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Jürgen Sandkühler
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Neuroscience
Austria
2023

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Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
17444
World Ranking
3227
National Ranking
22

Jürgen Sandkühler publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jürgen Sandkühler sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 150 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Jürgen Sandkühler D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jürgen Sandkühler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Jürgen Sandkühler is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and behavioral neuroscience. The subfields of their work also extend into molecular biology and neurology.

The main topics of Sandkühler's research include:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation

Sandkühler has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecular Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Pain
  • Glia

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Sandkühler are:

  • "GABAergic CaMKIIα+ Amygdala Output Attenuates Pain and Modulates Emotional-Motivational Behavior via Parabrachial Inhibition" (2022), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Interferon-γ facilitates the synaptic transmission between primary afferent C-fibres and lamina I neurons in the rat spinal dorsal horn via microglia activation" (2020), published in Molecular Pain
  • "Lamina-specific properties of spinal astrocytes" (2021), published in Glia
  • "Fundamental sex differences in morphine withdrawal-induced neuronal plasticity" (2020), published in Pain
  • "Spontaneous, Voluntary, and Affective Behaviours in Rat Models of Pathological Pain" (2021), published in Frontiers in Pain Research

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Sandkühler's work. Frequent co-authors include Roni Hogri, Bernhard Heinke, Lidia Trofimova, Hannah Luise Teuchmann, and Ruth Drdla-Schutting.

Best Publications

  • Models and Mechanisms of Hyperalgesia and Allodynia

    Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Corelease of two fast neurotransmitters at a central synapse

    Peter Jonas;Josef Bischofberger;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Synaptic plasticity in spinal lamina I projection neurons that mediate hyperalgesia.

    Hiroshi Ikeda;Bernhard Heinke;Bernhard Heinke;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Jürgen Sandkühler;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Neurogenic neuroinflammation: inflammatory CNS reactions in response to neuronal activity

    Dimitris N. Xanthos;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Learning and memory in pain pathways

    Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Synaptic Amplifier of Inflammatory Pain in the Spinal Dorsal Horn

    Hiroshi Ikeda;Johanna Stark;Harald Fischer;Matthias Wagner

  • Understanding LTP in pain pathways

    Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Low-Frequency Stimulation of Afferent Aδ-Fibers Induces Long-Term Depression at Primary Afferent Synapses with Substantia Gelatinosa Neurons in the Rat

    J. Sandkühler;J. G. Chen;G. Cheng;M. Randić

  • Induction of long‐term potentiation at spinal synapses by noxious stimulation or nerve injury

    Jürgen Sandkühler;Xianguo Liu

  • Perceptual correlates of nociceptive long-term potentiation and long-term depression in humans.

    Thomas Klein;Walter Magerl;Hanns-Christian Hopf;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Long-term potentiation of C-fiber-evoked potentials in the rat spinal dorsal horn is prevented by spinal N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor blockage.

    X.-G. Liu;J. Sandkühler

  • Characterization of long-term potentiation of C-fiber-evoked potentials in spinal dorsal horn of adult rat: essential role of NK1 and NK2 receptors.

    X.-G. Liu;J. Sandkühler

  • Relative contributions of the nucleus raphe magnus and adjacent medullary reticular formation to the inhibition by stimulation in the periaqueductal gray of a spinal nociceptive reflex in the pentobarbital-anesthetized rat

    J. Sandkühler;G.F. Gebhart

  • The organization and function of endogenous antinociceptive systems

    J. Sandkühler

  • Characterization of inhibition of a spinal nociceptive reflex by stimulation medially and laterally in the midbrain and medulla in the pentobarbital-anesthetized rat.

    J. Sandkühler;G.F. Gebhart

  • Induction of Synaptic Long-Term Potentiation After Opioid Withdrawal

    Ruth Drdla;Matthias Gassner;Ewald Gingl;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Long-term potentiation in spinal nociceptive pathways as a novel target for pain therapy.

    Ruth Ruscheweyh;Oliver Wilder-Smith;Ruth Drdla;Xian-Guo Liu

  • Physiological, neurochemical and morphological properties of a subgroup of GABAergic spinal lamina II neurones identified by expression of green fluorescent protein in mice

    Bernhard Heinke;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Liesbeth Forsthuber;Gabriele Wunderbaldinger

  • Lamina-specific membrane and discharge properties of rat spinal dorsal horn neurones in vitro

    Ruth Ruscheweyh;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Jürgen Sandkühler;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Induction of Thermal Hyperalgesia and Synaptic Long-Term Potentiation in the Spinal Cord Lamina I by TNF-α and IL-1β is Mediated by Glial Cells

    Doris Gruber-Schoffnegger;Ruth Drdla-Schutting;Christoph Hönigsperger;Gabriele Wunderbaldinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Zimmermann
Manfred Zimmermann Heidelberg University
Xian-Guo Liu
Xian-Guo Liu Sun Yat-sen University
Gerald F. Gebhart
Gerald F. Gebhart University of Pittsburgh
Rolf-Detlef Treede
Rolf-Detlef Treede Heidelberg University
Thomas Herdegen
Thomas Herdegen Kiel University
Walter Magerl
Walter Magerl Heidelberg University
Stefan Schwab
Stefan Schwab University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfgang Kuschinsky
Wolfgang Kuschinsky Heidelberg University
Robert F. Schmidt
Robert F. Schmidt University of Würzburg
Ralf Schneggenburger
Ralf Schneggenburger École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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