Patrick D. Wall

39.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
196 papers, 29.3k citations indexed

About

Patrick D. Wall is a scholar working on Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick D. Wall has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 29.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Physiology, 81 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Patrick D. Wall's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (81 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (23 papers). Patrick D. Wall is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (81 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (23 papers). Patrick D. Wall collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Israel. Patrick D. Wall's co-authors include Ronald Melzack, Marshall Devor, Stephen B. McMahon, John J. Bonica, Clifford J. Woolf, Lorne M. Mendell, William H. Sweet, C. J. Woolf, Allan I. Basbaum and W. Noordenbos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Patrick D. Wall

195 papers receiving 27.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory

1965 7.0k citations Ronald Melzack, Patrick D. Wall profile →
Pain mechanisms: A new theory

1996 2.1k citations Ronald Melzack, Patrick D. Wall profile →
Textbook of pain

1999 2.1k citations Ronald Melzack, Patrick D. Wall et al. profile →
Temporary Abolition of Pain in Man

1967 638 citations Patrick D. Wall et al. profile →
Autotomy following peripheral nerve lesions: experimental anesthesia dolorosa

1979 529 citations Patrick D. Wall, Marshall Devor et al. Pain profile →
Sensory afferent impulses originate from dorsal root ganglia as well as from the periphery in normal and nerve injured rats

1983 525 citations Patrick D. Wall, Marshall Devor Pain profile →
The prevention of postoperative pain

1988 519 citations Patrick D. Wall Pain profile →
Excitability changes in afferent fibre terminations and their relation to slow potentials

1958 500 citations Patrick D. Wall profile →
Responses of Single Dorsal Cord Cells to Peripheral Cutaneous Unmyelinated Fibres

1965 434 citations Patrick D. Wall et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Patrick D. Wall	15.1k	8.5k	6.7k	5.8k	4.5k	196	29.3k
Ronald Dubner	23.0k 1.5×	11.5k 1.4×	5.9k 0.9×	5.5k 0.9×	2.2k 0.5×	293	33.9k
Ronald Melzack	15.6k 1.0×	5.0k 0.6×	13.6k 2.0×	9.0k 1.5×	7.9k 1.7×	257	42.7k
Howard L. Fields	17.0k 1.1×	15.5k 1.8×	4.5k 0.7×	9.3k 1.6×	2.1k 0.5×	250	30.9k
Rolf‐Detlef Treede	21.4k 1.4×	3.9k 0.5×	10.2k 1.5×	8.9k 1.5×	4.9k 1.1×	399	35.4k
William D. Willis	13.4k 0.9×	8.8k 1.0×	2.9k 0.4×	3.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.2×	353	22.7k
Troels S. Jensen	29.6k 2.0×	5.9k 0.7×	13.7k 2.0×	6.2k 1.1×	10.5k 2.3×	569	50.7k
Jon D. Levine	19.3k 1.3×	11.5k 1.4×	3.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	581	36.3k
Allan I. Basbaum	26.7k 1.8×	21.0k 2.5×	4.2k 0.6×	4.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.3×	296	46.1k
Lars Arendt‐Nielsen	24.3k 1.6×	3.4k 0.4×	20.4k 3.0×	10.2k 1.8×	5.1k 1.1×	1.4k	56.7k
Kathleen A. Sluka	10.3k 0.7×	3.1k 0.4×	7.2k 1.1×	2.4k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	305	21.2k

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Melzack, Ronald & Patrick D. Wall. (2003). Handbook of pain management : a clinical companion to Wall and Melzack's Textbook of pain. Churchill Livingstone eBooks. 17 indexed citations

Wall, Patrick D., Bradley J. Kerr, & Matt S. Ramer. (2002). Primary afferent input to and receptive field properties of cells in rat lumbar area X. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 449(3). 298–306. 17 indexed citations

Liu, Chang‐Ning, et al.. (2000). Tactile allodynia in the absence of C-fiber activation: altered firing properties of DRG neurons following spinal nerve injury. Pain. 85(3). 503–521. 367 indexed citations

Tal, Michael, Patrick D. Wall, & Marshall Devor. (1999). Myelinated afferent fiber types that become spontaneously active and mechanosensitive following nerve transection in the rat. Brain Research. 824(2). 218–223. 68 indexed citations

Koltzenburg, Martin, Patrick D. Wall, & Stephen B. McMahon. (1999). Does the right side know what the left is doing?. Trends in Neurosciences. 22(3). 122–127. 401 indexed citations

Wall, Patrick D. & Stephen B. McMahon. (1994). Long range afferents in rat spinal cord. III. Failure of impulse transmission in axons and relief of the failure after rhizotomy of dorsal roots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 343(1304). 211–223. 39 indexed citations

Wall, Patrick D., Charles H. Hubscher, & Karen J. Berkley. (1993). Intraspinal modulation of neuronal responses to uterine and cervix stimulation in rat L1 and L6 dorsal horn. Brain Research. 622(1-2). 71–78. 27 indexed citations

Shortland, Peter & Patrick D. Wall. (1992). Long-range afferents in the rat spinal cord. II. Arborizations that penetrate grey matter. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 337(1282). 445–455. 18 indexed citations

Devor, Marshall, et al.. (1992). Systemic lidocaine silences ectopic neuroma and DRG discharge without blocking nerve conduction. Pain. 48(2). 261–268. 369 indexed citations

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Wall, Patrick D.. (1991). Neuropathic pain and injured nerve: Central mechanisms. British Medical Bulletin. 47(3). 631–643. 65 indexed citations

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Saadé, Nayef E., Samir Atweh, Suhayl J. Jabbur, & Patrick D. Wall. (1990). Effects of lesions in the anterolateral columns and dorsolateral funiculi on self-mutilation behavior in rats. Pain. 42(3). 313–321. 33 indexed citations

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McMahon, Stephen B. & Patrick D. Wall. (1989). Changes in spinal cord reflexes after cross-anastomosis of cutaneous and muscle nerves in the adult rat. Nature. 342(6247). 272–274. 27 indexed citations

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Wall, Patrick D.. (1988). The prevention of postoperative pain. Pain. 33(3). 289–290. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rousso, M, et al.. (1987). Collateral sprouting in skin and sensory recovery after nerve injury in man. Pain. 28(2). 141–154. 66 indexed citations

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Wall, Patrick D. & Maria Fitzgerald. (1982). If Substance P Fails to Fulfil the Criteria as a Neurotransmitter in Somatosensory Afferents, what Might be its Function?. Novartis Foundation symposium. 249–266. 55 indexed citations

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Melzack, Ronald, et al.. (1982). Acute pain in an emergency clinic: Latency of onset and descriptor patterns related to different injuries. Pain. 14(1). 33–43. 144 indexed citations

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Scadding, John W, Patrick D. Wall, Wynn C.B. Parry, & Donal M. Brooks. (1982). Clinical trial of propranolol in post-traumatic neuralgia. Pain. 14(3). 283–292. 39 indexed citations

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Wall, Patrick D., John W Scadding, & Maciej Tomkiewicz. (1979). The production and prevention of experimental anesthesia dolorosa. Pain. 6(2). 175–182. 173 indexed citations

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Nathan, P. W. & Patrick D. Wall. (1974). Treatment of Post-Herpetic Neuralgia by Prolonged Electric Stimulation. BMJ. 3(5932). 645–647. 81 indexed citations

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Wall, Patrick D.. (1964). Presynaptic Control of Impulses at the First Central Synapse in the Cutaneous Pathway. Progress in brain research. 12. 92–118. 112 indexed citations

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