OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Brain is 72. 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
Reply: Is postural tachycardia syndrome a psychogenic disorder?; Notes on establishing fear conditioning as causal in the postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome; Patients with POTS fear that data o	373
Clinical dimensions along the non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum	338
Correction to: Variants in the SK2 channel gene (KCNN2) lead to dominant neurodevelopmental movement disorders	329
Methodological drawbacks in the alleged association between foetal sonographic anomalies and autism	183
Biallelic ADAM22 pathogenic variants cause progressive encephalopathy and infantile-onset refractory epilepsy	181
Genetically identical twin-pair difference models support the amyloid cascade hypothesis	180
De novo variants in ATXN7L3 lead to developmental delay, hypotonia and distinctive facial features	177
Optogenetic stimulation of the superior colliculus suppresses genetic absence seizures	177
Gain-of-function and loss-of-function variants in GRIA3 lead to distinct neurodevelopmental phenotypes	177
The axon initial segment as a source of neuropathic pain	176
Clinical and genetic spectrum of 355 Chinese children with epilepsy: a trio-sequencing-based study	170
Choroid plexus mis-splicing and altered cerebrospinal fluid composition in myotonic dystrophy type 1	164
Clinical and genetic characterization of a progressive RBL2-associated neurodevelopmental disorder	163
Deep brain stimulation: a tale of two targets … and closing the loop	159
Trigeminal nerve microstructure is linked with neuroinflammation and brainstem activity in migraine	153
Dysregulated cortical excitability and tau phosphorylation in a β3 integrin mouse model of autism	151
Mapping the peripheral immune landscape of Parkinson’s disease patients with single-cell sequencing	148
Genetic evaluation of dementia with Lewy bodies implicates distinct disease subgroups	147
We’re all in this together: a rejoinder to Masud Husain’s (rant) editorial	138
Somatic variants of MAP3K3 are sufficient to cause cerebral and spinal cord cavernous malformations	136
Biallelic FRA10AC1 variants cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with growth retardation	136
Lesion correlates of impaired acoustic-phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke	134
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy interacts with neuritic amyloid plaques to promote tau and cognitive decline	130
The inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus: bridging phylogeny, ontogeny and functional anatomy	129
Thalamostriatal disconnection underpins long-term seizure freedom in frontal lobe epilepsy surgery	128

3T MRI of rapid brain activity changes driven by subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation	122
Impaired ribosome-associated quality control of C9orf72 arginine-rich dipeptide-repeat proteins	120
Speech and language markers of neurodegeneration: a call for global equity	120
Brain repair mechanisms after cell therapy for stroke	118
‘Seeding’ the idea of early diagnostics in synucleinopathies	113
A data-driven study of Alzheimer's disease related amyloid and tau pathology progression	112
18F-MK-6240 tau-PET in genetic frontotemporal dementia	104
Distinct subcellular autophagy impairments in induced neurons from patients with Huntington's disease	104
From bugs to brain: unravelling the GABA signalling networks in the brain–gut–microbiome axis	102
The use of optical coherence tomography in neurology: a review	97
‘Hippocampal innate inflammatory gliosis only’ in pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy	95
Associations between accelerated forgetting, amyloid deposition and brain atrophy in older adults	94
Peripherin is a biomarker of axonal damage in Guillain-Barré syndrome: a pathophysiological annotation	93
Source-sink connectivity: a novel interictal EEG marker for seizure localization	92
The vascular contribution of apolipoprotein E to Alzheimer’s disease	92
Diffusion MRI tracks cortical microstructural changes during the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease	90
ActivatingRAC1variants in the switch II region cause a developmental syndrome and alter neuronal morphology	89
Dysfunction of the magnocellular subdivision of the visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia	88
Brain cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease: challenges and opportunities in probe and drug development	87
Correction to: New genotype-phenotype correlations in a large European cohort of patients with sarcoglycanopathy	87
Reply: Unblinding in the lecanemab trial in Alzheimer’s disease	86
Hitching a ride on exosomes: a new approach for the delivery of siRNA-mediated therapies	86
Demystifying interictal discharges and seizure initiation in focal epilepsy	86
Multiple lines of evidence for disruption of nuclear lamina and nucleoporins in FUS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	85
Activation and sensitization of meningeal nociceptors by PACAP-38: implications for migraine headache	85
Structural covariance analysis for neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory brain disorders	84
Defective lipid signalling caused by mutations inPIK3C2Bunderlies focal epilepsy	84
Biallelic null variants in PNPLA8 cause microcephaly by reducing the number of basal radial glia	83
Clinical features and prognostic factors in adults with brain abscess	81
Molecular and clinical spectrum of epilepsy-dyskinesia syndromes: a cross-sectional study of 609 patients	81
Integrative miRNA–mRNA profiling of human epidermis: unique signature of SCN9A painful neuropathy	81
Stuttering associated with a pathogenic variant in the chaperone protein cyclophilin 40	79
Multicentre analysis of seizure outcome predicted by removal of high-frequency oscillations	79
Hippocampal synaptic failure is an early event in experimental parkinsonism with subtle cognitive deficit	79
Clinical and MRI measures to identify non-acute MOG-antibody disease in adults	78
Long-term neuropsychological trajectories in children with epilepsy: does surgery halt decline?	78
Loss-of-function variants inMYCBP2cause neurobehavioural phenotypes and corpus callosum defects	78
The three deceits of bureaucracy	77
Extra-cranial cholinergic lesions in dementia with Lewy bodies	77
Evolutionary perspectives on mRNA signatures of neurodegeneration-related brain remodelling	76
Cytotoxic T cells and plasma cells dominate early in temporal lobe epilepsy with GAD antibodies	76
GGC repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC cause uN2CpolyG cerebral amyloid angiopathy	75
New mechanistic insights into hereditary spastic paraplegias	75
Functional network reorganization precedes apathy in Parkinson’s disease: a neural marker of risk?	74
Preclinical type 2 diabetes mellitus subtypes: new insights into diabetes, depression and dementia	73
The interictal suppression hypothesis is the dominant differentiator of seizure onset zones in focal epilepsy	73
The low dimensionality of post-stroke cognitive deficits: it’s the lesion anatomy!	73