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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2007 - Adam Yarmolinsky Medal, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1977 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Karen D. Davis is affiliated with the University Health Network in Canada. Their research primarily spans medicine, with specific emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work covers numerous topics including pain mechanisms and treatments, health and medical research impacts, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, sex and gender in healthcare, functional brain connectivity studies, and cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes.

Notable recent papers by Karen D. Davis include:

  • Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities (2020), published in Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Sex and gender differences in pain (2022), published in International Review of Neurobiology
  • Central neuropathic pain (2023), published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Joint European Academy of Neurology-European Pain Federation-Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group of the International Association for the Study of Pain guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment (2023), published in European Journal of Neurology
  • Neural Oscillations: Understanding a Neural Code of Pain (2020), published in The Neuroscientist

Frequent co-authors collaborating extensively with Karen D. Davis are:

  • David Yarnitsky
  • Tonya M. Palermo
  • Robert W. Hurley
  • Joel Katz
  • Michael E Schatman

The scientist's publications have appeared regularly in the following venues:

  • Pain
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Journal of Military Veteran and Family Health
  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • Journal of Pain

The awards received by Karen D. Davis include the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal from the National Academy of Medicine in 2007, election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 1977, and designation as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 within the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • A multimodal cortical network for the detection of changes in the sensory environment.

    Jonathan Downar;Adrian P. Crawley;David J. Mikulis;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • Pain-related neurons in the human cingulate cortex.

    W D Hutchison;K D Davis;A M Lozano;R R Tasker

  • The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic neuropathic pain.

    Joachim Scholz;Nanna B. Finnerup;Nadine Attal;Qasim Aziz

  • Two systems of resting state connectivity between the insula and cingulate cortex.

    Keri S. Taylor;David A. Seminowicz;David A. Seminowicz;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • Theories of pain: from specificity to gate control

    Massieh Moayedi;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • A Cortical Network Sensitive to Stimulus Salience in a Neutral Behavioral Context Across Multiple Sensory Modalities

    Jonathan Downar;Adrian P. Crawley;David J. Mikulis;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • The dynamic pain connectome

    Aaron Kucyi;Aaron Kucyi;Karen D. Davis

  • Functional MRI Study of Thalamic and Cortical Activations Evoked by Cutaneous Heat, Cold, and Tactile Stimuli

    Karen D. Davis;Chun L. Kwan;Adrian P. Crawley;David J. Mikulis

  • Functional MRI of Pain- and Attention-Related Activations in the Human Cingulate Cortex

    Karen D. Davis;Stephen J. Taylor;Adrian P. Crawley;Michael L. Wood

  • A neurocognitive model of attention to pain: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence

    Valéry Legrain;Stefaan Van Damme;Christopher Eccleston;Karen D. Davis

  • Cortical responses to pain in healthy individuals depends on pain catastrophizing.

    David A. Seminowicz;Karen D. Davis

  • Topical application of clonidine relieves hyperalgesia in patients with sympathetically maintained pain

    K. D. Davis;R. D. Treede;S. N. Raja;R. A. Meyer;R. A. Meyer

  • Methods for microelectrode-guided posteroventral pallidotomy

    Andres Lozano;William Hutchison;Zelma Kiss;Ronald Tasker

  • Mind wandering away from pain dynamically engages antinociceptive and default mode brain networks

    Aaron Kucyi;Tim V. Salomons;Tim V. Salomons;Tim V. Salomons;Karen D. Davis

  • Central mechanisms of pain revealed through functional and structural MRI.

    Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis;Massieh Moayedi;Massieh Moayedi

  • Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities.

    Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis;Nima Aghaeepour;Andrew H. Ahn;Martin S. Angst

  • Enhanced medial prefrontal-default mode network functional connectivity in chronic pain and its association with pain rumination.

    Aaron Kucyi;Aaron Kucyi;Massieh Moayedi;Irit Weissman-Fogel;Irit Weissman-Fogel;Irit Weissman-Fogel;Michael B. Goldberg;Michael B. Goldberg

  • The Effect of Task Relevance on the Cortical Response to Changes in Visual and Auditory Stimuli: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Jonathan Downar;Adrian P. Crawley;Adrian P. Crawley;David J. Mikulis;David J. Mikulis;Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis

  • Dynamic functional connectivity of the default mode network tracks daydreaming.

    Aaron Kucyi;Karen D. Davis

  • Systemic alpha-adrenergic blockade with phentolamine: a diagnostic test for sympathetically maintained pain.

    Srinivasa N. Raja;Rolf-Detlef Treede;Karen D. Davis;James N. Campbell

  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, 2010 Update

    Karen Davis;Cathy Schoen;Kristof Stremikis

Frequent Co-Authors

Andres M. Lozano
Andres M. Lozano University of Toronto
Jonathan O. Dostrovsky
Jonathan O. Dostrovsky University of Toronto
William D. Hutchison
William D. Hutchison University of Toronto
Mojgan Hodaie
Mojgan Hodaie University of Toronto
Ronald R. Tasker
Ronald R. Tasker University of Toronto
Richard A. Meyer
Richard A. Meyer Johns Hopkins University
James N. Campbell
James N. Campbell Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rolf-Detlef Treede
Rolf-Detlef Treede Heidelberg University
David A. Seminowicz
David A. Seminowicz University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jonathan Downar
Jonathan Downar Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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