OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain Structure & Function is 13. 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
Reply to the letter to the Editor	96
Comparative anatomical analysis of dopamine systems in Mus musculus and Peromyscus californicus	85
Dynamic and stationary brain connectivity during movie watching as revealed by functional MRI	63
Geometric effects of volume-to-surface mapping of fMRI data	54
Longitudinal investigation of brain activation during motor tasks in Friedreich ataxia: 24-month data from IMAGE-FRDA	51
Cytochrome oxidase “blobs”: a call for more anatomy	47
Motor awareness: a model based on neurological syndromes	45
Brain Structure and Function: the first 15 years—a retrospective	44
Spatial–temporal topography in neurogenesis of the macaque thalamus	43
White matter variability in auditory callosal pathways contributes to variation in the cultural transmission of auditory symbolic systems	36
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting residual signals can disassociate human grey matter regions	36
Cortico-amygdalar connectivity and externalizing/internalizing behavior in children with neurodevelopmental disorders	32
Human primary visual cortex shows larger population receptive fields for binocular disparity-defined stimuli	32
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	32
Prevalence of the interthalamic adhesion in the human brain: a review of literature	31
Characterization of orexin input to dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area projecting to the medial prefrontal cortex and shell of nucleus accumbens	30
The role of the angular gyrus in arithmetic processing: a literature review	30
Is the central mesencephalic reticular formation a purely horizontal gaze center?	29
Letter to the Editor regarding “Hodology of the superior longitudinal system of the human brain: a historical perspective, the current controversies, and a proposal”	29
Dissociable plasticity of visual-motor system in functional specialization and flexibility in expert table tennis players	28
Direct comparison of contralateral bias and face/scene selectivity in human occipitotemporal cortex	26
Early musical training shapes cortico-cerebellar structural covariation	26
Neural encoding and functional interactions underlying pantomimed movements	25
Exercise ameliorates aberrant synaptic plasticity without enhancing adult-born cell survival in the hippocampus of serotonin transporter knockout mice	25
The PV2 cluster of parvalbumin neurons in the murine periaqueductal gray: connections and gene expression	25

Marmosets: a promising model for probing the neural mechanisms underlying complex visual networks such as the frontal–parietal network	25
Subcellular localization of D2 receptors in the murine substantia nigra	25
Correction to: Wrist and finger motor representations embedded in the cerebral and cerebellar resting-state activation	24
Enhanced habit formation in Tourette patients explained by shortcut modulation in a hierarchical cortico-basal ganglia model	24
Mapping the functional brain state of a world champion freediver in static dry apnea	23
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	23
Morphological and hemispheric and sex differences of the anterior ascending ramus and the horizontal ascending ramus of the lateral sulcus	23
Structural properties of corpus callosum are associated differently with verbal creativity and visual creativity	22
Different changes in pre- and postsynaptic components in the hippocampal CA1 subfield after transient global cerebral ischemia	22
Vision for action: thalamic and cortical inputs to the macaque superior parietal lobule	22
Delineating neural responses and functional connectivity changes during vestibular and nociceptive stimulation reveal the uniqueness of cortical vestibular processing	21
Lessons from behavioral lateralization in olfaction	21
A depression network caused by brain tumours	21
Architecture and connectivity of the human angular gyrus and of its homolog region in the macaque brain	20
Training causes activation increase in temporo-parietal and parietal regions in children with mathematical disabilities	20
Aberrant topological organization and age-related differences in the human connectome in subjective cognitive decline by using regional morphology from magnetic resonance imaging	19
An inspirational reflection on Nobel Prize-winning researches in nerve signaling from over a century: some lessons for inquisitive minds	19
Causal involvement of the left angular gyrus in higher functions as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation: a systematic review	19
Efferent and afferent connections of supratrigeminal neurons conveying orofacial muscle proprioception in rats	18
Multiscale imaging of the rat brain using an integrated diceCT and histology workflow	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
Sex differences in brain homotopic co-activations: a meta-analytic study	18
Effects of detraining on preconditioning exercise-induced neuroprotective potential after ischemic stroke in rats	17
Understanding structure–function relationships in the mammalian visual system: part two	17
Stroke disconnectome decodes reading networks	17
Correction to: Comparing astrocytic gap junction of genetic absence epileptic rats with control rats: an experimental study	17
Experience-dependent plasticity in early stations of sensory processing in mature brains: effects of environmental enrichment on dendrite measures in trigeminal nuclei	17
Investigating sexual dimorphism in human brain structure by combining multiple indexes of brain morphology and source-based morphometry	16
Characterization of basal forebrain glutamate neurons suggests a role in control of arousal and avoidance behavior	16
Individual variability in the nonlinear development of the corpus callosum during infancy and toddlerhood: a longitudinal MRI analysis	16
Dendritic spine remodeling and plasticity under general anesthesia	16
Assessing functional reorganization in visual cortex with simulated retinal lesions	16
Motor network connectivity predicts neuroplastic response following theta burst stimulation in healthy adults	16
In vivo restricted diffusion imaging (RDI) is sensitive to differences in axonal density in typical children and adults	16
Hippocampus-based static functional connectivity mapping within white matter in mild cognitive impairment	16
Increased excitability of hippocampal neurons in mature synaptopodin-knockout mice	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	15
Disconnections in personal neglect	15
Cortical visual area CSv as a cingulate motor area: a sensorimotor interface for the control of locomotion	15
Convergence of forepaw somatosensory and motor cortical projections in the striatum, claustrum, thalamus, and pontine nuclei of cats	15
The nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum exhibit greater dopaminergic innervation in humans compared to other primates	15
Correction to: Ketogenic diet impairs neurological development of neonatal rats and affects biochemical composition of maternal brains: evidence of functional recovery in pups	15
Individual variability in the size and organization of the human arcuate nucleus of the medulla	15
Application of the anatomical fiducials framework to a clinical dataset of patients with Parkinson’s disease	14
Distribution of brain oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptors in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): comparison with humans and other primate species	14
Presence or absence of a prefrontal sulcus is linked to reasoning performance during child development	14
Tract profiles of the cerebellar peduncles in children who stutter	14
Secondary rewards acquire enhanced incentive motivation via increasing anticipatory activity of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex	13

Parietal maps of visual signals for bodily action planning	13
Characterization of structural and functional network organization after focal prefrontal lesions in humans in proof of principle study	13
Additional fiber orientations in the sagittal stratum—noise or anatomical fine structure?	13
Coherence and cognition in the cortex: the fundamental role of parvalbumin, myelin, and the perineuronal net	13
Dissociated face- and word-selective intracerebral responses in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex	13