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Papers

(The median citation count of Brain Structure & Function is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparative anatomical analysis of dopamine systems in Mus musculus and Peromyscus californicus	99
Cytochrome oxidase “blobs”: a call for more anatomy	72
Geometric effects of volume-to-surface mapping of fMRI data	62
Motor awareness: a model based on neurological syndromes	60
Longitudinal investigation of brain activation during motor tasks in Friedreich ataxia: 24-month data from IMAGE-FRDA	53
Dynamic and stationary brain connectivity during movie watching as revealed by functional MRI	51
Brain Structure and Function: the first 15 years—a retrospective	49
Spatial–temporal topography in neurogenesis of the macaque thalamus	44
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting residual signals can disassociate human grey matter regions	40
Correction to: GABAergic interneurons’ feedback inhibition of dorsal raphe‑projecting pyramidal neurons of the medial prefrontal cortex suppresses feeding of adolescent female mice undergoing activity	38
Human primary visual cortex shows larger population receptive fields for binocular disparity-defined stimuli	36
Cortico-amygdalar connectivity and externalizing/internalizing behavior in children with neurodevelopmental disorders	36
Letter to the Editor regarding “Hodology of the superior longitudinal system of the human brain: a historical perspective, the current controversies, and a proposal”	33
Characterization of orexin input to dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area projecting to the medial prefrontal cortex and shell of nucleus accumbens	33
Is the central mesencephalic reticular formation a purely horizontal gaze center?	33
Early musical training shapes cortico-cerebellar structural covariation	32
The role of the angular gyrus in arithmetic processing: a literature review	30
Subcellular localization of D2 receptors in the murine substantia nigra	29
The PV2 cluster of parvalbumin neurons in the murine periaqueductal gray: connections and gene expression	28
Different changes in pre- and postsynaptic components in the hippocampal CA1 subfield after transient global cerebral ischemia	27
Correction to: Wrist and finger motor representations embedded in the cerebral and cerebellar resting-state activation	27
Enhanced habit formation in Tourette patients explained by shortcut modulation in a hierarchical cortico-basal ganglia model	27
Morphological and hemispheric and sex differences of the anterior ascending ramus and the horizontal ascending ramus of the lateral sulcus	27
Interaction of the salience network, ventral attention network, dorsal attention network and default mode network in neonates and early development of the bottom-up attention system	25
Direct comparison of contralateral bias and face/scene selectivity in human occipitotemporal cortex	25

Mapping the functional brain state of a world champion freediver in static dry apnea	22
Marmosets: a promising model for probing the neural mechanisms underlying complex visual networks such as the frontal–parietal network	22
Structural properties of corpus callosum are associated differently with verbal creativity and visual creativity	21
Lessons from behavioral lateralization in olfaction	21
Aberrant topological organization and age-related differences in the human connectome in subjective cognitive decline by using regional morphology from magnetic resonance imaging	21
Causal involvement of the left angular gyrus in higher functions as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation: a systematic review	19
A depression network caused by brain tumours	19
Vision for action: thalamic and cortical inputs to the macaque superior parietal lobule	19
Training causes activation increase in temporo-parietal and parietal regions in children with mathematical disabilities	19
Architecture and connectivity of the human angular gyrus and of its homolog region in the macaque brain	19
Delineating neural responses and functional connectivity changes during vestibular and nociceptive stimulation reveal the uniqueness of cortical vestibular processing	19
Experience-dependent plasticity in early stations of sensory processing in mature brains: effects of environmental enrichment on dendrite measures in trigeminal nuclei	18
Establishing the functional relevancy of white matter connections in the visual system and beyond	18
Spatio-temporal brain dynamics of self-identity: an EEG source analysis of the current and past self	18
Correction to: Comparing astrocytic gap junction of genetic absence epileptic rats with control rats: an experimental study	18
Efferent and afferent connections of supratrigeminal neurons conveying orofacial muscle proprioception in rats	18
Understanding structure–function relationships in the mammalian visual system: part two	18
Sex differences in brain homotopic co-activations: a meta-analytic study	18
Assessing functional reorganization in visual cortex with simulated retinal lesions	17
Hippocampus-based static functional connectivity mapping within white matter in mild cognitive impairment	17
Investigating sexual dimorphism in human brain structure by combining multiple indexes of brain morphology and source-based morphometry	17
Stroke disconnectome decodes reading networks	17
Individual variability in the nonlinear development of the corpus callosum during infancy and toddlerhood: a longitudinal MRI analysis	16
Correction to: Ketogenic diet impairs neurological development of neonatal rats and affects biochemical composition of maternal brains: evidence of functional recovery in pups	16
The retrocalcarine sulcus maps different retinotopic representations in macaques and humans	16
Mechanism underpinning the sharpening of orientation and spatial frequency selectivities in the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) primary visual cortex	16
In vivo restricted diffusion imaging (RDI) is sensitive to differences in axonal density in typical children and adults	16
Application of the anatomical fiducials framework to a clinical dataset of patients with Parkinson’s disease	15
Tract profiles of the cerebellar peduncles in children who stutter	15
Individual variability in the size and organization of the human arcuate nucleus of the medulla	15
Presence or absence of a prefrontal sulcus is linked to reasoning performance during child development	14
Dissociated face- and word-selective intracerebral responses in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex	14
Convergence of forepaw somatosensory and motor cortical projections in the striatum, claustrum, thalamus, and pontine nuclei of cats	14
Distribution of brain oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptors in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): comparison with humans and other primate species	14
Disconnections in personal neglect	14
Correspondence between cognitive and neural representations for phonology, orthography, and semantics in supramarginal compared to angular gyrus	13
Characterization of structural and functional network organization after focal prefrontal lesions in humans in proof of principle study	13
Tracing in vivo the dorsal loop of the optic radiation: convergent perspectives from tractography and electrophysiology compared to a neuroanatomical ground truth	13
Additional fiber orientations in the sagittal stratum—noise or anatomical fine structure?	13
Structural connectivity and subcellular changes after antidepressant doses of ketamine and Ro 25-6981 in the rat: an MRI and immuno-labeling study	13
Parietal maps of visual signals for bodily action planning	13
Neurophysiological considerations for visual implants	13
Tasks activating the default mode network map multiple functional systems	12
In vivo symmetric multi-contrast MRI brain templates and atlas for spontaneously hypertensive rats	12
Brain disconnections refine the relationship between brain structure and function	12
Revisiting horizontal connectivity rules in V1: from like-to-like towards like-to-all	12
Stereological estimations and neurochemical characterization of neurons expressing GABAA and GABAB receptors in the rat pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei	12
A hands-on tutorial on network and topological neuroscience	12
Topographical functional correlates of interindividual differences in executive functions in young healthy twins	12
Structural connectivity in ventral language pathways characterizes non-verbal autism	12

The connections of neocortical pyramidal cells can implement the learning of new categories, attractor memory, and top–down recall and attention	12
Neurogranin-like immunoreactivity in the zebrafish brain during development	12
Multiple functions of the angular gyrus at high temporal resolution	12
Rnd3 is necessary for the correct oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination in the central nervous system	11
Hypothalamic volume and asymmetry in the pediatric population: a retrospective MRI study	11
Evaluating the rare cases of cortical vertigo using disconnectome mapping	11
The relationship between transcription and eccentricity in human V1	11
Cortical thickness of primary motor and vestibular brain regions predicts recovery from fall and balance directly after spaceflight	11
The impact of aging on human brain network target controllability	11
Structure can predict function in the human brain: a graph neural network deep learning model of functional connectivity and centrality based on structural connectivity	11
Development of white matter tracts between and within the dorsal and ventral streams	11
The effect of the PARK16 rs11240572 variant on brain structure in Parkinson's disease	11
Concurrent interactions between prefrontal cortex and hippocampus during a spatial working memory task	11
Ketogenic diet impairs neurological development of neonatal rats and affects biochemical composition of maternal brains: evidence of functional recovery in pups	11
Angular gyrus: an anatomical case study for association cortex	11
Cytoarchitectonic parcellation and functional characterization of four new areas in the caudal parahippocampal cortex	10
Imaging functional neuroplasticity in human white matter tracts	10
Orexin A peptidergic system: comparative sleep behavior, morphology and population in brains between wild type and Alzheimer’s disease mice	10
The role of the default mode network in longitudinal functional brain reorganization of brain gliomas	10
Unique patterns of hearing loss and cognition in older adults’ neural responses to cues for speech recognition difficulty	10
In vivo probabilistic atlas of white matter tracts of the human subthalamic area combining track density imaging and optimized diffusion tractography	10
Discernible effects of tDCS over the primary motor and posterior parietal cortex on different stages of motor learning	10
A tale of two gradients: differences between the left and right hemispheres predict semantic cognition	10
Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript peptide- and dopamine-containing systems interact in the ventral tegmental area of the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, during dynamic changes in energy	10
Understanding structure–function relationships in the mammalian visual system: part one	10
Properties of the epileptiform activity in the cingulate cortex of a mouse model of LIS1 dysfunction	10
Asymmetry of brain structure and function: 40 years after Sperry’s Nobel Prize	10
Assessment of structural disconnections in gliomas: comparison of indirect and direct approaches	10
Coding of interceptive saccades in parietal cortex of macaque monkeys	10
The connectional anatomy of visual mental imagery: evidence from a patient with left occipito-temporal damage	10
Correction to: Extracellular matrix controls neuronal features that mediate the persistence of fear	10
High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex modulates decision-making and executive control	10
An integrated TMS-EEG and MRI approach to explore the interregional connectivity of the default mode network	9
The selective contributions of right cerebellar lobules to reading	9
Task-related connectivity of decision points during spatial navigation in a schematic map	9
Dual medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus projecting neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus	9
Receptor architecture of macaque and human early visual areas: not equal, but comparable	9
The effects of bilingualism on hippocampal volume in ageing bilinguals	9
From words to phrases: neural basis of social event semantic composition	9
Manual delineation approaches for direct imaging of the subcortex	9
Nigral neuropathology of Parkinson’s motor subtypes coincide with circuitopathies: a scoping review	9
Anatomy and physiology of word-selective visual cortex: from visual features to lexical processing	9
Is it left or is it right? A classification approach for investigating hemispheric differences in low and high dimensionality	9
White matter tract conductivity is resistant to wide variations in paranodal structure and myelin thickness accompanying the loss of Tyro3: an experimental and simulated analysis	8
Direct intracranial recordings in the human angular gyrus during arithmetic processing	8
Endocranial asymmetry in New World monkeys: a comparative phylogenetic analysis of morphometric data	8
Anatomical and functional connectomes underlying hierarchical visual processing in mouse visual system	8
The forgotten tract of vision in multiple sclerosis: vertical occipital fasciculus, its fiber properties, and visuospatial memory	8
Medial temporal lobe contributions to resting-state networks	8
Similarity in activity and laterality patterns in the angular gyrus during autobiographical memory retrieval and self-referential processing	8
A novel male Japanese quail structural connectivity atlas using ultra-high field diffusion MRI at 11.7 T	8
A quantitative analysis of cerebellar anatomy in birds	8
Morphological evidence for multiple distinct channels of corticogeniculate feedback originating in mid-level extrastriate visual areas of the ferret	8
Coexistence of the social semantic effect and non-semantic effect in the default mode network	8
Genetic and environmental influences of variation in diffusion MRI measures of white matter microstructure	8
FKBP5 intron 7 methylation is associated with higher anxiety proneness and smaller right thalamus volume in adolescents	8
Cortical connectivity gradients and local timescales during cognitive states are modulated by cognitive loads	8