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Irina A. Strigo is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, and Neurology.

The core topics of Strigo's scientific work include musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, pain management and placebo effect, pain mechanisms and treatments, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, treatment of major depression, and pain management and opioid use.

They have contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pain
  • Current topics in behavioral neurosciences
  • Pain Medicine

Strigo's recent papers include:

  • The Resurrection of Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation: Outcomes Across a Veterans Affairs Collaborative, 2020, Pain Medicine
  • Neuroanatomical dimensions in medication-free individuals with major depressive disorder and treatment response to SSRI antidepressant medications or placebo, 2024, Nature Mental Health
  • Toward Composite Pain Biomarkers of Neuropathic Pain-Focus on Peripheral Neuropathic Pain, 2022, Frontiers in Pain Research
  • Onset hyperalgesia and offset analgesia: Transient increases or decreases of noxious thermal stimulus intensity robustly modulate subsequent perceived pain intensity, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • AI-based dimensional neuroimaging system for characterizing heterogeneity in brain structure and function in major depressive disorder: COORDINATE-MDD consortium design and rationale, 2023, BMC Psychiatry

Among frequent coauthors, Strigo has collaborated notably with:

  • Alan N. Simmons
  • Duygu Tosun
  • Wolf Mehling
  • Andrea D. Spadoni
  • Cynthia H.Y. Fu

Best Publications

  • Unmyelinated tactile afferents signal touch and project to insular cortex

    H. Olausson;Y. Lamarre;H. Backlund;H. Backlund;C. Morin

  • Association of major depressive disorder with altered functional brain response during anticipation and processing of heat pain.

    Irina A Strigo;Alan N Simmons;Scott C Matthews;Arthur D Bud Craig

  • Anticipation of aversive visual stimuli is associated with increased insula activation in anxiety-prone subjects.

    Alan Simmons;Irina Strigo;Scott C. Matthews;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • Interoception, homeostatic emotions and sympathovagal balance.

    Irina A Strigo;Arthur D Bud Craig

  • Differentiation of visceral and cutaneous pain in the human brain.

    Irina A. Strigo;Gary H. Duncan;Michel Boivin;M. Catherine Bushnell

  • Neural correlates of painful genital touch in women with vulvar vestibulitis syndrome.

    Caroline F Pukall;Irina A Strigo;Yitzchak M Binik;Rhonda Amsel

  • Emotion-Dependent Functional Connectivity of the Default Mode Network in Adolescent Depression

    Tiffany C. Ho;Colm G. Connolly;Eva Henje Blom;Eva Henje Blom;Kaja Z. LeWinn

  • Decreased functional coupling of the amygdala and supragenual cingulate is related to increased depression in unmedicated individuals with current major depressive disorder.

    Scott C. Matthews;Scott C. Matthews;Irina A. Strigo;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Tony T. Yang

  • Adolescents With Major Depression Demonstrate Increased Amygdala Activation

    Tony T. Yang;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Scott C. Matthews;Scott C. Matthews;Susan F. Tapert

  • Pain and post traumatic stress disorder - review of clinical and experimental evidence.

    Tobias Moeller-Bertram;John Keltner;John Keltner;Irina A. Strigo;Irina A. Strigo

  • A multimodal imaging study in U.S. veterans of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom with and without major depression after blast-related concussion.

    Scott C. Matthews;Irina A. Strigo;Alan N. Simmons;Ryan M. O'Connell;Ryan M. O'Connell

  • Altered insula activation during pain anticipation in individuals recovered from anorexia nervosa: evidence of interoceptive dysregulation.

    Irina A. Strigo;Scott C. Matthews;Scott C. Matthews;Alan N. Simmons;Tyson Oberndorfer

  • Anxiety positive subjects show altered processing in the anterior insula during anticipation of negative stimuli.

    Alan N. Simmons;Murray B. Stein;Irina A. Strigo;Irina A. Strigo;Estibaliz Arce

  • Anteroposterior somatotopy of innocuous cooling activation focus in human dorsal posterior insular cortex.

    Le H. Hua;Irina A. Strigo;Leslie C. Baxter;Sterling C. Johnson

  • Neural correlates of altered pain response in women with posttraumatic stress disorder from intimate partner violence.

    Irina A. Strigo;Alan N. Simmons;Scott C. Matthews;Scott C. Matthews;Erin M. Grimes

  • An Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Program for Veterans with Chronic Pain: Description and Initial Evaluation of Outcomes

    Nidhi S Anamkath;Sarah A Palyo;Sarah A Palyo;Sara C Jacobs;Sara C Jacobs;Alain Lartigue;Alain Lartigue

  • Effect of ambient temperature on human pain and temperature perception.

    Irina Strigo;Franco Carli;M. Bushnell

  • Psychophysical analysis of visceral and cutaneous pain in human subjects

    Irina A Strigo;M.Catherine Bushnell;Michel Boivin;Gary H Duncan

  • Demand-specific alteration of medial prefrontal cortex response during an inhibition task in recovered anorexic women.

    Tyson A. Oberndorfer;Walter H. Kaye;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Irina A. Strigo

  • Pain and emotion in the insular cortex: evidence for functional reorganization in major depression

    Isabella Mutschler;Tonio Ball;Tonio Ball;Johanna Wankerl;Irina A. Strigo;Irina A. Strigo

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego
Scott C. Matthews
Scott C. Matthews University of California, San Diego
Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
A.D. (Bud) Craig
A.D. (Bud) Craig Barrow Neurological Institute
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
M. Catherine Bushnell
M. Catherine Bushnell National Institutes of Health
Mingxiong Huang
Mingxiong Huang University of California, San Diego
Gary H. Duncan
Gary H. Duncan University of Montreal
Ramesh R. Rao
Ramesh R. Rao University of California, San Diego

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