Howard L. Fields

Research.com Recognitions

• 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Best Publications

• Endogenous pain control systems: brainstem spinal pathways and endorphin circuitry.

  Allan I. Basbaum;Howard L. Fields

  3514
  Citations

• Endogenous pain control mechanisms: review and hypothesis.

  Allan I. Basbaum;Howard L. Fields

  1618
  Citations

• Neurotransmitters in Nociceptive Modulatory Circuits

  Howard L. Fields;Mary M. Heinricher;Peggy Mason

  1317
  Citations

• State-dependent opioid control of pain

  Howard Fields

  1197
  Citations

• Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain.

  Marwan N Baliki;Bogdan Petre;Souraya Torbey;Kristina M Herrmann

  1171
  Citations

• Brainstem Control of Spinal Pain-Transmission Neurons

  Howard L. Fields;Allan I Basbaum

  1081
  Citations

• Central nervous system mechanisms of pain modulation

  Howard L. Fields;Allan I. Basbaum;Mary M. Heinricher

  1035
  Citations

• Orexin A in the VTA is critical for the induction of synaptic plasticity and behavioral sensitization to cocaine.

  Stephanie L. Borgland;Sharif A. Taha;Federica Sarti;Howard L. Fields

  852
  Citations

• The affective component of pain in rodents: Direct evidence for a contribution of the anterior cingulate cortex

  Joshua P. Johansen;Howard L. Fields;Barton H. Manning

  793
  Citations

• The rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg), a GABAergic afferent to midbrain dopamine neurons, encodes aversive stimuli and inhibits motor responses.

  Thomas C. Jhou;Howard L. Fields;Mark G. Baxter;Clifford B. Saper

  782
  Citations

• Ventral Tegmental Area Neurons in Learned Appetitive Behavior and Positive Reinforcement

  Howard L. Fields;Gregory O. Hjelmstad;Elyssa B. Margolis;Saleem M. Nicola

  764
  Citations

• The origin of descending pathways in the dorsolateral funiculus of the spinal cord of the cat and rat: further studies on the anatomy of pain modulation.

  Allan I. Basbaum;Howard L. Fields

  758
  Citations

• Postherpetic Neuralgia: Irritable Nociceptors and Deafferentation

  Howard L. Fields;Michael Rowbotham;Ralf Baron;Ralf Baron

  731
  Citations

• The activity of neurons in the rostral medulla of the rat during withdrawal from noxious heat

  HL Fields;J Bry;I Hentall;G Zorman

  715
  Citations

• The ventral tegmental area revisited: is there an electrophysiological marker for dopaminergic neurons?

  Elyssa B. Margolis;Hagar Lock;Gregory O. Hjelmstad;Howard L. Fields

  684
  Citations

• Both intravenous lidocaine and morphine reduce the pain of postherpetic neuralgia

  Michael C. Rowbotham;Lori A. Reisner-Keller;Howard L. Fields

  684
  Citations

• Nucleus raphe magnus inhibition of spinal cord dorsal horn neurons.

  Howard L. Fields;Allan I. Basbaum;Charles H. Clanton;Stuart D. Anderson

  683
  Citations

• Peptides and the primary afferent nociceptor

  Jon D. Levine;Howard L. Fields;Allan I. Basbaum

  650
  Citations

• Predicting Value of Pain and Analgesia: Nucleus Accumbens Response to Noxious Stimuli Changes in the Presence of Chronic Pain

  Marwan N. Baliki;Paul Y. Geha;Howard L. Fields;A. Vania Apkarian

  635
  Citations

• Evidence that an excitatory connection between the periaqueductal gray and nucleus raphe magnus mediates stimulation produced analgesia.

  Michael M. Behbehani;Michael M. Behbehani;Howard L. Fields;Howard L. Fields

  632
  Citations