OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Neurosciences is 26. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Brain’s Glymphatic System: Current Controversies	342
The Emerging Science of Interoception: Sensing, Integrating, Interpreting, and Regulating Signals within the Self	295
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: From Genetics to Functional Pathways	281
Effects of Exercise on Brain and Cognition Across Age Groups and Health States	194
Neural Circuits of Interoception	174
Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self	144
The Effects of Age-Related Hearing Loss on the Brain and Cognitive Function	142
Signaling by cGAS–STING in Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, and Aging	140
Astrocytic processes: from tripartite synapses to the active milieu	135
Prefrontal Cortex Development in Health and Disease: Lessons from Rodents and Humans	133
Mitochondria and Calcium in Alzheimer’s Disease: From Cell Signaling to Neuronal Cell Death	132
Blood–Brain Barrier Dynamics to Maintain Brain Homeostasis	130
A Unifying Account of Angular Gyrus Contributions to Episodic and Semantic Cognition	126
Circuit organization of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex	126
Cellular senescence at the crossroads of inflammation and Alzheimer's disease	125
Magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG): the next generation of functional neuroimaging	124
Diseases, Disorders, and Comorbidities of Interoception	124
The neuroinvasiveness, neurotropism, and neurovirulence of SARS-CoV-2	124
Immunometabolism in the Brain: How Metabolism Shapes Microglial Function	119
Microglial Phagocytosis: A Disease-Associated Process Emerging from Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics	114
Computational Models of Interoception and Body Regulation	109
Movement-Related Signals in Sensory Areas: Roles in Natural Behavior	105
Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder	104
How Do Sensory Neurons Sense Danger Signals?	102
Interventions and Manipulations of Interoception	101

Is COVID-19 a Perfect Storm for Parkinson’s Disease?	101
How critical is brain criticality?	98
The Paradox of HIV Blood–Brain Barrier Penetrance and Antiretroviral Drug Delivery Deficiencies	92
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: In the Challenge Lies a Solution	90
Neurodevelopmental Optimization after Early-Life Adversity: Cross-Species Studies to Elucidate Sensitive Periods and Brain Mechanisms to Inform Early Intervention	88
Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks	85
A Multi-Brain Framework for Social Interaction	83
16p11.2 Copy Number Variations and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	82
Cause or consequence? Alpha oscillations in visuospatial attention	80
The many dimensions of human hippocampal organization and (dys)function	71
Functional interplay between central and autonomic nervous systems in human fear conditioning	70
Non-cell-autonomous pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	70
Principles of Corticocortical Communication: Proposed Schemes and Design Considerations	69
Lysosomal dysfunction in neurodegeneration: emerging concepts and methods	68
Modulating the Neuromodulators: Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Endocannabinoid System	66
Tapping into Multi-Faceted Human Behavior and Psychopathology Using fMRI Brain Dynamics	65
The Distributed Nociceptive System: A Framework for Understanding Pain	65
A Vessel for Change: Endothelial Dysfunction in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease	64
LRRK2 and idiopathic Parkinson’s disease	64
The Multifaceted Roles of KCC2 in Cortical Development	64
The Gut–CNS Axis in Multiple Sclerosis	64
Neurobiology of the lateral septum: regulation of social behavior	63
Microglia in Cancer Therapy-Related Cognitive Impairment	63
A Dendrite-Focused Framework for Understanding the Actions of Ketamine and Psychedelics	63
Transforming the Concept of Memory Reactivation	63
Basal Progenitor Morphology and Neocortex Evolution	62
The quest for multiscale brain modeling	62
Resurrecting the Mysteries of Big Tau	60
Neurovascular coupling: motive unknown	59
Extracellular Vesicles as an Emerging Frontier in Spinal Cord Injury Pathobiology and Therapy	58
The use of language in autism research	57
Entorhinal cortex dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease	56
How cancer hijacks the body’s homeostasis through the neuroendocrine system	55
How Outcome Uncertainty Mediates Attention, Learning, and Decision-Making	55
Brain cell type-specific cholesterol metabolism and implications for learning and memory	54
Mitochondria-lysosome contact site dynamics and misregulation in neurodegenerative diseases	50
Calcium-dependent docking of synaptic vesicles	50
Dopamine ‘ups and downs’ in addiction revisited	49
Astrocyte and neuron cooperation in long-term depression	49
The paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus: an integrative node underlying homeostatic behavior	49
Closing in on Mechanisms of Open Neural Tube Defects	49
Olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19: new insights into the underlying mechanisms	49
The Tail of the Striatum: From Anatomy to Connectivity and Function	48
Circular RNAs: The Brain Transcriptome Comes Full Circle	48
Autophagy in Neuronal Development and Plasticity	47
50 years of mnemonic persistent activity: quo vadis?	47
Using artificial neural networks to ask ‘why’ questions of minds and brains	46
Interbrain synchrony: on wavy ground	45
Macrophages on the margin: choroid plexus immune responses	45
Connecting TDP-43 Pathology with Neuropathy	43

Cortical disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function	43
The Role of Astrocytes in Remyelination	43
Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Bilateral Communication between Glioblastoma and Astrocytes	43
Going beyond primary motor cortex to improve brain–computer interfaces	41
Distributional Reinforcement Learning in the Brain	41
Where is the error? Hierarchical predictive coding through dendritic error computation	40
Insulin action in the brain: cell types, circuits, and diseases	40
The foundation and architecture of precision medicine in neurology and psychiatry	39
Walking with Salamanders: From Molecules to Biorobotics	39
Local cholesterol metabolism orchestrates remyelination	39
α-Synuclein in synaptic function and dysfunction	39
Mitochondrial signalling and homeostasis: from cell biology to neurological disease	39
RNA N6-Methyladenosine and the Regulation of RNA Localization and Function in the Brain	38
Regulation of GABAARs by Transmembrane Accessory Proteins	38
Mitochondrial dysfunction as a trigger of programmed axon death	38
Do Nicotinic Receptors Modulate High-Order Cognitive Processing?	37
The emerging association between COVID-19 and acute stroke	36
Alcohol and the brain: from genes to circuits	36
Kalirin and Trio: RhoGEFs in Synaptic Transmission, Plasticity, and Complex Brain Disorders	36
Deep learning and the Global Workspace Theory	36
Hypothalamic Interactions with Large-Scale Neural Circuits Underlying Reinforcement Learning and Motivated Behavior	36
Beneficial and detrimental functions of microglia during viral encephalitis	35
Neural consequences of chronic sleep disruption	35
To look or not to look: dissociating presaccadic and covert spatial attention	35
Intercellular Communication in the Nervous System Goes Viral	34
Watch and Learn: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning from Others’ Actions	34
Proteostatic regulation in neuronal compartments	33
VPS10P Domain Receptors: Sorting Out Brain Health and Disease	33
Peripheral Innervation in the Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis	33
Interferon γ: a master cytokine in microglia-mediated neural network dysfunction and neurodegeneration	33
Mechanical Forces Orchestrate Brain Development	33
Translational approaches to understanding resilience to Alzheimer’s disease	33
Circuit-Based Biomarkers for Mood and Anxiety Disorders	32
Surface-based hippocampal subfield segmentation	32
Why is everyone talking about brain state?	32
Shedding Light on Chandelier Cell Development, Connectivity, and Contribution to Neural Disorders	32
Polar angle asymmetries in visual perception and neural architecture	31
The calcium-dependent protease calpain in neuronal remodeling and neurodegeneration	31
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) agonism as a new treatment strategy for schizophrenia and related disorders	31
Neural basis of prosocial behavior	31
Deep entorhinal cortex: from circuit organization to spatial cognition and memory	30
Drosophila Mechanosensory Transduction	29
Excitotoxicity Revisited: Mitochondria on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	29
A predictive coding framework of allostatic–interoceptive overload in frontotemporal dementia	28
Mechanistic flexibility of the retrosplenial cortex enables its contribution to spatial cognition	28
The iPSC perspective on schizophrenia	28
Oxidized phospholipids as novel mediators of neurodegeneration	27
α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the hippocampal circuit: taming complexity	27
A Network Perspective on Sensorimotor Learning	27
Rethinking stress resilience	27
Mitochondria: new players in homeostatic regulation of firing rate set points	26
Condensate biology of synaptic vesicle clusters	26
An Emerging Role for Prolactin in Female-Selective Pain	26
Understanding Vulnerability and Adaptation in Early Brain Development using Network Neuroscience	26
Regulation of circuit organization and function through inhibitory synaptic plasticity	26