OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain Imaging and Behavior 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the Special Issue: 2020 Pacific Rim New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: Neuroimaging across the Lifespan	73
The distinct disrupted plasticity in structural and functional network in mild stroke with basal ganglia region infarcts	60
Grey matter volume and its association with cognitive impairment and peripheral cytokines in excited individuals with schizophrenia	42
White matter alterations in mild cognitive impairment revealed by meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging using tract-based spatial statistics	39
Temporal Dynamics of Resting-state Functional Networks and Cognitive Functioning following Systemic Treatment for Breast Cancer	38
Abnormal hippocampal substructure volume in insomnia disorder	37
Structural connectome-based prediction of trait anxiety	32
Impaired neurovascular coupling and cognitive deficits in anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis	32
Degree centrality and functional connections in presbycusis with and without cognitive impairments	30
Spindle-related brain activation in patients with insomnia disorder: An EEG-fMRI study	29
Ruminative reflection is associated with anticorrelations between the orbitofrontal cortex and the default mode network in depression: implications for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	28
Meta-analytic connectivity modelling of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in autism spectrum disorders	26
Altered regional homogeneity in patients with ovarian cancer treated with chemotherapy: a resting state fMRI study	24
Default mode network mechanisms of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation in heroin addiction	23
Brain microstructural abnormalities in patients with Wilson’s disease: A systematic review of diffusion tenor imaging studies	23
Fiber connectivity density mapping in end-stage renal disease patients: a preliminary study	23
Alterations in functional network centrality in first-episode drug-naïve adolescent-onset schizophrenia	22
Subjective cognitive decline-related worries modulate the relationship between global amyloid load and gray matter volume in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease	21
The motor inhibitory network in patients with asymmetrical Parkinson’s disease: An fMRI study	21
Correction to: Serotonin transporter is negatively associated with body mass index after glucose loading in humans	20
The structural neural correlates of atypical facial expression recognition in autism spectrum disorder	19
Limits to the generalizability of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of youth: An examination of ABCD Study® baseline data	19
Gray matter atrophy and corresponding impairments in connectivity in patients with anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis	19
A Novel method of seizure onset zone localization by serial Tc-99 m ECD brain perfusion SPECT clearance patterns	19
The central executive network and executive function in healthy and persons with schizophrenia groups: a meta-analysis of structural and functional MRI	18

Brain structural connectivity sub typing in unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy	18
Professional chess expertise modulates whole brain functional connectivity pattern homogeneity and couplings	18
Shared increased entropy of brain signals across patients with different mental illnesses: A coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	17
Smaller amygdala subnuclei volume in schizophrenia patients with violent behaviors	17
Enhanced intrathalamic morphological connectivity in patients with chronic insomnia	17
Common and distinct neural substrates of the compassionate and uncompassionate self-responding dimensions of self-compassion	17
Automatic diagnosis of late-life depression by 3D convolutional neural networks and cross-sample Entropy analysis from resting-state fMRI	17
Executive control deficits and lesion correlates in acute left hemisphere stroke survivors with and without aphasia	17
Superior frontal gyrus and middle temporal gyrus connectivity mediates the relationship between neuroticism and thought suppression	16
Brain gyrification in bipolar disorder: a systematic review of neuroimaging studies	16
Pre-symptomatic radiological changes in frontotemporal dementia: propagation characteristics, predictive value and implications for clinical trials	15
Alterations of dynamic functional connectivity between visual and executive-control networks in schizophrenia	15
Multimodal-neuroimaging machine-learning analysis of motor disability in multiple sclerosis	15
Hormonal factors moderate the associations between vascular risk factors and white matter hyperintensities	14
History of suicide attempts associated with the thinning right superior temporal gyrus among individuals with schizophrenia	14
Associations between Cortical Thickness and Metamemory in Alzheimer’s Disease	14
Brain-behavior investigation of potential cognitive markers of Alzheimer’s disease in middle age: a multi-modal imaging study	14
Brain microstructural alterations in the left precuneus mediate the association between KIBRA polymorphism and working memory in healthy adults: a diffusion kurtosis imaging study	14
Higher body weight-dependent neural activation during reward processing	14
Correction to: Cerebral glucose metabolism differs according to future weight change	14
Structural and functional alterations within the Papez circuit in subacute stroke patients	14
Brain connectivity under light sedation with midazolam and ketamine during task performance and the periodic experience of pain: Examining concordance between different approaches for seed-based conne	14
Psychological resilience mediates the association of the middle frontal gyrus functional connectivity with sleep quality	14
Tipping the scales: how clinical assessment shapes the neural correlates of Parkinson’s disease mild cognitive impairment	14
Hypo- and hyper-perfusion in MCI and AD identified by different ASL MRI sequences	14
Bayesian MEG time courses with fMRI priors	13
Cognitive Function Assessment and Prediction for Subjective Cognitive Decline and Mild Cognitive Impairment	13
Decreased activity of piriform cortex and orbitofrontal hyperactivation in Usher Syndrome, a human disorder of ciliary dysfunction	13
Neuroanatomical substrates of maximizing tendency in decision-making: a voxel-based morphometric study	13
Lower cortical volume is associated with poor sleep quality after traumatic brain injury	12
Obstructive sleep apnea and white matter hyperintensities: correlation or causation?	12
Investigation of baseline attention, executive control, and performance variability in female varsity athletes	12
Dynamic functional network connectivity reveals the brain functional alterations in lung cancer patients after chemotherapy	12
Longitudinal changes of focal cortical glucose hypometabolism in adults with chronic drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy	12
Aberrant brain connectivity is associated with childhood maltreatment in individuals with major depressive disorder	12
The altered functional modular organization in systemic lupus erythematosus: an independent component analysis study	12
Adults with tetralogy of Fallot show specific features of cerebral small vessel disease: the BACH San Donato study	12
Tract-specific white matter microstructural alterations in subjects with schizophrenia and unaffected first-degree relatives	12
Heightened sensitivity to high-calorie foods in children at risk for obesity: insights from behavior, neuroimaging, and genetics	12
Altered cerebral blood flow in older adults with Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review	11
Reciprocal modulation between cigarette smoking and internet gaming disorder on participation coefficient within functional brain networks	11
Minimal scanning duration for producing individualized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation targets	11
Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Resting State Brain Network Connectivity in Older Adults	11
Structural disconnection is associated with disability in the neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder	11
Aberrant stability of brain functional architecture in cirrhotic patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy	11
White matter alterations in heart-kidney imbalance insomnia and Jiao-Tai-Wan treatment: A diffusion-tensor imaging study	11
Post-stroke enriched auditory environment induces structural connectome plasticity: secondary analysis from a randomized controlled trial	11
Neurofunctional characteristics of executive control in older people with HIV infection: a comparison with Parkinson’s disease	10
Neural similarity across task load relates to cognitive reserve and brain maintenance measures on the Letter Sternberg task: a longitudinal study	10
Cortical atrophy is associated with cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease: a combined analysis of cortical thickness and functional connectivity	10

Alterations in degree centrality and cognitive function in breast cancer patients after chemotherapy	10
Five weeks of intermittent transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation shape neural networks: a machine learning approach	10
Distinct resting-state functional connectivity patterns of Anterior Insula affected by smoking in mild cognitive impairment	10
Motor imagery evokes strengthened activation in sensorimotor areas and its effective connectivity related to cognitive regions in patients with complete spinal cord injury	10
The atypical functional connectivity of Broca’s area at multiple frequency bands in autism spectrum disorder	10
Combining MRI and cognitive evaluation to classify concussion in university athletes	10
Disentangling in-vivo microstructural changes of white and gray matter in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Abnormal global-brain functional connectivity and its relationship with cognitive deficits in drug-naive first-episode adolescent-onset schizophrenia	10
Assessing the joint effects of brain aging and gut microbiota on the risks of psychiatric disorders	10