| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A robust and high-throughput Cre reporting and characterization system for the whole mouse brain | Nature Neuroscience | 2010 | 5,650 |
| 2 | Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior | Nature Neuroscience | 2004 | 5,564 |
| 3 | Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study | Nature Neuroscience | 1999 | 4,670 |
| 4 | Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 4,110 |
| 5 | Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects | Nature Neuroscience | 1999 | 4,034 |
| 6 | Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 3,606 |
| 7 | Running increases cell proliferation and neurogenesis in the adult mouse dentate gyrus | Nature Neuroscience | 1999 | 3,370 |
| 8 | ATP mediates rapid microglial response to local brain injury in vivo | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 3,272 |
| 9 | Chronic systemic pesticide exposure reproduces features of Parkinson's disease | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 3,216 |
| 10 | Microglia: active sensor and versatile effector cells in the normal and pathologic brain | Nature Neuroscience | 2007 | 3,116 |
| 11 | Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in human brain associates with childhood abuse | Nature Neuroscience | 2009 | 3,035 |
| 12 | Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness | Nature Neuroscience | 2004 | 2,955 |
| 13 | DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning | Nature Neuroscience | 2018 | 2,710 |
| 14 | Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex | Nature Neuroscience | 1999 | 2,665 |
| 15 | Optimal feedback control as a theory of motor coordination | Nature Neuroscience | 2002 | 2,544 |
| 16 | Circular analysis in systems neuroscience: the dangers of double dipping | Nature Neuroscience | 2009 | 2,379 |
| 17 | Host microbiota constantly control maturation and function of microglia in the CNS | Nature Neuroscience | 2015 | 2,340 |
| 18 | Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 2,193 |
| 19 | Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity | Nature Neuroscience | 2015 | 2,191 |
| 20 | Non-invasive mapping of connections between human thalamus and cortex using diffusion imaging | Nature Neuroscience | 2003 | 2,131 |
| 21 | Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 2,108 |
| 22 | Identification of a unique TGF-β–dependent molecular and functional signature in microglia | Nature Neuroscience | 2014 | 2,056 |
| 23 | Mapping cortical change across the human life span | Nature Neuroscience | 2003 | 2,037 |
| 24 | Cortical neurons arise in symmetric and asymmetric division zones and migrate through specific phases | Nature Neuroscience | 2004 | 1,938 |
| 25 | Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 1,934 |
| 26 | Learning enhances adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal formation | Nature Neuroscience | 1999 | 1,928 |
| 27 | 5-HTTLPR polymorphism impacts human cingulate-amygdala interactions: a genetic susceptibility mechanism for depression | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 1,860 |
| 28 | Decision making, impulse control and loss of willpower to resist drugs: a neurocognitive perspective | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 1,848 |
| 29 | Synaptic plasticity: taming the beast | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 1,822 |
| 30 | Abstract reward and punishment representations in the human orbitofrontal cortex | Nature Neuroscience | 2001 | 1,799 |
| 31 | Animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders | Nature Neuroscience | 2010 | 1,762 |
| 32 | Unbiased classification of sensory neuron types by large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing | Nature Neuroscience | 2015 | 1,710 |
| 33 | Computational principles of movement neuroscience | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 1,709 |
| 34 | The neural correlates of subjective value during intertemporal choice | Nature Neuroscience | 2007 | 1,699 |
| 35 | The toxic Aβ oligomer and Alzheimer's disease: an emperor in need of clothes | Nature Neuroscience | 2012 | 1,690 |
| 36 | Network neuroscience | Nature Neuroscience | 2017 | 1,679 |
| 37 | Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 1,666 |
| 38 | Learning the value of information in an uncertain world | Nature Neuroscience | 2007 | 1,650 |
| 39 | Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human posterior parietal cortex | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 1,622 |
| 40 | Natural oligomers of the amyloid-β protein specifically disrupt cognitive function | Nature Neuroscience | 2005 | 1,595 |
| 41 | Sustained hippocampal chromatin regulation in a mouse model of depression and antidepressant action | Nature Neuroscience | 2006 | 1,593 |
| 42 | The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 1,591 |
| 43 | Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions | Nature Neuroscience | 2019 | 1,589 |
| 44 | Large-scale recording of neuronal ensembles | Nature Neuroscience | 2004 | 1,578 |
| 45 | Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans | Nature Neuroscience | 2003 | 1,546 |
| 46 | Optimality principles in sensorimotor control | Nature Neuroscience | 2004 | 1,523 |
| 47 | Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics | Nature Neuroscience | 2016 | 1,522 |
| 48 | The neuropathic pain triad: neurons, immune cells and glia | Nature Neuroscience | 2007 | 1,495 |
| 49 | Extrasynaptic NMDARs oppose synaptic NMDARs by triggering CREB shut-off and cell death pathways | Nature Neuroscience | 2002 | 1,485 |
| 50 | Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing | Nature Neuroscience | 2009 | 1,462 |
