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Pain Physiology

Pain Physiology is a subdiscipline of sensory physiology that investigates the biological mechanisms and neural processes underlying the detection, transmission, and modulation of noxious stimuli and their translation into the pain experience.

29.9K

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The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway

Michael J. Caterina, Mark Schumacher, Makoto Tominaga et al. · Nature · 1997 · 9.1K citations

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A peripheral mononeuropathy in rat that produces disorders of pain sensation like those seen in man

Gary J. Bennett, Yuanyu Xie · Pain · 1988 · 5.4K citations

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Beyond pleasure and pain.

E. Tory Higgins · American Psychologist · 1997 · 5.2K citations

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A new and sensitive method for measuring thermal nociception in cutaneous hyperalgesia

Kenneth Hargreaves, Ronald Dubner, Frederick J. Brown et al. · Pain · 1988 · 5.2K citations

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Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. · Science · 2004 · 3.9K citations · Full text

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Authors

72.4K

  1. LA
    Lars Arendt‐Nielsen

    Aalborg University, Denmark

    445 publications · 30.6K citations

    92

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  2. TL
    Tony L. Yaksh

    University of California San Diego, United States

    160 publications · 15.8K citations

    68

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  3. JD
    Jon D. Levine

    University of California, San Francisco, United States

    189 publications · 25.1K citations

    67

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  4. AH
    Anthony H. Dickenson

    University College London, United Kingdom

    150 publications · 17.8K citations

    67

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  5. CJ
    Clifford J. Woolf

    Harvard University, United States

    95 publications · 19.6K citations

    65

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Institutions

7.9K

  1. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    134 h-index

    1.7K publications

    294.2K citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    131 h-index

    1.5K publications

    198.1K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    119 h-index

    1.3K publications

    171.2K citations

  4. Inserm

    Paris, France

    105 h-index

    2K publications

    147.1K citations

  5. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    102 h-index

    1.3K publications

    146.6K citations

  6. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    101 h-index

    1.1K publications

    118.1K citations

  7. Aalborg University

    Aalborg, Denmark

    99 h-index

    1.6K publications

    93.4K citations

  8. Karolinska Institutet

    Stockholm, Sweden

    96 h-index

    1.5K publications

    106.9K citations

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  1. Pain

    2.8K publications · 281.9K citations

    215

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  2. Journal of Neuroscience

    711 publications · 100.4K citations

    177

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  3. Brain Research

    1.1K publications · 71.3K citations

    129

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  4. Journal of Neurophysiology

    JN · 499 publications · 45.2K citations

    116

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 200 publications · 40.5K citations

    110

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