2026 Luis Garcia-Larrea: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	77	1805	1648	59	52	354	27822

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Overview

Luis Garcia-Larrea is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in related subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Neurology, Pharmacology, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

The main topics of Luis Garcia-Larrea's work focus on aspects of pain and its treatment. These topics include:

Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
Pain Management and Placebo Effect
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Pain Management and Treatment
Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Their research has been published in a variety of scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

European Journal of Pain
Clinical Neurophysiology
Neurophysiologie Clinique
Pain
The Journal of Physiology

Recent publications by Luis Garcia-Larrea include:

"Human surrogate models of central sensitization: A critical review and practical guide", 2021, European Journal of Pain
"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, European Journal of Neurology
"Transcranial direct current stimulation of 3 cortical targets is no more effective than placebo as treatment for fibromyalgia: a double-blind sham-controlled clinical trial", 2021, Pain
"Beyond trial-and-error: Individualizing therapeutic transcranial neuromodulation for chronic pain", 2023, European Journal of Pain
"Local sleep spindles in the human thalamus", 2020, The Journal of Physiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Luis Garcia-Larrea encompass:

André Mouraux
Andrea Truini
Rolf-Detlef Treede
Ombretta Caspani
Hélène Bastuji

Best Publications

Functional imaging of brain responses to pain. A review and meta-analysis (2000).

R. Peyron;B. Laurent;L. García-Larrea

2753
Citations
Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Jean Pascal Lefaucheur;Nathalie André-Obadia;Andrea Antal;Samar S. Ayache

2404
Citations
Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Jean Pascal Lefaucheur;Andrea Antal;Samar S. Ayache;David H. Benninger

1861
Citations
EFNS guidelines on neurostimulation therapy for neuropathic pain

G. Cruccu;T. Z. Aziz;L. Garcia-Larrea;P. Hansson

925
Citations
Recommendations for the clinical use of somatosensory-evoked potentials

G. Cruccu;M.J. Aminoff;G. Curio;J.M. Guerit

782
Citations
EFNS guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment.

G. Cruccu;P. Anand;N. Attal;L. Garcia‐Larrea

738
Citations
Haemodynamic brain responses to acute pain in humans: sensory and attentional networks.

Roland Peyron;Luis García-Larrea;Marie-Claude Grégoire;Nicolas Costes

730
Citations
EFNS guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment: revised 2009.

G. Cruccu;C. Sommer;P. Anand;N. Attal

683
Citations
Electrical stimulation of motor cortex for pain control: a combined PET-scan and electrophysiological study☆

L Garcı́a-Larrea;R Peyron;P Mertens;M.C Gregoire

641
Citations
Brain generators of laser-evoked potentials: from dipoles to functional significance

L Garcia-Larrea;M Frot;M Frot;M Valeriani

599
Citations
Pain matrices and neuropathic pain matrices: A review

Luis Garcia-Larrea;Roland Peyron

579
Citations
A differential brain response to the subject's own name persists during sleep.

Fabien Perrin;Luis Garcı́a-Larrea;François Mauguière;Hélène Bastuji

424
Citations
Association and dissociation between laser-evoked potentials and pain perception.

García-Larrea L;Peyron R;Laurent B;Mauguière F

405
Citations
Revisiting the oddball paradigm. Non-target vs neutral stimuli and the evaluation of ERP attentional effects.

Luis García-Larrea;Anne-Claire Lukaszewicz;François Mauguiére

363
Citations
Electrical stimulation of precentral cortical area in the treatment of central pain: electrophysiological and PET study

R. Peyron;L. Garcia-Larrea;M. P. Deiber;L. Cinotti

321
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation for pain control induces changes in the endogenous opioid system.

J. Maarrawi;R. Peyron;P. Mertens;N. Costes

315
Citations
Transcranial magnetic stimulation for pain control. Double-blind study of different frequencies against placebo, and correlation with motor cortex stimulation efficacy.

Nathalie André-Obadia;Roland Peyron;Patrick Mertens;François Mauguière

308
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation in neuropathic pain. Correlations between analgesic effect and hemodynamic changes in the brain. A PET study

Roland Peyron;Isabelle Faillenot;Patrick Mertens;Bernard Laurent

299
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation for neuropathic pain: From phenomenology to mechanisms.

Luis Garcia-Larrea;Roland Peyron

289
Citations
EAN guidelines on central neurostimulation therapy in chronic pain conditions.

G. Cruccu;L. Garcia‐Larrea;P. Hansson;P. Hansson;M. Keindl

274
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation for refractory neuropathic pain: four year outcome and predictors of efficacy.

Christophe Nuti;Roland Peyron;Luis Garcia-Larrea;Jacques Brunon

263
Citations