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Overview

Maria Fitzgerald is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with notable subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pharmacy.

The main topics of Maria Fitzgerald's work include:

  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maria Fitzgerald are:

  • Lorenzo Fabrizi
  • Judith Meek
  • Mohammed Rupawala
  • Laura Jones
  • Maria Pureza Laudiano-Dray

Their recent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Pain
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Current Biology

Selected recent papers by Maria Fitzgerald include:

  • "Spinal interleukin-6 contributes to central sensitisation and persistent pain hypersensitivity in a model of juvenile idiopathic arthritis" (2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • "A developmental shift in habituation to pain in human neonates" (2023, Current Biology)
  • "Early Life Pain Experience Changes Adult Functional Pain Connectivity in the Rat Somatosensory and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex" (2022, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Widespread nociceptive maps in the human neonatal somatosensory cortex" (2022, eLife)
  • "Clinical thresholds in pain-related facial activity linked to differences in cortical network activation in neonates" (2022, Pain)

Best Publications

  • The development of nociceptive circuits

    Maria Fitzgerald

  • Capsaicin and sensory neurones--a review.

    Maria Fitzgerald

  • Cortical Pain Responses in Human Infants

    Rebeccah Slater;Anne Cantarella;Shiromi Gallella;Alan Worley

  • Cutaneous hypersensitivity following peripheral tissue damage in newborn infants and its reversal with topical anaesthesia

    Maria Fitzgerald;Catherine Millard;Neil McIntosh

  • T-cell infiltration and signaling in the adult dorsal spinal cord is a major contributor to neuropathic pain-like hypersensitivity.

    Michael Costigan;Andrew Moss;Andrew Moss;Alban Latremoliere;Caroline Johnston;Caroline Johnston

  • Oral sucrose as an analgesic drug for procedural pain in newborn infants: a randomised controlled trial

    Rebeccah Slater;Rebeccah Slater;Laura Cornelissen;Lorenzo Fabrizi;Debbie Patten

  • The cutaneous withdrawal reflex in human neonates: sensitization, receptive fields, and the effects of contralateral stimulation

    Katharine Andrews;Maria Fitzgerald

  • The neurobiology of pain: developmental aspects.

    Maria Fitzgerald;Simon Beggs

  • Long-term impact of neonatal intensive care and surgery on somatosensory perception in children born extremely preterm

    Suellen M. Walker;Linda S. Franck;Maria Fitzgerald;Jonathan Myles

  • Postnatal development of the cutaneous flexor reflex: comparative study of preterm infants and newborn rat pups

    M Fitzgerald;A Shaw;N MacIntosh

  • The functional development of descending inhibitory pathways in the dorsolateral funiculus of the newborn rat spinal cord

    Maria Fitzgerald;Martin Koltzenburg

  • Infant pain management: a developmental neurobiological approach

    Maria Fitzgerald;Suellen M Walker

  • Nerve growth factor counteracts the neurophysiological and neurochemical effects of chronic sciatic nerve section

    M. Fitzgerald;P.D. Wall;M. Goedert;P.C. Emson

  • The consequences of pain in early life: injury-induced plasticity in developing pain pathways

    Fred Schwaller;Maria Fitzgerald

  • A Shift in Sensory Processing that Enables the Developing Human Brain to Discriminate Touch from Pain

    Lorenzo Fabrizi;Rebeccah Slater;Rebeccah Slater;Alan Worley;Judith Meek

  • How Well Do Clinical Pain Assessment Tools Reflect Pain in Infants

    Rebeccah Slater;Anne Cantarella;Linda Franck;Judith Meek

  • The post-natal development of cutaneous afferent fibre input and receptive field organization in the rat dorsal horn.

    M Fitzgerald

  • Long-term sensory hyperinnervation following neonatal skin wounds

    M. L. Reynolds;M. Fitzgerald

  • The postnatal physiological and neurochemical development of peripheral sensory C fibres.

    M. Fitzgerald;M. Fitzgerald;S. Gibson;S. Gibson

  • Premature infants display increased noxious-evoked neuronal activity in the brain compared to healthy age-matched term-born infants.

    Rebeccah Slater;Lorenzo Fabrizi;Alan Worley;Judith Meek

  • The sensitization of high threshold mechanoreceptors with myelinated axons by repeated heating.

    M Fitzgerald;B Lynn

Frequent Co-Authors

Clifford J. Woolf
Clifford J. Woolf Boston Children's Hospital
Stewart Boyd
Stewart Boyd Great Ormond Street Hospital
Simon Beggs
Simon Beggs University of Toronto
Patrick D. Wall
Patrick D. Wall University College London
Richard E. Coggeshall
Richard E. Coggeshall The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Anthony H. Dickenson
Anthony H. Dickenson University College London
Michael Costigan
Michael Costigan Boston Children's Hospital
Michael W. Salter
Michael W. Salter University of Toronto
Martin Koltzenburg
Martin Koltzenburg University College London
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford

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