One solution would be to read the references themselves. The reason there are lots of references is because I make an absurdly high number of claims in a very short space, and I want to back them up.

Also note that to someone (like me) who spends most of his reading time on academic articles that are always followed by at least a dozen references, the above list of references looks normal while their absence might look suspicious (when discussing something like neuroscience, anyway).