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Anthony E. Pickering

Anthony E. Pickering

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Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
6950
World Ranking
6752
National Ranking
525

Overview

Anthony E. Pickering is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Medicine and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

The main topics covered in their work include Infection Control and Ventilation, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Anesthesia and Sedative Agents, Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery, Neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and Pain Management and Placebo Effect.

Pickering has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Anaesthesia
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Pain
  • European Heart Journal

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors including Andrew Shrimpton, Tim Cook, Jonathan P. Reid, Bryan R. Bzdek, and Michael Ambler, each with numerous joint publications.

Recent papers authored by or involving Pickering reflect a range of topics related to neuroscience, anesthesiology, and respiratory medicine:

  • Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep, 2020, Science Advances
  • A quantitative evaluation of aerosol generation during tracheal intubation and extubation, 2020, Anaesthesia
  • Early Childhood General Anesthesia and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Birth Cohort, 2020, Anesthesiology
  • Aerosol generating procedures: are they of relevance for transmission of SARS-CoV-2?, 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Anatomically and functionally distinct locus coeruleus efferents mediate opposing effects on anxiety-like behavior, 2020, Neurobiology of Stress

Best Publications

  • Primer on the autonomic nervous system

    David W. Robertson;Italo Biaggioni;Geoffrey Burnstock;Phillip Anson Low

  • The yin and yang of cardiac autonomic control: Vago-sympathetic interactions revisited

    J.F.R. Paton;P. Boscan;A.E. Pickering;E. Nalivaiko

  • Increased sympathetic outflow in juvenile rats submitted to chronic intermittent hypoxia correlates with enhanced expiratory activity

    Daniel B. Zoccal;Annabel E. Simms;Leni G. H. Bonagamba;Valdir A. Braga

  • Functional dichotomy in spinal-vs prefrontal-projecting locus coeruleus modules splits descending noradrenergic analgesia from ascending aversion and anxiety in rats

    Stefan Hirschberg;Yong Li;Andrew Randall;Andrew Randall;Eric J Kremer

  • Double‐blind, placebo‐controlled analgesic study of ibuprofen or rofecoxib in combination with paracetamol for tonsillectomy in children

    Anthony Edward Pickering;H. S. Bridge;J. Nolan;P. A. Stoddart

  • Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep.

    Hanna Hayat;Noa Regev;Noa Matosevich;Anna C Sales

  • Amplified respiratory-sympathetic coupling in the spontaneously hypertensive rat: does it contribute to hypertension?

    Annabel E. Simms;Julian F. R. Paton;Anthony E. Pickering;Andrew M. Allen

  • Redefining Noradrenergic Neuromodulation of Behavior: Impacts of a Modular Locus Coeruleus Architecture.

    Daniel J. Chandler;Patricia Jensen;Jordan G. McCall;Anthony E. Pickering

  • Optoactivation of Locus Ceruleus Neurons Evokes Bidirectional Changes in Thermal Nociception in Rats

    Louise Hickey;Yong Li;Sarah J. Fyson;Thomas C. Watson

  • A quantitative evaluation of aerosol generation during tracheal intubation and extubation.

    J. Brown;F. K. A. Gregson;A. Shrimpton;T. M. Cook

  • The Nucleus of the Solitary Tract: An Integrating Station for Nociceptive and Cardiorespiratory Afferents

    Pedro Boscan;Anthony E. Pickering;Julian F. R. Paton

  • Abnormal Locus Coeruleus Sleep Activity Alters Sleep Signatures of Memory Consolidation and Impairs Place Cell Stability and Spatial Memory.

    Kevin M. Swift;Brooks A. Gross;Michelle A. Frazer;David S. Bauer

  • Locus Coeruleus tracking of prediction errors optimises cognitive flexibility: An Active Inference model

    Anna C. Sales;Karl J. Friston;Matthew W. Jones;Anthony E. Pickering

  • Systemic dexmedetomidine augments inhibitory synaptic transmission in the superficial dorsal horn through activation of descending noradrenergic control: an in vivo patch-clamp analysis of analgesic mechanisms.

    Yusuke Funai;Anthony Edward Pickering;Daisuke Uta;Kiyonobu Nishikawa

  • Cancelled operations: a 7-day cohort study of planned adult inpatient surgery in 245 UK National Health Service hospitals

    D.J.N. Wong;D.J.N. Wong;S.K. Harris;S.R. Moonesinghe;S.R. Moonesinghe;S. Ramani Moonesinghe

  • Brainstem sources of cardiac vagal tone and respiratory sinus arrhythmia.

    David George Stephen Farmer;Mathias Dutschmann;Julian Paton;Anthony E. Pickering

  • Retrograde optogenetic characterization of the pontospinal module of the locus coeruleus with a canine adenoviral vector

    Yong Li;Louise Hickey;Ray Perrins;Emilie Werlen

  • A spinal vasopressinergic mechanism mediates hyperosmolality‐induced sympathoexcitation

    VR Antunes;ST Yao;Anthony Edward Pickering;David Murphy

  • TRPA1-expressing primary afferents synapse with a morphologically identified subclass of substantia gelatinosa neurons in the adult rat spinal cord.

    Daisuke Uta;Hidemasa Furue;Anthony E. Pickering;Harunor Rashid

  • Electrotonic coupling between rat sympathetic preganglionic neurones in vitro.

    S D Logan;A E Pickering;I C Gibson;M F Nolan

  • Oxford Handbook of Pain Management

    Peter Brook;Jayne Connell;Anthony Edward Pickering

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin M. McAllen
Robin M. McAllen University of Melbourne
Anja G. Teschemacher
Anja G. Teschemacher University of Bristol
Rosalyn J. Moran
Rosalyn J. Moran King's College London
Jonathan C W Brooks
Jonathan C W Brooks University of Bristol
Bridget M. Lumb
Bridget M. Lumb University of Bristol
Hidemasa Furue
Hidemasa Furue Hyogo College of Medicine
Mathias Dutschmann
Mathias Dutschmann Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Keiji Imoto
Keiji Imoto National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Andrew D. Randall
Andrew D. Randall University of Exeter
Matt Jones
Matt Jones University of Bristol

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