OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 10. 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
Origins, Development, and Compartmentation of the Granule Cells of the Cerebellum	104
Calcium Permeable-AMPA Receptors and Excitotoxicity in Neurological Disorders	83
Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine in Learned Behavior: Anatomical Modularity and Spatiotemporal Integration in Targets	65
A Diversity of Intrinsic Timescales Underlie Neural Computations	60
From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior	53
Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development	51
Dopaminergic Dysregulation in Syndromic Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights From Genetic Mouse Models	51
Connectivity and Functionality of the Globus Pallidus Externa Under Normal Conditions and Parkinson's Disease	50
Aberrant Dynamic Functional Connectivity of Default Mode Network in Schizophrenia and Links to Symptom Severity	49
The Effects of Long Duration Spaceflight on Sensorimotor Control and Cognition	47
The Drosophila Split Gal4 System for Neural Circuit Mapping	47
Glypicans and Heparan Sulfate in Synaptic Development, Neural Plasticity, and Neurological Disorders	44
Freely Behaving Mice Can Brake and Turn During Optogenetic Stimulation of the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region	43
Dopamine Circuit Mechanisms of Addiction-Like Behaviors	43
Persistent Activity During Working Memory From Front to Back	43
Alzheimer’s Disease Projection From Normal to Mild Dementia Reflected in Functional Network Connectivity: A Longitudinal Study	42
Subsampled Directed-Percolation Models Explain Scaling Relations Experimentally Observed in the Brain	42
The Medial Septum as a Potential Target for Treating Brain Disorders Associated With Oscillopathies	40
Top-Down Inference in the Auditory System: Potential Roles for Corticofugal Projections	38
Corticothalamic Pathways in Auditory Processing: Recent Advances and Insights From Other Sensory Systems	37
Whole-Brain Mapping the Direct Inputs of Dorsal and Ventral CA1 Projection Neurons	36
Anatomy and Function of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neurons	36
Transient Astrocytic Gq Signaling Underlies Remote Memory Enhancement	35
Hippocampal Somatostatin Interneurons, Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity and Memory	34
Challenges to the Vestibular System in Space: How the Brain Responds and Adapts to Microgravity	34

Dissociable Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms for Mediating the Influences of Visual Cues on Microsaccadic Eye Movements	30
Function and Regulation of ALDH1A1-Positive Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Neurons in Motor Control and Parkinson’s Disease	29
Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons Regulate Cortical Sensory Plasticity in Adulthood and Development Through Shared Mechanisms	28
Interneuron Types and Their Circuits in the Basolateral Amygdala	27
Dopamine Neurons That Cotransmit Glutamate, From Synapses to Circuits to Behavior	27
Respiration-Driven Brain Oscillations in Emotional Cognition	26
Neural Circuits for Social Interactions: From Microcircuits to Input-Output Circuits	26
Hypothetical Roles of the Olfactory Tubercle in Odor-Guided Eating Behavior	25
Event-Based Sensing and Signal Processing in the Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Domain: A Review	25
Prefrontal GABAergic Interneurons Gate Long-Range Afferents to Regulate Prefrontal Cortex-Associated Complex Behaviors	24
Calcium Imaging and the Curse of Negativity	24
Von Economo Neurons – Primate-Specific or Commonplace in the Mammalian Brain?	24
Brain Connectometry Changes in Space Travelers After Long-Duration Spaceflight	23
Functional Organisation of the Mouse Superior Colliculus	22
Genetic Mechanisms Underlying the Evolution of Connectivity in the Human Cortex	22
The Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: Beyond Locomotor Control	21
Corticothalamic Pathways From Layer 5: Emerging Roles in Computation and Pathology	21
The Development of the Mesoprefrontal Dopaminergic System in Health and Disease	20
Serotonergic Modulation of Locomotor Activity From Basal Vertebrates to Mammals	20
Regulation of Social Recognition Memory in the Hippocampal Circuits	20
The Drosophila Larval Locomotor Circuit Provides a Model to Understand Neural Circuit Development and Function	19
Differential Rearrangement of Excitatory Inputs to the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain Models	19
Effects of Locomotion in Auditory Cortex Are Not Mediated by the VIP Network	19
Heterosynaptic Plasticity and the Experience-Dependent Refinement of Developing Neuronal Circuits	18
Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles	18
Cerebellar Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation Reduces Upper Limb Spasticity After Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	18
Activation of the ARCPOMC→MeA Projection Reduces Food Intake	18
Visuomotor Adaptation Brain Changes During a Spaceflight Analog With Elevated Carbon Dioxide (CO2): A Pilot Study	17
Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods	17
Neuropeptide System Regulation of Prefrontal Cortex Circuitry: Implications for Neuropsychiatric Disorders	17
Oxytocinergic Feedback Circuitries: An Anatomical Basis for Neuromodulation of Social Behaviors	17
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	17
Learning-Dependent Dendritic Spine Plasticity Is Reduced in the Aged Mouse Cortex	17
The Effects of 30 Minutes of Artificial Gravity on Cognitive and Sensorimotor Performance in a Spaceflight Analog Environment	17
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	17
The Flow of Axonal Information Among Hippocampal Subregions: 1. Feed-Forward and Feedback Network Spatial Dynamics Underpinning Emergent Information Processing	16
Resting-State Co-activation Patterns as Promising Candidates for Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease in Aged Mice	16
Cortical Electrical Stimulation Ameliorates Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Sensorimotor and Cognitive Deficits in Rats	15
Müller Glia in Retinal Development: From Specification to Circuit Integration	15
A Case for Thalamic Mechanisms of Schizophrenia: Perspective From Modeling 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome	15
Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Non-breeding Aggression: Common Strategies Between Birds and Fish	15
Inhibitory NPY Neurons Provide a Large and Heterotopic Commissural Projection in the Inferior Colliculus	15
Recent Advances in Neural Circuits for Taste Perception in Hunger	15
An Autism-Associated Neuroligin-3 Mutation Affects Developmental Synapse Elimination in the Cerebellum	15
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	15
Cognitive Networks (Cognits) Process and Maintain Working Memory	15
Cortical and Subcortical Circuits for Cross-Modal Plasticity Induced by Loss of Vision	15
Neural Substrates of Visual Perception and Working Memory: Two Sides of the Same Coin or Two Different Coins?	15
Disturbed Balance of Inhibitory Signaling Links Hearing Loss and Cognition	15
Changing the Cortical Conductor’s Tempo: Neuromodulation of the Claustrum	14

Unraveling the Role of Dopaminergic and Calretinin Interneurons in the Olfactory Bulb	14
Transcranial focused ultrasound selectively increases perfusion and modulates functional connectivity of deep brain regions in humans	14
α3β4∗ Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Strongly Modulate the Excitability of VIP Neurons in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus	14
The Engram’s Dark Horse: How Interneurons Regulate State-Dependent Memory Processing and Plasticity	13
Inhibitory Circuits in the Basolateral Amygdala in Aversive Learning and Memory	13
SynapseJ: An Automated, Synapse Identification Macro for ImageJ	13
Adjudicating Between Local and Global Architectures of Predictive Processing in the Subcortical Auditory Pathway	13
Neural Substrates and Models of Omission Responses and Predictive Processes	13
The Role of the Medial Septum—Associated Networks in Controlling Locomotion and Motivation to Move	13
Endocannabinoid-Mediated Control of Neural Circuit Excitability and Epileptic Seizures	12
Trans-Synaptic Regulation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors by Elfn Proteins in Health and Disease	12
Monosynaptic Retrograde Tracing From Prelimbic Neuron Subpopulations Projecting to Either Nucleus Accumbens Core or Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus	12
Selective Participation of Single Cortical Neurons in Neuronal Avalanches	12
Not All That Is Gold Glitters: PV-IRES-Cre Mouse Line Shows Low Efficiency of Labeling of Parvalbumin Interneurons in the Perirhinal Cortex	12
Altered Brain Criticality in Schizophrenia: New Insights From Magnetoencephalography	12
From pupil to the brain: New insights for studying cortical plasticity through pupillometry	11
Not One, but Many Critical States: A Dynamical Systems Perspective	11
Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice	11
The PPN and motor control: Preclinical studies to deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease	11
Contributions of Luminance and Motion to Visual Escape and Habituation in Larval Zebrafish	11
Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus	11
Uncovering the Connectivity Logic of the Ventral Tegmental Area	11
Modulation of the Corticomotor Excitability by Repetitive Peripheral Magnetic Stimulation on the Median Nerve in Healthy Subjects	11
Distinct Encoding of Reward and Aversion by Peptidergic BNST Inputs to the VTA	11
Cannabinoids in Chronic Pain: Therapeutic Potential Through Microglia Modulation	11
Practice makes plasticity: 10-Hz rTMS enhances LTP-like plasticity in musicians and athletes	11
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	11
Inhibitory circuits in fear memory and fear-related disorders	11
Laminar Organization of the Entorhinal Cortex in Macaque Monkeys Based on Cell-Type-Specific Markers and Connectivity	10
From perception to behavior: The neural circuits underlying prey hunting in larval zebrafish	10
Neuronal Graphs: A Graph Theory Primer for Microscopic, Functional Networks of Neurons Recorded by Calcium Imaging	10
Future research directions to identify risks and mitigation strategies for neurostructural, ocular, and behavioral changes induced by human spaceflight: A NASA-ESA expert group consensus report	10
Medial septum: relevance for social memory	10
Using Flies to Understand Social Networks	10
Cell-Type Specific Neuromodulation of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons via Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Layer 4 of Rat Barrel Cortex	10
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	10
Regulation of Hippocampal Gamma Oscillations by Modulation of Intrinsic Neuronal Excitability	10
Recognition of Cognitive Impairment in Adult Moyamoya Disease: A Classifier Based on High-Order Resting-State Functional Connectivity Network	10
The Complement of Projection Neurons Activated Determines the Type of Feeding Motor Program in Aplysia	10
Functional Implications of Neurotransmitter Segregation	10
Locomotion Control With Frequency and Motor Pattern Adaptations	10
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	10
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	10
A Physical Perspective to the Inductive Function of Myelin—A Missing Piece of Neuroscience	10