Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 0. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Backpropagation and the brain368
The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective364
Qualitative sex differences in pain processing: emerging evidence of a biased literature354
Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot319
The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world290
Circuits and functions of the lateral habenula in health and in disease264
Cognitive and behavioural flexibility: neural mechanisms and clinical considerations237
Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders237
Speech rhythms and their neural foundations210
Environmental influences on the pace of brain development202
The probabilistic model of Alzheimer disease: the amyloid hypothesis revised201
Neuronal regulation of the blood–brain barrier and neurovascular coupling189
Theories of consciousness188
Emerging importance of satellite glia in nervous system function and dysfunction185
Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation183
If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?183
Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms166
Gut microbial molecules in behavioural and neurodegenerative conditions166
The molecular biology of FMRP: new insights into fragile X syndrome164
Myelin plasticity: sculpting circuits in learning and memory156
The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation148
Transplanting neural progenitor cells to restore connectivity after spinal cord injury147
Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS146
Formation and integration of new neurons in the adult hippocampus143
Spatial and temporal scales of dopamine transmission135
Illuminating dendritic function with computational models129
Making sense of astrocytic calcium signals — from acquisition to interpretation129
Cellular senescence and Alzheimer disease: the egg and the chicken scenario127
Music in the brain117
Improving translation of animal models of addiction and relapse by reverse translation115
Oestradiol as a neuromodulator of learning and memory110
Causal mapping of human brain function108
Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders108
Triad of TDP43 control in neurodegeneration: autoregulation, localization and aggregation107
Encouraging an excitable brain state: mechanisms of brain repair in stroke105
Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?102
The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health100
Molecular mechanisms of brain water transport98
The functional organization of axonal mRNA transport and translation98
CaMKII: a central molecular organizer of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory95
Two views on the cognitive brain94
Untangling the cortico-thalamo-cortical loop: cellular pieces of a knotty circuit puzzle92
Motor and non-motor circuit disturbances in early Parkinson disease: which happens first?91
Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition91
Spine dynamics in the brain, mental disorders and artificial neural networks91
Neurexins: molecular codes for shaping neuronal synapses90
Viral tools for neuroscience89
Cannabis and synaptic reprogramming of the developing brain87
Mechanisms of node of Ranvier assembly87
Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder84
Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators83
Bidirectional learning in upbound and downbound microzones of the cerebellum81
The role of GABAergic signalling in neurodevelopmental disorders80
Neural tuning and representational geometry80
Linking interindividual variability in brain structure to behaviour80
Inhibitory stabilization and cortical computation78
Multidimensional processing in the amygdala78
Emerging roles for CNS fibroblasts in health, injury and disease77
Sodium channelopathies in neurodevelopmental disorders75
Advanced imaging and labelling methods to decipher brain cell organization and function75
Attractor and integrator networks in the brain74
The stressed synapse 2.0: pathophysiological mechanisms in stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders73
The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity73
Navigating for reward71
Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals71
Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement71
Impaired insulin signalling and allostatic load in Alzheimer disease71
Null models in network neuroscience70
Forgetting as a form of adaptive engram cell plasticity70
Beyond dichotomies in reinforcement learning68
Energy matters: presynaptic metabolism and the maintenance of synaptic transmission68
Somatosensory and autonomic neuronal regulation of the immune response68
The structures and functions of correlations in neural population codes66
The macaque face patch system: a turtle’s underbelly for the brain66
Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function65
The physiological function of different voltage-gated sodium channels in pain65
The sympathetic nervous system in development and disease64
Neocortical circuits in pain and pain relief63
Towards real-world generalizability of a circuit for action-stopping62
The influence of subcortical shortcuts on disordered sensory and cognitive processing60
Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials59
Channelopathies in fragile X syndrome59
Aquaporin 4 and glymphatic flow have central roles in brain fluid homeostasis58
Diversity and function of corticopetal and corticofugal GABAergic projection neurons55
The human motor cortex microcircuit: insights for neurodegenerative disease55
State-dependent effects of neural stimulation on brain function and cognition55
Emergence of abstract rules in the primate brain53
A hypothalamomedullary network for physiological responses to environmental stresses50
Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates47
Brain vulnerability and viability after ischaemia47
On the relationship between maps and domains in inferotemporal cortex47
Homeobox genes and the specification of neuronal identity46
In vivo locus-specific editing of the neuroepigenome45
Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease44
Conformational strains of pathogenic amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases43
Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping42
Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model41
Genetic mosaicism in the human brain: from lineage tracing to neuropsychiatric disorders39
On the value of model diversity in neuroscience39
The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system38
A neuropeptide code for itch38
The neuroconnectionist research programme38
The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing38
The role of inhibitory circuits in hippocampal memory processing36
The why behind the high: determinants of neurocognition during acute cannabis exposure36
Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits35
A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition34
Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex33
Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’32
Super-resolution microscopy: a closer look at synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer disease32
The grid code for ordered experience31
Assessing the causal role of early visual areas in visual mental imagery30
Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience30
A tripartite view of the posterior cingulate cortex28
Evolution of central neural circuits: state of the art and perspectives27
Local modulation by presynaptic receptors controls neuronal communication and behaviour27
Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity27
Neural signalling of gut mechanosensation in ingestive and digestive processes26
TRP channels: a journey towards a molecular understanding of pain24
GABA tone regulation and its cognitive functions in the brain23
The neural bases for timing of durations23
From cognitive maps to spatial schemas21
Shaping the brain vasculature in development and disease in the single-cell era21
Multiregion neuronal activity: the forest and the trees21
Priority coding in the visual system20
Development, wiring and function of dopamine neuron subtypes20
Alternative splicing in neurodegenerative disease and the promise of RNA therapies19
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications19
Basal forebrain cholinergic signalling: development, connectivity and roles in cognition19
Neurophysiological mechanisms of error monitoring in human and non-human primates18
How mechanisms of stem cell polarity shape the human cerebral cortex18
Neuroimmune mechanisms and therapies mediating post-ischaemic brain injury and repair17
Participant stress in the COVID-19 era and beyond17
The plasticitome of cortical interneurons17
The neural basis of sugar preference16
Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence16
Modelling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in rodents16
Step by step: cells with multiple functions in cortical circuit assembly15
Dynamical models to evaluate structure–function relationships in network neuroscience15
The Genetically Informed Neurobiology of Addiction (GINA) model14
What neural oscillations can and cannot do for syntactic structure building14
Neurons as will and representation12
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function11
The transition to motherhood: linking hormones, brain and behaviour11
Ontogenetic rules for the molecular diversification of hypothalamic neurons11
An open letter to past, current and future mentors of Black neuroscientists11
Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models11
Assessments of dentate gyrus function: discoveries and debates10
Spectrins: molecular organizers and targets of neurological disorders10
It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research10
Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight10
Reply to ‘Aquaporin 4 and glymphatic flow have central roles in brain fluid homeostasis’10
Multiple system atrophy: at the crossroads of cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms10
Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons: multimodal cells with diverse roles in the CNS10
Mechanisms of axonal support by oligodendrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles9
Talking science, online9
Knowledge generalization and the costs of multitasking9
Gene therapy for chronic pain: emerging opportunities in target-rich peripheral nociceptors9
Central regulation of stress-evoked peripheral immune responses8
Topographical layer imaging as a tool to track neurodegenerative disease spread in M18
Reply to: Assessing the causal role of early visual areas in visual mental imagery8
Towards readable code in neuroscience7
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome7
Author Correction: Cellular senescence and Alzheimer disease: the egg and the chicken scenario7
Post-injury pain and behaviour: a control theory perspective7
Sleep and circadian rhythmicity as entangled processes serving homeostasis6
Mitochondrial complex I deficiency and Parkinson disease6
A biophysical perspective on the resilience of neuronal excitability across timescales6
Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks6
TDP43 aggregates: the ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis5
Excitation–transcription coupling, neuronal gene expression and synaptic plasticity5
Microglia prune inhibitory synapses, too5
A CNS gateway for SARS-CoV-25
Neurotoxic effects of air pollution: an urgent public health concern5
Building communication neurotechnology for high stakes communications5
How neuroscience labs can limit their environmental impact5
How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis5
Cell type-specific roles of APOE4 in Alzheimer disease5
The neurobiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection4
Publisher Correction: Intermittent metabolic switching, neuroplasticity and brain health4
Linking human behaviour to brain structure: further challenges and possible solutions4
Author Correction: Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation4
Defensive responses: behaviour, the brain and the body4
How the conception of control influences our understanding of actions4
Brain–spleen link tunes immunity4
Myelin loss in AD3
Mitigating white Western individualistic bias and creating more inclusive neuroscience3
Less is more: a critical role of synapse pruning in neural circuit wiring3
Network models to enhance the translational impact of cross-species studies3
Post-encounter freezing during approach–avoidance conflict: the role of the hippocampus3
Reply to ‘TDP43 aggregates: the ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis’3
Human neuronal maturation comes of age: cellular mechanisms and species differences3
Author Correction: Sodium channelopathies in neurodevelopmental disorders3
Towards a cross-cultural framework for predictive coding of music3
Interactions between rodent visual and spatial systems during navigation3
A new direction for the claustrum?3
Reply to ‘It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research’3
Detection, processing and reinforcement of social cues: regulation by the oxytocin system3
What oscillations can do for syntax depends on your theory of structure building2
Remodelling the matrix2
Managing the high: developing legislation and detection methods for cannabis impairment2
Epstein–Barr virus and multiple sclerosis2
Collaboration produces brain cell census2
Retrieving immune responses stored in the insular cortex2
Curating more diverse scientific conferences2
Author Correction: Emerging importance of satellite glia in nervous system function and dysfunction2
Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?2
Coordinating sickness behaviour2
Shining a light on pain2
Publisher Correction: Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?2
Avoiding interpretational pitfalls in fluorescence imaging of the brain2
Reply to ‘Topographical layer imaging as a tool to track neurodegenerative disease spread in M1’2
Neuronal neighbours tune microglial identity2
Low-frequency neural parsing of hierarchical linguistic structures2
The lab on lockdown: thinking back and looking ahead2
Neuron–oligodendroglial interactions in health and malignant disease2
The hypothesis of fundal cognition2
TREM2 stems the flow of AD pathology2
When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis2
Gene networking1
A neuronal cluster involved in arousal and breathing1
Heightening the threat1
Feeling another’s pain1
A conjoined cognitive map1
A gut instinct for glucose1
Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful1
Reply to ‘Towards a cross-cultural framework for predictive coding of music’1
Targeting circuits with DBS1
Targeting transport in CNS oedema1
The generative grammar of the brain: a critique of internally generated representations1
Too excited to sleep1
Unfolding cognitive decline mechanisms1
Stressed out decision making1
A shared pathway connects schizophrenia and bipolar disorder1
Reply to ‘When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis’1
Insight into citation bias1
Understanding neural circuit function through synaptic engineering1
Species differences1
Androgen signal for brain size1
Data-driven modelling of neurodegenerative disease progression: thinking outside the black box1
Social ranking1
Neuroprosthetic control of blood pressure1
Retinal protection1
Light takes a deep dive1
Mechanics of amyloid clearance1
Paternal fluctuations1
Reply to ‘Low-frequency neural parsing of hierarchical linguistic structures’1
Processing α-synuclein interactions1
Light-sensing at depth1
Angiogenesis in the eye1
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