Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Neuroscience is 36. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy498
Salty licorice taste receptor481
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex406
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories401
Alcohol’s necessary accessory367
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties320
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation309
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit301
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience286
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)256
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance241
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways228
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience220
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex213
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy212
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons207
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling204
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus203
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex202
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning202
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease191
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy189
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping187
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex186
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood181
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development181
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan177
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control171
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks170
Guest star in OCD168
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration168
Computational strategies for deliberative thought167
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome166
COVID-19 and brain aging162
How cancer and cortex collude161
Lessons from resilience157
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements150
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis147
Glioblastoma–neuron networks145
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states142
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing140
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes139
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences138
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses136
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy136
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)132
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs132
Aversion crosses over132
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal131
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila130
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology126
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition124
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations123
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization122
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice121
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect121
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards121
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia120
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease119
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience118
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD117
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience116
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning112
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease110
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons110
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy107
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease107
Translation for transmission106
In conversation with Corey Harwell106
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity106
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery104
Cerebellar organoids get active104
Real control in virtual rats103
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics103
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging103
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time99
Commensals boost nerve regeneration99
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain98
Big data for classifying ASD98
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury97
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates97
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit97
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice96
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety95
Dynamics of mature myelin95
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state95
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin92
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice92
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue90
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys90
A fragile imbalance89
How to build a cognitive map89
Personalized EES for SCI88
Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells88
Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement88
In conversation with Carla Shatz87
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience87
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep86
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders85
Re-conceptualizing domains in neuroscience, hopes and utopias aside85
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research85
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications84
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis84
From pain to brain84
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis83
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia82
How the brain regulates its own immune system82
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis81
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision81
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making81
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression80
Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways79
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model79
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds79
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings78
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance78
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models78
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons77
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques77
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve77
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health77
(Lost) gut feeling76
Complex topology meets simple statistics75
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice75
Gonads drive the brain75
Refining the negative into general and specific74
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet74
Author Correction: Mapping microglia states in the human brain through the integration of high-dimensional techniques74
Restoring sensation to prosthetics74
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus73
Author Correction: Disordered grids in the third dimension73
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome72
Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains72
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice71
An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus70
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation70
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice70
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off69
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice69
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate69
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy69
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)68
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood67
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration67
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans67
Sleep cycles process memories67
Silencing gut CCK cells alters gut reaction to sugar67
Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO)66
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories66
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses66
Thalamic subnetworks as units of function66
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates66
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety66
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy65
VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error65
Anorexia nervosa microbiota63
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level63
Salience in the raphe63
A common voice for neural data62
A very sexy circuit62
The eyes have it62
Polygenic risk scores do not add value for predicting schizophrenia outcomes62
Single-nucleus sequencing finds no adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans61
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation61
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF161
Serotonin and addiction prevention60
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions60
Resilient cortical maps60
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons60
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience60
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons60
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps59
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance59
Fear learning induces α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated astrocytic responsiveness that is required for memory persistence59
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation59
Adult neurogenesis is altered in neurodegenerative disease59
Stress and autophagy58
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex58
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex58
Magnetic resonance-based eye tracking using deep neural networks58
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time58
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow57
Author Correction: Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain57
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition56
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics56
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain56
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia55
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram55
Cortical interneurons in autism55
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking55
The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex55
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation54
In conversation with Aniruddha Das54
Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior54
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain54
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance54
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface54
Blood proteins control microglia54
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence53
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development53
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery53
Place fields illuminated53
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes52
Altruism and social rewards52
Puberty reverses sex differences in learning52
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution52
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution51
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit51
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making51
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation51
CRISPR screening by AAV episome-sequencing (CrAAVe-seq): a scalable cell-type-specific in vivo platform uncovers neuronal essential genes51
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice50
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports50
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification49
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway49
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila49
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning49
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function49
A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning49
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD48
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment48
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations48
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference48
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience47
Precisely timed theta oscillations are selectively required during the encoding phase of memory47
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS47
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits46
Integrated cardio-behavioral responses to threat define defensive states46
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience46
Together but opposites in reward46
Adolescent sleep molds adult social preferences46
A cholinergic auditory pathway46
Functionally diverse human insular architecture with memory-related hippocampal interactions45
Multimodal profiling of the transcriptional regulatory landscape of the developing mouse cortex identifies Neurog2 as a key epigenome remodeler45
An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates44
Impaired gut barrier affects microglia health44
Parallel gut-to-brain pathways orchestrate feeding behaviors44
Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex44
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus44
The stop and go of glymphatic flow44
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors44
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine43
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence43
Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia43
Aerobic glycolysis is the predominant means of glucose metabolism in neuronal somata, which protects against oxidative damage43
Corticospinal populations broadcast complex motor signals to coordinated spinal and striatal circuits43
Orexin neurons track temporal features of blood glucose in behaving mice43
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception43
Norepinephrine links astrocytic activity to regulation of cortical state42
Humans can intermittently respond to verbal stimuli when sleeping42
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