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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ferroptosis and its potential role in the physiopathology of Parkinson’s Disease	215
Prediction and memory: A predictive coding account	107
The thalamus integrates the macrosystems of the brain to facilitate complex, adaptive brain network dynamics	89
Microbiota-gut-brain axis in health and disease: Is NLRP3 inflammasome at the crossroads of microbiota-gut-brain communications?	88
Neural oscillations and brain stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease	81
Amyloid β, Tau, and α-Synuclein aggregates in the pathogenesis, prognosis, and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases	80
Left and right hemispheric lateralization of the amygdala in pain	69
Astrocyte energy and neurotransmitter metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease: Integration of the glutamate/GABA-glutamine cycle	67
Astrocyte-derived Wnt growth factors are required for endothelial blood-brain barrier maintenance	66
Glucose metabolic crosstalk and regulation in brain function and diseases	66
The enigmatic fetal subplate compartment forms an early tangential cortical nexus and provides the framework for construction of cortical connectivity	65
Activation of endothelial Wnt/β-catenin signaling by protective astrocytes repairs BBB damage in ischemic stroke	63
Interstitial ions: A key regulator of state-dependent neural activity?	57
Layer-dependent functional connectivity methods	52
New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro- and microstructural MRI findings	52
Macrophagic and microglial complexity after neuronal injury	50
Role of spontaneous and sensory orexin network dynamics in rapid locomotion initiation	49
ATP and adenosine—Two players in the control of seizures and epilepsy development	48
Imaging faster neural dynamics with fast fMRI: A need for updated models of the hemodynamic response	48
Is the glymphatic system the missing link between sleep impairments and neurological disorders? Examining the implications and uncertainties	47
Presynaptic failure in Alzheimer's disease	46
The role of monoamine oxidase A in the neurobiology of aggressive, antisocial, and violent behavior: A tale of mice and men	46
Nilotinib restores memory function by preventing dopaminergic neuron degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease	46
l-Serine links metabolism with neurotransmission	44
White matter injury and neurodevelopmental disabilities: A cross-disease (dis)connection	43

Causal role of cross-frequency coupling in distinct components of cognitive control	42
Role of extracellular vesicles in neurodegenerative diseases	40
Ultrastructural view of astrocyte arborization, astrocyte-astrocyte and astrocyte-synapse contacts, intracellular vesicle-like structures, and mitochondrial network	38
IL-10 normalizes aberrant amygdala GABA transmission and reverses anxiety-like behavior and dependence-induced escalation of alcohol intake	38
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	38
Neuronal and astroglial monocarboxylate transporters play key but distinct roles in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory formation	37
Targeting spinal neuropeptide Y1 receptor-expressing interneurons to alleviate chronic pain and itch	36
Tryptophan metabolites modify brain Aβ peptide degradation: A role in Alzheimer’s disease?	35
The predictive global neuronal workspace: A formal active inference model of visual consciousness	35
DJ-1 in neurodegenerative diseases: Pathogenesis and clinical application	34
Deep phenotyping of peripheral tissue facilitates mechanistic disease stratification in sporadic Parkinson’s disease	34
Variations of telencephalic development that paved the way for neocortical evolution	33
TDP-43 pathology: From noxious assembly to therapeutic removal	32
Sleep and its regulation: An emerging pathogenic and treatment frontier in Alzheimer’s disease	32
Pathogenic tau accelerates aging-associated activation of transposable elements in the mouse central nervous system	32
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression	32
Microglia alterations in neurodegenerative diseases and their modeling with human induced pluripotent stem cell and other platforms	31
The intracellular renin-angiotensin system: Friend or foe. Some light from the dopaminergic neurons	31
miR-129-5p: A key factor and therapeutic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	30
NMDA receptor-independent LTP in mammalian nervous system	30
Toward personalized medicine in connectomic deep brain stimulation	29
Astrocytes and microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from human in vitro models	29
Dopamine-related striatal neurophysiology is associated with specialization of frontostriatal reward circuitry through adolescence	28
Proper synaptic adhesion signaling in the control of neural circuit architecture and brain function	28
Alpha oscillations reflect suppression of distractors with increased perceptual load	28
Human hippocampal connectivity is stronger in olfaction than other sensory systems	27
Unmasking the relevance of hemispheric asymmetries—Break on through (to the other side)	27
Increased telomerase improves motor function and alpha-synuclein pathology in a transgenic mouse model of Parkinson’s disease associated with enhanced autophagy	27
What modulates the Mirror Neuron System during action observation?	27
Platelets promote epileptic seizures by modulating brain serotonin level, enhancing neuronal electric activity, and contributing to neuroinflammation and oxidative stress	27
Neuroregenerative gene therapy to treat temporal lobe epilepsy in a rat model	26
Network neuroscience of apathy in cerebrovascular disease	26
Neural stem cells derived from human midbrain organoids as a stable source for treating Parkinson’s disease	26
White matter structure and myelin-related gene expression alterations with experience in adult rats	26
The role of Extracellular Vesicles during CNS development	26
tRNA-derived fragments: A new class of non-coding RNA with key roles in nervous system function and dysfunction	26
Glaucoma as a Neurodegenerative Disease Caused by Intrinsic Vulnerability Factors	26
The functional characterization of callosal connections	26
ApoE4 activates C/EBPβ/δ-secretase with 27-hydroxycholesterol, driving the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease	25
Communication from the cerebellum to the neocortex during sleep spindles	24
3D promoter architecture re-organization during iPSC-derived neuronal cell differentiation implicates target genes for neurodevelopmental disorders	24
Changes in human brain dynamics during behavioral priming and repetition suppression	24
Hemispheric asymmetries in the amygdala: A comparative primer	24
Acute phase markers in CSF reveal inflammatory changes in Alzheimer’s disease that intersect with pathology, APOE ε4, sex and age	23
BDNF and Netrin-1 repression by C/EBPβ in the gut triggers Parkinson’s disease pathologies, associated with constipation and motor dysfunctions	23
P2X7-deficiency improves plasticity and cognitive abilities in a mouse model of Tauopathy	23
New acquisition techniques and their prospects for the achievable resolution of fMRI	22
P2X7 receptor blockade reduces tau induced toxicity, therapeutic implications in tauopathies	22
Neuroethology of acoustic communication in field crickets - from signal generation to song recognition in an insect brain	22
Adiponectin ameliorates hypoperfusive cognitive deficits by boosting a neuroprotective microglial response	21

Microglial innate memory and epigenetic reprogramming in neurological disorders	21
PLA2G4E, a candidate gene for resilience in Alzheimer´s disease and a new target for dementia treatment	21
The hearing hippocampus	21
Genetic deletion of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors induces an age-dependent Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology	21
Chronic PERK induction promotes Alzheimer-like neuropathology in Down syndrome: Insights for therapeutic intervention	21
When the time is right: Temporal dynamics of brain activity in healthy aging and dementia	20
Visualization of soluble tau oligomers in TauP301L-BiFC transgenic mice demonstrates the progression of tauopathy	20
Nonverbal auditory communication – Evidence for integrated neural systems for voice signal production and perception	20
From Alpha Diversity to Zzz: Interactions among sleep, the brain, and gut microbiota in the first year of life	20
Development of frontal GABA and glutamate supports excitation/inhibition balance from adolescence into adulthood	20
mTOR activation by constitutively active serotonin6 receptors as new paradigm in neuropathic pain and its treatment	20
Inhibition of death-associated protein kinase 1 attenuates cis P-tau and neurodegeneration in traumatic brain injury	20
The functional architecture, receptive field characteristics, and representation of objects in the visual network of the pigeon brain	19
α-synuclein aggregates induce c-Abl activation and dopaminergic neuronal loss by a feed-forward redox stress mechanism	19
Neuropathic pain modeling: Focus on synaptic and ion channel mechanisms	19
The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning	19
Dual-specificity phosphatases in mental and neurological disorders	19
The role of MRS-assessed GABA in human behavioral performance	19
Higher and deeper: Bringing layer fMRI to association cortex	19
An amylin and calcitonin receptor agonist modulates alcohol behaviors by acting on reward-related areas in the brain	19
Breaking the boundaries of interacting with the human brain using adaptive closed-loop stimulation	18
Histone lysine methyltransferase SETDB1 as a novel target for central nervous system diseases	18
Distinct synaptic vesicle recycling in inhibitory nerve terminals is coordinated by SV2A	18
Neural circuitry underlying REM sleep: A review of the literature and current concepts	18
Trial-by-trial dynamics of reward prediction error-associated signals during extinction learning and renewal	18
Axon guidance receptors: Endocytosis, trafficking and downstream signaling from endosomes	18
Presynaptic protein synthesis and brain plasticity: From physiology to neuropathology	18
Neuroimmune interactions and immunoengineering strategies in peripheral nerve repair	18
Reprogramming neurons for regeneration: The fountain of youth	17
“Less is more”: A dose-response account of intranasal oxytocin pharmacodynamics in the human brain	17
Reactive astrocytes prevent maladaptive plasticity after ischemic stroke	17
Primary afferent-driven presynaptic inhibition of C-fiber inputs to spinal lamina I neurons	17
The prefrontal cortex as a target for atypical antipsychotics in schizophrenia, lessons of neurodevelopmental animal models	17
Adult and endemic neurogenesis in the vestibular nuclei after unilateral vestibular neurectomy	17
The role of circadian rhythm in choroid plexus functions	17
Time as the fourth dimension in the hippocampus	16
Using zebrafish (Danio rerio) models to understand the critical role of social interactions in mental health and wellbeing	16
Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models	16
Mutual functional dependence of cyclase-associated protein 1 (CAP1) and cofilin1 in neuronal actin dynamics and growth cone function	16
Attention control and the attention schema theory of consciousness	16