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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Replicating infant-specific reactive astrocyte functions in the injured adult brain	196
Opposing effects of nicotine on hypothalamic arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neurons	175
Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli	139
Editorial Board	101
Signal peptide peptidase-like 2b modulates the amyloidogenic pathway and exhibits an Aβ-dependent expression in Alzheimer's disease	97
Uncovering and leveraging the return of voluntary motor programs after paralysis using a bi-cortical neuroprosthesis	96
Loss of TDP-43 promotes somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice	92
Trigeminal nerve stimulation restores hippocampal dopamine deficiency to promote cognitive recovery in traumatic brain injury	81
Perceptual hue, lightness, and chroma are represented in a multidimensional functional anatomical map in macaque V1	79
Editorial Board	78
Voltage-gated calcium channels contribute to spontaneous glutamate release directly via nanodomain coupling or indirectly via calmodulin	78
Editorial Board	76
Immune response in retinal degenerative diseases – Time to rethink?	65
Stress-induced heme metabolic disorder in peripheral B cells contributes to depressive-like behaviors in male mice	63
Stimulus-driven rivalry among V1 neurons	62
Editorial Board	61
A common neural code for representing imagined and inferred tastes	60
Injury to thalamocortical projections following traumatic brain injury results in attractor dynamics for cortical networks	60
Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala	59
Loss of glycine receptors in the nucleus accumbens and ethanol reward in an Alzheimer´s Disease mouse model	52
Using high spatial resolution fMRI to understand representation in the auditory network	52
Editorial Board	48
Manipulation of radixin phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens core modulates risky choice behavior	47
A tradeoff between efficiency and robustness in the hippocampal-neocortical memory network during human and rodent sleep	44
Pax3 induces target-specific reinnervation through axon collateral expression of PSA-NCAM	44

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ERO1A inhibition mitigates neuronal ER stress and ameliorates UBQLN2ALS phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster	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]	40
Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease	40
Partial reprogramming by cyclical overexpression of Yamanaka factors improves pathological phenotypes of tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease	38
The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in Alzheimer’s disease: From pathophysiology to therapeutic approaches	38
Astrocytic AT1R deficiency ameliorates Aβ-induced cognitive deficits and synaptotoxicity through β-arrestin2 signaling	38
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Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals ECM remodeling-tumor stiffness-FAK as a key driver of vestibular schwannoma progression	37
Selective optogenetic stimulation of glutamatergic, but not GABAergic, vestibular nuclei neurons induces immediate and reversible postural imbalance in mice	36
Decoding stress granules dynamics: Implications for neurodegenerative disease	36
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	35
Mesoscale organization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways in macaque monkey revealed by 7T fMRI	35
The Celsr3-Kif2a axis directs neuronal migration in the postnatal brain	34
Microproteins encoded by short open reading frames: Vital regulators in neurological diseases	34
Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detection and regeneration	32
The omnipresence of autonomic modulation in health and disease	32
Astrocytic EphB3 receptors regulate d-serine-gated synaptic plasticity and memory	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
NPTX2 transfection improves synaptic E/I balance and performance in learning impaired aged rats	31
Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment	31
Traumatic brain injury recapitulates developmental changes of axons	30
c-Abl regulates a synaptic plasticity-related transcriptional program involved in memory and learning	30
Editorial Board	29
The fasciola cinereum subregion of the hippocampus is important for the acquisition of visual contextual memory	29
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New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro- and microstructural MRI findings	29
Switching state to engage and sustain attention: Dynamic synchronization of the frontoparietal network	29
Npas4 drives the effects of early social isolation on social behaviors and prefrontal parvalbumin neurons	28
Cortical connectivity is embedded in resting state at columnar resolution	28
The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 (LRP1) in Schwann cells controls mitochondria homeostasis in peripheral nerves	28
Neuronal threshold functions: Determining symptom onset in neurological disorders	28
Neuronal activity and NIBS in developmental myelination and remyelination – Current state of knowledge	27
Imaging faster neural dynamics with fast fMRI: A need for updated models of the hemodynamic response	26
Alterations of synaptic plasticity in Angelman syndrome model mice are rescued by 5-HT7R stimulation	26
Neuroimmune interactions and immunoengineering strategies in peripheral nerve repair	26
The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning	26
Editorial Board	25
Functional organization of spatial frequency tuning in macaque V1 revealed with two-photon calcium imaging	25
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HIV infection of astrocytes compromises inter-organelle interactions and inositol phosphate metabolism: A potential mechanism of bystander damage and viral reservoir survival	24
Atypical connectome topography and signal flow in temporal lobe epilepsy	24
Configuration-sensitive face-body interactions in primate visual cortex	23
Mutant FUS induces chromatin reorganization in the hippocampus and alters memory processes	22
Transient beta activity and cortico-muscular connectivity during sustained motor behaviour	21
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Optogenetic stimulation of CA3 pyramidal neurons restores synaptic deficits to improve spatial short-term memory in APP/PS1 mice	21
ATP and adenosine—Two players in the control of seizures and epilepsy development	21

Macaque V1 responses to 2nd-order contrast-modulated stimuli and the possible subcortical and cortical contributions	21
Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control	21
Negative effects of brain regulatory T cells depletion on epilepsy	21
Editorial Board	21
Causal manipulation of gaze-following in the macaque temporal cortex	20
Astrocytic GluN2A alleviates sleep deprivation-induced elevation of Aβ through regulating neprilysin and AQP4 via the calcineurin/NFAT pathway	20
Emerging role of astrocytes in oxytocin-mediated control of neural circuits and brain functions	20
Ketamine administration during adolescence impairs synaptic integration and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the adult dentate gyrus	19
Circadian medicine for aging attenuation and sleep disorders: Prospects and challenges	19
The role of circadian rhythm in choroid plexus functions	19
Editorial Board	19
Regulation of sociability by the cortico-habenula pathway in an animal model of depression	19
Visualization of differential GPCR crosstalk in DRD1-DRD2 heterodimer upon different dopamine levels	18
Kv1.1 channels inhibition in the rat motor cortex recapitulates seizures associated with anti-LGI1 encephalitis	18
Statistical power or more precise insights into neuro-temporal dynamics? Assessing the benefits of rapid temporal sampling in fMRI	18
Recurrent de novo single point variant on the gene encoding Na+/K+ pump results in epilepsy	18
Pathogenic oligomeric Tau alters neuronal RNA processes through the formation of nuclear heteromeric amyloids with RNA-binding protein Musashi1	18
Multiple dimensions of syntactic structure are resolved earliest in posterior temporal cortex	18
Analogous cognitive strategies for tactile learning in the rodent and human brain	17
The role of TREM2 in myelin sheath dynamics: A comprehensive perspective from physiology to pathology	17
Editorial Board	17
How pushing the spatiotemporal resolution of fMRI can advance neuroscience	17
Face pareidolia minimally engages macaque face selective neurons	17
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression	17
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Tau promotes oxidative stress-associated cycling neurons in S phase as a pro-survival mechanism: Possible implication for Alzheimer’s disease	16
Islet amyloid polypeptide triggers α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson’s disease	16
Digging into the intrinsic capacity concept: Can it be applied to Alzheimer’s disease?	16
Higher and deeper: Bringing layer fMRI to association cortex	16
Expanding the stimulus domain: Co-occurrence of motion and body-category selectivity in the macaque ventral STS	16
The role of altered translation in intellectual disability and epilepsy	16
Maladaptive reorganization following SCI: The role of body representation and multisensory integration	16