OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Neuroscientist is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Anosmia in COVID-19: Underlying Mechanisms and Assessment of an Olfactory Route to Brain Infection	199
COVID-19, Mast Cells, Cytokine Storm, Psychological Stress, and Neuroinflammation	185
Multiple Motor Learning Processes in Humans: Defining Their Neurophysiological Bases	59
Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling in Neural Stem Cell Homeostasis and Neurological Diseases	57
COVID-19 Pulmonary and Olfactory Dysfunctions: Is the Chemokine CXCL10 the Common Denominator?	46
Oxytocin and the Neurobiology of Prosocial Behavior	42
Dendritic Spines: Mediators of Cognitive Resilience in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease	42
Dopamine, Prediction Error and Beyond	37
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Multiple Routes to, and Multiple Consequences of, Abnormal Synaptic Function and Connectivity	35
The COVID-19 Effect on the Immune System and Mitochondrial Dynamics in Diabetes, Obesity, and Dementia	35
Spontaneous Beta Band Rhythms in the Predictive Coding of Natural Stimuli	35
Neural Oscillations: Understanding a Neural Code of Pain	35
A Complex Systems Perspective on Neuroimaging Studies of Behavior and Its Disorders	33
Neural Stem Cell Niche and Adult Neurogenesis	33
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Cognition in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Systematic Review of the Evidence and Future Directions	28
Why Severe COVID-19 Patients Are at Greater Risk of Developing Depression: A Molecular Perspective	28
Handedness and White Matter Networks	25
Integrating TMS, EEG, and MRI as an Approach for Studying Brain Connectivity	24
Neurological and Neuropsychological Changes Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: New Observations, New Mechanisms	23
If Human Brain Organoids Are the Answer to Understanding Dementia, What Are the Questions?	23
T Cells: A Growing Universe of Roles in Neurodegenerative Diseases	23
Synaptic Dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease: Lessons from Genetic Animal Models	23
Activity-Dependent Gene Expression in Neurons	22
Organoids, Assembloids, and Novel Biotechnology: Steps Forward in Developmental and Disease-Related Neuroscience	22
Brains that Fire Together Wire Together: Interbrain Plasticity Underlies Learning in Social Interactions	21

The Interplay between Chronic Pain, Opioids, and the Immune System	21
Gut Microbiota and Disorders of the Central Nervous System	20
Unravelling Pathophysiology of Neurological and Psychiatric Complications of COVID-19 Using Brain Organoids	20
Cannabidiol and Sodium Channel Pharmacology: General Overview, Mechanism, and Clinical Implications	20
Non-Motor Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease: The Neurobiology of Early Psychiatric and Cognitive Dysfunction	19
Neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s Disease: Triggers, Mechanisms, and Immunotherapies	19
The Downsides of Cognitive Enhancement	18
Spinal Cord fMRI: A New Window into the Central Nervous System	17
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction	16
The Neurobiology of Pathological Fatigue: New Models, New Questions	16
The Translesional Spinal Network and Its Reorganization after Spinal Cord Injury	16
The Accumulation of Tau in Postsynaptic Structures: A Common Feature in Multiple Neurodegenerative Diseases?	16
Neuroimmune Interactions in Pain and Stress: An Interdisciplinary Approach	16
Group 1 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases: Mechanisms and Prospective	15
Targeting the Cerebrovascular System: Next-Generation Biomarkers and Treatment for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury	15
Neural Control of Human Locomotor Adaptation: Lessons about Changes with Aging	15
Meninges: A Widespread Niche of Neural Progenitors for the Brain	14
Inflammatory Mechanisms in Parkinson’s Disease: From Pathogenesis to Targeted Therapies	13
Brain Mechanisms of Conscious Awareness: Detect, Pulse, Switch, and Wave	12
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Multiple Effects on Cognition	12
Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption: A Common Driver of Central Nervous System Diseases	12
Crowdsourcing in Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience	12
Endocrine Insights into the Pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder	12
A Matter of State: Diversity in Oligodendrocyte Lineage Cells	11
Memory Engrams in the Neocortex	11
Mitochondria in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: Focus on Mitophagy	11
DNA Damage and Repair in Migraine: Oxidative Stress and Beyond	11
Brain Organoids: Tiny Mirrors of Human Neurodevelopment and Neurological Disorders	11
Shedding Light on Social Reward Circuitry: (Un)common Blueprints in Humans and Rodents	11
Topography of the Anxious Self: Abnormal Rest-Task Modulation in Social Anxiety Disorder	10
Does the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism Modulate the Effects of Physical Activity and Exercise on Cognition?	10
Glucocorticoids in the Physiological and Transcriptional Regulation of 5-HT1A Receptor and the Pathogenesis of Depression	10
Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics: A Dampened Microglial Response?	10
Do Endocannabinoids Cause the Runner’s High? Evidence and Open Questions	9
Mapping the Iceberg of Autonomic Recovery: Mechanistic Underpinnings of Neuromodulation following Spinal Cord Injury	9
Reciprocal Upshot of Nitric Oxide, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, and Ubiquitin Proteasome System in Parkinson’s Disease Pathology	9
Trafficking and Activity of Glutamate and GABA Receptors: Regulation by Cell Adhesion Molecules	9
Drug Repurposing in Neurological Disorders: Implications for Neurotherapy in Traumatic Brain Injury	9
Nociception and Pain: New Roles for Exosomes	9
Animal and Cellular Models of Alzheimer’s Disease: Progress, Promise, and Future Approaches	9
Perineuronal Nets: Subtle Structures with Large Implications	9
Neurobehavioral and Clinical Comorbidities in Epilepsy: The Role of White Matter Network Disruption	9
The Two Faces of Exosomes in Parkinson’s Disease: From Pathology to Therapy	9
Circular RNAs in the Brain: A Possible Role in Memory?	9
Role of Adaptive Immune and Impacts of Risk Factors on Adaptive Immune in Alzheimer’s Disease: Are Immunotherapies Effective or Off-Target?	9
Alzheimer’s Dementia: The Emerging Role of Positron Emission Tomography	8
Bioelectromagnetism in Human Brain Research: New Applications, New Questions	8
COVID-19: A Perspective from Clinical Neurology and Neuroscience	8
Calcineurin Regulates Synaptic Plasticity and Nociceptive Transmission at the Spinal Cord Level	8
Monoamines: Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Serotonin, Beyond Modulation, “Switches” That Alter the State of Target Networks	8

Mitochondrial Fatty Acids and Neurodegenerative Disorders	8
Opioidergic System and Functional Architecture of Intrinsic Brain Activity: Implications for Psychiatric Disorders	7
Heart Matters: Cardiac Dysfunction and Other Autonomic Changes in Parkinson’s Disease	7
The Prediction of Brain Activity from Connectivity: Advances and Applications	7
Stem Cell Therapy for Repair of the Injured Brain: Five Principles	7
Mechanosensitive Ion Channels, Axonal Growth, and Regeneration	6
Microglial TREM2 at the Intersection of Brain Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease	6
Alzheimer’s Disease: Innovative Therapeutic Approaches Based on Peptides and Nanoparticles	6
Glutaminolysis and the Control of Neural Progenitors in Neocortical Development and Evolution	6
Ongoing Brain Activity and Its Role in Cognition: Dual versus Baseline Models	6
SARM1-Dependent Axon Degeneration: Nucleotide Signaling, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Toxicity, and Therapeutic Opportunities	6
Injecting Information into the Mammalian Cortex: Progress, Challenges, and Promise	6
Sculpting Astrocyte Diversity through Circuits and Transcription	6
Intrinsic Plasticity Mechanisms of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation	6
Imbalanced Subthreshold Currents Following Sepsis and Chemotherapy: A Shared Mechanism Offering a New Therapeutic Target?	5
The Cerebellum as an Embodying Machine	5
Sensory Neurons: The Formation of T-Shaped Branches Is Dependent on a cGMP-Dependent Signaling Cascade	5
The Endoplasmic Reticulum and Its Contacts: Emerging Roles in Axon Development, Neurotransmission, and Degeneration	5
Ferroptosis in Neurological Disease	5
How Can Digital Mental Health Enhance Psychiatry?	5
α-Synuclein in Parkinson’s Disease: Does a Prion-Like Mechanism of Propagation from Periphery to the Brain Play a Role?	5
How and Why the Cerebellum Recodes Input Signals: An Alternative to Machine Learning	5
Sensory Loss and Risk of Dementia	5
Dynamin Superfamily at Pre- and Postsynapses: Master Regulators of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in Health and Disease	5
Migraine and Two-Pore-Domain Potassium Channels	5
The Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: Multiple Cell Types, Multiple Behavioral Roles, and Multiple Implications for Disease	5
Recent Insights on Glutamatergic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Therapeutic Implications	4
Hidden Brain Anatomy in Peter Paul Rubens’s Copy of “The Battle of Anghiari” by Leonardo da Vinci: “The Battle of Anghiari” and Brain Anatomy	4
Visual Plasticity in Adulthood: Perspectives from Hebbian and Homeostatic Plasticity	4
Threat Memory in the Sensory Cortex: Insights from Olfaction	4
The Associative Thalamus: A Switchboard for Cortical Operations and a Promising Target for Schizophrenia	4
Chemogenetic Signaling in Space and Time: Considerations for Designing Neuroscience Experiments Using DREADDs	4
Lost in Translation: Neurotrophins Biology and Function in the Neurovascular Unit	4
“Other Than NLRP3” Inflammasomes: Multiple Roles in Brain Disease	4
The Dual Nature of Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Microglia-Neuron Crosstalk Perspective	4
Insights into Enhancer RNAs: Biogenesis and Emerging Role in Brain Diseases	4
Adenosine and Astrocytes Control Critical Periods of Neural Plasticity	3
Memory: Synaptic or Cellular, That Is the Question	3
Looking into a Deluded Brain through a Neuroimaging Lens	3
Fear Learning: An Evolving Picture for Plasticity at Synaptic Afferents to the Amygdala	3
Targeted Optical Neural Stimulation: A New Era for Personalized Medicine	3
The Ups and Downs of BACE1: Walking a Fine Line between Neurocognitive and Other Psychiatric Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease	3
Pain and Reorganization after Amputation: Is Interoceptive Prediction a Key?	3
Enteric Glia and Brain Astroglia: Complex Communication in Health and Disease along the Gut-Brain Axis	3
Gaetano Perusini: The Forgotten Neuroscientist Behind “Alzheimer’s” Disease	3
Variety Is the Spice of Life: Positive and Negative Effects of Noise in Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System	3
Biobanking for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Challenge for Translational Research and Data Privacy	2
Michelangelo’s Presentations in the Sistine Chapel: Brain Evolution and the Relationship of the Brain to Specific Cognitive Functions	2
Cyclin F, Neurodegeneration, and the Pathogenesis of ALS/FTD	2
Resilience to Stress: Lessons from Rodents about Nature versus Nurture	2
The Enigma of Working Memory: Changing Views	2
Historical Overview of the “Firing” Liaison between Brain Tumors and Epilepsy	2
Diverging from the Norm: Reevaluating What Miniature Excitatory Postsynaptic Currents Tell Us about Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity	2
The Pioneer Neuropharmacologist Alfred Fröhlich (1871–1953) and the Origins of Neuroendocrinology: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance	2
The Neurobiology of Modern Viral Scourges: ZIKV and COVID-19	2
Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963): An Early Italian Father of Electroshock and a Pioneer in Many Other Ways	2
VEGF and Neuronal Survival	2
Influencing Human Behavior with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Direct Human Brain Manipulation Revisited	2
Complex Inclusion Bodies and Defective Proteome Hubs in Neurodegenerative Disease: New Clues, New Challenges	2
COVID-19 and Long COVID: Disruption of the Neurovascular Unit, Blood-Brain Barrier, and Tight Junctions	2
The “Michelangelo Code”: The Quest for Universal Truth	2
Prefrontal Cortical Control of Anxiety: Recent Advances	2
Oxygen and the Spark of Human Brain Evolution: Complex Interactions of Metabolism and Cortical Expansion across Development and Evolution	2
A Hypothalamic Perspective of Human Socioemotional Behavior	2
José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, Walter Freeman, and Psychosurgery: A Study in Contrasts	2