OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Neurobiology is 16. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Replicating infant-specific reactive astrocyte functions in the injured adult brain	186
Opposing effects of nicotine on hypothalamic arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neurons	169
Editorial Board	130
Voltage-gated calcium channels contribute to spontaneous glutamate release directly via nanodomain coupling or indirectly via calmodulin	99
Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli	96
Signal peptide peptidase-like 2b modulates the amyloidogenic pathway and exhibits an Aβ-dependent expression in Alzheimer's disease	94
Trigeminal nerve stimulation restores hippocampal dopamine deficiency to promote cognitive recovery in traumatic brain injury	88
Uncovering and leveraging the return of voluntary motor programs after paralysis using a bi-cortical neuroprosthesis	81
Loss of TDP-43 promotes somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice	78
Perceptual hue, lightness, and chroma are represented in a multidimensional functional anatomical map in macaque V1	77
Editorial Board	74
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Immune response in retinal degenerative diseases – Time to rethink?	59
Using high spatial resolution fMRI to understand representation in the auditory network	58
A common neural code for representing imagined and inferred tastes	58
Stress-induced heme metabolic disorder in peripheral B cells contributes to depressive-like behaviors in male mice	56
Injury to thalamocortical projections following traumatic brain injury results in attractor dynamics for cortical networks	55
Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala	52
Loss of glycine receptors in the nucleus accumbens and ethanol reward in an Alzheimer´s Disease mouse model	51
ERO1A inhibition mitigates neuronal ER stress and ameliorates UBQLN2ALS phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster	47
Editorial Board	46
Manipulation of radixin phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens core modulates risky choice behavior	44
Pax3 induces target-specific reinnervation through axon collateral expression of PSA-NCAM	43

Editorial Board	40
A molecularly defined orbitofrontal cortical neuron population controls compulsive-like behavior, but not inflexible choice or habit	40
Corrigendum to “Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control” [Prog. Neurobiol. 247 (2025) 102748]	39
A tradeoff between efficiency and robustness in the hippocampal-neocortical memory network during human and rodent sleep	38
Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease	38
Decoding stress granules dynamics: Implications for neurodegenerative disease	37
Editorial Board	37
The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in Alzheimer’s disease: From pathophysiology to therapeutic approaches	37
Astrocytic AT1R deficiency ameliorates Aβ-induced cognitive deficits and synaptotoxicity through β-arrestin2 signaling	36
Partial reprogramming by cyclical overexpression of Yamanaka factors improves pathological phenotypes of tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease	35
Plexin-A4 mediates amyloid-β–induced tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease animal model	35
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals ECM remodeling-tumor stiffness-FAK as a key driver of vestibular schwannoma progression	35
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	33
Mesoscale organization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways in macaque monkey revealed by 7T fMRI	33
Selective optogenetic stimulation of glutamatergic, but not GABAergic, vestibular nuclei neurons induces immediate and reversible postural imbalance in mice	33
The omnipresence of autonomic modulation in health and disease	32
Microproteins encoded by short open reading frames: Vital regulators in neurological diseases	32
Extracellular vesicles as reconfigurable therapeutics for eye diseases: Promises and hurdles	32
The multifaceted role of the CXC chemokines and receptors signaling axes in ALS pathophysiology	32
The Celsr3-Kif2a axis directs neuronal migration in the postnatal brain	32
Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detection and regeneration	31
Astrocytic EphB3 receptors regulate d-serine-gated synaptic plasticity and memory	31
c-Abl regulates a synaptic plasticity-related transcriptional program involved in memory and learning	30
Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment	30
Traumatic brain injury recapitulates developmental changes of axons	29
New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro- and microstructural MRI findings	29
Editorial Board	29
NPTX2 transfection improves synaptic E/I balance and performance in learning impaired aged rats	29
Switching state to engage and sustain attention: Dynamic synchronization of the frontoparietal network	29
Editorial Board	29
The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 (LRP1) in Schwann cells controls mitochondria homeostasis in peripheral nerves	29
Neuronal activity and NIBS in developmental myelination and remyelination – Current state of knowledge	28
Functional organization of spatial frequency tuning in macaque V1 revealed with two-photon calcium imaging	28
Alterations of synaptic plasticity in Angelman syndrome model mice are rescued by 5-HT7R stimulation	28
Neuronal threshold functions: Determining symptom onset in neurological disorders	27
The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning	26
The fasciola cinereum subregion of the hippocampus is important for the acquisition of visual contextual memory	26
Cortical connectivity is embedded in resting state at columnar resolution	26
Neuroimmune interactions and immunoengineering strategies in peripheral nerve repair	26
Editorial Board	25
Imaging faster neural dynamics with fast fMRI: A need for updated models of the hemodynamic response	25
Negative effects of brain regulatory T cells depletion on epilepsy	24
Editorial Board	24
Configuration-sensitive face-body interactions in primate visual cortex	24
Atypical connectome topography and signal flow in temporal lobe epilepsy	24
Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control	24
Transient beta activity and cortico-muscular connectivity during sustained motor behaviour	23
HIV infection of astrocytes compromises inter-organelle interactions and inositol phosphate metabolism: A potential mechanism of bystander damage and viral reservoir survival	22
ATP and adenosine—Two players in the control of seizures and epilepsy development	21
Mutant FUS induces chromatin reorganization in the hippocampus and alters memory processes	21

Macaque V1 responses to 2nd-order contrast-modulated stimuli and the possible subcortical and cortical contributions	21
Optogenetic stimulation of CA3 pyramidal neurons restores synaptic deficits to improve spatial short-term memory in APP/PS1 mice	21
Editorial Board	20
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Causal manipulation of gaze-following in the macaque temporal cortex	19
The role of circadian rhythm in choroid plexus functions	19
Emerging role of astrocytes in oxytocin-mediated control of neural circuits and brain functions	19
Ketamine administration during adolescence impairs synaptic integration and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the adult dentate gyrus	19
Regulation of sociability by the cortico-habenula pathway in an animal model of depression	19
Astrocytic GluN2A alleviates sleep deprivation-induced elevation of Aβ through regulating neprilysin and AQP4 via the calcineurin/NFAT pathway	19
Pathogenic oligomeric Tau alters neuronal RNA processes through the formation of nuclear heteromeric amyloids with RNA-binding protein Musashi1	18
Circadian medicine for aging attenuation and sleep disorders: Prospects and challenges	18
Statistical power or more precise insights into neuro-temporal dynamics? Assessing the benefits of rapid temporal sampling in fMRI	18
Editorial Board	18
Kv1.1 channels inhibition in the rat motor cortex recapitulates seizures associated with anti-LGI1 encephalitis	18
Inhibition of death-associated protein kinase 1 attenuates cis P-tau and neurodegeneration in traumatic brain injury	18
Maladaptive reorganization following SCI: The role of body representation and multisensory integration	17
Editorial Board	17
Recurrent de novo single point variant on the gene encoding Na+/K+ pump results in epilepsy	17
Face pareidolia minimally engages macaque face selective neurons	17
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression	17
Visualization of differential GPCR crosstalk in DRD1-DRD2 heterodimer upon different dopamine levels	17
Editorial Board	17
Multiple dimensions of syntactic structure are resolved earliest in posterior temporal cortex	17
Islet amyloid polypeptide triggers α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson’s disease	16
Analogous cognitive strategies for tactile learning in the rodent and human brain	16
Tau promotes oxidative stress-associated cycling neurons in S phase as a pro-survival mechanism: Possible implication for Alzheimer’s disease	16
DJ-1 in neurodegenerative diseases: Pathogenesis and clinical application	16
Editorial Board	16
The role of TREM2 in myelin sheath dynamics: A comprehensive perspective from physiology to pathology	16
Digging into the intrinsic capacity concept: Can it be applied to Alzheimer’s disease?	16
How pushing the spatiotemporal resolution of fMRI can advance neuroscience	16
Higher and deeper: Bringing layer fMRI to association cortex	16