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David Yarnitsky is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research predominantly lies within the field of Medicine, with a notable focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Neurology.

The main topics addressed in Yarnitsky's work include:

  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Yarnitsky include:

  • Classification of painful or painless diabetic peripheral neuropathy and identification of the most powerful predictors using machine learning models in large cross-sectional cohorts, 2022, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • Patient phenotyping in clinical trials of chronic pain treatments: IMMPACT recommendations, 2021, PAIN Reports
  • Clinical Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Motor Cortex Are Associated With Changes in Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome, 2021, Journal of Pain
  • Promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity in pain science, 2023, Pain
  • Promoting Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Pain Science, 2022, Journal of Pain

Yarnitsky has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • PAIN Reports
  • Pain Medicine
  • Canadian Journal of Pain

Frequent scientific collaborators include:

  • Karen D. Davis
  • Tonya M. Palermo
  • Robert W. Hurley
  • Joel Katz
  • Michael E Schatman

Best Publications

  • An association between migraine and cutaneous allodynia

    Rami Burstein;Rami Burstein;David Yarnitsky;Itay Goor-Aryeh;Bernard J. Ransil

  • The development of cutaneous allodynia during a migraine attack clinical evidence for the sequential recruitment of spinal and supraspinal nociceptive neurons in migraine.

    Rami Burstein;Michael F. Cutrer;David Yarnitsky;David Yarnitsky

  • Conditioned pain modulation (the diffuse noxious inhibitory control-like effect): its relevance for acute and chronic pain states.

    David Yarnitsky

  • Prediction of chronic post-operative pain: pre-operative DNIC testing identifies patients at risk.

    David Yarnitsky;Yonathan Crispel;Elon Eisenberg;Yelena Granovsky

  • Quantitative sensory testing

    David Yarnitsky

  • Value of quantitative sensory testing in neurological and pain disorders: NeuPSIG consensus.

    Miroslav Misha Backonja;Nadine Attal;Ralf Baron;Didier Bouhassira

  • Experimental and clinical applications of quantitative sensory testing applied to skin, muscles and viscera.

    Lars Arendt-Nielsen;David Yarnitsky

  • Conditioned pain modulation predicts duloxetine efficacy in painful diabetic neuropathy

    David Yarnitsky;David Yarnitsky;Michal Granot;Hadas Nahman-Averbuch;Mogher Khamaisi

  • Recommendations on terminology and practice of psychophysical DNIC testing.

    David Yarnitsky;David Yarnitsky;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Didier Bouhassira;Robert R. Edwards

  • Recommendations on practice of conditioned pain modulation (CPM) testing.

    D. Yarnitsky;D. Bouhassira;A.M. Drewes;R.B. Fillingim

  • The methodology of experimentally induced diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC)-like effect in humans.

    Dorit Pud;Yelena Granovsky;David Yarnitsky

  • Determinants of endogenous analgesia magnitude in a diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC) paradigm: do conditioning stimulus painfulness, gender and personality variables matter?

    Michal Granot;Irit Weissman-Fogel;Yonathan Crispel;Dorit Pud

  • Reliability of conditioned pain modulation: a systematic review.

    Donna L. Kennedy;Harriet I. Kemp;Deborah Ridout;David Yarnitsky

  • Heat pain thresholds: normative data and repeatability

    David Yarnitsky;Elliot Sprecher;Ruth Zaslansky;Jeshayachu A. Hemli

  • Thermal testing: normative data and repeatability for various test algorithms.

    David Yarnitsky;Elliot Sprecher

  • Patient phenotyping in clinical trials of chronic pain treatments: IMMPACT recommendations

    Robert R. Edwards;Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Martin S. Angst

  • Role of endogenous pain modulation in chronic pain mechanisms and treatment.

    David Yarnitsky

  • Quantitative measurement of pain sensation in patients with Parkinson disease

    R. Djaldetti;A. Shifrin;Z. Rogowski;E. Sprecher

  • Mechanical hyperalgesias in neuropathic pain patients: dynamic and static subtypes.

    José L. Ochoa;David Yarnitsky

  • Postcesarean Section Pain Prediction by Preoperative Experimental Pain Assessment

    Michal Granot;Lior Lowenstein;David Yarnitsky;Ada Tamir

  • Conditioned pain modulation.

    Rony-Reuven Nir;David Yarnitsky

  • Studies of heat pain sensation in man: perception thresholds, rate of stimulus rise and reaction time

    David Yarnitsky;Jose L. Ochoa

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Per Hansson
Per Hansson Karolinska Institute
Robert C. Coghill
Robert C. Coghill Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Roy Freeman
Roy Freeman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Nadine Attal
Nadine Attal Grenoble Alpes University
Roman Rolke
Roman Rolke RWTH Aachen University
Takanori Yokota
Takanori Yokota Institute of Science Tokyo
Ole Kæseler Andersen
Ole Kæseler Andersen Aalborg University
José L. Ochoa
José L. Ochoa Oregon Health & Science University
Claudia Sommer
Claudia Sommer University of Würzburg

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