| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2002 | 10,175 |
| 2 | Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2009 | 9,369 |
| 3 | Spontaneous fluctuations in brain activity observed with functional magnetic resonance imaging | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2007 | 5,936 |
| 4 | From inflammation to sickness and depression: when the immune system subjugates the brain | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2008 | 5,599 |
| 5 | Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2013 | 5,386 |
| 6 | How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2009 | 5,241 |
| 7 | The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2010 | 4,902 |
| 8 | Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2009 | 4,771 |
| 9 | How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2002 | 4,656 |
| 10 | Astrocyte–endothelial interactions at the blood–brain barrier | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2006 | 4,411 |
| 11 | The brainweb: Phase synchronization and large-scale integration | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2001 | 4,192 |
| 12 | The cortical organization of speech processing | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2007 | 4,129 |
| 13 | Stress and the brain: from adaptation to disease | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2005 | 3,857 |
| 14 | Computational modelling of visual attention | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2001 | 3,766 |
| 15 | Working memory: looking back and looking forward | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2003 | 3,759 |
| 16 | Microglia-mediated neurotoxicity: uncovering the molecular mechanisms | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2007 | 3,477 |
| 17 | Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2006 | 3,278 |
| 18 | The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2012 | 3,271 |
| 19 | Mind-altering microorganisms: the impact of the gut microbiota on brain and behaviour | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2012 | 3,237 |
| 20 | Dynamic predictions: Oscillations and synchrony in top–down processing | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2001 | 3,053 |
| 21 | Searching for a baseline: Functional imaging and the resting human brain | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2001 | 2,994 |
| 22 | Dopamine, learning and motivation | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2004 | 2,955 |
| 23 | The memory function of sleep | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2010 | 2,917 |
| 24 | Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2001 | 2,873 |
| 25 | Regeneration beyond the glial scar | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2004 | 2,685 |
| 26 | The economy of brain network organization | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2012 | 2,681 |
| 27 | Interneurons of the neocortical inhibitory system | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2004 | 2,532 |
| 28 | Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2008 | 2,521 |
| 29 | Neural regulation of endocrine and autonomic stress responses | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2009 | 2,443 |
| 30 | Why do many psychiatric disorders emerge during adolescence? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2008 | 2,396 |
| 31 | Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2009 | 2,308 |
| 32 | Neurovascular pathways to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease and other disorders | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2011 | 2,254 |
| 33 | Noise in the nervous system | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2008 | 2,230 |
| 34 | Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2007 | 2,168 |
| 35 | Neural consequences of enviromental enrichment | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2000 | 2,147 |
| 36 | Excitatory actions of gaba during development: the nature of the nurture | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2002 | 2,110 |
| 37 | Cortical inhibitory neurons and schizophrenia | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2005 | 2,065 |
| 38 | Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2011 | 2,029 |
| 39 | Homeostatic plasticity in the developing nervous system | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2004 | 2,027 |
| 40 | The role of the basal ganglia in habit formation | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2006 | 1,974 |
| 41 | Neurotrophins and their receptors: A convergence point for many signalling pathways | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2003 | 1,961 |
| 42 | NMDA receptor subunit diversity: impact on receptor properties, synaptic plasticity and disease | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2013 | 1,928 |
| 43 | Neurovascular regulation in the normal brain and in Alzheimer's disease | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2004 | 1,926 |
| 44 | Critical period plasticity in local cortical circuits | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2005 | 1,910 |
| 45 | The human orbitofrontal cortex: linking reward to hedonic experience | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2005 | 1,877 |
| 46 | Tau-mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2007 | 1,866 |
| 47 | Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2007 | 1,844 |
| 48 | Variations on an inhibitory theme: phasic and tonic activation of GABAA receptors | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2005 | 1,840 |
| 49 | Path integration and the neural basis of the 'cognitive map' | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2006 | 1,826 |
| 50 | The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2011 | 1,804 |
