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Latest Neuroscience Breakthroughs

Brains and minds: neural circuits, cognition, and brain-computer interfaces. Every Neuroscience result in the index, each scored against work of its own kind and ranked by Frontier Score.

Top of the field · Notable

What one sees depends on how far the eye has moved

77/ 100

Evidence 86Impact 55Novelty 90

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Every Neuroscience breakthrough

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Neuroscience· Notable
What one sees depends on how far the eye has moved
E 86I 55N 90
77
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Lifespan single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the human prefrontal cortex
E 94I 45N 76
72
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Neuroscience· Notable
Single-cell atlas of transcriptomic vulnerability across brain disorders
E 94I 48N 71
70
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Single-nucleus transcriptome-wide association study of human brain disorders
E 94I 45N 72
70
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Neuroscience· Notable
System-level synchronization and subtype-specific modules govern brain-wide serotonin axon innervation
E 89I 40N 76
70
06
Neuroscience· Notable
Loss of cerebral autoregulation drives abnormal perfusion patterns after stroke
E 89I 50N 69
69
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Neuroscience· Notable
Ultrafast venous and sagittal sinus constrictions in the brain driven by abdominal pressure
E 94I 36N 74
69
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Neuroscience· Notable
Single-nucleus atlas of cell-type specific genetic regulation in the human brain
E 91I 45N 72
69
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Functional brain networks underlying approach–avoidance conflict processing in humans and rats
E 89I 51N 67
68
10
Neuroscience· Notable
The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain
E 89I 49N 69
68
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Neuroscience· Notable
Sexual dimorphism in the complete Drosophila male central nervous system connectome
E 94I 51N 66
67
12
Neuroscience· Notable
Dynamic attribute activation explains gaze biases in choice
E 87I 41N 69
66
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Neuroscience· Notable
Intracranial recordings in humans reveal differential contributions of medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex to approach–avoidance decision-making
E 91I 45N 66
66
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Neuroscience· Notable
Identifiability of Bayesian models of perception
E 94I 39N 65
64
15
Neuroscience· Notable
Facial palsy reveals the sensorimotor contribution to facial-emotion recognition
E 94I 39N 66
64
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Neuroscience· Major
Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome
E 97I 61N 69
64
17
Neuroscience· Notable
A cortical output channel for perceptual categorization
E 86I 51N 62
62
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Neuroscience· Notable
Neuropixels Opto: combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
E 93I 53N 65
59
19
Neuroscience· Major
Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
E 96I 67N 60
54
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Neuroscience· Notable
An axon-intrinsic loop restricts nerve regeneration through axonal protein synthesis
E 89I 0N 66
53
21
Neuroscience· Notable
The glymphatic system clears amyloid beta and tau from brain to plasma in humans
E 89I 72N 48
48
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Neuroscience· Notable
A Light-Powered Retinal Chip Restores Reading Vision in Advanced Macular Degeneration
E 97I 69N 54
47
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Neuroscience· Notable
Reading Silent Inner Speech From the Motor Cortex, With a Privacy Lock
E 96I 73N 55
45
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Neuroscience· Notable
A Cubic Millimeter of Brain, Mapped in Structure and Function
E 97I 89N 50
44
25
Neuroscience· Notable
Deep-Brain Stimulation Finds a Signal That Predicts Who Beats Depression
E 89I 54N 51
43
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Neuroscience· Notable
Centaur: a language model that predicts how people behave
E 94I 84N 47
43
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Neuroscience· Notable
A Foundation Model of the Visual Brain That Transfers Across Mice
E 91I 75N 51
41
28
Neuroscience· Notable
A General Wiring Rule of the Cortex, Read From a Millimeter of Mouse Brain
E 96I 71N 50
41
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Neuroscience· Emerging
Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain
E 97I 87N 41
38
30
Neuroscience· Early
Brain2Qwerty: Non-Invasive Brain-to-Text From Typing
E 68I 8N 45
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