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Papers

(The median citation count of Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience is 5. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Brain serotonergic system	85
Towards a Comprehensive Optical Connectome at Single Synapse Resolution via Expansion Microscopy	83
Neurexins and their ligands at inhibitory synapses	43
Synaptic spinules are reliable indicators of excitatory presynaptic bouton size and strength and are ubiquitous components of excitatory synapses in CA1 hippocampus	42
Editorial: Subcellular computations and information processing	41
Organization of Presynaptic Autophagy-Related Processes	38
A Multisubcellular Compartment Model of AMPA Receptor Trafficking for Neuromodulation of Hebbian Synaptic Plasticity	37
Memory retrieval, reconsolidation, and extinction: Exploring the boundary conditions of post-conditioning cue exposure	35
cAMP-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Terminal	34
Glucagon-like peptide 1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide hormones and novel receptor agonists protect synapses in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases	32
Correlative Live-Cell and Super-Resolution Imaging to Link Presynaptic Molecular Organisation With Function	32
High-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging Combined With Computer Simulations to Quantitate Surface Dynamics and Nanoscale Organization of Neuroligin-1 at Synapses	31
Triose-phosphate isomerase deficiency is associated with a dysregulation of synaptic vesicle recycling in Drosophila melanogaster	31
The Wingless planar cell polarity pathway is essential for optimal activity-dependent synaptic plasticity	31
Heightened sympathetic neuron activity and altered cardiomyocyte properties in spontaneously hypertensive rats during the postnatal period	30
Editorial: Role of protein palmitoylation in synaptic plasticity and neuronal differentiation, volume II	27
Editorial: Synaptic plasticity and dysfunction, friend or foe?	26
Editorial: The synaptic basis of neuropathology	26
β-adrenergic receptor-induced E-S potentiation in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus	24
Parvalbumin Interneurons and Perineuronal Nets in the Hippocampus and Retrosplenial Cortex of Adult Male Mice After Early Social Isolation Stress and Perinatal NMDA Receptor Antagonist Treatment	24
Age-Specific Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex LTP by Glucocorticoid Receptors Following Brief Exposure to HFD	23
Editorial: The Emerging Role of Endocannabinoids in Synaptic Plasticity, Reward, and Addiction	21
(M)Unc13s in Active Zone Diversity: A Drosophila Perspective	20
Pharmacological and Biophysical Characteristics of Picrotoxin-Resistant, δSubunit-Containing GABAA Receptors	20
Regulation of Inhibitory Signaling at the Receptor and Cellular Level; Advances in Our Understanding of GABAergic Neurotransmission and the Mechanisms by Which It Is Disrupted in Epilepsy	17

Cryo-EM tomography and automatic segmentation delineate modular structures in the postsynaptic density	17
Editorial: Plasticity of inhibitory cells in health and disease	16
Cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) transcription factor in astrocytic synaptic communication	16
Killer or helper? The mechanism underlying the role of adenylate activated kinase in sound conditioning	15
Differential modulation of collybistin conformational dynamics by the closely related GTPases Cdc42 and TC10	15
Editorial: Synaptopathies: from bench to bedside	15
Synaptic Density and Neuronal Metabolic Function Measured by Positron Emission Tomography in the Unilateral 6-OHDA Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease	14
Cell-autonomous and differential endocannabinoid signaling impacts the development of presynaptic retinal ganglion cell axon connectivity in vivo	14
Editorial: Activated Synapses	14
Presynaptic Mitochondria Communicate With Release Sites for Spatio-Temporal Regulation of Exocytosis at the Motor Nerve Terminal	13
Editorial: Perineuronal Nets as Therapeutic Targets for the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders	13
Editorial: Insights in synaptic neuroscience 2022	13
The effect of single-cell knockout of Fragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein on synaptic structural plasticity	13
Dentate Granule Cells Are Hyperexcitable in the TgF344-AD Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease	12
High frequency stimulation activates hot spots of spontaneous synaptic transmission	12
Different Synaptic Plasticity After Physiological and Psychological Stress in the Anterior Insular Cortex in an Observational Fear Mouse Model	12
Recording plasticity in neuronal activity in the rodent intrinsic cardiac nervous system using calcium imaging techniques	10
Reducing Auditory Nerve Excitability by Acute Antagonism of Ca2+-Permeable AMPA Receptors	10
Cellular basis of learning and memory in the carotid body	10
Chemical Imaging and Analysis of Single Nerve Cells by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Cellular Electrochemistry	10
Synaptic plasticity through a naturalistic lens	9
Room for Two: The Synaptophysin/Synaptobrevin Complex	9
Contribution of Membrane Lipids to Postsynaptic Protein Organization	9
Palmitoylation of A-kinase anchoring protein 79/150 modulates its nanoscale organization, trafficking, and mobility in postsynaptic spines	9
Transsynaptic Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus of Behaving Mice	9
SHANK3 Antibody Validation: Differential Performance in Western Blotting, Immunocyto- and Immunohistochemistry	9
Resilient Hippocampal Gamma Rhythmogenesis and Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneuron Function Before and After Plaque Burden in 5xFAD Alzheimer’s Disease Model	9
Serotonin as a volume transmission signal in the “simple nervous system” of mollusks: From axonal guidance to behavioral orchestration	8
Bringing synapses into focus: Recent advances in synaptic imaging and mass-spectrometry for studying synaptopathy	8
Light Sheet Illumination for 3D Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging of Neuronal Synapses	8
rTg(TauP301L)4510 mice exhibit increased VGlut1 in hippocampal presynaptic glutamatergic vesicles and increased extracellular glutamate release	8
Intracellular Properties of Deep-Layer Pyramidal Neurons in Frontal Eye Field of Macaque Monkeys	8
Protein phosphatase-1 inhibitor-2 promotes PP1γ positive regulation of synaptic transmission	8
Age-related changes in olivocochlear efferent innervation in gerbils	8
Enhanced Non-Associative Long-Term Potentiation in Immature Granule Cells in the Dentate Gyrus of Adult Rats	8
Rapid sequential clustering of NMDARs, CaMKII, and AMPARs upon activation of NMDARs at developing synapses	8
Rethinking the network determinants of motor disability in Parkinson’s disease	8
Dynamics of Neuromuscular Transmission Reproduced by Calcium-Dependent and Reversible Serial Transitions in the Vesicle Fusion Complex	7
Fear Memory Retrieval Is Associated With a Reduction in AMPA Receptor Density at Thalamic to Amygdala Intercalated Cell Synapses	7
Cellular Strategies for Frequency-Dependent Computation of Interaural Time Difference	7
Editorial: Structural and quantitative modeling of synapses	7
Distinctive biophysical features of human cell-types: insights from studies of neurosurgically resected brain tissue	7
Identification of Synaptic DGKθ Interactors That Stimulate DGKθ Activity	7
Hearing Loss Increases Inhibitory Effects of Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation on Sound Evoked Activity in Medial Geniculate Nucleus	7
mGluR-dependent plasticity in rodent models of Alzheimer’s disease	6
Jacob, a Synapto-Nuclear Protein Messenger Linking N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Activation to Nuclear Gene Expression	6
Astrocyte: A Foe or a Friend in Intellectual Disability-Related Diseases	6
Cell-Type-Specific Adaptions in Striatal Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons and Their Roles in Behavioral Responses to Drugs of Abuse	6
Palmitoylation-regulated interactions of the pseudokinase calmodulin kinase-like vesicle-associated with membranes and Arc/Arg3.1	6
Unraveling Functional Diversity of Cortical Synaptic Architecture Through the Lens of Population Coding	6

Hypothesis Relating the Structure, Biochemistry and Function of Active Zone Material Macromolecules at a Neuromuscular Junction	5
Dexmedetomidine and Ketamine Attenuated Neuropathic Pain Related Behaviors via STING Pathway to Induce ER-Phagy	5
Diverse organization of voltage-gated calcium channels at presynaptic active zones	5
GRIN2B-related neurodevelopmental disorder: current understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms	5
A novel peptide inhibitor of TRPM2 channels improves recovery of memory function following traumatic brain injury	5
Roles of AMPA receptors in social behaviors	5
Perineuronal Net Receptor PTPσ Regulates Retention of Memories	5
Nano-Organization at the Synapse: Segregation of Distinct Forms of Neurotransmission	5
Molecular mechanisms of synaptogenesis	5
Corrigendum: Correlative Live-Cell and Super-Resolution Imaging to Link Presynaptic Molecular Organisation With Function	5
A Quantitative Perspective of Alpha-Synuclein Dynamics – Why Numbers Matter	5
Endocannabinoids Released in the Ventral Tegmental Area During Copulation to Satiety Modulate Changes in Glutamate Receptors Associated With Synaptic Plasticity Processes	5
Complementary Use of Super-Resolution Imaging Modalities to Study the Nanoscale Architecture of Inhibitory Synapses	5
The Shaping of AMPA Receptor Surface Distribution by Neuronal Activity	5
Mechanisms Underlying Mu Opioid Receptor Effects on Parallel Fiber-Purkinje Cell Synaptic Transmission in Mouse Cerebellar Cortex	5
The Yin and Yang of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Synaptic Plasticity: Opposites in Balance by Crosstalking Mechanisms	5