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Overview

M. Catherine Bushnell is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily covers the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience as a subfield. Additional areas of study include Physiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's publication record includes recent papers addressing various aspects of pain, neural function, and sensory perception. Notable works include:

  • "Default mode network changes in fibromyalgia patients are largely dependent on current clinical pain" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "Pleasant Deep Pressure: Expanding the Social Touch Hypothesis" (2020, Neuroscience)
  • "Innocuous pressure sensation requires A-type afferents but not functional ΡΙΕΖΟ2 channels in humans" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Neural effects of placebo analgesia in fibromyalgia patients and healthy individuals" (2020, Pain)
  • "Biochemical and behavioral effects of decreasing dietary linoleic acid and increasing eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid in a rat chronic monoarthrits model" (2022, Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids)

Frequent co-authors in Bushnell's research include:

  • Eleni Frangos
  • Binquan Wang
  • Marta Čeko
  • John L. Gracely
  • Emily A. Richards

Key publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Neuroscience
  • Nature Communications

Core research topics covered in Bushnell's work are:

  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Best Publications

  • Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease.

    A. Vania Apkarian;M. Catherine Bushnell;Rolf Detlef Treede;Jon Kar Zubieta

  • Pain affect encoded in human anterior cingulate but not somatosensory cortex.

    Pierre Rainville;Gary H. Duncan;Donald D. Price;Benoı̂t Carrier

  • Cognitive and emotional control of pain and its disruption in chronic pain

    M. Catherine Bushnell;Marta Čeko;Lucie A. Low

  • Advances in Neuropathic Pain: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Treatment Recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

  • Cognitive modulation of pain: how do attention and emotion influence pain processing?

    Chantal Villemure;M.Catherine Bushnell

  • Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Loss in Fibromyalgia Patients: Premature Aging of the Brain?

    A. Kuchinad;P. Schweinhardt;D. A. Seminowicz;P. B. Wood

  • Cortical Representation of the Sensory Dimension of Pain

    Robert K. Hofbauer;Robert K. Hofbauer;Pierre Rainville;Gary H. Duncan;M. Catherine Bushnell

  • Dissociation of sensory and affective dimensions of pain using hypnotic modulation.

    Pierre Rainville;Benoı̂t Carrier;Robert K Hofbauer;M.Catherine Bushnell;M.Catherine Bushnell

  • Cerebral Mechanisms of Hypnotic Induction and Suggestion

    Pierre Rainville;Robert K. Hofbauer;Tomáš Paus;Gary H. Duncan

  • Effective Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain in Humans Reverses Abnormal Brain Anatomy and Function

    David A. Seminowicz;Timothy H. Wideman;Lina Naso;Zeinab Hatami-Khoroushahi

  • How neuroimaging studies have challenged us to rethink: is chronic pain a disease?

    I Tracey;M C Bushnell

  • Hypnosis Modulates Activity in Brain Structures Involved in the Regulation of Consciousness

    Pierre Rainville;Robert K. Hofbauer;M. Catherine Bushnell;Gary H. Duncan

  • Fibromyalgia patients show an abnormal dopamine response to pain.

    Patrick B. Wood;Petra Schweinhardt;Erik Jaeger;Alain Dagher

  • Mood Influences Supraspinal Pain Processing Separately from Attention

    Chantal Villemure;M. Catherine Bushnell

  • A Psychophysical Comparison of Sensory and Affective Responses to Four Modalities of Experimental Pain

    Pierre Rainville;Jocelyne S. Feine;M. Catherine Bushnell;Gary H. Duncan

  • Prevalence and Profile of High-Impact Chronic Pain in the United States.

    Mark H. Pitcher;Michael Von Korff;M. Catherine Bushnell;Linda Porter

  • Effects of attention on the intensity and unpleasantness of thermal pain.

    Denis Miron;Gary H. Duncan;M. Catherine Bushnell

  • Sex differences in the perception of noxious heat stimuli

    Jocelyne S. Feine;M.Catherine Bushnell;Denis Miron;Gary H. Duncan

  • Regional Gray Matter Density Changes in Brains of Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    David A. Seminowicz;Jennifer S. Labus;Joshua A. Bueller;Kirsten Tillisch

  • Effects of odors on pain perception: deciphering the roles of emotion and attention

    Chantal Villemure;Burton M Slotnick;M Catherine Bushnell

  • Advances in neuropathic pain: Diagnosis, mechanisms, and treatment recommendations. Editorial

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary H. Duncan
Gary H. Duncan University of Montreal
Petra Schweinhardt
Petra Schweinhardt University of Zurich
Håkan Olausson
Håkan Olausson Linköping University
David A. Seminowicz
David A. Seminowicz University of Maryland, Baltimore
Pierre Rainville
Pierre Rainville University of Montreal
Serge Marchand
Serge Marchand Université de Sherbrooke
Marco L. Loggia
Marco L. Loggia Harvard University
Irina A. Strigo
Irina A. Strigo University of California, San Francisco
Jonathan Cole
Jonathan Cole Bournemouth University
Francis McGlone
Francis McGlone Liverpool John Moores University

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