscillations	36
Cerebellar Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation Reduces Upper Limb Spasticity After Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	35
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	35
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	35
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	34
Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development	34
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	32
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	32
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	31
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	31
Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex	30
Corrigendum: Inhibitory Network Bistability Explains Increased Interneuronal Activity Prior to Seizure Onset	29
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	28
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	28
Differential Rearrangement of Excitatory Inputs to the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain Models	28
A deep network-based model of hippocampal memory functions under normal and Alzheimer’s disease conditions	26
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	26

Effects of blood flow restriction on motoneurons synchronization	26
Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	26
Effective training procedure for a simultaneous bimanual movement task in head-fixed mice	26
Aberrant protein S-nitrosylation contributes to hyperexcitability-induced synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease: Mechanistic insights and potential therapies	25
The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	24
The Role of Inhibitory Interneurons in Circuit Assembly and Refinement Across Sensory Cortices	23
Toward Naturalistic Neuroscience of Navigation: Opportunities in Coral Reef Fish	23
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	23
An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive	22
Long-term self-reported symptoms and psychophysical tests in COVID-19 subjects experiencing persistent olfactory dysfunction: a 4-year follow-up study	22
How early olfactory experiences influence brain development in mice	20
Auditory processing neurons influence song evaluation and strength of mate preference in female songbirds	20
Binaural Processing Deficits Due to Synaptopathy and Myelin Defects	20
Multisite rTMS combined with cognitive training modulates effective connectivity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	20
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
Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb	19
Dissociated neuronal cultures as model systems for self-organized prediction	19
Hippocampal Connectivity of the Presubiculum in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)	19
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	19
Intersegmental Interactions Give Rise to a Global Network	18
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
Strategies for Targeting Neural Circuits: How to Manipulate Neurons Using Virus Vehicles	18
Locomotion Control With Frequency and Motor Pattern Adaptations	17
Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks	17
What and Where: Location-Dependent Feature Sensitivity as a Canonical Organizing Principle of the Visual System	16
Editorial: Naturalistic neuroscience — Towards a full cycle from lab to field	16
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	16
Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens	16
Editorial: Cortical-Subcortical Loops in Sensory Processing	15
An operating principle of the cerebral cortex, and a cellular mechanism for attentional trial-and-error pattern learning and useful classification extraction	15
A specific olfactory bulb interneuron subtype Tpbg/5T4 generated at embryonic and neonatal stages	15
How perceptual learning rewires brain connectivity: lessons from the visual system in a top-down perspective	15
Synaptic connectivity amongst components of the locomotor central pattern generator	15
Origin of Multisynaptic Corticospinal Pathway to Forelimb Segments in Macaques and Its Reorganization After Spinal Cord Injury	15
Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods	15
Müller Glia in Retinal Development: From Specification to Circuit Integration	15
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	15
From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior	15
Vagus nerve stimulation as a predictive coding modulator that enhances feedforward over feedback transmission	14
Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques	14
Neural activity responsiveness by maturation of inhibition underlying critical period plasticity	14
Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles	14
Axonal α7* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate glutamatergic signaling and synaptic vesicle organization in ventral hippocampal projections	14
Comparison of Resting-State Functional MRI Methods for Characterizing Brain Dynamics	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
Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus	13
Reliability of TMS measurements using conventional hand-hold method with different numbers of stimuli for tibialis anterior muscle in healthy adults	13
Using Hebbian-Type Stimulation to Rescue Arm Function After Stroke: Study Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial	13

Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies	13
The ventral hippocampus is activated in olfactory but not auditory threat memory	13
Assessment of a single trial impact on the amplitude of the averaged event related potentials	13
Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior?	13
Anatomical and Functional Connectivity at the Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Mitral Cell–Granule Cell Synapse: Impact on Recurrent and Lateral Inhibition	13
Research progress on the neural circuits mechanisms of anxiety	13
Cannabinoids in Chronic Pain: Therapeutic Potential Through Microglia Modulation	13
Anesthetized animal experiments for neuroscience research	13
Profiling neurotransmitter-evoked glial responses by RNA-sequencing analysis	12
Disorganization of Oscillatory Activity in Animal Models of Schizophrenia	12
Regulation of body weight and food intake by AGRP neurons during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice	12
Edonerpic maleate prevents epileptic seizure during recovery from brain damage by balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs	12
Effects of Cortical Cooling on Sound Processing in Auditory Cortex and Thalamus of Awake Marmosets	12
Activity-dependent dendrite patterning in the postnatal barrel cortex	12
Interhemispheric neural characteristics of noxious mechano-nociceptive stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex	12
Circuits and Synapses: Hypothesis, Observation, Controversy and Serendipity – An Opinion Piece	12
Specific structural changes in Parkinson’s disease-related olfactory dysfunction compared to others forms of olfactory dysfunction	12
A Novel Device of Reaching, Grasping, and Retrieving Task for Head-Fixed Mice	11
Delays in the Reticulospinal System Are Associated With a Reduced Capacity to Learn a Simulated Feeding Task in Older Adults	11
Not All That Is Gold Glitters: PV-IRES-Cre Mouse Line Shows Low Efficiency of Labeling of Parvalbumin Interneurons in the Perirhinal Cortex	11
Early-life stress differentially affects CA3 synaptic inputs converging on apical and basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons	11
Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice	11
The Engram’s Dark Horse: How Interneurons Regulate State-Dependent Memory Processing and Plasticity	11
Editorial: GABAergic circuits in health and disease	11
Cortical Cartography: Mapping Arealization Using Single-Cell Omics Technology	10
A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure	10
Optimization of modularity during development to simplify walking control across multiple steps	10
Cupid’s quiver: Integrating sensory cues in rodent mating systems	10
Integration of optic flow into the sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust	10
Amygdala Underlies the Environment Dependency of Defense Responses Induced via Superior Colliculus	10
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	10
Spinal inhibitory interneurons: regulators of coordination during locomotor activity	10
Electrophysiologically distinct bed nucleus of the stria terminalis projections to the ventral tegmental area in mice	10
Editorial: Unveiling the structure and function of brain microcircuits: Experiments, algorithms and simulations	10
Interneuron odyssey: molecular mechanisms of tangential migration	10
Dorsal Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis-Subcortical Output Circuits Encode Positive Bias in Pavlovian Fear and Reward	10
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits	10
Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Defined by TrpV1 Modulate Psychomotor Behavior	10
The corticofugal oscillatory modulation of the cochlear receptor during auditory and visual attention is preserved in tinnitus	10
Changes in synaptic inputs to dI3 INs and MNs after complete transection in adult mice	10
Anterior basolateral amygdala neurons comprise a remote fear memory engram	10