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Léon Plaghki is affiliated with Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Physiology and Sensory Systems. The topics central to their work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, and Thermoregulation and physiological responses.

Their publication record includes contributions to the European Journal of Pain, reflecting engagement with clinical and experimental pain research. A notable recent paper by Léon Plaghki is titled "Assessing thermal sensitivity using transient heat and cold stimuli combined with a Bayesian adaptive method in a clinical setting: A proof of concept study", published in 2020 in the European Journal of Pain.

Collaboration features prominently in Léon Plaghki's work. Frequent coauthors include Arthur Courtin, Sofia Maldonado Slootjes, Gilles Caty, Michel P. Hermans, and André Mouraux.

  • Arthur Courtin
  • Sofia Maldonado Slootjes
  • Gilles Caty
  • Michel P. Hermans
  • André Mouraux

Léon Plaghki's research topics show an emphasis on understanding pain mechanisms and sensory function through experimental physiology methods, particularly related to thermoregulation and sensory stimulus response. Their approach integrates clinical contexts, as evidenced by applying adaptive methods to measure thermal sensitivity.

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses

Their work contributes to multiple intersecting domains, benefiting from multidisciplinary insights from Medicine and Neuroscience. This combination provides a broad platform to investigate sensory systems with relevance to both physiological processes and clinical applications.

Best Publications

  • The pain matrix reloaded: a salience detection system for the body.

    Valéry Legrain;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Léon Plaghki;André Mouraux

  • Attentional modulation of the nociceptive processing into the human brain: selective spatial attention, probability of stimulus occurrence, and target detection effects on laser evoked potentials

    Valéry Legrain;Jean-Michel Guérit;Raymond Bruyer;Léon Plaghki

  • Recommendations for using opioids in chronic non-cancer pain.

    Eija Kalso;Laurie Allan;Paul L.I Dellemijn;Clara C Faura

  • The deficit of the isometric tetanic tension redeveloped after a release of frog muscle at a constant velocity.

    Georges Maréchal;Léon Plaghki

  • How do we selectively activate skin nociceptors with a high power infrared laser? Physiology and biophysics of laser stimulation.

    Léon Plaghki;André Mouraux

  • Direct isolation of ultra-late (C-fibre) evoked brain potentials by CO2 laser stimulation of tiny cutaneous surface areas in man.

    Dominique Bragard;A C Chen;Léon Plaghki;Léon Plaghki

  • Low intensity intra-epidermal electrical stimulation can activate Aδ-nociceptors selectively.

    André Mouraux;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Léon Plaghki

  • Non-phase locked electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to CO2 laser skin stimulations may reflect central interactions between A∂- and C-fibre afferent volleys

    André Mouraux;Jean-Michel Guerit;Léon Plaghki

  • Heterotopic nociceptive conditioning stimuli and mental task modulate differently the perception and physiological correlates of short CO2 laser stimuli.

    Léon Plaghki;D Delisle;Jean-Marie Godfraind

  • Neuromodulation of pain. A consensus statement prepared in Brussels 16-18 January 1998 by the following task force of the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC).

    J. Gybels;S Erdine;J Maeyaert;B Meyerson

  • Impaired selective attention in chronic pain patients

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  • Thermal detection thresholds of Aδ- and C-fibre afferents activated by brief CO2 laser pulses applied onto the human hairy skin

    Maxim Churyukanov;Léon Plaghki;Valéry Legrain;André Mouraux

  • Nociceptive processing in the human brain of infrequent task-relevant and task-irrelevant noxious stimuli. A study with event-related potentials evoked by CO2 laser radiant heat stimuli.

    Valéry Legrain;Raymond Bruyer;Jean-Michel Guérit;Léon Plaghki

  • Dipole analysis of ultralate (C-fibres) evoked potentials after laser stimulation of tiny cutaneous surface areas in humans.

    Emmanuelle Opsommer;Thomas Weiss;Léon Plaghki;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Nociceptive steady-state evoked potentials elicited by rapid periodic thermal stimulation of cutaneous nociceptors

    André Mouraux;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Elisabeth Colon;Sylvie Nozaradan

  • Clinical, functional and structural determinants of central pain in syringomyelia

    Samar M Hatem;Nadine Attal;Denis Ducreux;Michèle Gautron

  • Asymptomatic small fiber neuropathy in diabetes mellitus: investigations with intraepidermal nerve fiber density, quantitative sensory testing and laser-evoked potentials.

    Michael Ragé;Nathalie Van Acker;Michiel W. M. Knaapen;Maarten Timmers

  • Tactile roughness discrimination of the finger pad relies primarily on vibration sensitive afferents not necessarily located in the hand

    Xavier Libouton;Olivier Barbier;Yorick Berger;Leon Plaghki

  • The time course of CO2 laser-evoked responses and of skin nerve fibre markers after topical capsaicin in human volunteers

    Michael Ragé;Nathalie Van Acker;Paul Facer;Ravikiran Shenoy

  • The effects of A-fiber pressure block on perception and neurophysiological correlates of brief non-painful and painful CO2 laser stimuli in humans.

    Hicham Nahra;Léon Plaghki

  • Affective associative learning modifies the sensory perception of nociceptive stimuli without participant's awareness

    Annabel Wunsch;Pierre Philippot;Léon Plaghki

Frequent Co-Authors

André Mouraux
André Mouraux Université Catholique de Louvain
Valéry Legrain
Valéry Legrain Université Catholique de Louvain
Nadine Attal
Nadine Attal Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Michel Guerit
Jean-Michel Guerit Université Catholique de Louvain
Gian Domenico Iannetti
Gian Domenico Iannetti University College London
Theo Meert
Theo Meert Janssen (Belgium)
Daniel Le Bars
Daniel Le Bars Sorbonne University
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Andrew C. N. Chen
Andrew C. N. Chen Capital Medical University
Raymond Bruyer
Raymond Bruyer Université Catholique de Louvain

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