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Papers

(The median citation count of Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience is 5. 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
Editorial: Brain serotonergic system	89
Striatal Synapse Degeneration and Dysfunction Are Reversed by Reactivation of Wnt Signaling	77
Towards a Comprehensive Optical Connectome at Single Synapse Resolution via Expansion Microscopy	75
Synaptic spinules are reliable indicators of excitatory presynaptic bouton size and strength and are ubiquitous components of excitatory synapses in CA1 hippocampus	70
Editorial: Subcellular computations and information processing	41
Organization of Presynaptic Autophagy-Related Processes	39
Glucagon-like peptide 1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide hormones and novel receptor agonists protect synapses in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases	38
A Multisubcellular Compartment Model of AMPA Receptor Trafficking for Neuromodulation of Hebbian Synaptic Plasticity	36
cAMP-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Terminal	34
Neurexins and their ligands at inhibitory synapses	33
Memory retrieval, reconsolidation, and extinction: Exploring the boundary conditions of post-conditioning cue exposure	32
Correlative Live-Cell and Super-Resolution Imaging to Link Presynaptic Molecular Organisation With Function	30
High-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging Combined With Computer Simulations to Quantitate Surface Dynamics and Nanoscale Organization of Neuroligin-1 at Synapses	30
NPY Released From GABA Neurons of the Dentate Gyrus Specially Reduces Contextual Fear Without Affecting Cued or Trace Fear	29
Triose-phosphate isomerase deficiency is associated with a dysregulation of synaptic vesicle recycling in Drosophila melanogaster	29
The Wingless planar cell polarity pathway is essential for optimal activity-dependent synaptic plasticity	29
Heightened sympathetic neuron activity and altered cardiomyocyte properties in spontaneously hypertensive rats during the postnatal period	28
Editorial: Role of protein palmitoylation in synaptic plasticity and neuronal differentiation, volume II	25
Aberrant Synaptic PTEN in Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Patients May Link Synaptic Depression to Network Failure	25
Editorial: The synaptic basis of neuropathology	24
Editorial: Synaptic plasticity and dysfunction, friend or foe?	23
Age-Specific Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex LTP by Glucocorticoid Receptors Following Brief Exposure to HFD	23
β-adrenergic receptor-induced E-S potentiation in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus	22
Parvalbumin Interneurons and Perineuronal Nets in the Hippocampus and Retrosplenial Cortex of Adult Male Mice After Early Social Isolation Stress and Perinatal NMDA Receptor Antagonist Treatment	21
Visualizing Synaptic Multi-Protein Patterns of Neuronal Tissue With DNA-Assisted Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	20

Regulation of Inhibitory Signaling at the Receptor and Cellular Level; Advances in Our Understanding of GABAergic Neurotransmission and the Mechanisms by Which It Is Disrupted in Epilepsy	20
Editorial: The Emerging Role of Endocannabinoids in Synaptic Plasticity, Reward, and Addiction	20
(M)Unc13s in Active Zone Diversity: A Drosophila Perspective	19
Pharmacological and Biophysical Characteristics of Picrotoxin-Resistant, δSubunit-Containing GABAA Receptors	18
GluN2D NMDA Receptors Gate Fear Extinction Learning and Interneuron Plasticity	17
Cryo-EM tomography and automatic segmentation delineate modular structures in the postsynaptic density	16
Fetal Neuroprotective Strategies: Therapeutic Agents and Their Underlying Synaptic Pathways	16
Cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) transcription factor in astrocytic synaptic communication	15
Maturation of Heterogeneity in Afferent Synapse Ultrastructure in the Mouse Cochlea	15
Editorial: Synaptopathies: from bench to bedside	14
Editorial: Plasticity of inhibitory cells in health and disease	14
Synaptic Density and Neuronal Metabolic Function Measured by Positron Emission Tomography in the Unilateral 6-OHDA Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease	14
Differential modulation of collybistin conformational dynamics by the closely related GTPases Cdc42 and TC10	13
Killer or helper? The mechanism underlying the role of adenylate activated kinase in sound conditioning	13
Cell-autonomous and differential endocannabinoid signaling impacts the development of presynaptic retinal ganglion cell axon connectivity in vivo	13
Presynaptic Mitochondria Communicate With Release Sites for Spatio-Temporal Regulation of Exocytosis at the Motor Nerve Terminal	12
The effect of single-cell knockout of Fragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein on synaptic structural plasticity	12
Editorial: Perineuronal Nets as Therapeutic Targets for the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders	12
Editorial: Activated Synapses	12
Editorial: Insights in synaptic neuroscience 2022	11
Different Synaptic Plasticity After Physiological and Psychological Stress in the Anterior Insular Cortex in an Observational Fear Mouse Model	11
Dentate Granule Cells Are Hyperexcitable in the TgF344-AD Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease	10
Neuronal Glycoprotein M6a: An Emerging Molecule in Chemical Synapse Formation and Dysfunction	10
Chemical Imaging and Analysis of Single Nerve Cells by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Cellular Electrochemistry	9
High frequency stimulation activates hot spots of spontaneous synaptic transmission	9
Reducing Auditory Nerve Excitability by Acute Antagonism of Ca2+-Permeable AMPA Receptors	9
Resilient Hippocampal Gamma Rhythmogenesis and Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneuron Function Before and After Plaque Burden in 5xFAD Alzheimer’s Disease Model	9
Recording plasticity in neuronal activity in the rodent intrinsic cardiac nervous system using calcium imaging techniques	9
Cellular basis of learning and memory in the carotid body	9
Room for Two: The Synaptophysin/Synaptobrevin Complex	8
Transsynaptic Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus of Behaving Mice	8
SHANK3 Antibody Validation: Differential Performance in Western Blotting, Immunocyto- and Immunohistochemistry	8
Contribution of Membrane Lipids to Postsynaptic Protein Organization	8
Palmitoylation of A-kinase anchoring protein 79/150 modulates its nanoscale organization, trafficking, and mobility in postsynaptic spines	8
Synaptic plasticity through a naturalistic lens	8
Enhanced Non-Associative Long-Term Potentiation in Immature Granule Cells in the Dentate Gyrus of Adult Rats	7
Bringing synapses into focus: Recent advances in synaptic imaging and mass-spectrometry for studying synaptopathy	7
Serotonin as a volume transmission signal in the “simple nervous system” of mollusks: From axonal guidance to behavioral orchestration	7
Age-related changes in olivocochlear efferent innervation in gerbils	7
rTg(TauP301L)4510 mice exhibit increased VGlut1 in hippocampal presynaptic glutamatergic vesicles and increased extracellular glutamate release	7
Protein phosphatase-1 inhibitor-2 promotes PP1γ positive regulation of synaptic transmission	7
Intracellular Properties of Deep-Layer Pyramidal Neurons in Frontal Eye Field of Macaque Monkeys	6
Dynamics of Neuromuscular Transmission Reproduced by Calcium-Dependent and Reversible Serial Transitions in the Vesicle Fusion Complex	6
Identification of Synaptic DGKθ Interactors That Stimulate DGKθ Activity	6
Jacob, a Synapto-Nuclear Protein Messenger Linking N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Activation to Nuclear Gene Expression	6
Light Sheet Illumination for 3D Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging of Neuronal Synapses	6
Rapid sequential clustering of NMDARs, CaMKII, and AMPARs upon activation of NMDARs at developing synapses	6
Editorial: Structural and quantitative modeling of synapses	6
Cellular Strategies for Frequency-Dependent Computation of Interaural Time Difference	6
Distinctive biophysical features of human cell-types: insights from studies of neurosurgically resected brain tissue	6

Rethinking the network determinants of motor disability in Parkinson’s disease	6
Fear Memory Retrieval Is Associated With a Reduction in AMPA Receptor Density at Thalamic to Amygdala Intercalated Cell Synapses	6
Effect of Unilateral Acoustic Trauma on Neuronal Firing Activity in the Inferior Colliculus of Mice	6
Hearing Loss Increases Inhibitory Effects of Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation on Sound Evoked Activity in Medial Geniculate Nucleus	6
Hypothesis Relating the Structure, Biochemistry and Function of Active Zone Material Macromolecules at a Neuromuscular Junction	5
Perineuronal Net Receptor PTPσ Regulates Retention of Memories	5
Endocannabinoids Released in the Ventral Tegmental Area During Copulation to Satiety Modulate Changes in Glutamate Receptors Associated With Synaptic Plasticity Processes	5
Unraveling Functional Diversity of Cortical Synaptic Architecture Through the Lens of Population Coding	5
Palmitoylation-regulated interactions of the pseudokinase calmodulin kinase-like vesicle-associated with membranes and Arc/Arg3.1	5
Roles of AMPA receptors in social behaviors	5
Complementary Use of Super-Resolution Imaging Modalities to Study the Nanoscale Architecture of Inhibitory Synapses	5
The Yin and Yang of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Synaptic Plasticity: Opposites in Balance by Crosstalking Mechanisms	5
A Quantitative Perspective of Alpha-Synuclein Dynamics – Why Numbers Matter	5
Astrocyte: A Foe or a Friend in Intellectual Disability-Related Diseases	5
A novel peptide inhibitor of TRPM2 channels improves recovery of memory function following traumatic brain injury	5
Targeting Endocannabinoid Signaling in the Lateral Habenula as an Intervention to Prevent Mental Illnesses Following Early Life Stress: A Perspective	5
Diverse organization of voltage-gated calcium channels at presynaptic active zones	5
Dexmedetomidine and Ketamine Attenuated Neuropathic Pain Related Behaviors via STING Pathway to Induce ER-Phagy	5
Cell-Type-Specific Adaptions in Striatal Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons and Their Roles in Behavioral Responses to Drugs of Abuse	5
mGluR-dependent plasticity in rodent models of Alzheimer’s disease	5