OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Neurobiology is 13. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Opposing effects of nicotine on hypothalamic arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neurons	239
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Loss of TDP-43 promotes somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice	88
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Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli	72
Uncovering and leveraging the return of voluntary motor programs after paralysis using a bi-cortical neuroprosthesis	61
NEIL3 shapes hippocampal network dynamics and fear memory through modulation of PV+ interneurons	60
Signal peptide peptidase-like 2b modulates the amyloidogenic pathway and exhibits an Aβ-dependent expression in Alzheimer's disease	55
Trigeminal nerve stimulation restores hippocampal dopamine deficiency to promote cognitive recovery in traumatic brain injury	55
The VGLUT3 positive neurons of the median raphe region promote long-term spatial memory through time-dependent mechanisms	53
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A common neural code for representing imagined and inferred tastes	51
Deletion of Fbxo25 causes excessive repetitive behavior, impaired recognition memory, reduced dendritic complexity, and aberrant protein expression in mice	50
Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala	50
Stress-induced heme metabolic disorder in peripheral B cells contributes to depressive-like behaviors in male mice	47
Stimulus-driven rivalry among V1 neurons	46
Immune response in retinal degenerative diseases – Time to rethink?	46
Loss of glycine receptors in the nucleus accumbens and ethanol reward in an Alzheimer´s Disease mouse model	44
Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease	44
Glycine and glycine transport control dendritic excitability and spiking	41
A tradeoff between efficiency and robustness in the hippocampal-neocortical memory network during human and rodent sleep	40
Pax3 induces target-specific reinnervation through axon collateral expression of PSA-NCAM	40
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Manipulation of radixin phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens core modulates risky choice behavior	37
A molecularly defined orbitofrontal cortical neuron population controls compulsive-like behavior, but not inflexible choice or habit	36
Corrigendum to “Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control” [Prog. Neurobiol. 247 (2025) 102748]	35
ERO1A inhibition mitigates neuronal ER stress and ameliorates UBQLN2ALS phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster	34
The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in Alzheimer’s disease: From pathophysiology to therapeutic approaches	34
Decoding stress granules dynamics: Implications for neurodegenerative disease	33
Mesoscale organization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways in macaque monkey revealed by 7T fMRI	33
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals ECM remodeling-tumor stiffness-FAK as a key driver of vestibular schwannoma progression	33
Astrocytic AT1R deficiency ameliorates Aβ-induced cognitive deficits and synaptotoxicity through β-arrestin2 signaling	33
NPTX2 transfection improves synaptic E/I balance and performance in learning impaired aged rats	29
The neurobiology of major depressive disorder: Updates and perspectives from proteomics	29
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	29
Partial reprogramming by cyclical overexpression of Yamanaka factors improves pathological phenotypes of tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease	29
Microproteins encoded by short open reading frames: Vital regulators in neurological diseases	27
Extracellular vesicles as reconfigurable therapeutics for eye diseases: Promises and hurdles	26
Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detection and regeneration	26
Astrocytic EphB3 receptors regulate d-serine-gated synaptic plasticity and memory	26
The multifaceted role of the CXC chemokines and receptors signaling axes in ALS pathophysiology	26
Traumatic brain injury recapitulates developmental changes of axons	25
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Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment	25
Npas4 drives the effects of early social isolation on social behaviors and prefrontal parvalbumin neurons	24
Alterations of synaptic plasticity in Angelman syndrome model mice are rescued by 5-HT7R stimulation	24
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Switching state to engage and sustain attention: Dynamic synchronization of the frontoparietal network	23
Neuronal threshold functions: Determining symptom onset in neurological disorders	23
Distinct Layer 6b transcriptomic subtypes parcellate the cortical mantle	23
Inhibiting the JAK-STAT3 pathway in nucleus accumbens astrocytes alleviates cocaine-induced motor hyperactivity	23
The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 (LRP1) in Schwann cells controls mitochondria homeostasis in peripheral nerves	23
Effects of oxytocin receptor ligands on anxiogenic-like effect, social avoidance and changes on medial prefrontal cortex oxytocin receptor expression evoked by chronic social defeat stress in rats	22
Pattern separation memory requires Cerebellin 4 – Neogenin 1 signaling at dentate gyrus synapses	22
The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning	22
Editorial Board	22
Neuronal activity and NIBS in developmental myelination and remyelination – Current state of knowledge	22
Mutant FUS induces chromatin reorganization in the hippocampus and alters memory processes	21
Configuration-sensitive face-body interactions in primate visual cortex	21
Atypical connectome topography and signal flow in temporal lobe epilepsy	21
CA3 transiently modulates spatial representation in CA1	20
Ketamine administration during adolescence impairs synaptic integration and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the adult dentate gyrus	20
Negative effects of brain regulatory T cells depletion on epilepsy	20
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Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control	20
Editorial Board	19
Macaque V1 responses to 2nd-order contrast-modulated stimuli and the possible subcortical and cortical contributions	19
Regulation of sociability by the cortico-habenula pathway in an animal model of depression	18
Causal manipulation of gaze-following in the macaque temporal cortex	18
Astrocytic GluN2A alleviates sleep deprivation-induced elevation of Aβ through regulating neprilysin and AQP4 via the calcineurin/NFAT pathway	18
Emerging role of astrocytes in oxytocin-mediated control of neural circuits and brain functions	18
Editorial Board	17
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Circadian medicine for aging attenuation and sleep disorders: Prospects and challenges	17
Recurrent de novo single point variant on the gene encoding Na+/K+ pump results in epilepsy	17
Pathogenic oligomeric Tau alters neuronal RNA processes through the formation of nuclear heteromeric amyloids with RNA-binding protein Musashi1	17
Lateralized visuotopic organization in the macaque superior colliculus revealed by fMRI	17
Oxytocin and social neuroscience - sexually dimorphic OXTR neurons in mouse preoptic area	16
Love, death, and oxytocin: In memory of Larry Young	16
Multiple dimensions of syntactic structure are resolved earliest in posterior temporal cortex	16
The flexible synapse – How mossy fiber architecture adapts to changing needs	16
Editorial Board	15
Expanding the stimulus domain: Co-occurrence of motion and body-category selectivity in the macaque ventral STS	15
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Sustained inhibitory dysfunction in complement component C1qa-deficient mice underlies epilepsy and comorbidities	15
Islet amyloid polypeptide triggers α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson’s disease	14
ABCA7 deficiency exacerbates glutamate excitotoxicity in Alzheimer’s disease mice – A new pharmacological target for Glu-related neurotoxicity	14
Analogous cognitive strategies for tactile learning in the rodent and human brain	14
Editorial Board	14
Tau promotes oxidative stress-associated cycling neurons in S phase as a pro-survival mechanism: Possible implication for Alzheimer’s disease	14
Editorial Board	14
Early top-down control of internal selection induced by retrospective cues in visual working memory: advantage of peripheral over central cues	13
Beyond neurons: How does dopamine signaling impact astrocytic functions and pathophysiology?	13
Distinct brain networks for remote episodic memory depending on content and emotional experience	13
An evolutionary conserved division-of-labor between archicortical and neocortical ripples organizes information transfer during sleep	13
Corrigendum to “Cortical hyperexcitability drives dying forward amyotrophic lateral sclerosis symptoms and pathology in mice”[Prog. Neurobiol. 252 (2025) 102809]	13
Face pareidolia minimally engages macaque face selective neurons	13
The role of TREM2 in myelin sheath dynamics: A comprehensive perspective from physiology to pathology	13
Activation of neuronal FLT3 promotes exaggerated sensorial and emotional pain-related behaviors facilitating the transition from acute to chronic pain	13
Differential susceptibility to repeated social stress induces synaptic plasticity impairment and cognitive deficit in the 5xFAD mouse model	13
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Digging into the intrinsic capacity concept: Can it be applied to Alzheimer’s disease?	13
FKBP5 deficiency selectively impairs NMDAR-dependent long-term depression via enhanced calcineurin activity: Implications for stress resilience	13
NOX-induced oxidative stress is a primary trigger of major neurodegenerative disorders	13