OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Neurosciences is 23. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Emerging Science of Interoception: Sensing, Integrating, Interpreting, and Regulating Signals within the Self	328
Neural Circuits of Interoception	192
Signaling by cGAS–STING in Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, and Aging	155
Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self	153
Magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG): the next generation of functional neuroimaging	149
Blood–Brain Barrier Dynamics to Maintain Brain Homeostasis	145
Prefrontal Cortex Development in Health and Disease: Lessons from Rodents and Humans	145
Circuit organization of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex	144
Astrocytic processes: from tripartite synapses to the active milieu	144
Mitochondria and Calcium in Alzheimer’s Disease: From Cell Signaling to Neuronal Cell Death	143
Diseases, Disorders, and Comorbidities of Interoception	143
Cellular senescence at the crossroads of inflammation and Alzheimer's disease	137
A Unifying Account of Angular Gyrus Contributions to Episodic and Semantic Cognition	134
The neuroinvasiveness, neurotropism, and neurovirulence of SARS-CoV-2	133
Immunometabolism in the Brain: How Metabolism Shapes Microglial Function	130
Microglial Phagocytosis: A Disease-Associated Process Emerging from Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics	125
Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder	122
Computational Models of Interoception and Body Regulation	117
Interventions and Manipulations of Interoception	114
How critical is brain criticality?	110
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: In the Challenge Lies a Solution	103
Is COVID-19 a Perfect Storm for Parkinson’s Disease?	102
Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks	100
16p11.2 Copy Number Variations and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	88
Cause or consequence? Alpha oscillations in visuospatial attention	87

Lysosomal dysfunction in neurodegeneration: emerging concepts and methods	81
Non-cell-autonomous pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	78
LRRK2 and idiopathic Parkinson’s disease	76
Modulating the Neuromodulators: Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Endocannabinoid System	75
The many dimensions of human hippocampal organization and (dys)function	75
Neurovascular coupling: motive unknown	73
Entorhinal cortex dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease	71
Neurobiology of the lateral septum: regulation of social behavior	71
Functional interplay between central and autonomic nervous systems in human fear conditioning	71
Transforming the Concept of Memory Reactivation	69
A Vessel for Change: Endothelial Dysfunction in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease	69
The Multifaceted Roles of KCC2 in Cortical Development	68
The quest for multiscale brain modeling	68
A Dendrite-Focused Framework for Understanding the Actions of Ketamine and Psychedelics	67
The use of language in autism research	67
Microglia in Cancer Therapy-Related Cognitive Impairment	66
Extracellular Vesicles as an Emerging Frontier in Spinal Cord Injury Pathobiology and Therapy	66
Basal Progenitor Morphology and Neocortex Evolution	65
How cancer hijacks the body’s homeostasis through the neuroendocrine system	65
Brain cell type-specific cholesterol metabolism and implications for learning and memory	62
Using artificial neural networks to ask ‘why’ questions of minds and brains	60
The paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus: an integrative node underlying homeostatic behavior	58
Olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19: new insights into the underlying mechanisms	57
Astrocyte and neuron cooperation in long-term depression	57
α-Synuclein in synaptic function and dysfunction	56
Mitochondria-lysosome contact site dynamics and misregulation in neurodegenerative diseases	56
50 years of mnemonic persistent activity: quo vadis?	54
Calcium-dependent docking of synaptic vesicles	53
Dopamine ‘ups and downs’ in addiction revisited	52
Macrophages on the margin: choroid plexus immune responses	52
The Tail of the Striatum: From Anatomy to Connectivity and Function	50
Where is the error? Hierarchical predictive coding through dendritic error computation	49
Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Bilateral Communication between Glioblastoma and Astrocytes	47
Interbrain synchrony: on wavy ground	47
Mitochondrial signalling and homeostasis: from cell biology to neurological disease	46
Cortical disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function	46
The foundation and architecture of precision medicine in neurology and psychiatry	45
Local cholesterol metabolism orchestrates remyelination	44
Why is everyone talking about brain state?	44
Insulin action in the brain: cell types, circuits, and diseases	43
Going beyond primary motor cortex to improve brain–computer interfaces	43
Connecting TDP-43 Pathology with Neuropathy	43
Distributional Reinforcement Learning in the Brain	43
RNA N6-Methyladenosine and the Regulation of RNA Localization and Function in the Brain	42
Regulation of GABAARs by Transmembrane Accessory Proteins	42
Mitochondrial dysfunction as a trigger of programmed axon death	42
Interferon γ: a master cytokine in microglia-mediated neural network dysfunction and neurodegeneration	41
Neural consequences of chronic sleep disruption	40
Polar angle asymmetries in visual perception and neural architecture	40
Alcohol and the brain: from genes to circuits	40

Deep learning and the Global Workspace Theory	39
The emerging association between COVID-19 and acute stroke	39
Neural basis of prosocial behavior	39
Walking with Salamanders: From Molecules to Biorobotics	39
Watch and Learn: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning from Others’ Actions	38
Proteostatic regulation in neuronal compartments	38
Translational approaches to understanding resilience to Alzheimer’s disease	38
Peripheral Innervation in the Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis	38
Beneficial and detrimental functions of microglia during viral encephalitis	38
VPS10P Domain Receptors: Sorting Out Brain Health and Disease	37
Intercellular Communication in the Nervous System Goes Viral	37
Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) agonism as a new treatment strategy for schizophrenia and related disorders	37
To look or not to look: dissociating presaccadic and covert spatial attention	37
Condensate biology of synaptic vesicle clusters	36
Mechanical Forces Orchestrate Brain Development	35
Surface-based hippocampal subfield segmentation	35
Regulation of circuit organization and function through inhibitory synaptic plasticity	34
Circuit-Based Biomarkers for Mood and Anxiety Disorders	34
Rethinking stress resilience	33
Mechanistic flexibility of the retrosplenial cortex enables its contribution to spatial cognition	32
Moving beyond amyloid and tau to capture the biological heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s disease	32
Drosophila Mechanosensory Transduction	31
The calcium-dependent protease calpain in neuronal remodeling and neurodegeneration	31
α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the hippocampal circuit: taming complexity	31
Excitotoxicity Revisited: Mitochondria on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	31
A Network Perspective on Sensorimotor Learning	30
A predictive coding framework of allostatic–interoceptive overload in frontotemporal dementia	30
Deep entorhinal cortex: from circuit organization to spatial cognition and memory	30
Spinal ascending pathways for somatosensory information processing	29
Mitochondria: new players in homeostatic regulation of firing rate set points	29
The iPSC perspective on schizophrenia	29
Oxidized phospholipids as novel mediators of neurodegeneration	29
Circadian clock, diurnal glucose metabolic rhythm, and dawn phenomenon	28
Unraveling the dynamics of dopamine release and its actions on target cells	28
Insights and opportunities for deep brain stimulation as a brain circuit intervention	28
Cognition through the lens of a body–brain dynamic system	28
Prefrontal cortex as a key node in arousal circuitry	28
How the immune system shapes neurodegenerative diseases	27
Understanding Vulnerability and Adaptation in Early Brain Development using Network Neuroscience	27
Neuroinflammation associated with ultrasound-mediated permeabilization of the blood–brain barrier	26
Foundations and implications of astrocyte heterogeneity during brain development and disease	25
Informing deep neural networks by multiscale principles of neuromodulatory systems	25
Neurobiology of brain oscillations in acute and chronic pain	25
Disabled in academia: to be or not to be, that is the question	25
Inflammasome assembly in neurodegenerative diseases	24
Bidirectional Brain-Systemic Interactions and Outcomes After TBI	24
Neurofeedback through the lens of reinforcement learning	24
Orexin (hypocretin) and addiction	24
Little cells of the little brain: microglia in cerebellar development and function	23
Construction of complex memories via parallel distributed cortical–subcortical iterative integration	23
Malnutrition and the microbiome as modifiers of early neurodevelopment	23
PTEN mutations in autism spectrum disorder and congenital hydrocephalus: developmental pleiotropy and therapeutic targets	23
How do protein aggregates escape quality control in neurodegeneration?	23
Persistent nociceptor hyperactivity as a painful evolutionary adaptation	23
Beyond sex differences: short- and long-term effects of pregnancy on the brain	23
How Bacteria Impact Host Nervous System and Behaviors: Lessons from Flies and Worms	23