OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Neurobiology is 17. 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
A current view on Tau protein phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease	170
Regulation of pain by neuro-immune interactions between macrophages and nociceptor sensory neurons	140
Genetics of Alzheimer’s disease: where we are, and where we are going	132
Neural population geometry: An approach for understanding biological and artificial neural networks	115
The microbiota and the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis, implications for anxiety and stress disorders	110
The microbiome-gut-brain axis in acute and chronic brain diseases	104
The gut microbiota and mental health in adults	95
The SARM1 axon degeneration pathway: control of the NAD+ metabolome regulates axon survival in health and disease	94
Interpreting neural computations by examining intrinsic and embedding dimensionality of neural activity	86
Amyloid β-protein and beyond: the path forward in Alzheimer’s disease	85
New insights on the structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils using cryo-electron microscopy	72
An update on fluid biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases: recent success and challenges ahead	67
Towards precise resting-state fMRI biomarkers in psychiatry: synthesizing developments in transdiagnostic research, dimensional models of psychopathology, and normative neurodevelopment	60
Assembly of the presynaptic active zone	60
Brain-wide representations of ongoing behavior: a universal principle?	59
Organization of neural circuits underlying social behavior: A consideration of the medial amygdala	59
How neurons die in Alzheimer's disease: Implications for neuroinflammation	56
Playing the piano with the cortex: role of neuronal ensembles and pattern completion in perception and behavior	55
Regulatory roles of mitochondria and metabolism in neurogenesis	54
The diversity of synaptotagmin isoforms	54
Going in circles is the way forward: the role of recurrence in visual inference	51
The diet-microbiome tango: how nutrients lead the gut brain axis	51
Dopamine, Updated: Reward Prediction Error and Beyond	51
How robust are sleep-mediated memory benefits?	48
Aversion hot spots in the dopamine system	46

Structural LTP: from synaptogenesis to regulated synapse enlargement and clustering	45
Parallel processing streams in the hippocampus	45
Measuring and modeling the motor system with machine learning	44
TRP channels in thermosensation	43
Rethinking brain-wide interactions through multi-region ‘network of networks’ models	43
Representational drift: Emerging theories for continual learning and experimental future directions	43
Neuroinflammation and COVID-19	42
Neural mechanisms necessary for empathy-related phenomena across species	41
Odor coding in piriform cortex: mechanistic insights into distributed coding	41
Cerebral small vessel disease: A glymphopathy?	41
Polyglutamine diseases	40
Neurofilaments in disease: what do we know?	40
Neurovascular crosstalk coordinates the central nervous system development	40
PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) and Parkin: Unlocking a mitochondrial quality control pathway linked to Parkinson's disease	40
The social dilemma: prefrontal control of mammalian sociability	39
Statistical methods for dissecting interactions between brain areas	39
Reflections of action in sensory cortex	38
Vagal sensory neurons and gut-brain signaling	37
AMPA receptor nanoscale dynamic organization and synaptic plasticities	36
Traffic signaling: new functions of huntingtin and axonal transport in neurological disease	35
Finding order in slow axonal transport	35
Intestinal neuro-immune interactions: focus on macrophages, mast cells and innate lymphoid cells	35
To stage, or not to stage	34
Useful road maps: studying Drosophila larva’s central nervous system with the help of connectomics	34
Cell assemblies, sequences and temporal coding in the hippocampus	33
Two stream hypothesis of visual processing for navigation in mouse	33
A closer look at astrocyte morphology: Development, heterogeneity, and plasticity at astrocyte leaflets	33
Semaphorins and Plexins in central nervous system patterning: the key to it all?	33
Cognitive epigenetic priming: leveraging histone acetylation for memory amelioration	32
The homeostatic homunculus: rethinking deprivation-triggered reorganisation	32
Fluorescent Biosensors for Neuronal Metabolism and the Challenges of Quantitation	32
Toward the explainability, transparency, and universality of machine learning for behavioral classification in neuroscience	31
The neurobiology of innate and learned vocalizations in rodents and songbirds	31
Behavior and lineage progression of neural progenitors in the mammalian cortex	31
Flexible navigational computations in the Drosophila central complex	30
Translational opportunities for circuit-based social neuroscience: advancing 21st century psychiatry	30
The adaptive aging brain	30
Fluorescent sensors for neuronal signaling	30
Cell adhesion molecules regulating astrocyte–neuron interactions	29
Body language signals for rodent social communication	29
Drawing inspiration from biological dendrites to empower artificial neural networks	28
My Neighbour Hetero — deconstructing the mechanisms underlying heterosynaptic plasticity	28
Secretases in Alzheimer's disease: Novel insights into proteolysis of APP and TREM2	28
Ankyrins and neurological disease	28
Dynamic pulvino-cortical interactions in the primate attention network	28
Layers of signals that regulate appetite	27
Avian pallial circuits and cognition: A comparison to mammals	27
Dopamine signals as temporal difference errors: recent advances	27
Spatial navigation signals in rodent visual cortex	27
Homeostatic plasticity and excitation-inhibition balance: The good, the bad, and the ugly	27

Dynamics on the manifold: Identifying computational dynamical activity from neural population recordings	26
The molecular processes underpinning prion-like spreading and seed amplification in protein aggregation	26
Local mRNA translation in long-term maintenance of axon health and function	26
Expressions of emotions across species	26
Social interaction networks in the primate brain	26
Neuronal fate acquisition and specification: time for a change	26
New light on cortical neuropeptides and synaptic network plasticity	26
Putting the axonal periodic scaffold in order	25
Social communication of affective states	25
Neural inhibition for continual learning and memory	24
Dynamic and heterogeneous neural ensembles contribute to a memory engram	24
Neuronal migration and disorders – an update	24
Revisiting and refining roles of neural guidance cues in circuit assembly	24
Nervous system control of intestinal host defense in C. elegans	24
Breaking symmetry – cell polarity signaling pathways in growth cone guidance and synapse formation	23
Diverse roles of Synaptotagmin-7 in regulating vesicle fusion	23
Actor-critic reinforcement learning in the songbird	23
Decoding mixed messages in the developing cortex: translational regulation of neural progenitor fate	23
Modeling statistical dependencies in multi-region spike train data	23
Reelin functions beyond neuronal migration: from synaptogenesis to network activity modulation	22
Dynamic microtubules at the synapse	22
GBA mutations, glucosylceramide and Parkinson's disease	22
Distinct functions of ventral CA1 and dorsal CA2 in social memory	22
Mining the jewels of the cortex’s crowning mystery	22
Plasticity in olfactory bulb circuits	22
Habenula as the experience-dependent controlling switchboard of behavior and attention in social conflict and learning	22
SARM1 signaling mechanisms in the injured nervous system	22
Cortico-cerebellar interactions during goal-directed behavior	22
Neural control of behavioral and molecular defenses in C. elegans	22
Pathogenic Aβ generation in familial Alzheimer’s disease: novel mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications	22
Evolution of the vertebrate motor system — from forebrain to spinal cord	21
The memory orchestra: the role of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in parallel to neurons	21
Epigenetics and memory: an expanded role for chromatin dynamics	21
Potential benefit of manipulating protein quality control systems in neurodegenerative diseases	21
The gut microbiome: an unexpected player in cancer immunity	21
The synaptic life of microtubules	21
Multi-regional circuits underlying visually guided decision-making in Drosophila	21
Dynamic interplay between GABAergic networks and developing neurons in the adult hippocampus	20
Meningeal lymphatics, immunity and neuroinflammation	20
Mechanisms for biogenesis and release of neuronal extracellular vesicles	20
Towards the next generation of recurrent network models for cognitive neuroscience	20
Imaging dendritic spines: molecular organization and signaling for plasticity	20
Network control through coordinated inhibition	20
Stable continual learning through structured multiscale plasticity manifolds	20
Leaving flatland: Advances in 3D behavioral measurement	19
Structural LTP: Signal transduction, actin cytoskeleton reorganization, and membrane remodeling of dendritic spines	19
From the field to the lab and back: neuroethology of primate social behavior	19
Prion-like properties of Tau assemblies	19
Visual experience dependent plasticity in humans	19
Microbiota-immune-brain interactions: A lifespan perspective	19
Awakening the dark side: retrotransposon activation in neurodegenerative disorders	19
Forgetting across a hierarchy of episodic representations	19
Neuronal strategies for meeting the right partner during brain wiring	18
Affective empathy and prosocial behavior in rodents	18
Neuronal replacement: Concepts, achievements, and call for caution	18
The aging transcriptome: read between the lines	18
Harnessing cerebral organoids for Alzheimer's disease research	18
The what, how, and why of naturalistic behavior	18
Multisensory control of navigation in the fruit fly	18
Axonal branch patterning and neuronal shape diversity: roles in developmental circuit assembly	18
Alexander disease: models, mechanisms, and medicine	17
Being superficial: a developmental viewpoint on cortical layer 1 wiring	17
Somatotopic organization of autonomic reflexes by acupuncture	17
Whole-brain interactions underlying zebrafish behavior	17
Mechanism of synaptic protein turnover and its regulation by neuronal activity	17