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Ten years of Nature Reviews Neuroscience: insights from the highly cited

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To celebrate the first 10 years of Nature Reviews Neuroscience, we invited the authors of the most cited article of each year to look back on the state of their field of research at the time of publication and the impact their article has had, and to discuss the questions that might be answered in the next 10 years. This selection of highly cited articles provides interesting snapshots of the progress that has been made in diverse areas of neuroscience. They show the enormous influence of neuroimaging techniques and highlight concepts that have generated substantial interest in the past decade, such as neuroimmunology, social neuroscience and the 'network approach' to brain function. These advancements will pave the way for further exciting discoveries that lie ahead.

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L.L. thanks support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. E.R. was partly supported by the Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. K.J. and J.P.L. were partly supported by the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale and by the BrainSync FP7 European Project (grant HEALTH-F2-2008-200728). M.C. and G.L.S. thank S. Astafiev for assistance with figure 1. D.P. gratefully acknowledges support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. G.G.T. and S.B.N. thank all members of their laboratories, past and present, as well as the many colleagues and collaborators who have contributed to the genesis of their ideas. E.R.d.K. gratefully acknowledges the support of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). D.M.A. is supported by grant BCS 0847350 from the American National Science Foundation and C.D.F. is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. M.L.B. was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)/NIH Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (grant R01ES016951). L.Z. was supported by the Lombardia Region Department of Industry, Project Metadistretti. J.-S. H was partly funded by the Intramural Research Program of the NIEHS (part of the NIH). K.W.K. is supported by the NIH (grant R01 AG 029573) and R.D. is supported by the NIH (grant R01 MH 079829). A.D.C. is grateful to the James S. McDonnell Foundation and to the Barrow Neurological Foundation.

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  1. Liqun Luo is at the Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,

    Liqun Luo

  2. Eugenio Rodriguez is at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, San Joaquin, 8940000, Santiago, Chile, and the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, D60528 Frankfurt, Germany.,

    Eugenio Rodriguez

  3. Karim Jerbi and Jean-Philippe Lachaux are at INSERM U821, Brain Dynamics and Cognition, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, Lyon, France.,

    Karim Jerbi & Jean-Philippe Lachaux

  4. Jacques Martinerie is at COGIMAGE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie–Paris 6, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Inserm, U975, CNRS, UMR 7225, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 75651 Paris, France.,

    Jacques Martinerie

  5. Maurizio Corbetta and Gordon L. Shulman are at the Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.,

    Maurizio Corbetta & Gordon L. Shulman

  6. Daniele Piomelli is at the Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA, and at the Unit of Drug Discovery and Development, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, 16163, Italy.,

    Daniele Piomelli

  7. Gina G. Turrigiano and Sacha B. Nelson are at the Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA.,

    Gina G. Turrigiano & Sacha B. Nelson

  8. Marian Joëls is at the Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology, Division of Neuroscience, Rudolf Magnus Institute, UMC Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands.,

    Marian Joëls

  9. E. Ronald de Kloet is at the Department of Medical Pharmacology, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC), Leiden–Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, P.O. BOX 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.,

    E. Ronald de Kloet

  10. Florian Holsboer is at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse 2–10, 80804 Munich, Germany.,

    Florian Holsboer

  11. David M. Amodio is at the Department of Psychology and the Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA.,

    David M. Amodio

  12. Chris D. Frith is at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University/Aarhus University Hospital, 8000 Århus C, Denmark, and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, UK.,

    Chris D. Frith

  13. Michelle L. Block is at the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Campus, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA.,

    Michelle L. Block

  14. Luigi Zecca is at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italian National Research Council, 20090 Segrate, Milano, Italy.,

    Luigi Zecca

  15. Jau-Shyong Hong is at the Neuropharmacology Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.,

    Jau-Shyong Hong

  16. Robert Dantzer and Keith W. Kelley are at the Integrative Immunology and Behavior Program in the Department of Animal Sciences, and at the Department of Pathology, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.,

    Robert Dantzer & Keith W. Kelley

  17. A. D. (Bud) Craig is at the Atkinson Research Laboratory, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona 85013, USA,

    A. D. (Bud) Craig

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Daniele Piomelli is an inventor with several issued patents and patent applications pending covering aspects of endocannabinoid pharmacology. Robert Dantzer has received honorarium from Astra-Zeneca plc, Bristol-Myers Squibb plc and Lundbeck Laboratories. He is also a consultant for Lundbeck Laboratories. Keith W. Kelley has received honorarium from Astra-Zeneca plc. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests.

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Luo, L., Rodriguez, E., Jerbi, K. et al. Ten years of Nature Reviews Neuroscience: insights from the highly cited. Nat Rev Neurosci 11, 718–726 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2912

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