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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sensitivity of Visual System in 5-Day “Dry” Immersion With High-Frequency Electromyostimulation	105
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	77
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	71
Discriminating Sleep From Freezing With Cortical Spindle Oscillations	67
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	67
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	60
Using Flies to Understand Social Networks	52
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	51
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	50
Alternation of Neuronal Feature Selectivity Induced by Paired Optogenetic-Mechanical Stimulation in the Barrel Cortex	46
Decoding Spatial Memory Retrieval in Cubical Space Using fMRI Signals	45
Prefrontal GABAergic Interneurons Gate Long-Range Afferents to Regulate Prefrontal Cortex-Associated Complex Behaviors	42
Challenges to the Vestibular System in Space: How the Brain Responds and Adapts to Microgravity	39
Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development	37
An in vivo Calcium Imaging Approach for the Identification of Cell-Type Specific Patterns in the Developing Cortex	35
Cerebellar Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation Reduces Upper Limb Spasticity After Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	35
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	33
A deep network-based model of hippocampal memory functions under normal and Alzheimer’s disease conditions	32
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	32
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	32
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	31
Aberrant protein S-nitrosylation contributes to hyperexcitability-induced synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease: Mechanistic insights and potential therapies	31
Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Non-breeding Aggression: Common Strategies Between Birds and Fish	30
Corrigendum: Inhibitory Network Bistability Explains Increased Interneuronal Activity Prior to Seizure Onset	30
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	29

The Complement of Projection Neurons Activated Determines the Type of Feeding Motor Program in Aplysia	29
Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	28
Toward Naturalistic Neuroscience of Navigation: Opportunities in Coral Reef Fish	28
The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	26
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	26
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	26
Differential Rearrangement of Excitatory Inputs to the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain Models	26
Binaural Processing Deficits Due to Synaptopathy and Myelin Defects	24
Auditory processing neurons influence song evaluation and strength of mate preference in female songbirds	24
Multisite rTMS combined with cognitive training modulates effective connectivity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	24
The effects of chemogenetic targeting of serotonin-projecting pathways on L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia and psychosis in a bilateral rat model of Parkinson’s disease	24
Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex	24
GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: pathological involvement and therapeutic potential	23
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	22
Persistent Activity During Working Memory From Front to Back	22
Hippocampal Connectivity of the Presubiculum in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)	21
A Canonical Scheme of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Information Flows in the Frontoparietal Network	21
A Characterization of the Electrophysiological and Morphological Properties of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP) Interneurons in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex (MEC)	21
Strategies for Targeting Neural Circuits: How to Manipulate Neurons Using Virus Vehicles	21
Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb	20
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	19
What and Where: Location-Dependent Feature Sensitivity as a Canonical Organizing Principle of the Visual System	19
An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive	19
The Role of Inhibitory Interneurons in Circuit Assembly and Refinement Across Sensory Cortices	19
Dorsal striatum c-Fos activity in perseverative ephrin-A2A5−/− mice and the cellular effect of low-intensity rTMS	18
Intersegmental Interactions Give Rise to a Global Network	18
Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks	17
Online Learning and Memory of Neural Trajectory Replays for Prefrontal Persistent and Dynamic Representations in the Irregular Asynchronous State	17
From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior	17
Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens	17
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	17
Widely Different Correlation Patterns Between Pairs of Adjacent Thalamic Neurons In vivo	17
Editorial: Naturalistic neuroscience — Towards a full cycle from lab to field	17
Locomotion Control With Frequency and Motor Pattern Adaptations	17
An operating principle of the cerebral cortex, and a cellular mechanism for attentional trial-and-error pattern learning and useful classification extraction	16
Origin of Multisynaptic Corticospinal Pathway to Forelimb Segments in Macaques and Its Reorganization After Spinal Cord Injury	16
Synaptic connectivity amongst components of the locomotor central pattern generator	15
Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles	15
Vagus nerve stimulation as a predictive coding modulator that enhances feedforward over feedback transmission	15
Müller Glia in Retinal Development: From Specification to Circuit Integration	15
Improved motor imagery skills after repetitive passive somatosensory stimulation: a parallel-group, pre-registered study	15
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	15
Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods	15
Editorial: Cortical-Subcortical Loops in Sensory Processing	15
Comparison of Resting-State Functional MRI Methods for Characterizing Brain Dynamics	15
Neural activity responsiveness by maturation of inhibition underlying critical period plasticity	15
Cannabinoids in Chronic Pain: Therapeutic Potential Through Microglia Modulation	14
Ataxia-associated DNA repair genes protect the Drosophila mushroom body and locomotor function against glutamate signaling-associated damage	14
Axonal α7* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate glutamatergic signaling and synaptic vesicle organization in ventral hippocampal projections	14
Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus	14

A specific olfactory bulb interneuron subtype Tpbg/5T4 generated at embryonic and neonatal stages	14
Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior?	14
Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques	14
Assessment of a single trial impact on the amplitude of the averaged event related potentials	13
Anesthetized animal experiments for neuroscience research	13
The ventral hippocampus is activated in olfactory but not auditory threat memory	13
Profiling neurotransmitter-evoked glial responses by RNA-sequencing analysis	13
Activity-dependent dendrite patterning in the postnatal barrel cortex	13
Anatomical and Functional Connectivity at the Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Mitral Cell–Granule Cell Synapse: Impact on Recurrent and Lateral Inhibition	13
Circuits and Synapses: Hypothesis, Observation, Controversy and Serendipity – An Opinion Piece	13
Vocal and Electric Fish: Revisiting a Comparison of Two Teleost Models in the Neuroethology of Social Behavior	13
Using Hebbian-Type Stimulation to Rescue Arm Function After Stroke: Study Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial	13
Reliability of TMS measurements using conventional hand-hold method with different numbers of stimuli for tibialis anterior muscle in healthy adults	13
Function and Regulation of ALDH1A1-Positive Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Neurons in Motor Control and Parkinson’s Disease	12
Edonerpic maleate prevents epileptic seizure during recovery from brain damage by balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs	12
Interhemispheric neural characteristics of noxious mechano-nociceptive stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex	12
Disorganization of Oscillatory Activity in Animal Models of Schizophrenia	12
Effects of Cortical Cooling on Sound Processing in Auditory Cortex and Thalamus of Awake Marmosets	12
Regulation of body weight and food intake by AGRP neurons during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice	12
Fold Change Detection in Visual Processing	12
Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice	11
The Engram’s Dark Horse: How Interneurons Regulate State-Dependent Memory Processing and Plasticity	11
Early-life stress differentially affects CA3 synaptic inputs converging on apical and basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons	11
Specific structural changes in Parkinson’s disease-related olfactory dysfunction compared to others forms of olfactory dysfunction	11
Not All That Is Gold Glitters: PV-IRES-Cre Mouse Line Shows Low Efficiency of Labeling of Parvalbumin Interneurons in the Perirhinal Cortex	11
Multiple Sources of Cholinergic Input to the Superior Olivary Complex	11
Delays in the Reticulospinal System Are Associated With a Reduced Capacity to Learn a Simulated Feeding Task in Older Adults	11
Editorial: Neuroscience and Neurotechnology of Neuronal Cell Surface Molecules in Neural Circuits	11
A Novel Device of Reaching, Grasping, and Retrieving Task for Head-Fixed Mice	11
Optimization of modularity during development to simplify walking control across multiple steps	10
A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure	10
Cortical Cartography: Mapping Arealization Using Single-Cell Omics Technology	10
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	10
Dorsal Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis-Subcortical Output Circuits Encode Positive Bias in Pavlovian Fear and Reward	10
Editorial: GABAergic circuits in health and disease	10
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits	10
Spinal inhibitory interneurons: regulators of coordination during locomotor activity	10
An Autism-Associated Neuroligin-3 Mutation Affects Developmental Synapse Elimination in the Cerebellum	10
Amygdala Underlies the Environment Dependency of Defense Responses Induced via Superior Colliculus	10