| Musical training shapes structural brain development | Journal of Neuroscience | 2009 | 540 |
| Cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic consequences of sleep deprivation | Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases | 2009 | 498 |
| Sequential processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca's area | Science | 2009 | 309 |
| Distinct parietal and temporal pathways to the homologues of Broca's area in the monkey | PLoS Biology | 2009 | 277 |
| Evidence for plasticity in white-matter tracts of patients with chronic Broca's aphasia undergoing intense intonation-based speech therapy | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2009 | 271 |
| Consensus paper: combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging | Brain Stimulation | 2009 | 239 |
| Temporal cortex direct current stimulation enhances performance on a visual recognition memory task in Alzheimer disease | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 2009 | 231 |
| Tone deafness: a new disconnection syndrome? | Journal of Neuroscience | 2009 | 220 |
| A proposal for a coordinated effort for the determination of brainwide neuroanatomical connectivity in model organisms at a mesoscopic scale | PLoS Computational Biology | 2009 | 206 |
| Electrical impedance myography: Background, current state, and future directions | Muscle and Nerve | 2009 | 190 |
| Loss of hypocretin (orexin) neurons with traumatic brain injury | Annals of Neurology | 2009 | 152 |
| Prophylactic antiepileptic drug use is associated with poor outcome following ICH | Neurocritical Care | 2009 | 149 |
| Sweat testing to evaluate autonomic function | Clinical Autonomic Research | 2009 | 145 |
| Arrested maturation of excitatory synapses in autosomal dominant lateral temporal lobe epilepsy | Nature Medicine | 2009 | 132 |
| Quantification of sweat gland innervation: a clinical-pathologic correlation | Neurology | 2009 | 126 |
| Parallel preoptic pathways for thermoregulation | Journal of Neuroscience | 2009 | 125 |
| A guide to the perplexed on the specificity of antibodies | Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry | 2009 | 124 |
| The effects of musical training on structural brain development: a longitudinal study | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2009 | 117 |
| A Consensus Definition of Cataplexy in Mouse Models of Narcolepsy | Sleep | 2009 | 115 |
| Telephone interview for cognitive status: Creating a crosswalk with the Mini-Mental State Examination | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2009 | 107 |
| Detection of JC virus DNA and proteins in the bone marrow of HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients: implications for viral latency and neurotropic transformation | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2009 | 104 |
| A truncating mutation of TRAPPC9 is associated with autosomal-recessive intellectual disability and postnatal microcephaly | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2009 | 104 |
| Duration of refractory status epilepticus and outcome: loss of prognostic utility after several hours | Epilepsia | 2009 | 103 |
| Activation of the prostaglandin system in response to sleep loss in healthy humans: potential mediator of increased spontaneous pain | Pain | 2009 | 100 |
| Botanicals and herbs: a traditional approach to treating epilepsy | Neurotherapeutics | 2009 | 98 |
