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Barry J. Sessle

Barry J. Sessle

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Neuroscience

D-Index
96
Citations
29062
World Ranking
882
National Ranking
47

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Barry J. Sessle is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, with primary research interests spanning medicine and neuroscience. Their work focuses on pain mechanisms and treatments, with a substantial contribution to understanding orofacial pain and related neurological disorders.

Their research output includes significant publications in both broad and specialized fields, including physiology, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, and cognitive neuroscience. Sessle's research covers several key topics:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Key recent publications authored or coauthored by Sessle include:

  • Chronic Orofacial Pain: Models, Mechanisms, and Genetic and Related Environmental Influences (2021), International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Sessle include:

  • Gilles Lavigne
  • Siyi Mo
  • Xiaoxiang Xu
  • Kai-Yuan Fu
  • Ye Cao

These collaborations are reflected in publications across prominent journals, particularly in pain research. Sessle has published multiple articles in venues such as:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache
  • Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
  • Journal of Prosthodontic Research
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Barry J. Sessle's work spans several aspects of neuroscience and clinical medicine, with an emphasis on the physiological and cellular mechanisms underlying pain and neurological disorders related to the orofacial region.

Award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, cited by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Acute and Chronic Craniofacial Pain: Brainstem Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission and Neuroplasticity, and Their Clinical Correlates

    Barry J. Sessle

  • Pharmacological Management of Chronic Neuropathic Pain – Consensus Statement and Guidelines from the Canadian Pain Society

    DE Moulin;AJ Clark;I Gilron;MA Ware

  • The Neural Basis of Oral and Facial Function

    Ronald Dubner;Barry J. Sessle;Arthur T. Storey

  • Neurobiological Mechanisms Involved in Sleep Bruxism

    G.J. Lavigne;T. Kato;A. Kolta;B.J. Sessle

  • Pharmacological management of chronic neuropathic pain: Revised consensus statement from the Canadian Pain Society

    DE Moulin;A Boulanger;AJ Clark;H Clarke

  • Convergence of cutaneous, tooth pulp, visceral, neck and muscle afferents onto nociceptive and non-nociceptive neurones in trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (medullary dorsal horn) and its implications for referred pain.

    B J Sessle;J W Hu;N Amano;G Zhong

  • Functional properties of neurons in cat trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (medullary dorsal horn). I. Responses to oral-facial noxious and nonnoxious stimuli and projections to thalamus and subnucleus oralis.

    J W Hu;J O Dostrovsky;B J Sessle

  • Sleep Bruxism: An Oromotor Activity Secondary to Micro-arousal

    T. Kato;P. Rompré;J.Y. Montplaisir;B.J. Sessle

  • The neurobiology of facial and dental pain: present knowledge, future directions.

    B.J. Sessle

  • The role of the cerebral cortex in swallowing

    Ruth E. Martin;Barry J. Sessle

  • Stimulation of craniofacial muscle afferents induces prolonged facilitatory effects in trigeminal nociceptive brain-stem neurones

    J. W. Hu;B. J. Sessle;P. Raboisson;R. Dallel

  • Structural and functional definition of the motor cortex in the monkey (Macaca fascicularis)

    B. J. Sessle;M. Wiesendanger

  • Genesis of sleep bruxism: motor and autonomic-cardiac interactions.

    Gilles J. Lavigne;Gilles J. Lavigne;Nelly Huynh;Takafumi Kato;Kazuo Okura

  • Sex-related differences in human pain and rat afferent discharge evoked by injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle.

    Brian E. Cairns;James W. Hu;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Barry J. Sessle

  • Evidence that Experimentally Induced Sleep Bruxism is a Consequence of Transient Arousal

    T. Kato;J.Y. Montplaisir;F. Guitard;B.J. Sessle

  • Inputs to trigeminal brain stem neurones from facial, oral, tooth pulp and pharyngolaryngeal tissues: I. responses to innocuous and noxious stimuli

    Barry J. Sessle;L.F. Greenwood

  • Functional properties of neurons in cat trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (medullary dorsal horn). II. Modulation of responses to noxious and nonnoxious stimuli by periaqueductal gray, nucleus raphe magnus, cerebral cortex, and afferent influences, and effect of naloxone.

    B J Sessle;J W Hu;R Dubner;G E Lucier

  • Activation of peripheral NMDA receptors contributes to human pain and rat afferent discharges evoked by injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle.

    Brian E. Cairns;Peter Svensson;Kelun Wang;Steen Hupfeld

  • Relationships between craniofacial pain and bruxism.

    P. Svensson;P. Svensson;F. Jadidi;T. Arima;L. Baad-Hansen

  • PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL MECHANISMS OF OROFACIAL INFLAMMATORY PAIN

    Barry J. Sessle

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. Hu
James W. Hu University of Toronto
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Jonathan O. Dostrovsky
Jonathan O. Dostrovsky University of Toronto
Brian E. Cairns
Brian E. Cairns University of British Columbia
Koichi Iwata
Koichi Iwata Nihon University
Kelun Wang
Kelun Wang Aalborg University
Greg M. Murray
Greg M. Murray University of Sydney
Ronald Dubner
Ronald Dubner University of Maryland, Baltimore
James L. Henry
James L. Henry McMaster University
Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos University of Chicago

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