| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 3,741 |
| 2 | A unifying view of the basis of social cognition | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2004 | 1,758 |
| 3 | The functional role of the parieto-frontal mirror circuit: interpretations and misinterpretations | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2010 | 1,467 |
| 4 | Motion, emotion and empathy in esthetic experience | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2007 | 834 |
| 5 | Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease | Nature Genetics | 2017 | 783 |
| 6 | Listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system: A combined TMS and behavioral study | Cognitive Brain Research | 2005 | 564 |
| 7 | What is so special about embodied simulation? | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2011 | 549 |
| 8 | Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2007 | 527 |
| 9 | Action-based language: A theory of language acquisition, comprehension, and production | Cortex | 2012 | 417 |
| 10 | Intentional Attunement: Mirror Neurons and the Neural Underpinnings of Interpersonal Relations | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2007 | 376 |
| 11 | The influence of illness-related variables, personal resources and context-related factors on real-life functioning of people with schizophrenia | World Psychiatry | 2014 | 346 |
| 12 | The mirror mechanism: a basic principle of brain function | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2016 | 337 |
| 13 | Migraine and psychiatric comorbidity: a review of clinical findings | Journal of Headache and Pain | 2011 | 301 |
| 14 | Mirror neurons and their clinical relevance | Nature Clinical Practice Neurology | 2009 | 297 |
| 15 | From manual gesture to speech: A gradual transition | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2006 | 292 |
| 16 | Assessing human mirror activity with EEG mu rhythm: A meta-analysis. | Psychological Bulletin | 2016 | 291 |
| 17 | Thermal infrared imaging in psychophysiology: Potentialities and limits | Psychophysiology | 2014 | 245 |
| 18 | Metabolic disruption in male mice due to fetal exposure to low but not high doses of bisphenol A (BPA): Evidence for effects on body weight, food intake, adipocytes, leptin, adiponectin, insulin and glucose regulation | Reproductive Toxicology | 2013 | 242 |
| 19 | Motor cognition and its role in the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding. | Developmental Psychology | 2009 | 234 |
| 20 | Motor functions of the Broca’s region | Brain and Language | 2004 | 228 |
| 21 | The mirror mechanism: recent findings and perspectives | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2014 | 221 |
| 22 | A mechanistic view of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) developmental neurotoxicity | Toxicology Letters | 2014 | 213 |
| 23 | Autonomic dysfunction and heart rate variability in depression | Stress | 2015 | 213 |
| 24 | CAP, epilepsy and motor events during sleep: the unifying role of arousal | Sleep Medicine Reviews | 2006 | 191 |
| 25 | The neural basis of human tool use | Frontiers in Psychology | 2014 | 189 |
| 26 | Wired to Be Social: The Ontogeny of Human Interaction | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 185 |
| 27 | Motor abstraction: a neuroscientific account of how action goals and intentions are mapped and understood | Psychological Research | 2009 | 179 |
| 28 | The bodily self as power for action | Neuropsychologia | 2010 | 174 |
| 29 | Parma consensus statement on metabolic disruptors | Environmental Health | 2015 | 174 |
| 30 | Convergent genetic and expression data implicate immunity in Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2015 | 173 |
| 31 | Individual differences in personality traits reflect structural variance in specific brain regions | Brain Research Bulletin | 2009 | 165 |
| 32 | Melanopsin retinal ganglion cells are resistant to neurodegeneration in mitochondrial optic neuropathies | Brain | 2010 | 164 |
| 33 | Epidemiology of typical and atypical craniofacial neuralgias | Neurological Sciences | 2005 | 156 |
| 34 | Gene-Wide Analysis Detects Two New Susceptibility Genes for Alzheimer's Disease | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 155 |
| 35 | The facial motor system | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2014 | 150 |
| 36 | Bodily selves in relation: embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2014 | 149 |
| 37 | Circadian activity rhythm abnormalities in ill and recovered bipolar I disorder patients | Bipolar Disorders | 2008 | 142 |
| 38 | Responses of mirror neurons in area F5 to hand and tool grasping observation | Experimental Brain Research | 2010 | 137 |
| 39 | In the search for integrative biomarker of resilience to psychological stress | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2017 | 135 |
| 40 | Mirror Neuron Forum | Perspectives on Psychological Science | 2011 | 134 |
| 41 | Action observation versus motor imagery in learning a complex motor task: A short review of literature and a kinematics study | Neuroscience Letters | 2013 | 128 |
| 42 | When Art Moves the Eyes: A Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Study | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 124 |
| 43 | Stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation in the epileptogenic zone: a retrospective study on 89 cases | Journal of Neurosurgery | 2015 | 122 |
| 44 | Alpha, beta and gamma electrocorticographic rhythms in somatosensory, motor, premotor and prefrontal cortical areas differ in movement execution and observation in humans | Clinical Neurophysiology | 2016 | 119 |
| 45 | Covid-19 pandemic impact on mental health: a web-based cross-sectional survey on a sample of Italian general practitioners | Acta Biomedica | 2020 | 119 |
| 46 | Sentence comprehension and simulation of object temporary, canonical and stable affordances | Brain Research | 2009 | 117 |
| 47 | The Evolution of Social Cognition: Goal Familiarity Shapes Monkeys' Action Understanding | Current Biology | 2008 | 113 |
| 48 | Cluster headache prevalence in the Italian general population | Neurology | 2005 | 108 |
| 49 | Physiotherapy for Tension-Type Headache: A Controlled Study | Cephalalgia | 2004 | 107 |
| 50 | The mirror neuron system as revealed through neonatal imitation: presence from birth, predictive power and evidence of plasticity | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2014 | 105 |
