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Overview

Kevin A. Keay is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans a range of subfields, including physiology, cognitive neuroscience, public health, environmental and occupational health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist has published work addressing several main topics, notably pain mechanisms and treatments, pain management and placebo effects, stress responses and cortisol, anatomy and medical technology, innovations in medical education, neuropeptides and animal physiology, and nerve injury and regeneration.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kevin A. Keay include:

  • Luke A. Henderson
  • Damien C. Boorman
  • Lewis Crawford
  • Anette Wu
  • Geoffroy Noël

Publications by Kevin A. Keay have appeared repeatedly in several notable venues. The most common publication sources are:

  • The FASEB Journal
  • Anatomical Sciences Education
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • NeuroImage
  • Medical Science Educator

Recent papers include the following:

  • "Dopamine: an immune transmitter," 2020, Neural Regeneration Research
  • "Brainstem Pain-Modulation Circuitry and Its Plasticity in Neuropathic Pain: Insights From Human Brain Imaging Investigations," 2021, Frontiers in Pain Research
  • "Rapid GFAP and Iba1 expression changes in the female rat brain following spinal cord injury," 2021, Neural Regeneration Research
  • "Altruism in death: Attitudes to body and organ donation in Australian students," 2022, Anatomical Sciences Education
  • "An International Partnership of 12 Anatomy Departments - Improving Global Health through Internationalization of Medical Education," 2020, Annals of Global Health

Best Publications

  • Central circuits mediating patterned autonomic activity during active vs. passive emotional coping.

    Richard Bandler;Kevin A Keay;Kevin A Keay;Nicole Floyd;Joseph Price

  • Parallel circuits mediating distinct emotional coping reactions to different types of stress

    Kevin A. Keay;Richard Bandler;Richard Bandler

  • Orbitomedial prefrontal cortical projections to distinct longitudinal columns of the periaqueductal gray in the rat.

    Nicole S. Floyd;Joseph L. Price;Amon T. Ferry;Kevin A. Keay;Kevin A. Keay

  • Columnar organization in the midbrain periaqueductal gray and the integration of emotional expression.

    Richard Bandler;Kevin A. Keay

  • Expression of c-Fos-like immunoreactivity in the caudal medulla and upper cervical spinal cord following stimulation of the superior sagittal sinus in the cat.

    Holger Kaube;Kevin A. Keay;Karen L. Hoskin;Richard Bandler

  • Immune cell involvement in dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord after chronic constriction or transection of the rat sciatic nerve

    Ping Hu;Alison L. Bembrick;Kevin A. Keay;Elspeth M. McLachlan;Elspeth M. McLachlan

  • Longitudinal neuronal organization of defensive reactions in the midbrain periaqueductal gray region of the rat.

    Antoine Depaulis;Kevin A. Keay;Richard Bandler

  • Orbitomedial prefrontal cortical projections to hypothalamus in the rat

    Nicole S. Floyd;Joseph L. Price;Amon T. Ferry;Kevin A. Keay;Kevin A. Keay

  • Deep and superficial noxious stimulation increases Fos-like immunoreactivity in different regions of the midbrain periaqueductal grey of the rat

    Kevin A. Keay;Richard Bandler

  • Quiescence and hyporeactivity evoked by activation of cell bodies in the ventrolateral midbrain periaqueductal gray of the rat

    Antoine Depaulis;Kevin A. Keay;Richard Bandler

  • Spinal afferents to functionally distinct periaqueductal gray columns in the rat: An anterograde and retrograde tracing study

    Kevin A. Keay;Karsten Feil;Brent D. Gordon;Horst Herbert

  • Output pathways from the rat superior colliculus mediating approach and avoidance have different sensory properties.

    G. W. M. Westby;K. A. Keay;P. Redgrave;P. Dean

  • Convergence of deep somatic and visceral nociceptive information onto a discrete ventrolateral midbrain periaqueductal gray region

    K.A. Keay;C.I. Clement;B. Owler;A. Depaulis

  • Common patterns of increased and decreased Fos expression in midbrain and pons evoked by noxious deep somatic and noxious visceral manipulations in the rat

    Colin I. Clement;Kevin A. Keay;Brian K. Owler;Richard Bandler

  • Brain mediation of active and passive emotional coping.

    Richard Bandler;Joseph L. Price;Kevin A. Keay

  • Distinct Central Representations of Inescapable and Escapable Pain: Observations and Speculation

    Kevin A. Keay;Richard Bandler;Richard Bandler

  • Developmental age influences the effect of epidural dexmedetomidine on inflammatory hyperalgesia in rat pups.

    Suellen M. Walker;Richard F. Howard;Kevin A. Keay;Maria Fitzgerald

  • A subpopulation of rats show social and sleep-waking changes typical of chronic neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury.

    Claudia R. Monassi;Richard Bandler;Kevin A. Keay

  • Cardiovascular and respiratory changes elicited by stimulation of rat superior colliculus.

    Kevin A. Keay;Peter Redgrave;Paul Dean

  • The ventrolateral periaqueductal gray projects to caudal brainstem depressor regions: a functional-anatomical and physiological study.

    L.A Henderson;K.A Keay;R Bandler

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Bandler
Richard Bandler University of Sydney
Luke A. Henderson
Luke A. Henderson University of Sydney
Antoine Depaulis
Antoine Depaulis Grenoble Alpes University
Joseph L. Price
Joseph L. Price Washington University in St. Louis
Elspeth M. McLachlan
Elspeth M. McLachlan University of New South Wales
Maria Fitzgerald
Maria Fitzgerald University College London
Keyoumars Ashkan
Keyoumars Ashkan King's College London
Holger Kaube
Holger Kaube University of Freiburg
Peter C. Thomson
Peter C. Thomson University of Sydney
Paul D. McGreevy
Paul D. McGreevy University of Sydney

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