Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Neuroscience is 34. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy472
Salty licorice taste receptor472
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories390
Alcohol’s necessary accessory386
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex345
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons304
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling298
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation286
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience281
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit253
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways236
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience219
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties214
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)209
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex207
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus199
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning198
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance197
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy194
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex191
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease181
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks181
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping181
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration180
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood180
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy176
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex170
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan166
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development165
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control164
Guest star in OCD162
Computational strategies for deliberative thought161
COVID-19 and brain aging160
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome156
How cancer and cortex collude148
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal146
Lessons from resilience146
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations144
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards141
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes140
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis137
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs136
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity134
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia130
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy129
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization129
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)127
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements125
Aversion crosses over125
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)125
Glioblastoma–neuron networks122
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states119
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses119
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences117
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy116
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD116
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease116
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience115
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila115
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect113
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience111
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice109
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology109
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease109
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease108
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning103
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons102
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition102
Cerebellar organoids get active101
Translation for transmission101
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP101
In conversation with Corey Harwell100
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit97
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics97
Real control in virtual rats97
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain96
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice95
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time95
Commensals boost nerve regeneration95
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys91
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety90
Dynamics of mature myelin90
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue90
Causal reductionism and causal structures90
How to build a cognitive map89
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury89
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice88
Big data for classifying ASD88
A fragile imbalance87
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin87
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging87
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state87
Personalized EES for SCI84
In conversation with Carla Shatz84
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience83
How the brain regulates its own immune system82
Microglia set the pace for tau spread82
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep82
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications81
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research81
From pain to brain81
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders81
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance80
Re-conceptualizing domains in neuroscience, hopes and utopias aside80
Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement79
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health78
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds78
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve78
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia78
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making78
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models77
Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells77
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons76
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision76
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis75
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis75
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques74
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model74
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression74
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis73
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings73
Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways73
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet72
Complex topology meets simple statistics72
(Lost) gut feeling72
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice72
Restoring sensation to prosthetics72
Gonads drive the brain72
Author Correction: Disordered grids in the third dimension70
Author Correction: Mapping microglia states in the human brain through the integration of high-dimensional techniques70
Refining the negative into general and specific70
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation69
Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains69
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice69
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety68
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice67
Silencing gut CCK cells alters gut reaction to sugar67
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses67
Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO)67
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories66
Sleep cycles process memories66
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy65
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)65
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off65
Thalamic subnetworks as units of function64
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus64
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy64
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate64
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus64
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates63
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood62
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans62
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration61
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice61
VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error61
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level61
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome60
Anorexia nervosa microbiota60
Salience in the raphe60
Polygenic risk scores do not add value for predicting schizophrenia outcomes60
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons59
Single-nucleus sequencing finds no adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans59
The eyes have it59
A very sexy circuit59
A common voice for neural data59
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF159
Adult neurogenesis is altered in neurodegenerative disease57
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain57
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance57
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking57
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions57
Stress and autophagy57
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time57
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex56
Resilient cortical maps56
Serotonin and addiction prevention56
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience56
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram55
The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex55
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia55
Fear learning induces α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated astrocytic responsiveness that is required for memory persistence54
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons54
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain54
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation54
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation54
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps54
Cortical interneurons in autism53
Magnetic resonance-based eye tracking using deep neural networks53
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow52
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface52
Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior52
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation52
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition52
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex52
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics52
In conversation with Aniruddha Das52
Place fields illuminated51
Blood proteins control microglia51
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development51
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice51
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance51
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery50
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence50
A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning50
Puberty reverses sex differences in learning50
Altruism and social rewards50
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference49
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution49
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila49
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes49
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution48
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning48
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports48
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification47
Precisely timed theta oscillations are selectively required during the encoding phase of memory47
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment46
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience45
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations45
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD45
CRISPR screening by AAV episome-sequencing (CrAAVe-seq): a scalable cell-type-specific in vivo platform uncovers neuronal essential genes45
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making45
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit44
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway44
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function44
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience43
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation43
The stop and go of glymphatic flow43
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits43
Together but opposites in reward43
A cholinergic auditory pathway43
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS43
Adolescent sleep molds adult social preferences43
Integrated cardio-behavioral responses to threat define defensive states43
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus42
Functionally diverse human insular architecture with memory-related hippocampal interactions42
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors42
Orexin neurons track temporal features of blood glucose in behaving mice42
Multimodal profiling of the transcriptional regulatory landscape of the developing mouse cortex identifies Neurog2 as a key epigenome remodeler42
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception42
Corticospinal populations broadcast complex motor signals to coordinated spinal and striatal circuits41
Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia41
An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates41
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine41
Parallel gut-to-brain pathways orchestrate feeding behaviors41
Aerobic glycolysis is the predominant means of glucose metabolism in neuronal somata, which protects against oxidative damage41
Norepinephrine links astrocytic activity to regulation of cortical state41
Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex40
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence40
Humans can intermittently respond to verbal stimuli when sleeping40
Impaired gut barrier affects microglia health40
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