OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Brain Structure & Function is 8. 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
Reply to the letter to the Editor	106
Comparative anatomical analysis of dopamine systems in Mus musculus and Peromyscus californicus	97
Dynamic and stationary brain connectivity during movie watching as revealed by functional MRI	72
Cytochrome oxidase “blobs”: a call for more anatomy	59
Geometric effects of volume-to-surface mapping of fMRI data	57
Longitudinal investigation of brain activation during motor tasks in Friedreich ataxia: 24-month data from IMAGE-FRDA	50
Motor awareness: a model based on neurological syndromes	50
Brain Structure and Function: the first 15 years—a retrospective	47
Spatial–temporal topography in neurogenesis of the macaque thalamus	41
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting residual signals can disassociate human grey matter regions	38
Human primary visual cortex shows larger population receptive fields for binocular disparity-defined stimuli	36
Correction to: GABAergic interneurons’ feedback inhibition of dorsal raphe‑projecting pyramidal neurons of the medial prefrontal cortex suppresses feeding of adolescent female mice undergoing activity	35
Characterization of orexin input to dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area projecting to the medial prefrontal cortex and shell of nucleus accumbens	34
Cortico-amygdalar connectivity and externalizing/internalizing behavior in children with neurodevelopmental disorders	33
Prevalence of the interthalamic adhesion in the human brain: a review of literature	33
Letter to the Editor regarding “Hodology of the superior longitudinal system of the human brain: a historical perspective, the current controversies, and a proposal”	31
Is the central mesencephalic reticular formation a purely horizontal gaze center?	31
The role of the angular gyrus in arithmetic processing: a literature review	29
Subcellular localization of D2 receptors in the murine substantia nigra	29
Early musical training shapes cortico-cerebellar structural covariation	29
Correction to: Wrist and finger motor representations embedded in the cerebral and cerebellar resting-state activation	27
Morphological and hemispheric and sex differences of the anterior ascending ramus and the horizontal ascending ramus of the lateral sulcus	27
The PV2 cluster of parvalbumin neurons in the murine periaqueductal gray: connections and gene expression	27
Enhanced habit formation in Tourette patients explained by shortcut modulation in a hierarchical cortico-basal ganglia model	27
Different changes in pre- and postsynaptic components in the hippocampal CA1 subfield after transient global cerebral ischemia	26

Neural encoding and functional interactions underlying pantomimed movements	25
Direct comparison of contralateral bias and face/scene selectivity in human occipitotemporal cortex	24
Marmosets: a promising model for probing the neural mechanisms underlying complex visual networks such as the frontal–parietal network	24
Mapping the functional brain state of a world champion freediver in static dry apnea	22
Lessons from behavioral lateralization in olfaction	21
Architecture and connectivity of the human angular gyrus and of its homolog region in the macaque brain	21
Interaction of the salience network, ventral attention network, dorsal attention network and default mode network in neonates and early development of the bottom-up attention system	21
Delineating neural responses and functional connectivity changes during vestibular and nociceptive stimulation reveal the uniqueness of cortical vestibular processing	21
Causal involvement of the left angular gyrus in higher functions as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation: a systematic review	20
A depression network caused by brain tumours	19
Aberrant topological organization and age-related differences in the human connectome in subjective cognitive decline by using regional morphology from magnetic resonance imaging	19
Structural properties of corpus callosum are associated differently with verbal creativity and visual creativity	19
Spatio-temporal brain dynamics of self-identity: an EEG source analysis of the current and past self	18
Experience-dependent plasticity in early stations of sensory processing in mature brains: effects of environmental enrichment on dendrite measures in trigeminal nuclei	18
Vision for action: thalamic and cortical inputs to the macaque superior parietal lobule	18
Efferent and afferent connections of supratrigeminal neurons conveying orofacial muscle proprioception in rats	18
Understanding structure–function relationships in the mammalian visual system: part two	18
Establishing the functional relevancy of white matter connections in the visual system and beyond	18
Training causes activation increase in temporo-parietal and parietal regions in children with mathematical disabilities	18
Sex differences in brain homotopic co-activations: a meta-analytic study	18
Correction to: Comparing astrocytic gap junction of genetic absence epileptic rats with control rats: an experimental study	18
Increased excitability of hippocampal neurons in mature synaptopodin-knockout mice	17
Hippocampus-based static functional connectivity mapping within white matter in mild cognitive impairment	17
Investigating sexual dimorphism in human brain structure by combining multiple indexes of brain morphology and source-based morphometry	17
Stroke disconnectome decodes reading networks	17
Assessing functional reorganization in visual cortex with simulated retinal lesions	17
In vivo restricted diffusion imaging (RDI) is sensitive to differences in axonal density in typical children and adults	16
Correction to: Ketogenic diet impairs neurological development of neonatal rats and affects biochemical composition of maternal brains: evidence of functional recovery in pups	16
Mechanism underpinning the sharpening of orientation and spatial frequency selectivities in the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) primary visual cortex	16
Individual variability in the size and organization of the human arcuate nucleus of the medulla	16
The retrocalcarine sulcus maps different retinotopic representations in macaques and humans	16
Individual variability in the nonlinear development of the corpus callosum during infancy and toddlerhood: a longitudinal MRI analysis	16
Cortical visual area CSv as a cingulate motor area: a sensorimotor interface for the control of locomotion	16
Convergence of forepaw somatosensory and motor cortical projections in the striatum, claustrum, thalamus, and pontine nuclei of cats	15
Disconnections in personal neglect	15
Tract profiles of the cerebellar peduncles in children who stutter	15
Application of the anatomical fiducials framework to a clinical dataset of patients with Parkinson’s disease	15
Presence or absence of a prefrontal sulcus is linked to reasoning performance during child development	14
Distribution of brain oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptors in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): comparison with humans and other primate species	14
Characterization of structural and functional network organization after focal prefrontal lesions in humans in proof of principle study	13
Secondary rewards acquire enhanced incentive motivation via increasing anticipatory activity of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex	13
Parietal maps of visual signals for bodily action planning	13
Neurophysiological considerations for visual implants	13
Dissociated face- and word-selective intracerebral responses in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex	13
Additional fiber orientations in the sagittal stratum—noise or anatomical fine structure?	13
Correspondence between cognitive and neural representations for phonology, orthography, and semantics in supramarginal compared to angular gyrus	12
Tasks activating the default mode network map multiple functional systems	12
Neurogranin-like immunoreactivity in the zebrafish brain during development	12
The connections of neocortical pyramidal cells can implement the learning of new categories, attractor memory, and top–down recall and attention	12
Tracing in vivo the dorsal loop of the optic radiation: convergent perspectives from tractography and electrophysiology compared to a neuroanatomical ground truth	12

Structural connectivity in ventral language pathways characterizes non-verbal autism	12
Brain disconnections refine the relationship between brain structure and function	12
A short review on emotion processing: a lateralized network of neuronal networks	12
Structural connectivity and subcellular changes after antidepressant doses of ketamine and Ro 25-6981 in the rat: an MRI and immuno-labeling study	12
Stereological estimations and neurochemical characterization of neurons expressing GABAA and GABAB receptors in the rat pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei	12
Revisiting horizontal connectivity rules in V1: from like-to-like towards like-to-all	12
A hands-on tutorial on network and topological neuroscience	11
Hypothalamic volume and asymmetry in the pediatric population: a retrospective MRI study	11
Angular gyrus: an anatomical case study for association cortex	11
The relationship between transcription and eccentricity in human V1	11
Development of white matter tracts between and within the dorsal and ventral streams	11
The effect of the PARK16 rs11240572 variant on brain structure in Parkinson's disease	11
Rnd3 is necessary for the correct oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination in the central nervous system	11
Concurrent interactions between prefrontal cortex and hippocampus during a spatial working memory task	11
Topographical functional correlates of interindividual differences in executive functions in young healthy twins	11
Multiple functions of the angular gyrus at high temporal resolution	11
In vivo symmetric multi-contrast MRI brain templates and atlas for spontaneously hypertensive rats	11
Cortical thickness of primary motor and vestibular brain regions predicts recovery from fall and balance directly after spaceflight	11
Evaluating the rare cases of cortical vertigo using disconnectome mapping	10
Structure can predict function in the human brain: a graph neural network deep learning model of functional connectivity and centrality based on structural connectivity	10
Assessment of structural disconnections in gliomas: comparison of indirect and direct approaches	10
In vivo probabilistic atlas of white matter tracts of the human subthalamic area combining track density imaging and optimized diffusion tractography	10
High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex modulates decision-making and executive control	10
Orexin A peptidergic system: comparative sleep behavior, morphology and population in brains between wild type and Alzheimer’s disease mice	10
Imaging functional neuroplasticity in human white matter tracts	10
Ketogenic diet impairs neurological development of neonatal rats and affects biochemical composition of maternal brains: evidence of functional recovery in pups	10
Cytoarchitectonic parcellation and functional characterization of four new areas in the caudal parahippocampal cortex	10
Anatomy and histology of the Göttingen minipig adenohypophysis with special emphasis on the polypeptide hormones: GH, PRL, and ACTH	10
Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript peptide- and dopamine-containing systems interact in the ventral tegmental area of the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, during dynamic changes in energy	10
The impact of aging on human brain network target controllability	10
Discernible effects of tDCS over the primary motor and posterior parietal cortex on different stages of motor learning	10
B3Pdb: an archive of blood–brain barrier-penetrating peptides	10
A tale of two gradients: differences between the left and right hemispheres predict semantic cognition	10
Coding of interceptive saccades in parietal cortex of macaque monkeys	10
Asymmetry of brain structure and function: 40 years after Sperry’s Nobel Prize	10
Unique patterns of hearing loss and cognition in older adults’ neural responses to cues for speech recognition difficulty	9
An integrated TMS-EEG and MRI approach to explore the interregional connectivity of the default mode network	9
Dual medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus projecting neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus	9
Task-related connectivity of decision points during spatial navigation in a schematic map	9
Receptor architecture of macaque and human early visual areas: not equal, but comparable	9
Understanding structure–function relationships in the mammalian visual system: part one	9
Properties of the epileptiform activity in the cingulate cortex of a mouse model of LIS1 dysfunction	9
Manual delineation approaches for direct imaging of the subcortex	9
Nigral neuropathology of Parkinson’s motor subtypes coincide with circuitopathies: a scoping review	9
From words to phrases: neural basis of social event semantic composition	9
The connectional anatomy of visual mental imagery: evidence from a patient with left occipito-temporal damage	9
Correction to: Extracellular matrix controls neuronal features that mediate the persistence of fear	9
The selective contributions of right cerebellar lobules to reading	9
The effects of bilingualism on hippocampal volume in ageing bilinguals	9
Anatomy and physiology of word-selective visual cortex: from visual features to lexical processing	9
Is it left or is it right? A classification approach for investigating hemispheric differences in low and high dimensionality	9
The role of the default mode network in longitudinal functional brain reorganization of brain gliomas	9
White matter tract conductivity is resistant to wide variations in paranodal structure and myelin thickness accompanying the loss of Tyro3: an experimental and simulated analysis	8
Medial temporal lobe contributions to resting-state networks	8
A novel male Japanese quail structural connectivity atlas using ultra-high field diffusion MRI at 11.7 T	8
FKBP5 intron 7 methylation is associated with higher anxiety proneness and smaller right thalamus volume in adolescents	8
Volume reduction without neuronal loss in the primate pulvinar complex following striate cortex lesions	8
Chemogenetic inhibition of prefrontal projection neurons constrains top–down control of attention in young but not aged rats	8
Diffeomorphic registration for retinotopic maps of multiple visual regions	8
Coexistence of the social semantic effect and non-semantic effect in the default mode network	8
Endocranial asymmetry in New World monkeys: a comparative phylogenetic analysis of morphometric data	8
Direct intracranial recordings in the human angular gyrus during arithmetic processing	8
Similarity in activity and laterality patterns in the angular gyrus during autobiographical memory retrieval and self-referential processing	8