A. Vania Apkarian

30.0k total citations · 12 hit papers
249 papers, 22.4k citations indexed

About

A. Vania Apkarian is a scholar working on Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Vania Apkarian has authored 249 papers receiving a total of 22.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Physiology, 128 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 77 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in A. Vania Apkarian's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (137 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (75 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (63 papers). A. Vania Apkarian is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (137 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (75 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (63 papers). A. Vania Apkarian collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. A. Vania Apkarian's co-authors include Marwan N. Baliki, Paul Geha, Dante R. Chialvo, Rolf‐Detlef Treede, Jon‐Kar Zubieta, M. Catherine Bushnell, Thomas J. Schnitzer, L. Q. Huang, Todd B. Parrish and Alex T. Baria and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

A. Vania Apkarian

245 papers receiving 22.0k citations

Hit Papers

Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation ... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2005 2004 2005 2012 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease
    2005 2.4k citations A. Vania Apkarian, M. Catherine Bushnell et al. European Journal of Pain profile →
  2. Chronic Back Pain Is Associated with Decreased Prefrontal and Thalamic Gray Matter Density
    2004 1.1k citations A. Vania Apkarian, Todd B. Parrish et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  3. Scale-Free Brain Functional Networks
    2005 1.1k citations Vı́ctor M. Eguı́luz, Dante R. Chialvo et al. profile →
  4. Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain
    2012 790 citations Marwan N. Baliki, L. Q. Huang et al. profile →
  5. Beyond Feeling: Chronic Pain Hurts the Brain, Disrupting the Default-Mode Network Dynamics
    2008 642 citations Marwan N. Baliki, Paul Geha et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  6. Towards a theory of chronic pain
    2008 592 citations A. Vania Apkarian, Marwan N. Baliki et al. profile →
  7. Chronic Pain and the Emotional Brain: Specific Brain Activity Associated with Spontaneous Fluctuations of Intensity of Chronic Back Pain
    2006 573 citations Marwan N. Baliki, Dante R. Chialvo et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  8. Pain and the brain: Specificity and plasticity of the brain in clinical chronic pain
    2010 549 citations A. Vania Apkarian, Javeria A. Hashmi et al. Pain profile →
  9. Shape shifting pain: chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits
    2013 549 citations Javeria A. Hashmi, Marwan N. Baliki et al. profile →
  10. Nociception, Pain, Negative Moods, and Behavior Selection
    2015 494 citations Marwan N. Baliki, A. Vania Apkarian profile →
  11. Functional Reorganization of the Default Mode Network across Chronic Pain Conditions
    2014 407 citations Marwan N. Baliki, Alex T. Baria et al. profile →
  12. Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Treats Neuroma and Phantom Pain in Major Limb Amputees
    2018 320 citations Gregory A. Dumanian, Benjamin K. Potter et al. Annals of Surgery profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. Vania Apkarian United States 71 11.4k 9.9k 6.9k 3.6k 3.4k 249 22.4k
Irene Tracey United Kingdom 87 9.6k 0.8× 12.0k 1.2× 4.9k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 3.9k 1.2× 247 23.4k
M. Catherine Bushnell Canada 54 7.7k 0.7× 9.5k 1.0× 3.9k 0.6× 2.1k 0.6× 3.2k 0.9× 114 17.5k
David Borsook United States 75 6.0k 0.5× 5.3k 0.5× 2.8k 0.4× 2.2k 0.6× 5.5k 1.6× 335 17.1k
Luís García‐Larrea France 61 7.2k 0.6× 6.6k 0.7× 2.2k 0.3× 1.3k 0.4× 2.2k 0.6× 224 14.4k
Martin Ingvar Sweden 73 4.1k 0.4× 8.6k 0.9× 2.2k 0.3× 2.6k 0.7× 4.2k 1.2× 295 17.4k
Ronald Dubner United States 94 23.0k 2.0× 5.5k 0.6× 5.9k 0.9× 11.5k 3.2× 2.6k 0.8× 293 33.9k
Clifford B. Saper United States 122 9.1k 0.8× 25.8k 2.6× 2.3k 0.3× 16.1k 4.5× 2.7k 0.8× 304 55.5k
Marwan N. Baliki United States 31 4.3k 0.4× 4.5k 0.5× 3.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.3× 1.6k 0.5× 52 9.4k
François Mauguı̀ere France 75 3.6k 0.3× 9.3k 0.9× 952 0.1× 3.3k 0.9× 4.3k 1.3× 347 17.9k
Vitaly Napadow United States 65 3.1k 0.3× 5.5k 0.6× 2.9k 0.4× 587 0.2× 4.2k 1.3× 271 13.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown
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Sekerková, Gabriella, et al.. (2025). The role of corticolimbic perineuronal nets in mice with chronic neuropathic pain. Pain. 167(3). e35–e47.
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Vigotsky, Andrew D., Camila Bonin Pinto, Jennifer Perez, et al.. (2024). Prognostic value of preoperative mechanical hyperalgesia and neuropathic pain qualities for postoperative pain after total knee replacement. European Journal of Pain. 28(8). 1387–1401. 5 indexed citations
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Vigotsky, Andrew D., et al.. (2024). Widespread, perception-related information in the human brain scales with levels of consciousness. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Shishi, Andrew D. Vigotsky, A. Vania Apkarian, & L. Q. Huang. (2024). Body mass index associated with respiration predicts motion in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. Human Brain Mapping. 45(13). e70015–e70015.
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Centeno, Maria Virginia, Megan E. Martin, Mohammad Mehdi Maneshi, et al.. (2023). Regulation of neuropathic pain by microglial Orai1 channels. Science Advances. 9(4). eade7002–eade7002. 25 indexed citations
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Wakaizumi, Kenta, Ana Mafalda Reis, Marwan N. Baliki, et al.. (2020). Reorganization of functional brain network architecture in chronic osteoarthritis pain. Human Brain Mapping. 42(4). 1206–1222. 51 indexed citations
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Abdullah, Taha, Binbin Wu, Bo Wu, et al.. (2020). Hippocampus shape deformation: a potential diagnostic biomarker for chronic back pain in women. Pain. 162(5). 1457–1467. 20 indexed citations
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Dumanian, Gregory A., Benjamin K. Potter, Lauren M. Mioton, et al.. (2018). Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Treats Neuroma and Phantom Pain in Major Limb Amputees. Annals of Surgery. 270(2). 238–246. 320 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schnitzer, Thomas J., Pascal Tétreault, Marwan N. Baliki, et al.. (2018). Brain structural and functional changes that accompany placebo and duloxetine analgesia. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 26. S347–S347. 2 indexed citations
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Tatu, Karina, Tommaso Costa, Andrea Nani, et al.. (2017). How do morphological alterations caused by chronic pain distribute across the brain? A meta-analytic co-alteration study. NeuroImage Clinical. 18. 15–30. 39 indexed citations
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Kutch, Jason J., Daniel J. Kirages, Manku Rana, et al.. (2015). Altered resting state neuromotor connectivity in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: A MAPP. NeuroImage Clinical. 8. 493–502. 62 indexed citations
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Hashmi, Javeria A., Marwan N. Baliki, L. Q. Huang, et al.. (2012). Lidocaine Patch (5%) is No More Potent than Placebo in Treating Chronic Back Pain When Tested in a Randomised Double Blind Placebo Controlled Brain Imaging Study. Molecular Pain. 8. 29–29. 33 indexed citations
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Baliki, Marwan N., Alex T. Baria, & A. Vania Apkarian. (2011). The Cortical Rhythms of Chronic Back Pain. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(39). 13981–13990. 237 indexed citations
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Baria, Alexis T., Marwan N. Baliki, Todd B. Parrish, & A. Vania Apkarian. (2011). Anatomical and Functional Assemblies of Brain BOLD Oscillations. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(21). 7910–7919. 226 indexed citations
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Metz, Alexia E., Hau‐Jie Yau, Maria Virginia Centeno, A. Vania Apkarian, & Marco Martina. (2009). Morphological and functional reorganization of rat medial prefrontal cortex in neuropathic pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(7). 2423–2428. 351 indexed citations
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Baliki, Marwan N., Paul Geha, A. Vania Apkarian, & Dante R. Chialvo. (2008). Beyond Feeling: Chronic Pain Hurts the Brain, Disrupting the Default-Mode Network Dynamics. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(6). 1398–1403. 642 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xin, William R. Bauer, Nicolas L. Chiaia, et al.. (2008). Longitudinal MRI evaluations of human global cortical thickness over minutes to weeks. Neuroscience Letters. 441(2). 145–148. 11 indexed citations
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Apkarian, A. Vania, M. Catherine Bushnell, Rolf‐Detlef Treede, & Jon‐Kar Zubieta. (2005). Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease. European Journal of Pain. 9(4). 463–463. 2360 indexed citations breakdown →
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Apkarian, A. Vania. (2004). Cortical Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain. Novartis Foundation symposium. 261. 239–255. 25 indexed citations
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Eguı́luz, Vı́ctor M., Guillermo Cecchi, Dante R. Chialvo, Marwan N. Baliki, & A. Vania Apkarian. (2003). Scale-free structure of brain functional networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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