OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroscience Research is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Projection-specific and reversible functional blockage in the association cortex of macaque monkeys	103
Spinal nociceptive hypersensitivity induced by intramuscular capsaicin in rats subjected to multiple continuous stress	88
Editorial Board	87
Hemiplegic migraine type 2 with new mutation of the ATP1A2 gene in Japanese cases	79
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	48
Cellular bases for reward-related dopamine actions	48
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	44
SUMOylation effects on neural stem cells self-renewal, differentiation, and survival	38
Future projections for mammalian whole-brain simulations based on technological trends in related fields	35
The Medaka approach to evolutionary social neuroscience	33
Individual electric field predicts functional connectivity changes after anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation in chronic stroke	32
Hippocampal volume reduction is associated with direct measure of insulin resistance in adults	30
Neurochemical phenotypes of huntingtin-associated protein 1 in reference to secretomotor and vasodilator neurons in the submucosal plexuses of rodent small intestine	29
Neuroprotective role of calreticulin after spinal cord injury in mice	29
Time course of functional recovery after 1 cm sciatic nerve resection in rats with or without surgical intervention - measured by grip strength and locomotor activity	28
Conversion of silent synapses to AMPA receptor-mediated functional synapses in human cortical organoids	26
Large-scale foundation models and generative AI for BigData neuroscience	25
Microglia modulate sleep/wakefulness under baseline conditions and under acute social defeat stress in adult mice	25
IP3R1-dependent astrocyte calcium signaling in chronic itch	23
Building neuroscience with adaptive circuit census	23
Deeper neural network models better reflect how humans cope with contrast variation in object recognition	23
Editorial Board	23
Prediction error in dopamine neurons during associative learning	22
Neural mechanism of experience-dependent sensory gain control in C. elegans	22
Reduced gray matter brain volume and cortical thickness in adults with type 1 diabetes and neuropathy	21

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the LTPJ shifts the agent’s behaviors in repeated hold-up game	20
Zinc finger protein 501 maintains glioblastoma cell growth through enhancing Frizzled-6 expression	19
The neurobiology of human sequential signal prediction: Insights from language, music, and mathematics	19
New ways of studying subjective experience	19
Gait rhythm analysis as a new continuous scale for cerebellar ataxia: Power law and lognormal components represent the ataxic gait quantity	18
Role of endogenous NT-3 in neuronal activity and neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus	18
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	17
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	17
Glutamatergic neurons from the medial prefrontal cortex to the dorsal raphe nucleus regulate maternal aggression in lactating mice	17
Beta-band power modulation in the human amygdala during a Direct Reach arm reaching task	15
Sleep stage classification in EEG signals using the clustering approach based probability distribution features coupled with classification algorithms	15
Early postural adjustments in cats during a reaching task reflect strategies to predict the forthcoming target location	15
Traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease related neurodegenerative diseases: Insights from animal models	15
Inference of monosynaptic connections from parallel spike trains: A review	14
Hindering tau fibrillization by disrupting transient precursor clusters	14
Young fecal microbiota transplantation improves working memory in aged recipient rats by increasing interleukin-4 and interleukin-17 levels	14
Quantifying acute changes in neurometabolism following blast-induced traumatic brain injury	14
A novel probe for precise and symmetric bilateral in utero electroporation in the mouse	13
Focusing new light on brain functions: multiphoton microscopy for deep and super-resolution imaging	13
Firing characteristics of swallowing interneurons in the dorsal medulla during physiologically induced swallowing in perfused brainstem preparation in rats	13
A practical guide for single-cell transcriptome data analysis in neuroscience	13
Ethical, legal, social, and cultural implications of the non-clinical use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in Korea and Japan	13
Transsynaptic activation of human lumbar spinal motoneurons by transvertebral magnetic stimulation	12
Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall	12
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	12
Editorial Board	12
Neuroprotection by trans-resveratrol in rats with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)–induced retinal injury: Insights into the role of adenosine A1 receptors	12
Different properties of successful and error saccades in marmosets	12
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	11
Editorial announcement – Nearing four decades of Neuroscience Research	11
Characterization of pathological stages in a mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis	11
The neurobiology of ticklishness	11
Postnatal development of the microstructure of cortical GABAergic synapses and perineuronal nets requires sensory input	11
Fixel-based analysis of the diffusion properties of the patients with brain injury and chronic health symptoms	11
Editorial: Does big data change neuroscience?	11
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	11
Rat call-evoked electrocorticographic responses and intercortical phase synchrony impaired in a cytokine-induced animal model for schizophrenia	11
Dynamic alpha-gamma phase-amplitude coupling signatures during sevoflurane-induced loss and recovery of consciousness	10
Nociceptive chemical hypersensitivity in the spinal cord of a rat reserpine-induced fibromyalgia model	10
Influence of the descending pain-inhibiting serotonergic pathway on the antihyperalgesic effect of gabapentin in neuropathic pain model rats	10
In vivo analysis of aggregation propensity of low levels of mislocalized TDP-43 on cytopathological and behavioral phenotype of ALS/FTLD	10
Functional segregation and dynamic integration of the corticotectal descending signal in rat	10
Prolonged stress-induced depression-like behaviors in aged rats are mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in the hippocampus	10
The microglia-blood vessel interactions in the developing brain	10
Long-lasting expression of FosB/ΔFosB immunoreactivity following acute stress in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the rat hypothalamus	10
Establishment of a transgenic strain for the whole brain calcium imaging in larval medaka fish (Oryzias latipes)	10
Lateralized local circuit tuning in female mouse auditory cortex	9
Imaging data analysis using non-negative matrix factorization	9
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	9
Olfactory dysfunction and face processing of social cognition in first-episode psychosis	9

Editorial Board	9
Characterization of forehead blood flow bias on NIRS signals during neural activation with a verbal fluency task	9
Clinical availability of eye movement during reading	9
Editorial Board	9
Alternative strategy for driving voltage-oscillator in neocortex of rats	9
The therapeutic role of SSEA3(+) human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells in ischemic stroke model	9
Antidote administration in mice exposed to sarin resulted in brainwave stabilization without cognitive protection.	9
Identification of epigenetically active L1 promoters in the human brain and their relationship with psychiatric disorders	9
The role of astrocytes in behaviors related to emotion and motivation	9
BAX regulates dendritic spine development via mitochondrial fusion	9
Letting the little light of mind shine: Advances and future directions in neurochemical detection	9
Markerless analysis of hindlimb kinematics in spinal cord-injured mice through deep learning	8
Song-related brain auditory activity in Bengalese finches as examined by immediate early gene expressions: Comparison of arousal states and the correlational analyses between brain regions	8
Shank3a/b isoforms regulate the susceptibility to seizures and thalamocortical development in the early postnatal period of mice	8
Neural substrates of choking under pressure: A 7T-fMRI study	8
Cortical nicotinic enhancement of tone-evoked heightened activities and subcortical nicotinic enlargement of activated areas in mouse auditory cortex	8
The way forward for neuroethics in Japan: A review of five topics surrounding present challenges	8
Delayed gramicidin delivery through an intra-pipette capillary facilitates perforated patch recordings	8
Flexible information representation to stabilize sensory perception despite minor external input variations	8
Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets	8
Neural basis for estrous cycle-dependent control of female behaviors	8
Afferent and efferent connections of the nucleus posterior tuberis in the firemouth cichlid, Thorichthys meeki	8
Behavioral and histochemical characterization of sexually dimorphic responses to acute social isolation and reunion in mice	8
Synaptic plasticity induced by CA1 synaptic input with bursts superimposed on low-frequency rhythms	8
Early life stress and altered social behaviors: A perspective across species	8
Phldb2 is essential for regulating hippocampal dendritic spine morphology through drebrin in an adult-type isoform-specific manner	8
Safety evaluations for transtympanic laser stimulation of the cochlea in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	8
Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure	7
Corrigendum to “Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall” [Neurosci. Res. 212 (2025) 75–83]	7
Editorial Board	7
Purposive decision-making task in mice using touchscreen operant apparatus	7
Editorial Board	7
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	7
Contribution of the retrosplenial cortex to route selection in a complex maze	7
The regulation of circadian rhythm by insulin signaling in Drosophila	7
Sleep, learning, and memory in human research using noninvasive neuroimaging techniques	7
Memory reactivations during sleep	7
New granule cells in the olfactory bulb are associated with high respiratory input in an enriched odor environment	7
Metformin alleviates auditory cell senescence by mitophagy induction	7
Fluoxetine enhances the treatment of depression linked to opioid-induced constipation in mice by influencing the metabolomic profile	7
Late-spiking retrosplenial cortical neurons are not synchronized with neocortical slow waves in anesthetized mice	7
Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain	7
Escitalopram alters the hypothalamic OX system but does not affect its up-regulation induced by early-life stress in adult rats.	6
Active inference leads to Bayesian neurophysiology	6
The impact of brand longevity on consumers’ purchase intention: An ERP study	6
The cognitive reality monitoring network and theories of consciousness	6
Genetic labeling of axo-axonic cells in the basolateral amygdala	6
Coexpression of calcineurin A and B subunits in various subcellular and synaptic compartments of cerebellar neurons and glia with particular abundance at parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses	6
A systematic study of changes in monoamine neurotransmitters in the rat brain following acute administration of alpha-methyltryptamine (AMT), 5-methoxy-alpha-methyltryptamine (5-MeO-AMT) and 5-methoxy	6
Difference in infantile mother preference is associated with adult anxiety/object recognition in C57BL/6 mice	6
Holographic microscope and its biological application	6
Synaptic plasticity during systems memory consolidation	6
Fatty acid amides present in Camembert cheese improved cognitive decline after oral administration in mice	6
Multimodal analyses of a non-human primate model harboring mutant amyloid precursor protein transgenes driven by the human EF1α promoter.	6
Biased thalamic innervation onto the distinct subregion where dopamine receptor 1 is dominantly expressed in the caudal striatum	6
Lighting up cosmic neuronal networks with transformative in vivo calcium imaging	6
Automatic detection of foot-strike onsets in a rhythmic forelimb movement	6
Astrocytic and microglial interleukin-1β mediates complement C1q-triggered orofacial mechanical allodynia	6
Administration of amyloid-β oligomer to the buccal ganglia may reduce food intake and cholinergic synaptic responses within the feeding neural circuit in Aplysia kurodai	6
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	6
How to study subjective experience in an animal model of blindsight?	6
Dab1-deficient deep layer neurons prevent Dab1-deficient superficial layer neurons from entering the cortical plate	6
DJ-1 inhibits glutathione degradation by downregulating CHAC1 expression in astrocytes	6
Theta activity in semantic priming under visual crowding as revealed by magnetoencephalography	6
Neuropeptide diuretic hormone 31 mediates memory and sleep via distinct neural pathways in Drosophila	6
Neural circuit plasticity for complex non-declarative sensorimotor memory consolidation during sleep	6
A novel quadrant spatial assay reveals environmental preference in mouse spontaneous and parental behaviors	6
Corticostriatal contributions to dysregulated motivated behaviors in stress, depression, and substance use disorders	6
Correlation between the reduction in hippocampal SirT2 expression and depressive-like behaviors and neurological abnormalities in olfactory bulbectomized mice	6
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	6
Anxiety control by astrocytes in the lateral habenula	6
Editorial Board	6
Molecular mechanisms linking loss of TDP-43 function to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia-related genes	6
Number of kinesins engaged in axonal cargo transport: A novel biomarker for neurological disorders	6
Inhibition of Calcium-sensing receptors improves intestinal motility in obese mice through enteric neurons and vagal center	6