Standout Papers

Endogenous Pain Control Systems: Brainstem Spinal Pathways and Endorphin Circuitr... 1978 2026 1994 2010 2.1k
  1. Endogenous Pain Control Systems: Brainstem Spinal Pathways and Endorphin Circuitry (1984)
    Allan I. Basbaum, Howard L. Fields Annual Review of Neuroscience
  2. Endogenous pain control mechanisms: Review and hypothesis (1978)
    Allan I. Basbaum, Howard L. Fields Annals of Neurology
  3. Neurotransmitters in Nociceptive Modulatory Circuits (1991)
    Howard L. Fields, Mary M. Heinricher et al. Annual Review of Neuroscience
  4. Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain (2012)
    Marwan N. Baliki, Bogdan Petre et al. Nature Neuroscience
  5. Brainstem Control of Spinal Pain-Transmission Neurons (1978)
    Howard L. Fields, Allan I. Basbaum Annual Review of Physiology
  6. State-dependent opioid control of pain (2004)
    Howard L. Fields Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  7. Orexin A in the VTA Is Critical for the Induction of Synaptic Plasticity and Behavioral Sensitization to Cocaine (2006)
    Stephanie L. Borgland, Sharif A. Taha et al. Neuron
  8. Three bulbospinal pathways from the rostral medulla of the cat: An autoradiographic study of pain modulating systems (1978)
    Allan I. Basbaum, Charles H. Clanton et al. The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  9. The origin of descending pathways in the dorsolateral funiculus of the spinal cord of the cat and rat: Further studies on the anatomy of pain modulation (1979)
    Allan I. Basbaum, Howard L. Fields The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  10. The affective component of pain in rodents: Direct evidence for a contribution of the anterior cingulate cortex (2001)
    Joshua P. Johansen, Howard L. Fields et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. Multiple opiate receptor sites on primary afferent fibres (1980)
    Howard L. Fields, P.C. Emson et al. Nature

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13 by Nobel laureates 54 from Science/Nature 134 standout
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Author Peers

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Howard L. Fields 15266 16599 9092 242 30.1k
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William D. Willis 8503 12923 3761 340 21.9k
Patrick D. Wall 7919 13606 5250 193 26.5k
Jeffrey S. Mogil 7215 11795 3076 221 24.1k
Min Zhuo 13035 10163 6128 352 22.9k
Huda Akil 21435 8717 5709 486 39.9k
Marshall Devor 7065 10202 2570 218 17.3k
Ronald S. Duman 28483 5821 8329 361 60.3k
Clifford B. Saper 15937 8900 25389 301 54.5k
Michel Le Moal 18741 3969 6981 354 32.9k

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