OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Neurobiology is 18. 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
Ferroptosis and its potential role in the physiopathology of Parkinson’s Disease	254
Amyloid β, Tau, and α-Synuclein aggregates in the pathogenesis, prognosis, and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases	115
The thalamus integrates the macrosystems of the brain to facilitate complex, adaptive brain network dynamics	105
Neural oscillations and brain stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease	102
Astrocyte energy and neurotransmitter metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease: Integration of the glutamate/GABA-glutamine cycle	96
Glucose metabolic crosstalk and regulation in brain function and diseases	84
Left and right hemispheric lateralization of the amygdala in pain	82
Astrocyte-derived Wnt growth factors are required for endothelial blood-brain barrier maintenance	79
Activation of endothelial Wnt/β-catenin signaling by protective astrocytes repairs BBB damage in ischemic stroke	75
Layer-dependent functional connectivity methods	70
New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro- and microstructural MRI findings	70
The enigmatic fetal subplate compartment forms an early tangential cortical nexus and provides the framework for construction of cortical connectivity	70
ATP and adenosine—Two players in the control of seizures and epilepsy development	65
Imaging faster neural dynamics with fast fMRI: A need for updated models of the hemodynamic response	61
Macrophagic and microglial complexity after neuronal injury	59
The role of monoamine oxidase A in the neurobiology of aggressive, antisocial, and violent behavior: A tale of mice and men	59
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	57
Is the glymphatic system the missing link between sleep impairments and neurological disorders? Examining the implications and uncertainties	56
Nilotinib restores memory function by preventing dopaminergic neuron degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease	55
Ultrastructural view of astrocyte arborization, astrocyte-astrocyte and astrocyte-synapse contacts, intracellular vesicle-like structures, and mitochondrial network	54
Causal role of cross-frequency coupling in distinct components of cognitive control	52
l-Serine links metabolism with neurotransmission	51
Presynaptic failure in Alzheimer's disease	50
Neuronal and astroglial monocarboxylate transporters play key but distinct roles in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory formation	47
Alpha oscillations reflect suppression of distractors with increased perceptual load	46

DJ-1 in neurodegenerative diseases: Pathogenesis and clinical application	45
IL-10 normalizes aberrant amygdala GABA transmission and reverses anxiety-like behavior and dependence-induced escalation of alcohol intake	44
Role of extracellular vesicles in neurodegenerative diseases	44
Pathogenic tau accelerates aging-associated activation of transposable elements in the mouse central nervous system	43
TDP-43 pathology: From noxious assembly to therapeutic removal	41
Targeting spinal neuropeptide Y1 receptor-expressing interneurons to alleviate chronic pain and itch	40
What modulates the Mirror Neuron System during action observation?	40
Development of frontal GABA and glutamate supports excitation/inhibition balance from adolescence into adulthood	40
Toward personalized medicine in connectomic deep brain stimulation	40
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression	39
Variations of telencephalic development that paved the way for neocortical evolution	38
The functional characterization of callosal connections	37
Hemispheric asymmetries in the amygdala: A comparative primer	37
NMDA receptor-independent LTP in mammalian nervous system	36
Human hippocampal connectivity is stronger in olfaction than other sensory systems	36
The role of Extracellular Vesicles during CNS development	35
Sleep and its regulation: An emerging pathogenic and treatment frontier in Alzheimer’s disease	35
The intracellular renin-angiotensin system: Friend or foe. Some light from the dopaminergic neurons	35
The predictive global neuronal workspace: A formal active inference model of visual consciousness	35
Increased telomerase improves motor function and alpha-synuclein pathology in a transgenic mouse model of Parkinson’s disease associated with enhanced autophagy	33
Astrocytes and microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from human in vitro models	33
Neuroregenerative gene therapy to treat temporal lobe epilepsy in a rat model	33
3D promoter architecture re-organization during iPSC-derived neuronal cell differentiation implicates target genes for neurodevelopmental disorders	32
Dopamine-related striatal neurophysiology is associated with specialization of frontostriatal reward circuitry through adolescence	32
tRNA-derived fragments: A new class of non-coding RNA with key roles in nervous system function and dysfunction	32
Proper synaptic adhesion signaling in the control of neural circuit architecture and brain function	32
MST1 mediates neuronal loss and cognitive deficits: A novel therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease	31
BDNF and Netrin-1 repression by C/EBPβ in the gut triggers Parkinson’s disease pathologies, associated with constipation and motor dysfunctions	31
Neural stem cells derived from human midbrain organoids as a stable source for treating Parkinson’s disease	30
Breaking the boundaries of interacting with the human brain using adaptive closed-loop stimulation	29
P2X7-deficiency improves plasticity and cognitive abilities in a mouse model of Tauopathy	29
ApoE4 activates C/EBPβ/δ-secretase with 27-hydroxycholesterol, driving the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease	28
The hearing hippocampus	28
The role of MRS-assessed GABA in human behavioral performance	27
Genetic deletion of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors induces an age-dependent Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology	27
New acquisition techniques and their prospects for the achievable resolution of fMRI	27
Communication from the cerebellum to the neocortex during sleep spindles	27
Microglial innate memory and epigenetic reprogramming in neurological disorders	26
Dual-specificity phosphatases in mental and neurological disorders	25
The functional architecture, receptive field characteristics, and representation of objects in the visual network of the pigeon brain	25
When the time is right: Temporal dynamics of brain activity in healthy aging and dementia	25
Adiponectin ameliorates hypoperfusive cognitive deficits by boosting a neuroprotective microglial response	25
Higher and deeper: Bringing layer fMRI to association cortex	25
Acute phase markers in CSF reveal inflammatory changes in Alzheimer’s disease that intersect with pathology, APOE ε4, sex and age	25
Neuroimmune interactions and immunoengineering strategies in peripheral nerve repair	24
Inhibition of death-associated protein kinase 1 attenuates cis P-tau and neurodegeneration in traumatic brain injury	24
The role of circadian rhythm in choroid plexus functions	24
Neuroethology of acoustic communication in field crickets - from signal generation to song recognition in an insect brain	24
Distinct synaptic vesicle recycling in inhibitory nerve terminals is coordinated by SV2A	24
Chronic PERK induction promotes Alzheimer-like neuropathology in Down syndrome: Insights for therapeutic intervention	24

The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning	24
Reprogramming neurons for regeneration: The fountain of youth	24
From Alpha Diversity to Zzz: Interactions among sleep, the brain, and gut microbiota in the first year of life	24
Mice in translational neuroscience: What R we doing?	23
P2X7 receptor blockade reduces tau induced toxicity, therapeutic implications in tauopathies	23
α-synuclein aggregates induce c-Abl activation and dopaminergic neuronal loss by a feed-forward redox stress mechanism	23
Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models	23
Nonverbal auditory communication – Evidence for integrated neural systems for voice signal production and perception	22
Neuropathic pain modeling: Focus on synaptic and ion channel mechanisms	22
Using zebrafish (Danio rerio) models to understand the critical role of social interactions in mental health and wellbeing	22
Histone lysine methyltransferase SETDB1 as a novel target for central nervous system diseases	22
Neural circuitry underlying REM sleep: A review of the literature and current concepts	21
Transient beta activity and cortico-muscular connectivity during sustained motor behaviour	21
Novel amyloid-beta pathology C. elegans model reveals distinct neurons as seeds of pathogenicity	21
An amylin and calcitonin receptor agonist modulates alcohol behaviors by acting on reward-related areas in the brain	21
Attention control and the attention schema theory of consciousness	21
Adolescent sleep and the foundations of prefrontal cortical development and dysfunction	21
Adult and endemic neurogenesis in the vestibular nuclei after unilateral vestibular neurectomy	20
Autophagy as a gateway for the effects of methamphetamine: From neurotransmitter release and synaptic plasticity to psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders	20
Mutual functional dependence of cyclase-associated protein 1 (CAP1) and cofilin1 in neuronal actin dynamics and growth cone function	20
Mode of action of astrocytes in pain: From the spinal cord to the brain	20
Cytoelectric coupling: Electric fields sculpt neural activity and “tune” the brain’s infrastructure	20
Axon guidance receptors: Endocytosis, trafficking and downstream signaling from endosomes	20
Reactive astrocytes prevent maladaptive plasticity after ischemic stroke	20
Trial-by-trial dynamics of reward prediction error-associated signals during extinction learning and renewal	20
“Less is more”: A dose-response account of intranasal oxytocin pharmacodynamics in the human brain	19
The prefrontal cortex as a target for atypical antipsychotics in schizophrenia, lessons of neurodevelopmental animal models	19
Presynaptic protein synthesis and brain plasticity: From physiology to neuropathology	19
Chromosomal and environmental contributions to sex differences in the vulnerability to neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders: Implications for therapeutic interventions	19
From remembering to reconstruction: The transformative neural representation of episodic memory	19
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in serotonergic neurons improves stress resilience and promotes adult hippocampal neurogenesis	19
Neuronal ApoE4 stimulates C/EBPβ activation, promoting Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a mouse model	19
Are you an empiricist or a believer? Neural signatures of predictive strategies in humans	18
Mechanisms of microglia-mediated synapse turnover and synaptogenesis	18
HIV infection of astrocytes compromises inter-organelle interactions and inositol phosphate metabolism: A potential mechanism of bystander damage and viral reservoir survival	18
Amelioration of Tau pathology and memory deficits by targeting 5-HT7 receptor	18
Emerging role of astrocytes in oxytocin-mediated control of neural circuits and brain functions	18
Epilepsy progression is associated with cumulative DNA methylation changes in inflammatory genes	18
Early brain activity: Translations between bedside and laboratory	18
Time as the fourth dimension in the hippocampus	18
Human amygdala compared to orbitofrontal cortex connectivity, and emotion	18