OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuron is 88. 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
Feed or breed: Hypothalamic mechanisms linking energy availability to puberty onset	1825
Molecular neuroscience community shares perspectives	876
Passing the baton: Information transfer between neurons enables continuity of the decision process	404
Lawrence Baruch Cohen (1939–2023)	350
Hanna and Antonio Damasio	328
Driving valence-specific behavior through single-cell resolution control in the amygdala	323
Rev or restrain: Mechanisms of human-specific synaptic neoteny	314
A look into the future: Your biological sex may guide chronic pain treatment	248
A population approach to cortical GABAergic interneuron function	244
Spinal VGLUT3 lineage neurons drive visceral mechanical allodynia but not sensitized visceromotor reflexes	240
Appoptosin-Mediated Caspase Cleavage of Tau Contributes to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Pathogenesis	224
ApoE4 makes microglia trem2bling	222
Collaterals and stroke reperfusion: Too few leads to too much	214
The sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter Slc4a5 mediates feedback at the first synapse of vision	212
A brainstem circuit amplifies aversion	199
Putative cell-type-specific multiregional mode in posterior parietal cortex during coordinated visual behavior	197
Hunger modulates exploration through suppression of dopamine signaling in the tail of the striatum	189
Runx1 transcription factor modulates opioid analgesia and withdrawal in humans and rodents	185
PV interneurons gate sex-specific winner effects	175
Single genomic enhancers drive experience-dependent GABAergic plasticity to maintain sensory processing in the adult cortex	171
Shear stress activates nociceptors to drive Drosophila mechanical nociception	170
CLN3 mediates chloride efflux from lysosomes	167
Disruption of the ATXN1-CIC complex reveals the role of additional nuclear ATXN1 interactors in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1	161
Unraveling the interaction between stress and genetic risk in psychiatric disorders: Challenges, mechanisms, and new advances	159
Direction-selective laterodorsal thalamic nucleus encodes optic flow and turning in spatial navigation	159

Deciphering enhancers of hearing loss genes for efficient and targeted gene therapy of hereditary deafness	159
Thalamic bursting and the role of timing and synchrony in thalamocortical signaling in the awake mouse	158
Dynamic coordination and segregation mechanisms in higher cortex for parallel task processing	156
Movement-stabilized three-dimensional optical recordings of membrane potential changes and calcium dynamics in hippocampal CA1 dendrites	150
Out of LINE: Transposons, genome integrity, and neurodegeneration	150
ILC2 instructs neural stem and progenitor cells to potentiate neurorepair after stroke	144
Microglia are not necessary for maintenance of blood-brain barrier properties in health, but PLX5622 alters brain endothelial cholesterol metabolism	141
Cortical somatostatin interneuron subtypes form cell-type-specific circuits	140
Synthetic serum markers enable noninvasive monitoring of gene expression in primate brains	138
Molecular and circuit determinants in the globus pallidus mediating control of cocaine-induced behavioral plasticity	137
Secreted GPNMB enhances uptake of fibrillar alpha-synuclein in a non-cell-autonomous process that can be blocked by anti-GPNMB antibodies	136
Brainstem circuits encoding start, speed, and duration of swimming in adult zebrafish	136
Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network activity	135
Making sense of Timothy syndrome with 3D human neuronal models	132
An inhibitory brainstem input to dopamine neurons encodes nicotine aversion	130
Mature enteric neurons have the capacity to reinnervate the intestine with glial cells as their guide	129
Cryo-EM structures of pathogenic fibrils and their impact on neurodegenerative disease research	128
The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?	126
Spatial navigation and memory: A review of the similarities and differences relevant to brain models and age	126
A hypothalamic node for the cyclical control of female sexual rejection	124
Mono-methylation of lysine 27 at histone 3 confers lifelong susceptibility to stress	123
Novel approaches to clinical trial design in cancer neuroscience	122
High-density single-unit human cortical recordings using the Neuropixels probe	121
Brain-region-specific changes in neurons and glia and dysregulation of dopamine signaling in Grin2a mutant mice	119
Rethinking retrosplenial cortex: Perspectives and predictions	118
TDP-43 seeding induces cytoplasmic aggregation heterogeneity and nuclear loss of function of TDP-43	118
Orchestrating prefrontal cognitive control: The thalamus in command	116
Compartment-specific dendritic information processing in striatal cholinergic interneurons is reconfigured by peptide neuromodulation	115
Stem cell sidekicks: ILC2s boost brain healing with a dash of Areg	115
Deletion of SPI1 in microglia exacerbates amyloid pathology by impairing microglial response in Alzheimer’s disease models	114
New mechanisms highlight the complex relationship of Apolipoprotein E and tau pathogenesis	112
Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm	110
Fibromyalgia pain may have a gut solution	110
Forming new connections: Advances in human stem-cell-derived interneuron therapy for treating epilepsy	109
APOE loss of function: A genetic shield against Alzheimer’s disease	108
Targeting oxidative distress to treat chemobrain: Go with the choroid plexus-cerebrospinal fluid flow	107
The lateral septum returns to the center stage of brain reward	107
CB1R and GlyT2 interaction in spinal glycinergic circuits drives neuropathic mechanical pain	107
Sequence variations and accessory proteins adapt TMC functions to distinct sensory modalities	107
Effects of α-Synuclein Immunization in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease	105
Prefrontal cortex modulation of stress by primary cilia	103
Interoception: Probing internal state is inherent to perception and cognition	102
Intestinal interoception: A nexus of environment-body-brain interactions	101
Antisense drugs for rare and ultra-rare genetic neurological diseases	100
The interpeduncular nucleus blunts the rewarding effect of nicotine	99
An iterative neural processing sequence orchestrates feeding	99
Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating	99
A role for the cerebellum in motor-triggered alleviation of anxiety	98
Two circuits, one stress: Dissecting the neural logic of comorbid fear and anhedonia	97
Synapse-specific burst coding sustained by local axonal translation	96

Brain aging and rejuvenation at single-cell resolution	95
Cardiovascular baroreflex circuit moonlights in sleep control	94
Principles of large-scale neural interactions	94
Dynamin is primed at endocytic sites for ultrafast endocytosis	93
Threat-dependent scaling of prelimbic dynamics to enhance fear representation	92
A parallel tonotopically arranged thalamocortical circuit for sound processing	92
Immunoregulator multitasking in neurons is not just a WHIM	92
Cannabidiol modulates excitatory-inhibitory ratio to counter hippocampal hyperactivity	91
Stress-induced analgesia via supraspinal gate control	91
A small population of stress-responsive neurons in the hypothalamus-habenula circuit mediates development of depression-like behavior in mice	90
Theory of hierarchically organized neuronal oscillator dynamics that mediate rodent rhythmic whisking	89
Responsive deep brain stimulation guided by ventral striatal electrophysiology of obsession durably ameliorates compulsion	88
Mitochondrial cannabinoid receptors gate corticosterone impact on novel object recognition	88