OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A predictive account of how novelty influences declarative memory	45
Generalization and the hippocampus: More than one story?	41
Guanfacine’s mechanism of action in treating prefrontal cortical disorders: Successful translation across species	36
Midbrain circuits of novelty processing	35
Expectation-driven novelty effects in episodic memory	33
Left lateral parietal rTMS improves cognition and modulates resting brain connectivity in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: Possible role of BDNF and oxidative stress	33
Amygdala-hippocampal interactions in synaptic plasticity and memory formation	32
Role of Wnt signaling in synaptic plasticity and memory	31
GLP-1R activation ameliorated novel-object recognition memory dysfunction via regulating hippocampal AMPK/NF-κB pathway in neuropathic pain mice	28
The critical role of the hippocampal NLRP3 inflammasome in social isolation-induced cognitive impairment in male mice	25
The role of hippocampal mossy cells in novelty detection	25
Improving cognitive functioning in major depressive disorder with psychedelics: A dimensional approach	25
Males and females differ in the regulation and engagement of, but not requirement for, protein degradation in the amygdala during fear memory formation	24
Inhibition of brain 17β-estradiol synthesis by letrozole induces cognitive decline in male and female rats	23
The effects of offline and online prefrontal vs parietal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on verbal and spatial working memory	23
Touchscreen cognitive testing: Cross-species translation and co-clinical trials in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease	21
A brief period of sleep deprivation negatively impacts the acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval of object-location memories	21
Beyond the hippocampus: The role of parahippocampal-prefrontal communication in context-modulated behavior	21
Neurotrophins as a reliable biomarker for brain function, structure and cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Whole-body procedural learning benefits from targeted memory reactivation in REM sleep and task-related dreaming	20
Failures of memory and the fate of forgotten memories	20
The separate and combined properties of the granular (area 29) and dysgranular (area 30) retrosplenial cortex	20
Effect of chronic sleep deprivation and sleep recovery on hippocampal CA3 neurons, spatial memory and anxiety-like behavior in rats	19
Evidence for two distinct thalamocortical circuits in retrosplenial cortex	19
Interactions between the hippocampus and the auditory pathway	19

Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus controls fear memory reconsolidation	19
New functions of the rodent prelimbic and infralimbic cortex in instrumental behavior	18
Sodium butyrate as a selective cognitive enhancer for weak or impaired memory	18
Amnesia for context fear is caused by widespread disruption of hippocampal activity	17
Encoding and consolidation of motor sequence learning in young and older adults	17
Time to learn: The role of the molecular circadian clock in learning and memory	16
Timing matters: Transcranial direct current stimulation after extinction learning impairs subsequent fear extinction retention	16
Far from the nuclear crowd: Cytoplasmic lncRNA and their implications in synaptic plasticity and memory	16
Extended amygdala circuits are differentially activated by context fear conditioning in male and female rats	15
Systemic HDAC3 inhibition ameliorates impairments in synaptic plasticity caused by simulated galactic cosmic radiation exposure in male mice	15
The posterior insular cortex is necessary for the consolidation of tone fear conditioning	15
Working memory load modulates oscillatory activity and the distribution of fast frequencies across frontal theta phase during working memory maintenance	14
Prelimbic cortex maintains attention to category-relevant information and flexibly updates category representations	14
Acute vagus nerve stimulation enhances reversal learning in rats	14
Effects of active exploration on novelty-related declarative memory enhancement	14
Ceftriaxone regulates glutamate production and vesicular assembly in presynaptic terminals through GLT-1 in APP/PS1 mice	14
Ventral hippocampus mediates the context-dependence of two-way signaled avoidance in male rats	14
Survival of the salient: Aversive learning rescues otherwise forgettable memories via neural reactivation and post-encoding hippocampal connectivity	14
Intrinsic plasticity and birdsong learning	14
Neural synchronization between the anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortices during effort-based decision making	13
Optogenetic inhibition of either the anterior or posterior retrosplenial cortex disrupts retrieval of a trace, but not delay, fear memory	13
Age- and sex-specific fear conditioning deficits in mice lacking Pcdh10, an Autism Associated Gene	13
Sleep to remember, sleep to forget: Rapid eye movement sleep can have inverse effects on recall and generalization of fear memories	13
Higher post-encoding cortisol benefits the selective consolidation of emotional aspects of memory	12
Improving consolidation by applying anodal transcranial direct current stimulation at primary motor cortex during repetitive practice	12
Selective activation of the right hippocampus during navigation by spatial cues in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus)	12
Prefrontal cortex VAMP1 gene network moderates the effect of the early environment on cognitive flexibility in children	12
The limbic memory circuit and the neural basis of contextual memory	12
Consequence of stroke for feature recall and binding in visual working memory	12
Consolidation and generalisation across sleep depend on individual EEG factors and sleep spindle density	12
Motor learning rapidly increases synaptogenesis and astrocytic structural plasticity in the rat cerebellum	12
Thalamic nucleus reuniens regulates fear memory destabilization upon retrieval	12
Elevated fear responses to threatening cues in rats with early life stress is associated with greater excitability and loss of gamma oscillations in ventral-medial prefrontal cortex	12
Increased dynamic flexibility in the medial temporal lobe network following an exercise intervention mediates generalization of prior learning	11
Encoding-linked pupil response is modulated by expected and unexpected novelty: Implications for memory formation and neurotransmission	11
Transcranial alternating current stimulation at theta frequency to left parietal cortex impairs associative, but not perceptual, memory encoding	11
Histone H2A.Z is required for androgen receptor-mediated effects on fear memory	11
The circadian clock gene Per1 modulates context fear memory formation within the retrosplenial cortex in a sex-specific manner	11
Sexually dimorphic muscarinic acetylcholine receptor modulation of contextual fear learning in the dentate gyrus	11
GABAergic microcircuitry of fear memory encoding	11
Corticosterone differentially modulates time-dependent fear generalization following mild or moderate fear conditioning training in rats	11
No benefit of auditory closed-loop stimulation on memory for semantically-incongruent associations	11
Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling	10
Early-life stress is associated with a preponderance of habitual responding in a novel instrumental avoidance learning paradigm	10
Using EEG microstates to examine post-encoding quiet rest and subsequent word-pair memory	10
5-HT7 receptor activation rescues impaired synaptic plasticity in an autistic-like rat model induced by prenatal VPA exposure	10
Frontal cortex stroke-induced impairment in spatial working memory on the trial-unique nonmatching-to-location task in mice	10
Why is synaptic plasticity not enough?	10
Delaying feedback compensates for impaired reinforcement learning in developmental dyslexia	10
Conditional knockout of MET receptor tyrosine kinase in cortical excitatory neurons leads to enhanced learning and memory in young adult mice but early cognitive decline in older adult mice	10

Dorsomedial striatal contributions to different forms of risk/reward decision making	10
The G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) regulates recognition and aversively–motivated memory in male rats	10
Medial entorhinal cortex lesions produce delay-dependent disruptions in memory for elapsed time	10
Chemogenetic silencing of hippocampus and amygdala reveals a double dissociation in periadolescent obesogenic diet-induced memory alterations	10
Isolation driven changes in Iba1-positive microglial morphology are associated with social recognition memory in adults and adolescents	9
The role of sleep for episodic memory consolidation: Stabilizing or rescuing?	9
Ontogeny of spontaneous recognition memory in rodents	9
Integrity of the uncinate fasciculus is associated with emotional pattern separation-related fMRI signals in the hippocampal dentate and CA3	9
Repeated mild traumatic brain injuries impair visual discrimination learning in adolescent mice	9
Critical aspects of neurodevelopment	9
Role of noradrenergic arousal for fear extinction processes in rodents and humans	9
Examining a role for the retrosplenial cortex in age-related memory impairment	9
Temporal endurance of exercise-induced benefits on hippocampus-dependent memory and synaptic plasticity in female mice	8
Optogenetic disruption of the prelimbic cortex alters long-term decision strategy but not valuation on a spatial delay discounting task	8
Neural systems and the emotion-memory link	8
Spatial context and the functional role of the postrhinal cortex	8
Pharmacological inhibition of phosphodiesterase 7 enhances consolidation processes of spatial memory	8
The effects of acute Cannabis smoke or Δ9-THC injections on the trial-unique, nonmatching-to-location and five-choice serial reaction time tasks in male Long-Evans rats	8
Retrosplenial cortex inactivation during retrieval, but not encoding, impairs remotely acquired auditory fear conditioning in male rats	8
The role of aberrant neural oscillations in the hippocampal-medial prefrontal cortex circuit in neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders	8
Effects of nicotinic antagonists on working memory performance in young rhesus monkeys	8
Cortical neurochemical signaling of gustatory stimuli and their visceral consequences during the acquisition and consolidation of taste aversion memory	8
Dual projecting cells linking thalamic and cortical communication routes between the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus	8
Ketamine anesthesia enhances fear memory consolidation via noradrenergic activation in the basolateral amygdala	8
Ventral hippocampal shock encoding modulates the expression of trace cued fear	8
Extinction trial spacing across days differentially impacts fear regulation in adult and adolescent male mice	8
Human-induced pluripotent stem cells as a model for studying sporadic Alzheimer’s disease	8
Ghrelin treatment leads to dendritic spine remodeling in hippocampal neurons and increases the expression of specific BDNF-mRNA species	8
Persistent changes in extracellular lactate dynamics following synaptic potentiation	7
Stress, associative learning, and decision-making	7
Ventral hippocampal projections to infralimbic cortex and basolateral amygdala are differentially activated by contextual fear and extinction recall	7
Vagus nerve stimulation promotes extinction generalization across sensory modalities	7
Punishments and rewards both modestly impair visuomotor memory retention	7
Retrieval of allocentric spatial memories is preserved up to thirty days and does not require higher brain metabolic demands	7
Brd4 participates in epigenetic regulation of the extinction of remote auditory fear memory	7
Can the elderly take the action? – The influence of unitization induced by action relationships on the associative memory deficit	7
Acute exercise following skill practice promotes motor memory consolidation in Parkinson’s disease	7
Prioritization of social information by the basolateral amygdala in rats	7
Critical role of hippocampal muscarinic acetylcholine receptors on memory reconsolidation in mice	7
Does memory reactivation during sleep support generalization at the cost of memory specifics?	7
The combination of autism and exceptional cognitive ability is associated with suicidal ideation	7
Brain derived neurotrophic factor in perioperative neurocognitive disorders: Current evidence and future directions	7
Optogenetic perturbation of projections from thalamic nucleus reuniens to hippocampus disrupts spatial working memory retrieval more than encoding	7
Synergistic effect between quinpirole and L-NAME as well as sulpiride and L-arginine on the modulation of anxiety and memory processes in the 6-OHDA mouse model of Parkinson's disease: An isobologram	7