Most-cited Neuroscience papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Neuroscience research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
   Francisco J. Varela, Eleanor H. Rosch et al. · 2017 · 5,951 citations
2. Deep learning with convolutional neural networks for EEG decoding and visualization
   Robin Tibor Schirrmeister, Jost Tobias Springenberg et al. · 2017 · 3,742 citations · Free PDF
3. Local-Global Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Intrinsic Functional Connectivity MRI
   Alexander Schaefer, Ru Kong et al. · 2017 · 3,699 citations · Free PDF
4. Microglia Function in the Central Nervous System During Health and Neurodegeneration
   Marco Colonna, Oleg Butovsky · 2017 · 2,871 citations
5. How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain.
   Lisa Feldman Barrett · 2017 · 2,332 citations
6. Microglia in Alzheimer’s disease
   David V. Hansen, Jesse E. Hanson et al. · 2017 · 1,928 citations
7. Physiology of Astroglia
   Alexei Verkhratsky, Maiken Nedergaard · 2017 · 1,680 citations
8. The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory
   Chai Meei Tyng, Hafeez Ullah Amin et al. · 2017 · 1,535 citations · Free PDF
9. Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks
   William J. Brady, Julian A. Wills et al. · 2017 · 1,389 citations
10. DeepSleepNet: A Model for Automatic Sleep Stage Scoring Based on Raw Single-Channel EEG
    Akara Supratak, Hao Dong et al. · 2017 · 1,380 citations · Free PDF
11. Kynurenines: Tryptophan’s metabolites in exercise, inflammation, and mental health
    Igor Červenka, Leandro Z. Agudelo et al. · 2017 · 1,368 citations
12. “Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions
    Laura Hull, Konstantinos Vassilis Petrides et al. · 2017 · 1,360 citations · Free PDF
13. BDNF: A Key Factor with Multipotent Impact on Brain Signaling and Synaptic Plasticity
    Przemysław Kowiański, Grażyna Lietzau et al. · 2017 · 1,356 citations · Free PDF
14. EEG microstates as a tool for studying the temporal dynamics of whole-brain neuronal networks: A review
    Christoph Martin Michel, Thomas W. Koenig · 2017 · 1,345 citations
15. Structure and Function of the Human Insula
    Lucina Q. Uddin, Jason S. Nomi et al. · 2017 · 1,277 citations
16. An environment-dependent transcriptional network specifies human microglia identity
    David Gosselin, Dylan Skola et al. · 2017 · 1,257 citations · Free PDF
17. Kynurenine Pathway of Tryptophan Metabolism: Regulatory and Functional Aspects
    Abdulla A.‐B. Badawy · 2017 · 1,150 citations
18. Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort
    Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Musslick et al. · 2017 · 1,121 citations
19. Engrams and circuits crucial for systems consolidation of a memory
    Takashi Kitamura, Sachie K. Ogawa et al. · 2017 · 1,117 citations
20. Huntington's disease: a clinical review
    Peter McColgan, Sarah J. Tabrizi · 2017 · 1,095 citations
21. Classification using deep learning neural networks for brain tumors
    Heba Mohsen, El‐Sayed A. El‐Dahshan et al. · 2017 · 1,079 citations
22. The impact of stress on body function: a review
    Habib Yaribeygi, Yunes Panahi et al. · 2017 · 1,076 citations
23. Benchmarking of participant-level confound regression strategies for the control of motion artifact in studies of functional connectivity
    Rastko Ćirić, Daniel H. Wolf et al. · 2017 · 1,064 citations · Free PDF
24. Neuroimmune Interactions: From the Brain to the Immune System and Vice Versa
    Robert Dantzer · 2017 · 1,058 citations
25. Neurobiological and Systemic Effects of Chronic Stress
    Bruce S. McEwen · 2017 · 1,045 citations

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