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Papers

(The median citation count of Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Brain serotonergic system	87
Neurexins and their ligands at inhibitory synapses	76
Synaptic spinules are reliable indicators of excitatory presynaptic bouton size and strength and are ubiquitous components of excitatory synapses in CA1 hippocampus	70
Rapid sequential clustering of NMDARs, CaMKII, and AMPARs upon activation of NMDARs at developing synapses	67
The Shaping of AMPA Receptor Surface Distribution by Neuronal Activity	38
Age-related changes in olivocochlear efferent innervation in gerbils	37
Inhibitory hippocampus-medial septum projection controls locomotion and exploratory behavior	37
Editorial: Latest Advances on Excitatory Synapse Biology	34
Protein phosphatase-1 inhibitor-2 promotes PP1γ positive regulation of synaptic transmission	30
Nitric Oxide Regulates GluA2-Lacking AMPAR Contribution to Synaptic Transmission of CA1 Apical but Not Basal Dendrites	30
Deletion of ErbB4 Disrupts Synaptic Transmission and Long-Term Potentiation of Thalamic Input to Amygdalar Medial Paracapsular Intercalated Cells	28
The short-term plasticity of VIP interneurons in motor cortex	28
Enhanced Non-Associative Long-Term Potentiation in Immature Granule Cells in the Dentate Gyrus of Adult Rats	26
Rethinking the network determinants of motor disability in Parkinson’s disease	26
Bringing synapses into focus: Recent advances in synaptic imaging and mass-spectrometry for studying synaptopathy	26
Intracellular Properties of Deep-Layer Pyramidal Neurons in Frontal Eye Field of Macaque Monkeys	25
Organization of Presynaptic Autophagy-Related Processes	24
Glucagon-like peptide 1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide hormones and novel receptor agonists protect synapses in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases	23
Targeting Endocannabinoid Signaling in the Lateral Habenula as an Intervention to Prevent Mental Illnesses Following Early Life Stress: A Perspective	22
Memory retrieval, reconsolidation, and extinction: Exploring the boundary conditions of post-conditioning cue exposure	22
Striatal Synapse Degeneration and Dysfunction Are Reversed by Reactivation of Wnt Signaling	22
cAMP-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Terminal	22
Towards a Comprehensive Optical Connectome at Single Synapse Resolution via Expansion Microscopy	21
Blast-Induced Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Alterations of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Neuronal Activity in the Mouse Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus	20
Dexmedetomidine and Ketamine Attenuated Neuropathic Pain Related Behaviors via STING Pathway to Induce ER-Phagy	20

Light Sheet Illumination for 3D Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging of Neuronal Synapses	20
A Multisubcellular Compartment Model of AMPA Receptor Trafficking for Neuromodulation of Hebbian Synaptic Plasticity	19
Somatostatin Neurons in the Mouse Pontine Nucleus Activate GABAA Receptor Mediated Synaptic Currents in Locus Coeruleus Neurons	18
Serotonin as a volume transmission signal in the “simple nervous system” of mollusks: From axonal guidance to behavioral orchestration	17
Discordant Effects of Cannabinoid 2 Receptor Antagonism/Inverse Agonism During Adolescence on Pavlovian and Instrumental Reward Learning in Adult Male Rats	17
The calcineurin regulator Sarah enables distinct forms of homeostatic plasticity at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction	15
Effects of the clathrin inhibitor Pitstop-2 on synaptic vesicle recycling at a central synapse in vivo	15
Metformin inhibits spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents in spinal dorsal cord neurons from paclitaxel-treated rats	15
Maturation of Heterogeneity in Afferent Synapse Ultrastructure in the Mouse Cochlea	13
Cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) transcription factor in astrocytic synaptic communication	13
Fetal Neuroprotective Strategies: Therapeutic Agents and Their Underlying Synaptic Pathways	13
Semaphorins in Adult Nervous System Plasticity and Disease	12
Nano-Organization at the Synapse: Segregation of Distinct Forms of Neurotransmission	12
Molecular mechanisms of synaptogenesis	12
Cryo-EM tomography and automatic segmentation delineate modular structures in the postsynaptic density	12
Editorial: Synaptopathies: from bench to bedside	11
Selective Recruitment of Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Forms of mGluR-LTD	11
Editorial: Subcellular computations and information processing	11
The biological alterations of synapse/synapse formation in sepsis-associated encephalopathy	11
Calcium signaling in astrocytes and gliotransmitter release	11
Editorial: Plasticity of inhibitory cells in health and disease	10
Editorial: Molecular Nanomachines of the Presynaptic Terminal, Volume II	10
Genetic Code Expansion and Click-Chemistry Labeling to Visualize GABA-A Receptors by Super-Resolution Microscopy	9
Editorial: New insights into synaptic plasticity in fear conditioning	9
Fear Memory Retrieval Is Associated With a Reduction in AMPA Receptor Density at Thalamic to Amygdala Intercalated Cell Synapses	9
Dichotomic Hippocampal Transcriptome After Glutamatergic vs. GABAergic Deletion of the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor	9
Dynamics of Neuromuscular Transmission Reproduced by Calcium-Dependent and Reversible Serial Transitions in the Vesicle Fusion Complex	8
Killer or helper? The mechanism underlying the role of adenylate activated kinase in sound conditioning	8
Spindle-Shaped Neurons in the Human Posteromedial (Precuneus) Cortex	8
Mechanisms Underlying Mu Opioid Receptor Effects on Parallel Fiber-Purkinje Cell Synaptic Transmission in Mouse Cerebellar Cortex	8
Correlative Live-Cell and Super-Resolution Imaging to Link Presynaptic Molecular Organisation With Function	8
Membrane lipid rafts are required for AMPA receptor tyrosine phosphorylation	7
Neocortical layer 5 subclasses: From cellular properties to roles in behavior	7
High-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging Combined With Computer Simulations to Quantitate Surface Dynamics and Nanoscale Organization of Neuroligin-1 at Synapses	7
Microglia Heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s Disease: Insights From Single-Cell Technologies	7
Myosin V Regulates Spatial Localization of Different Forms of Neurotransmitter Release in Central Synapses	7
Synaptic Density and Neuronal Metabolic Function Measured by Positron Emission Tomography in the Unilateral 6-OHDA Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease	7
GRIN2B-related neurodevelopmental disorder: current understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms	7
Differential modulation of collybistin conformational dynamics by the closely related GTPases Cdc42 and TC10	7
Editorial: Structural and quantitative modeling of synapses	6
Editorial: Perineuronal Nets as Therapeutic Targets for the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders	6
Identification of Synaptic DGKθ Interactors That Stimulate DGKθ Activity	6
Quantitative Imaging With DNA-PAINT for Applications in Synaptic Neuroscience	6
Cell-autonomous and differential endocannabinoid signaling impacts the development of presynaptic retinal ganglion cell axon connectivity in vivo	6
Visualizing Presynaptic Active Zones and Synaptic Vesicles	6
Genetic disorders of neurotransmitter release machinery	6
NPY Released From GABA Neurons of the Dentate Gyrus Specially Reduces Contextual Fear Without Affecting Cued or Trace Fear	6
The Non-receptor Tyrosine Kinase Pyk2 in Brain Function and Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases	6
Editorial: Horizons in synaptic neuroscience	6
Effect of Unilateral Acoustic Trauma on Neuronal Firing Activity in the Inferior Colliculus of Mice	6

The effect of single-cell knockout of Fragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein on synaptic structural plasticity	6
Visualizing the triheteromeric N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit composition	5
Editorial: Activated Synapses	5
Cellular Strategies for Frequency-Dependent Computation of Interaural Time Difference	5
Jacob, a Synapto-Nuclear Protein Messenger Linking N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Activation to Nuclear Gene Expression	5
Hearing Loss Increases Inhibitory Effects of Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation on Sound Evoked Activity in Medial Geniculate Nucleus	5
A tribute to Dr. Akira Yoshii, MD, PhD	5
Five Hours Total Sleep Deprivation Does Not Affect CA1 Dendritic Length or Spine Density	5
Triose-phosphate isomerase deficiency is associated with a dysregulation of synaptic vesicle recycling in Drosophila melanogaster	5
Tonic activation of GABAB receptors via GAT-3 mediated GABA release reduces network activity in the developing somatosensory cortex in GAD67-GFP mice	5
Editorial: Signaling mechanisms of synapse assembly	5
The Wingless planar cell polarity pathway is essential for optimal activity-dependent synaptic plasticity	5
Corrigendum: Correlative Live-Cell and Super-Resolution Imaging to Link Presynaptic Molecular Organisation With Function	5
Distinctive biophysical features of human cell-types: insights from studies of neurosurgically resected brain tissue	5
A review of the mechanisms underlying the role of the GIPC3 gene in hereditary deafness	5
Cell-Type-Specific Adaptions in Striatal Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons and Their Roles in Behavioral Responses to Drugs of Abuse	4
Alzheimer’s disease as a synaptopathy: Evidence for dysfunction of synapses during disease progression	4
Healthy cardiac myocytes can decrease sympathetic hyperexcitability in the early stages of hypertension	4
GluN2B-NMDAR subunit contribution on synaptic plasticity: A phenomenological model for CA3-CA1 synapses	4
Editorial: NMDA receptors in physiology and disease	4
Synaptic determinants of cholinergic interneurons hyperactivity during parkinsonism	4
Modification of the synaptic cleft under excitatory conditions	4
AMPA Receptor Function in Hypothalamic Synapses	4
Participation of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in the regulation of epileptiform activity of hippocampal neurons	4
Editorial: Insights in synaptic neuroscience 2022	4
Correlative Assembly of Subsynaptic Nanoscale Organizations During Development	4
Multiple modulatory roles of serotonin in chronic pain and injury-related anxiety	4
Heightened sympathetic neuron activity and altered cardiomyocyte properties in spontaneously hypertensive rats during the postnatal period	4
Editorial: Neuroprotection in Synaptic Signalling During Neurological Disorders	4
Editorial: Quantifying and controlling the nano-architecture of neuronal synapses	4
Editorial: Brain dopaminergic mechanisms	4
Editorial: The synaptic basis of neuropathology	4
Endocannabinoid Modulation of Nucleus Accumbens Microcircuitry and Terminal Dopamine Release	4