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Michael H. Ossipov is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as psychiatry and mental health, physiology, pathology and forensic medicine, cognitive neuroscience, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics that define their scientific work include migraine and headache studies, sympathectomy and hyperhidrosis treatments, trigeminal neuralgia and treatments, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, cardiovascular syncope and autonomic disorders, and pain management and placebo effect.

Michael H. Ossipov has contributed to a number of scientific papers, including:

  • "Lasmiditan mechanism of action - review of a selective 5-HT1F agonist" (2020), published in The Journal of Headache and Pain
  • "The not so hidden impact of interictal burden in migraine: A narrative review" (2022), published in Frontiers in Neurology
  • "Issues Impacting Adverse Event Frequency and Severity: Differences Between Randomized Phase 2 and Phase 3 Clinical Trials for Lasmiditan" (2020), published in Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • "Galcanezumab: a humanized monoclonal antibody for the prevention of migraine and cluster headache" (2020), published in Drugs of today
  • "Patients' Experiences During the Long Journey Before Initiating Migraine Prevention with a Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) Monoclonal Antibody (mAb)" (2024), published in Pain and Therapy

The frequent coauthors in their work include Robert B. Raffa, Joseph V. Pergolizzi, Maurice Vincent, Lars Viktrup, and Bert B. Vargas.

The primary publication venues for their research are:

  • Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • The Journal of Headache and Pain
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Pain and Therapy
  • Drugs of today

Best Publications

  • Central modulation of pain

    Michael H. Ossipov;Gregory O. Dussor;Frank Porreca

  • Chronic pain and medullary descending facilitation

    Frank Porreca;Michael H Ossipov;G.F Gebhart

  • Potent and nontoxic antisense oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acids

    Claes R Wahlestedt;Peter Salmi;Liam Good;Johanna Kela

  • Descending pain modulation and chronification of pain.

    Michael H. Ossipov;Kozo Morimura;Frank Porreca

  • The role of calcitonin gene-related peptide in peripheral and central pain mechanisms including migraine.

    Smriti Iyengar;Michael H. Ossipov;Kirk W. Johnson

  • Inhibition of neuropathic pain by decreased expression of the tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium channel, NaV1.8.

    Josephine Lai;Michael S Gold;Chang Sook Kim;Di Bian

  • Efficacy and safety of galcanezumab for the prevention of episodic migraine: Results of the EVOLVE-2 Phase 3 randomized controlled clinical trial:

    Vladimir Skljarevski;Manjit Matharu;Brian A Millen;Michael H Ossipov

  • A Comparison of the Potential Role of the Tetrodotoxin-Insensitive Sodium Channels, PN3/SNS and NaN/SNS2, in Rat Models of Chronic Pain

    Frank Porreca;Josephine Lai;D. I. Bian;Sandra Wegert

  • CGRP and the Trigeminal System in Migraine.

    Smriti Iyengar;Kirk W. Johnson;Michael H. Ossipov;Sheena K. Aurora

  • Dynorphin Promotes Abnormal Pain and Spinal Opioid Antinociceptive Tolerance

    Todd W. Vanderah;Luis R. Gardell;Shannon E. Burgess;Mohab Ibrahim

  • Time-dependent descending facilitation from the rostral ventromedial medulla maintains, but does not initiate, neuropathic pain.

    Shannon E. Burgess;Luis R. Gardell;Michael H. Ossipov;T. Philip Malan

  • Tonic Descending Facilitation from the Rostral Ventromedial Medulla Mediates Opioid-Induced Abnormal Pain and Antinociceptive Tolerance

    Todd W. Vanderah;Nova M. H. Suenaga;Michael H. Ossipov;T. Philip Malan

  • Spinal and Supraspinal Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain

    Michael H. Ossipov;Josephine Lai;T. Philip Malan;Frank Porreca

  • Mechanisms of opioid-induced pain and antinociceptive tolerance: descending facilitation and spinal dynorphin.

    Todd W. Vanderah;Michael H. Ossipov;Josephine Lai;T.Philip Malan

  • Pronociceptive actions of dynorphin maintain chronic neuropathic pain.

    Zaijie Wang;Luis R. Gardell;Michael H. Ossipov;Todd W. Vanderah

  • Pain relief produces negative reinforcement through activation of mesolimbic reward–valuation circuitry

    Edita Navratilova;Jennifer Y. Xie;Alec Okun;Chaoling Qu

  • Lack of involvement of capsaicin-sensitive primary afferents in nerve-ligation injury induced tactile allodynia in rats.

    Michael H. Ossipov;Di Bian;T.Philip Malan;Josephine Lai

  • Single intrathecal injections of dynorphin A or des-Tyr-dynorphins produce long-lasting allodynia in rats: blockade by MK-801 but not naloxone

    Todd W Vandera;Tinna Laughlin;Jason M. Lashbrook;Michael L. Nichols

  • Sustained morphine exposure induces a spinal dynorphin-dependent enhancement of excitatory transmitter release from primary afferent fibers.

    Luis R. Gardell;Ruizhong Wang;Shannon E. Burgess;Michael H. Ossipov

  • Underlying mechanisms of pronociceptive consequences of prolonged morphine exposure.

    Michael H. Ossipov;Josephine Lai;Tamara King;Todd W. Vanderah

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Porreca
Frank Porreca University of Arizona
Todd W. Vanderah
Todd W. Vanderah University of Arizona
Tamara King
Tamara King University of New England
T. Philip Malan
T. Philip Malan University of Arizona
Victor J. Hruby
Victor J. Hruby University of Arizona
David W. Dodick
David W. Dodick Mayo Clinic
Gregory Dussor
Gregory Dussor The University of Texas at Dallas
Georgy Bakalkin
Georgy Bakalkin Uppsala University
Robert W. Taylor
Robert W. Taylor Newcastle University
Howard L. Fields
Howard L. Fields University of California, San Francisco

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