Nature Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Neuroscience is 35. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy419
Salty licorice taste receptor410
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks409
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories364
Alcohol’s necessary accessory341
Maybe too much of a good thing in gene therapy325
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex304
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation278
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit271
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex260
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control260
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling255
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways232
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience225
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex212
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex209
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy200
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance182
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience181
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood179
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties179
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning178
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons176
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan175
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus168
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy166
Revisiting the neurovascular unit166
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development162
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)159
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration155
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease154
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping154
Computational models link cellular mechanisms of neuromodulation to large-scale neural dynamics152
Computational strategies for deliberative thought151
Guest star in OCD151
COVID-19 and brain aging148
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome147
How cancer and cortex collude146
Lessons from resilience144
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila143
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning142
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization141
A role for the cortex in sleep–wake regulation138
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons137
A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging137
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect134
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience132
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses132
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)128
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)126
Aversion crosses over125
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements123
Glioblastoma–neuron networks122
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states120
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease119
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology117
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition114
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis114
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations112
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards110
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience110
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity110
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease108
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy107
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice107
Interactions between ALS-linked FUS and nucleoporins are associated with defects in the nucleocytoplasmic transport pathway105
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP104
Translation for transmission103
Cerebellar organoids get active103
In conversation with Corey Harwell103
Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement102
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys102
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety102
How to build a cognitive map100
Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders99
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state99
Real control in virtual rats98
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain98
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics98
Commensals boost nerve regeneration96
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit96
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time95
Reduced sociability and social agency encoding in adult Shank3-mutant mice are restored through gene re-expression in real time94
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice91
Causal reductionism and causal structures91
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice90
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin89
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue89
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury89
Dynamics of mature myelin89
A fragile imbalance88
In conversation with Carla Shatz87
Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience87
Personalized EES for SCI87
Publisher Correction: Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep86
Microglia set the pace for tau spread85
AI predicts risk of mental health disorders85
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health84
How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research83
Gene programs driving cortical neuron specifications83
Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons82
Modeling gene × environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression82
Neurotensin neurons in the extended amygdala control dietary choice and energy homeostasis82
Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds80
Reply to: A curious concept of CNS clearance79
Non-synaptic function of the autism spectrum disorder-associated gene SYNGAP1 in cortical neurogenesis78
Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways78
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision78
Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis78
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques77
Re-conceptualizing domains in neuroscience, hopes and utopias aside77
Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model77
How the brain regulates its own immune system76
From pain to brain76
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models75
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings75
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a central nervous system energy reserve75
(Lost) gut feeling75
Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making75
Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia75
Complex topology meets simple statistics74
Publisher Correction: A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice73
Gonads drive the brain73
Neurogenic–angiogenic synchrony via lactate73
In conversation with Fernando de Castro Soubriet72
Restoring sensation to prosthetics71
Killing ageing neurons, one cell at a time70
Nf1 mutation disrupts activity-dependent oligodendroglial plasticity and motor learning in mice70
Author Correction: Disordered grids in the third dimension69
Author Correction: Mapping microglia states in the human brain through the integration of high-dimensional techniques69
Silencing gut CCK cells alters gut reaction to sugar69
Refining the negative into general and specific69
A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951–2023)68
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories68
A molecularly defined amygdala-independent tetra-synaptic forebrain-to-hindbrain pathway for odor-driven innate fear and anxiety68
Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO)68
Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off67
Divergent projections of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus mediate the selection of passive and active defensive behaviors67
Abnormal lipid metabolism shapes astrocyte reactivity in patients with epilepsy67
Stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse driving motor and sensory denervation67
Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice66
Chromatin domain alterations linked to 3D genome organization in a large cohort of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder brains66
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus66
Thalamic subnetworks as units of function66
Age-related Huntington’s disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy66
The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome65
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level65
Distinct active zone protein machineries mediate Ca2+ channel clustering and vesicle priming at hippocampal synapses65
VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error64
Astrocytes require perineuronal nets to maintain synaptic homeostasis in mice64
Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood63
Polygenic risk scores do not add value for predicting schizophrenia outcomes63
Salience in the raphe63
Globally reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD dysregulates RNA metabolism and contributes to neurodegeneration63
A very sexy circuit62
Glial plasticity dysregulation contributes to learning impairments in the neurogenetic disorder NF162
Single-nucleus sequencing finds no adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans62
Anorexia nervosa microbiota62
A common voice for neural data61
The eyes have it60
Propagation of neuronal micronuclei regulates microglial characteristics59
Author Correction: Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons59
AI beats neuroscientists’ predictions59
Adult neurogenesis is altered in neurodegenerative disease59
Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation58
Endocannabinoid protection of the brain vasculature leads to stress resilience58
Serotonin and addiction prevention57
Author Correction: Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex57
Cortical interneurons in autism56
Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram56
The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps56
Magnetic resonance-based eye tracking using deep neural networks56
Author Correction: Central role for PICALM in amyloid-β blood-brain barrier transcytosis and clearance56
Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex56
Cerebellar associative learning underlies skilled reach adaptation56
Neuronal ApoE upregulates MHC-I expression to drive selective neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease55
Blood-to-brain communication in aging and rejuvenation55
Coexpression network architecture reveals the brain-wide and multiregional basis of disease susceptibility55
PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons55
High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain54
Decoding motor plans using a closed-loop ultrasonic brain–machine interface54
Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition54
Ptchd1 mediates opioid tolerance via cholesterol-dependent effects on μ-opioid receptor trafficking54
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain54
Lewy body disease can spread via two distinct body-first routes53
Fear learning induces α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated astrocytic responsiveness that is required for memory persistence53
Cortical gene expression architecture links healthy neurodevelopment to the imaging, transcriptomics and genetics of autism and schizophrenia53
Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior53
In conversation with Aniruddha Das53
Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow53
A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation52
Blood proteins control microglia52
Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment51
Neuronal activity stimulates a genetic program to rapidly generate synapses during development51
Author Correction: Cortical astrocytes modulate dominance behavior in male mice by regulating synaptic excitatory and inhibitory balance51
A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference50
Puberty reverses sex differences in learning50
Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence50
Place fields illuminated50
Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution49
Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and the next-generation clinical care pathway49
Altruism and social rewards49
A deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging with subframe temporal resolution49
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad autobiographical memories in PTSD49
High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations48
Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice48
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification48
Reducing publication bias with Registered Reports48
Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function47
A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning47
Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience47
Precisely timed theta oscillations are selectively required during the encoding phase of memory47
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery46
Twenty-five years of Nature Neuroscience46
Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit46
Lack of myelin improves axon survival in inflammatory lesions in the CNS46
Exome sequencing in obsessive–compulsive disorder reveals a burden of rare damaging coding variants46
Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila46
Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making46
A cholinergic auditory pathway45
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits45
Adolescent sleep molds adult social preferences45
The stop and go of glymphatic flow45
An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates45
Impaired gut barrier affects microglia health45
Causal role for the primate superior colliculus in the computation of evidence for perceptual decisions44
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception44
Together but opposites in reward44
A motor association area in the depths of the central sulcus44
Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia44
Parallel gut-to-brain pathways orchestrate feeding behaviors44
PTEN mutations impair CSF dynamics and cortical networks by dysregulating periventricular neural progenitors44
Orexin neurons track temporal features of blood glucose in behaving mice43
Cell-type-specific effects of genetic variation on chromatin accessibility during human neuronal differentiation43
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine42
Multimodal profiling of the transcriptional regulatory landscape of the developing mouse cortex identifies Neurog2 as a key epigenome remodeler42
Aerobic glycolysis is the predominant means of glucose metabolism in neuronal somata, which protects against oxidative damage42
Corticospinal populations broadcast complex motor signals to coordinated spinal and striatal circuits42
Formalizing planning and information search in naturalistic decision-making42
Integrated cardio-behavioral responses to threat define defensive states41
Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex41
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence41
Norepinephrine links astrocytic activity to regulation of cortical state41
A potential target for noninvasive neuromodulation of PTSD symptoms derived from focal brain lesions in veterans40
Author Correction: Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction40
Do all norepinephrine surges disrupt sleep?40
Humans can intermittently respond to verbal stimuli when sleeping40
Myelin lipid metabolism can provide energy for starved axons40
Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse40
It’s go time40
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