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4482
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9345
National Ranking
690

Overview

Bridget M. Lumb is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in Neuroscience and Medicine. Their research contributions span several subfields, including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Neurology.

Their work focuses on multiple research topics such as Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Stress Responses and Cortisol, and Pain Management and Placebo Effect.

Lumb has published across several frequent venues, with a notable presence in eLife and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), each hosting multiple publications. Other publication venues include Frontiers in Pain Research, Pain, and Brain Research.

Recent papers by Bridget M. Lumb include the following:

  • Loss of cortical control over the descending pain modulatory system determines the development of the neuropathic pain state in rats, 2021, eLife
  • Cerebellar modulation of memory encoding in the periaqueductal grey and fear behaviour, 2022, eLife
  • The partial saphenous nerve injury model of pain impairs reward-related learning but not reward sensitivity or motivation, 2021, Pain
  • Repeated exposure of naïve and peripheral nerve-injured mice to a snake as an experimental model of post-traumatic stress disorder and its co-morbidity with neuropathic pain, 2020, Brain Research
  • Loss of cortical control over the descending pain modulatory system determines the development of the neuropathic pain state in rats, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in Lumb's research include Richard Apps, Robert AR Drake, Charlotte L. Lawrenson, Elena Paci, and Lucy F. Donaldson.

Best Publications

  • Descending control of nociception: Specificity, recruitment and plasticity.

    M M Heinricher;I Tavares;I Tavares;J L Leith;B M Lumb

  • Cerebellar Modules and Their Role as Operational Cerebellar Processing Units

    Richard Apps;Richard Hawkes;Sho Aoki;Sho Aoki;Fredrik Bengtsson

  • A rapamycin-sensitive signaling pathway is essential for the full expression of persistent pain states

    S. M. Geranton;L. Jimenez-Diaz;C. Torsney;K. K. Tochiki

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

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

  • Local Translation in Primary Afferent Fibers Regulates Nociception

    Lydia Jiménez-Díaz;Lydia Jiménez-Díaz;Sandrine M. Géranton;Gayle M. Passmore;J. Lianne Leith

  • Neural substrates underlying fear-evoked freezing: the periaqueductal grey–cerebellar link

    Stella Koutsikou;Jonathan J. Crook;Emma V. Earl;J. Lianne Leith

  • Systemic inhibition of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway reduces neuropathic pain in mice

    Ilona Obara;Ilona Obara;Keri K. Tochiki;Sandrine M. Géranton;Fiona B. Carr

  • Neural Correlates of Fear in the Periaqueductal Gray

    Thomas C Watson;Nadia L Cerminara;Bridget M Lumb;Richard Apps

  • Endogenous analgesic action of the pontospinal noradrenergic system spatially restricts and temporally delays the progression of neuropathic pain following tibial nerve injury

    S. W. Hughes;L. Hickey;R. P. Hulse;Bridget M Lumb

  • Inescapable and escapable pain is represented in distinct hypothalamic-midbrain circuits: specific roles for Aδ- and C-nociceptors

    Bridget M. Lumb

  • The representation of prolonged and intense, noxious somatic and visceral stimuli in the ventrolateral orbital cortex of the cat.

    P. J. Snow;B. M. Lumb;F. Cervero

  • Effects of reversible spinalization on the visceral input to viscerosomatic neurons in the lower thoracic spinal cord of the cat.

    J. E. H. Tattersall;F. Cervero;B. M. Lumb

  • Descending control of spinal nociception from the periaqueductal grey distinguishes between neurons with and without C-fibre inputs

    Alexander J. Waters;Bridget M. Lumb

  • Viscerosomatic neurons in the lower thoracic spinal cord of the cat: excitations and inhibitions evoked by splanchnic and somatic nerve volleys and by stimulation of brain stem nuclei.

    J. E. H. Tattersall;F. Cervero;B. M. Lumb

  • Inhibitory effects evoked from both the lateral and ventrolateral periaqueductal grey are selective for the nociceptive responses of rat dorsal horn neurones.

    A.J. Waters;B.M. Lumb

  • The Periaqueductal Gray Orchestrates Sensory and Motor Circuits at Multiple Levels of the Neuraxis.

    Stella Koutsikou;Thomas C. Watson;Jonathan J. Crook;J. Lianne Leith

  • Hypothalamic and Midbrain Circuitry That Distinguishes Between Escapable and Inescapable Pain

    Bridget M Lumb

  • Brainstem control of visceral afferent pathways in the spinal cord.

    B.M. Lumb

  • An excitatory influence of dorsolateral pontine structures on urinary bladder motility in the rat

    B.M. Lumb;J.F.B. Morrison

  • A reliable method for the preferential activation of C- or A-fibre heat nociceptors.

    Simon McMullan;Daniel A.A. Simpson;Bridget M. Lumb

  • Cyclooxygenase-1-Derived Prostaglandins in the Periaqueductal Gray Differentially Control C- versus A-Fiber-Evoked Spinal Nociception

    JL Leith;A Wilson;LF Donaldson;Bridget M Lumb

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Apps
Richard Apps University of Bristol
Anthony E. Pickering
Anthony E. Pickering University of Bristol
Roy V. Sillitoe
Roy V. Sillitoe Baylor College of Medicine
Stephen P. Hunt
Stephen P. Hunt University College London
Thelma A. Lovick
Thelma A. Lovick University of Bristol
Hidemasa Furue
Hidemasa Furue Hyogo College of Medicine
Henrik Jörntell
Henrik Jörntell Lund University
Izumi Sugihara
Izumi Sugihara Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Natalia Alenina
Natalia Alenina Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Anja G. Teschemacher
Anja G. Teschemacher University of Bristol

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