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

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	49	6067	5584	271	247	124	6282

Overview

Luis Villanueva is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a focus on various subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Physiology, Neurology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's research topics include:

Migraine and Headache Studies
Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments
Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments
Neurological Disorders and Treatments
Patient Safety and Medication Errors
Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills

The publication record of Luis Villanueva features articles in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Journal of Neuroscience
European Journal of Pain
Atención Primaria
Actas del Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas

Notable recent papers by Luis Villanueva include:

"Altered Cortical Trigeminal Fields Excitability by Spreading Depolarization Revealed with in Vivo Functional Ultrasound Imaging Combined with Electrophysiology" (2022), published in Journal of Neuroscience
"Central generators of migraine and autonomic cephalalgias as targets for personalized pain management: Translational links" (2023), published in European Journal of Pain
"Caracterización de las interrupciones que se producen en las consultas de los médicos de familia. Observatorio de la Medicina de Familia del Maresme" (2020), published in Atención Primaria
"Faculty Opinions recommendation of Interictal pontine metabolism in migraine without aura patients: A 3 Tesla proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study." (2021), published in Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
"Faculty Opinions recommendation of Early and late visual deprivation induce hypersensitivity to mechanical and thermal noxious stimuli in the ZRDBA mouse." (2021), published in Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Frequent co-authors of Luis Villanueva are:

Rodrigo Noseda
Laurence Bourgeais
Laurianne Beynac
Jean-Charles Mariani
Mickaël Tanter

Best Publications

The activation of bulbo-spinal controls by peripheral nociceptive inputs: diffuse noxious inhibitory controls.

L Villanueva;D Le Bars

360
Citations
Involvement of the subnucleus reticularis dorsalis in diffuse noxious inhibitory controls in the rat

Didier Bouhassira;Luis Villanueva;Zhu Bing;Daniel le Bars

268
Citations
Organization of the efferent projections from the spinal cervical enlargement to the parabrachial area and periaqueductal gray: a PHA-L study in the rat.

Jean‐Franiçois Bernard;Radhouane Dallel;Patrick Raboisson;Luis Villanueva

264
Citations
Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC) in animals and in man.

Le Bars D;Villanueva L;Bouhassira D;Willer Jc

251
Citations
The medullary subnucleus reticularis dorsalis (SRD) as a key link in both the transmission and modulation of pain signals

L. Villanueva;D. Bouhassira;D. Le Bars

230
Citations
Acupuncture and diffuse noxious inhibitory controls: naloxone-reversible depression of activities of trigeminal convergent neurons.

Z. Bing;L. Villanueva;D. Le Bars

226
Citations
Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Controls (DNIC) in animals and in man

Daniel Le Bars;Luis Villanueva;J C Willer;Didier Bouhassira

217
Citations
Convergence of heterotopic nociceptive information onto subnucleus reticularis dorsalis neurons in the rat medulla.

L. Villanueva;D. Bouhassira;Zhu Bing;D. Le Bars

176
Citations
Paraventricular hypothalamic regulation of trigeminovascular mechanisms involved in headaches.

Claude Robert;Laurence Bourgeais;Charles-Daniel Arreto;Miguel Condes-Lara

168
Citations
Differential projections to the intralaminar and gustatory thalamus from the parabrachial area: a PHA-L study in the rat.

Hervé Bester;Laurence Bourgeais;Luis Villanueva;Jean‐Marie Besson

163
Citations
Depression of activities of dorsal horn convergent neurones by propriospinal mechanisms triggered by noxious inputs; comparison with diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC)

Samuel W. Cadden;Luis Villanueva;Djamel Chitour;Daniel Le Bars

158
Citations
Changes of Meningeal Excitability Mediated by Corticotrigeminal Networks: A Link for the Endogenous Modulation of Migraine Pain

Rodrigo Noseda;Luis Constandil;Laurence Bourgeais;Maryse Chalus

136
Citations
Chapter 20 Electrophysiological evidence for the activation of descending inhibitory controls by nociceptive afferent pathways

Daniel Le Bars;Luis Villanueva

132
Citations
Involvement of the dorsolateral funiculus in the descending spinal projections responsible for diffuse noxious inhibitory controls in the rat.

L. Villanueva;D. Chitour;D. Le Bars

129
Citations
Encoding of electrical, thermal, and mechanical noxious stimuli by subnucleus reticularis dorsalis neurons in the rat medulla

L. Villanueva;Zhu Bing;D. Bouhassira;D. Le Bars

129
Citations
Ascending pathways in the spinal cord involved in triggering of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls in the rat.

L. Villanueva;M. Peschanski;B. Calvino;D. Le Bars

112
Citations
Heterotopic activation of A delta and C fibres triggers inhibition of trigeminal and spinal convergent neurones in the rat.

D Bouhassira;D Le Bars;L Villanueva

112
Citations
Efferent projections from the subnucleus reticularis dorsalis (SRD): a Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin study in the rat.

J.F. Bernard;L. Villanueva;J. Carroué;D. Le Bars

112
Citations
Aspects of Sensory Processing through Convergent Neurons

Daniel Le Bars;Anthony H. Dickenson;Jean Marie Besson;Luis Villanueva

110
Citations
Organization of diencephalic projections from the medullary subnucleus reticularis dorsalis and the adjacent cuneate nucleus: a retrograde and anterograde tracer study in the rat.

Luis Villanueva;Christophe Desbois;Daniel le Bars;Jean‐François Bernard

109
Citations
Review article The medullary subnucleus reticularis dorsalis (SRD) as a key link in both the transmission and modulation of pain signals

L. Villanueva;D. Bouhassira;D. Le Bars

1
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